MATTERS AND THINGS IN GENERAL,
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aware, Mississippi, Louisiana, Illinois, or Missouri.

 The Secretary of the Treasury has is- sued a circular 10 all the collectors and re- ceiving officers Of the United States, di-. reciihg ihein not to receive in payment for any public dues, bank notes under the de- noasina;ion of S5, after the Seth of Sepiem- Der.

 ] Zerah Colburn, who, during his youth, was considered a prodigy in mathematics, IS now preacher, at Claremont, N H and at the head of methodist congregra- ton.

 The Charleston Patriot states that the travel and transportation on the rail road from that city across the State to Augusta n Georgia, exseed in amount the expecfa- tons of the most sanguine among its pro- jectors. The whole receipts for the first three months Of 1884 were, $24. .000, while for tbe same period in 1885 they were $45,00o. The length of the rail road is one hundred and thifty-fiye miles.

 T great diseorery, # tfae--- Portable .iIiils -Ihe principle or essence Of new milk has at length been extracted by evaporation at Paris, called Lactolne, which is unalter- ed by beat and moisture, and 10 winch the addition of nine-tenths of water makes ex- celent milk. What marvellous accom- modation this would be for our packets, and all sea vessels, and for travellers.

 .N'eao Bull Projcctor.-A French agri- culturist, by the name of Billet, has invent ed machine which will discharge 20o0 balls of half a pound weight each in min- ute that Is 34 balls a second. The action of this formidable machine may be arrest ed or Continued at will; the balls are dis charged from four different muzzles, which may be directed upon objects at a less or greater distance from each other, or they may be brought to bear simultaneously on one and the same point. Biet's machine however, is not capable of carrying such balls greater distance than about l10 yards; but he asserts that he can improve it so as to impel the same balls d distance of 45o yards, with the same velocity as that imparted by gun-powder. In this case he will be obliged to increase it's weight from so to 3i0 lbs. He does not employ either air, spring, CT eoinbustible matter in this new projeclile. His name is of some note as a mechanist.

 Ii is probable that Captain Waghorn's plan for steam communication between England and India, via the Mediterranean, Tsthmus of Suez, and Red Sea, will be at- tempted, under the special sanction of the British government. The merchants of Liverpool have taken the matter in hand, and will furnish inc greater part of ssthe need- ful.n Captain Naghorn has been engaged in this specuIation-by which he can reap no advantage--for more than ten years. You will understand that the Pacha of Egypt IS pledged to cut railway across the Isthmus of Suez.

 Cleaveland, Ohio, on lake Erie, promises to be great metropolis on the western Wa ters. In the course of last year, there were built there, l30 new houses. There are 4,200 inhabitants, besides 1000 in Brook yn, on the opposite bank of the river.- During the past year, the entries at this port. in steam boats, schooners and soops, was 260,000 tonnage. Of the arrivals, S9l were sehooners and sloops, and of these last, l29 by the WeIland canal, around the Niagara falls. The number of steam boat arrivals was S75.

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 The number of members ofihe Legion of Honor amounted in Sept. 1854, to 50,000, of which 104 were grande croix, 2o4 grand officers, S1c. and 44,0Oo chevaliers or ghts--enough of the latter to make another holy war. Of these 26,000 re- ceive salaries amounting to S,474, ,000fr.

 A correspondent of the London Medical Gazette has discovered that sodass a reme- dy for the tooth ache. He says the most pleasant and agreeable soda will either im- mediately or in a few minutes cause the entire cessation of pain, by filling the de- cayed tooth carefully with the powdered carbonate, so that 1t may descend to the nerve, which its solution by the saliva will soon after allow it 10 do.

 The Morocco Lion was sold at aaction on Saturday last, agreeably to public notice. He was knocked down at $335O cash. The highest bidder proved to be the agent of q Menagerie in Boston, for which eslab- llshrnent the animal was purchased.

 The St. Augustine Herald believesrthat the Florida Indians will be removed uh- out any difficulty the reports that they were preparing for an offensye@ resistance, are altogether uniounded.