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CLIPPINGS AND DRIPPINGS. Miscellaneous Items. -There are fourteen thousand Quakers in Indiana. -The valuation of Maryland is $492, 653,572 -It now costs but twelve cents to send a letter to Europe. -The Chicago street railroads earned $720,000 for the past year. -Milwaukee expended $176,000 in street improvements last year. -There are now 300 miles of paved streets in New York city. --One of the Maine courts lately grauted forty divorces in a single term. -There are nearly 20,000 members of temperance societies in New York city. -The gross income of the Atlantic Telegraph Company is said to be about $5,000 per day. -The last valuation of the property of the State of Ohio is $1,140,000,000, half the national debt. -It is said there are ten thousand men in Montana who would be glad to get home with empty pockets. -The Chief of the Cherokee nation is anxious to have a newspaper in his capital, printed in English and Cherokee. -The number of immigrants from Europe, who arrived in New York during the past year, exceeds that of the previous year by 11,622. -A grandson of Daniel Boone, who lived in Missouri, found thesettlers getting too numerous for him, and he emigrated to Colerado. -Six thousand mules, twelve thousand oxen and one thousand horses crossed the Plains between July 1st and the 30th of September. -During the year ending November 1, nearly eighty million (79,925,000) persons crossed the ferries leading to New York. This is about double the entire population of the United States. -The Union Bank of Concord, N. H., after ten years of prosperity, has closed. On each share of one hundred dollars it paid two hundred and twelve dollars and thirty cents. -Bean poles are among the leading products of Maine. A million of them were sent to Boston from Ellsworth and Trenton. The average price is thirty cents a dozen. Commissioner Wilson is in receipt of returns showing the disposal of 30,177 acres of the public landsduring the month of November last at the local offices in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota. -The Washington monument has reached the height of 174 feet, at a cost of $240,000. It is proposed to further elevate it 374 feet. -The silk factory in East Bridgeport, Conn., has resumed operations, after a suspension of some weeks. They furnish employment to about two hundred hands. -The Senate having leveled the distinction between Senators and other people by striking the Hon." from their names, the Chicago Post supposes they flatter themselves that they are as good as the rest of us. -Laura Keene, according to a Detroit paper, wishes to give an American game dinner to her friends in London, and has ordered the game from a Detroit firm. Among other things they have sent her two wild turkeys weighing forty seven pounds. -An arrangement has been effected by the Postmaster by which four mails will leave New York for Europe each week during the year 1868. The steamers will also sail at a later hour in the afternoon than usual, in order to receive all mailsup to noon. -Dr. Hall assails the idea that men rest by doing nothing. He says the only healthful rest, as long as our physical condition remains as it is, is to be busy. Men of force and industry will everywhere tell you, It is the hardest thing in the world to do nothing." Statistics relating to the brevet system show the total number conferred since the commencement of the war, to be three thousand five hundred and twenty seven, for various reasons. Among the recipients are included commissaries, ordnance surgeons, quartermasters, chaplains, and surgeons, few of whom ever looked into the muzzle of an enemy's gun. Incidents and Accidents. -The net profit of the Albany (N. Y.) Penitentiary, last year, was $21,346. -Judge Barnard, of New York, has just been swindled by a bogus diamond broker to the tune of $40,000. -A facetious stage driver in Iowa a drained a comrade's whisky bottle as joke, and died. It was bug poison. -An Indiana husband recently hung himself to get rid of his wife, succeeding to their mutual satisfaction.