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Some people talk a great deal about ministers and what it costs to keep them, paying their house rent, table expenses, and other items of salary. Did such croakers ever think that it costs $35,000,000 to pay the salaries of American lawyers; that $12,000,000 are paid out annually to keep our criminals, and $12,000,000 to keep the dogs in the midst of us alive, while only $6,000,000 are spent annually to keep 6, 000 preachers in the United States? These are facts, and statistics will show them to be facts. SEVERAL ice houses have been struck by lightning this summer. Scientific investigation shows that these buildings are more liable than any other. The cool vapor riss ing from them forms a conductor for the fluid. Several insurance companies have refused to take risks upon the buildings. The Winsted. (Conn..) Bank will either reduce its capital stock from $300,000 to $100,000 or suspend altogether. It was crippled by robbers who carried off most of its funds a few years since, and never has been able to get on its legs again.