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26towns, white New York bas 199, wor s for 218 towns. Massachuseýtte, basi 128, àKicigf11,O.fona0, /s-d Illinois 102 works. Twenty-five cfties have duplicate or triplioat~e planta. LI, MITS 0F TÂBez. &ooordiqg to Professor Venable's lüuetigatiqne, the. following parts of a gramme eau distnctly b. tasted wben put uj, oùnthetongue: S ga r ............0 0 028 ýTanni0 acid...... 0 00108 Mariatio acid.O(...)*.O00O9 Saccharine ............. 0O 000048 «Strychnine ............. 0.00000048 BIGOB5T HEÂDS [N THE NORTH. -The average weigi of thie btain of"& man bears a! defiuite r lation te the elimats iii WIich ie lives, a highèr braÎn wsigbt 1ieing -found in cold &han wj'a.rm sountries. 'In proportion te, their statue, thie Lappe have uhe largest heada in Eiurope, the Norwegiau nert, thén corne Ir. ,Swades, (3rrmans, F'rçnôh and iwta n theamii rb the head is *fouud to be amailer ta any of thie above, while in the far rorti there existe a peep 6e iealeChavgatahes, whose heada are rsmarkably larg. THE AGENITIN<E RPUBLIC. Statistice recesived by the. bureau c f American repidblics i-how a growth in the popuation of!the Krgentîne B.epub- lic inces1881 froni 1,M0,000 Lu 4,000, 000, and in thie number of acres under cultivation froin 490,000 te 7,000,000. In 1861 the only railroad -was from Buenos &yres te -Merio, a distance of 18 miles, Over five thonsand M iles of 3railroad. now open for traffio sénd 6000 more in course of construction. The. pub je debt lias incressed frein #17,000,000 ta, $401,000,000, exclusive of codu-as and ths prper curréncy, which wouldraises. iLte 8,7 18,000,000o. OLD TRERS IN WELBECK ABBEY PARK. The Park at We beck kbbey, the sest of the. Dake of Portland, lias beea a park frein tAm. iniemoiial. cf which fact soine of the. old oak. ar e i beet proof. The. Greendale oak, as it iis câlled, muet be 800 years -old ; it used te b. thirty-three- foot ini girth àIt th. bottom, _and îts branches used te cever, a spacs of 2700 square yards. Other faions Irees are the. Duý1es Walkinig- stick, uthe Portors--mo-called. b... cause tiere s te gaLe between thew- and a clump cf gigantie specimen a ea ed the. Seves 8isters. The. r k i4 ten mifles in circamference, and centaine- forty.one îOdgss, ail goodly housese built cf 81i-etIey atone. W&ALra irouEN. A lHat cf the. wsalthieât iromen of the worid, countiug waaltb by dollars, ie goin« the. runde cf ths pres', Hetty Green of New York, a native ot at les a long resident cf New -lAford.' heade ithe liet with $40,000,000 ini ber. own rigit Mrs. E isabotb Garrett has $20,000,000, Mru Mark EHopkiai bild $20 000.000, Mr. Edlwin Stvens $15,000,000, Mrs. John t Green $10,000,000, Mrs Cyrus MoCeCrmiol $10,00000, Mn. -John Jacob Astci $5,000,000, Mrs John R. Barton 86,00,000. Mm. Thomas 8oott' $5,. 