Multum in Parvo.

The opiunveating habit is growing to *n alarnrng extent in America, as shown by the increase of iti importation. Four years ago the American opium-eaters were believed to number 200,000 j but since then their numbers have doubled, and ifc ie now oaloulated that they consume 5,000,000 grains per annum In Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kentuoky, there is aaid to be three opiumeaters to every 100 of population. The blaok gown In the pulpit of the Established ohuronea of England willaoou be but a relio of the past, aooording to Mr Maokeaon'a new statistic* of London. The surplice is now used in two-thirds of 877 ohurchea reported on. There is not one in Kensington, or not mere than one, in which the gown is worn. A swarm of bee*, in Svreetwater Valley, Dan Diego County, California, settled on a rattlesnake measuring six feet in length, twelve inches in girth, and .laving twentytwo rattles. They stung him violently, so that he was blinded, twisting and quivering »nd was easily killed with a if pade. Incendiary fires have lately repeatedly ooourred in the Tyrol, and they are attributed to the Socialists. A Socialist of Italian birth has now, a Vienna telegram says, been caught In the act, and it is anticipated that ht« sxamtn-tiun bafnre the oourts will tend to ihwv si*.m>. light upon these frequent canes <>f arßon,

li U B-4d tihst roome of which the walls are painted with, the new luminous piint preparation require no other illuminating power, and that in time streets may b-i li;:M»ifl b> applyiug the paint to the abutting buildings. '\ht, Ndkt York Herald says there are. 78,000 wo'nen, not including domeacics, iv New Vo>k who are self supporting. Mauy of tb^'e belong not ouly to the moBC respect abjf> families, but to those whioh may be considered comfortably off. A "daycenHua" of I ondon ia talked of. One was taken in W& when it was found that nearly three quarters of a million people entered the city during the twenty-four hours.

The.fmall village of Bradley, near BaftfueBtok". has btiiin almost entirely destroy d b> fiie F-ma buildiug*, cottages, agricultural }>U{iii k ui» i n'i>, and iiv<» stock to the value of £200(1. h*vo been consumed. The fir« is b*tt to rnve bean caused by a boy playing ■'.-itli nu.to-<ea near some straw.

'». Pt-ck'kill (Ne* Y.>rk) fiihe-mm found «. ttavD-finh clinging to his shad-net recently, and ( <ritd to oapture it. The fia'i threw one of itb <; ntacl'B around the man's neck, ami would hivs pulled him into the water had not a utroke from the oar of a companion severed the member and released him.

The Courts of Hungary have decided that the priests of the Roman Catholic Church have the right to baptise all children without dtstiaotion. The Protestants utter a loud proteßt against suoh an invasion of their rights. A ridiculous bill has been introduced in the Michigan Legislature imposing a tine of $1000 and imprisonment for a year on any person publishing an account of a murder of hanging. The book of the General Presbyterian Council just issued in Philadelphia, givea the number of Presbyterians in the world as about 3 000,000 communicants and about 12,000 000 adherents to the several Presby terian bodies.

Jake Bryant, a Butler Georgia, negro, cut out his eyes with a penknife to eeoape being set at hard work in the penitentiary, to whioh he had been sentenced for ten years

The discovery of the wholesale robberies of mney and of tbe forgeries of Greek atampß and Ottoman asßignates, has (the Athens correspondent of the Standard says) caused considerable excitement throughout tbe country. The perpetrators of various recent Crimea of brigandage and piracy are found to have been oonnected with the persona concerned in the former offences, and it is reported that the Minister of Finance is Implicated and will tender his resignation. A man 102 years of age has been discovered in Southern Ohio who swears, drinks the strongest kind of rum, has smoked for seventy-two years, ohews plug tobaooo, uses snuff, and in other ways enjoys life,

A Minnesota paper says that a young man in Wright County, in that State, had a tooth drawn some days since, and upon the cavity being filled to prevent the flow of blood, he commenced bleeding at th» nose and mouth, and continued to do so until he bleed to death.

Thera are at present in the Old World and the New World more than 100,000 railway locomotives. Th ir total force is equal to 30,000 000 horse-power, and all the other gVeam ongmea on the globe are estimated at 46,000 000 horse-power. At the ceremony of laying the foundationBt^ne of the pedestal for the statue of the Qaeen at Sydney, by her grandson, Prince Albert Victor, 20,000 school children and 70,000 spectators were present. The invitation by the Sandwich Island Government to Chinese emigrants has resulted in suoh a deluge of them that they outnumber the native population. The New Churoh (Reformed Epieoopal) of St. Bartholomew, Montreal, has above the arch of the oh»ncel window the words " No Altar but Cavalry, no Priest but Christ."

The .New South Waleß Government have fenced &xx entire block of buildingß in Sydney with a substantial iron palisading, to secure perfect isolation of the small-pox infected premises. Frogs' legs, a dozen on a skewer, are now hawked about the streets of Paris The frogs are obtain id by hunters armed with email bows, the arrows of which are attached to a string, and thus perform the offioe of a harpoon. An American paper asserts that the 25,000 Americans who will visit Europe this summer will spend more money abroad in three months than the 200,000 immigrants to the States thiß year will spend in ten years. Two characteristic decrees have been pub' lished at Constantinople, one ordering the Turkish ladlea to wear thicker veils, and the o f her absJiaMng th? local post.

\ man < <«m li«en arrested in the state of pnfbk M orio, for representing himself to be Ht. Michael, the archangel, and receiving (he adoration of the Indians,