Items of Interest. --Out West ooni is ebenpet fuel than coal, Tbo charge for- zooxclifensi* in Ifts. b.guskiis .1,000 esek. , —A powder mill f at iliglil=l; Canine- Ma, exploded March 4th, killing, several men. —Mrs. Garfield don't know how to dance, but can cook in English, Latin and Greek. —About , a quarter of the Vermont towns hareleleeted women m superin tendents of 'sehoola - —President 111csbosh proposes to take w trip to the PiielfliCout after the Printie t ooneniencement. - • —.l.cocirdiiik to Professor a flush of lightning ten miles in length has been ordcd by a trustworthy observer. -Two Senators and six Congressmen were found by the police in — a gambling -house raided at Washington, recently. • —The Pennsylvania Railroad Company l has established over tvro hundred and fif ty agencies . in 4 .Europe for the sale emj- ZI ant tickets over tbeic Rue. —Barnum is not only a worker, but his animals have to do duty as roadsters. This Iseiiim his -20 Elephants, Camels, Elks, Zebrasund Giraft j etwill be surpris. ed to find themselves in harness and haul ing a chariot Oft...pp in the'grand proces sion. -15uring the iecht severe storms . in Germany, the subtlirrisnean lines of tele graph have provpi io _xnueb better than the others thatihei-German government - tiow_prfipo ses asking - the Reichstag for .authority to greatly extend the under . ; groil»d Nystem,:i 1 . —ltaly las welVas Germany; is now . moving In massesArnerica-ward.. An or ganized systempr Italian colonitation in this country has bee perfected, and by turd.sununer the im;,) - uring of this great _aid to national dev i e l opmeut will ,:be at : : • - high tide d • . . ' . —Tbe last Nei Jersey' production is a A laughing famil?; : Its members, of - whom there are several; strike up a ,eachinnato xy chorus twice a. day and 'at regular hours. It is (iritirely,involuntary and is a source of the greatest annoyance to those '...- aillicted atgl-to theirdeighbors. : t i —The largest LegiOature in this coun try is that of New Ilampshire, which con tains 391 meinbets, or one for about eve ry 110 voters.' All the other New England . States also lrnast of large Legislatures, as followsol.!, Massachusetts, - 4 2.6 ; Cenneeti . cut, 21171 Vertnimt, 272: Georgia has the largest stegislture .- of the - Southern States, Sri, add Delaware the smallest, 3 ( 1. . . —Dr. Theobald lately exhibited a bee= tle at. a scienti n e Meeting, giving these fig uieS illustr t ite its physical strength : Weight of beetle, two grains ; weight moved by it. 1 1 2 ounces-1,420 times the weight of' the beetle. A man of 150 pounds - weight, endowed with the strength of this insect, shOnld therefore be able to move 19ni,000 pounds, or near ly TOO tons. . • —England is being thysleil with what are now called . •'..ew York sovereigns. These arc counterfeit coins made 'in America so veiledly as to have deceived 1 - - the English' 'experts for a time. -They.' have exactly the came weight and dime- ter and give the proper - ring, but area lit- 1 tie thicker than the true coin, whiett, do . 1;d was only discovered when they were. - put up in rouleaux. . I . . , ' —A Chinaman . made application for naturalization papers in Chicago, a few 1 . , days ago, but it was rcfnsetl by the Court 1 _.ou strict : color ground. Under the origi- 1 nal naturalization law of Congress, any free whife'pe - rson might become a citizen. The law was modified to cover the case of blacmeif of AfriCan nativity or de scent. But as the 'Chinese' are ; neither.. white men nor black men, they do not come Within the meaning of the statute. ' ..,--An insect, has :no lungs, states Mr. .I. G.. Wood. - It respires after a manner to- . - tally different from that of higher ani- 1 teals. The " speraeles" admit air into two tubes, which run along the sides of ...the body. The . insect dm; not breathe through its mouth or through 'its nose, 1 ,lit through the sides of its body., It has I a. large number of brains through thr, #. - body; which explains why it is so difficult to kill au insect, as each separate brain i has to be destroyed. , _ —lt was. recently announced that Mr. • .1. W. Swan, an English *electrician, bad succeeded in overcoming. the difficulties met by t Edison in perfecting his incande scent electric light. Mr. Swan has since .read a remarkable paper in which be • .claims a priority of discovery of all the essentials of the Edison lamp. Ile 'pro nounces his own lamp an entire success, 'and asserts that by a new plan of estab lishing circuits he can secure great econ -orny over the system pro_Vosed by - Edison. • —A flock of girls is 'called a bevy ; a, bevy of wolves a pack ; a Pack of thieves a gang ; a gang of angels a host ; a host' of porpoises a shoal ; a shoal ot buffaloes a herd ; a herd of children a troop : a troop of partridges a Covey ; a covey of beauties a galaxy ; a galaxy of ruffians a. horde . ; a horde of rubbish a heap';'a heap of oxen a drove ; a drove of blackguards :.1 mob ; . a mob of whales a sehoof ; a school of Worshippers , a congregation.; a congregation of engineers a corps ; a corps of robbers a hand; a band of lo custs a swarm, and a swarm of people is called a crowd. • -:, . —Cincinnati people are wondering over, a horse which is quite destitite of hair. ' lie has no mane whatever, and his - tail consists' only -of a hairless stump, and even inside the ears no hair can be found. The horse has not been shainti, for" the closest examination fails to ;discover the slightest sign of a bristle on any :part of the body. The horse was four years old, was never sick, and Until a year ago was like others of his kind. Physicians Who have examined him cad discovernu kind iif disease, and are at, a Joss to account for. the case. —The Elcioensbn'rg Celsotifun has the following : " Two cows, qua belonging to Dr. Gardner, and the other to Samuel Gerringer, got their, horns entangled on Wednesday of last woek. On Thursday morning they were found in a ditch, with the water and mud frozen - hard around them. Gerringer's cow had her neck broken and was dead, but Gardner's cow was alive, her horns. still locked to the 'other. The horns orthe dead cow were sawed off in order to get tke other one out of the • frozen mass. Every attempt waamatle to save the life• of the Gardner cow, but to no avail." —lt is well known that, if a long dry tube, open at both:ends, be held over a jet of burning hydrogen; a musical Sound is produced, the pitch and quality of which !rapt with the length, the thickness and diameter of the tube. It has 'been IPropOeed to adapt such a tube td the safe - - ty lamp used in minas, placing it near a telephone in communication with another telephone in the manager's office. ; The alteration of the sound, due to a greater or leas'admixture of gas with thb air of 'the mine, would warn the managers of the state of the atmosphere in the work i no, MEE Nal =1 LYDIA E. - PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND. The Positive:Cure For all FemarOVomplaints. This preparation. - as its name rnt14.4.1 nt craTtableTr*ertiel ttltt. are Lart.al,as to tist• 1..0it 4rl beatabaslid. 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