000,000, Mrs Wil ian Armc'ur $5,000, 0009 MU. Terry 020,000,0e),while Mns Terry's daugliter, tiree years old, dis tances ail comp"titors by having, weali iniber own right valuedai *, 50,000,- àsilver by w.weg>ig$ '.WiplîI8I t 1l4rt" dred dollar s i d Ii foreihum- ldysl sa., weatd be kbuatý over eleven ysars. ela e _ u>eou-the~ other,'tii. 84QO0,00,OWo~&ti side thsy would parpet &-romai fy f.s; wide sadna sily. woyIUr,ýlIe long. Great,>hOws*eti mÀ à the'.1iniseem bousge" o! the Goesmmsnt it l sb.ing lsteadily increaeed by t&ê -Pnrha of yeari or ai ithe rate, am before . stated1 of seven tons for every workisn <lay cfý the. yar. The ooWial s uu.aÇt ëfQ'. eqý finances show *ths.t ho manageil ment 'of lii.i~ooer ,Gcvetnnlppý itstoadly vent from bad .-o womp. Tii. rii ,rebklessneas, the carmivàl furious s lime woère on. Roe-~efor *nstance, je a stteunancf cdinary for the lustfourypars:- x888. . . .3.860.743 $4, 716, 743'$ AO,oo_ rSSq... 767.95 ,124133 , 24L $14 674 7=0 $à' e45$6 69 73- Stibrting eut iii 1888with1i de ' ficit cf $856,000 betweôn ordinary receiptesaud total expeoditure, -tiàe Mercier ministry rapidiy- widened the breachi until lust yoar liede- ciency amounted tô ne les. ýhan $2,699,0001 Moreever, ithe 111m, Governraont was in receipt cf m@ny new anud spécial sources cf :inoome' net available tW their. pr6eeso0u. From the tax -on. commercial cor- porations lier. ha. been derired ICLIv four years1th. large sum cf$98. 155, ail cf'minci i* included in ths aboyé statement -cf ordina.y revonue. .Frorn lh.,sale of Crowu lands $1i50,000 wauobt&ines in addition le whiclu by anuico,4seî;l stumnpage dues tii. onnualI inoome brora Grevai lande is .ugmnentedby S150,00. The. collection cf on oldi standing d.bt duo by, Kentreal con- trubuted $125,000'to, the revenue m., 1ém, fr-om licenses $L80,0(0) is yearly deri'eed >y.new te,~ai frm1.intet onle mu - sSool und dus by ontaM$iU Ste net uee n tW0 nobta.instiby ltheKstU«oe eâImentb.y mes'Qf PW taxationZ and the.coilection tifus#et8 , whicli properly ought'te havé beên. em pleoyed in liqaidatiou cf tie Iebg 9Yetinepite of Ibis exeéptlonàl -nW 1come thé.denct cf the periotI ,reaches lia alatmitig total cf $69- 88,00 lando dr nkW "cdin4 c' J%, ibai S Ot cauna n Do à eai qw. On%. Hou*rd Viasossi ma begnaa vigor su air Traite or '?rtëotIu aplan tii.eomes esatarso! gla dew, bîk Mm n ee4wm 'Nd&,an fâde, t win t v u » t M me D g s0~ au Uleed r. (IF, WUu1Dm '1&4t break cpm lb. 4oot s!t a.,uI~ vitha ete, sn.nly wouu bis Isti Jssk - l<oa~L, wg 4b, 1.091 t TTAT~aA!wY 1111 1My*nd Mis lma ou, vtho condactod' the. juanvÉor duiWon publié aShool for iii. pasI year, I e05T OP KUROPBAN ÂRNIZB; The esîpenditures for the uroE a s.uniee only, acoordling te tii. Budgets of 1890-1, re :- - Giernmny population W mllionÀs) 53775.000c Austria-Hungary (41 iriliUÎe)....9, s$%ff Italy (34, millions) . .. e. 13.0,000 France (39 millions)........... .noo Rusai'3 inllions> .......... 33,OO00i Great lrm n(38 ilios) . 770oc Spain (Ly ilin)..... . ,7eeOe HoUand (49 ilin)..... 1.5.0 Begium t6 millions) ....... ...... î8zo Swltzer'lan 3 ilin)..... îoo.o Deamari (h -milions)...... . 1o'000o Sweden su ad Ncrway-(6g millons). an'vsd Navy.. ý....... 2.200,000 Rouniania(glllonsi.......... ,45.000 Tôtat ......... .156,0 BILVES l TEE UMIT E» TST Tiie lresury cf lit Uaite& Sa8 e hiinstore ~sfirst of .Octobr,' t82o Dthe . forteof suibui4Iry .,$- -îrsilver barsWte svalui of 84,' 260--tota, $409,161,8yo,.,on ntbers, 44e>,Olem-U if qur en t w-El w liibus,.. i Inrl-mm-