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Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1737, 27 February 1874, Page 2

Chicago calculates that she spends JJ96O per diem in billiards. The Montreal Witness thus bears testimony to the value of advertising :— " While a compositor of this journal Was setting up an advertisment for a lost canary, the bird flew in at the office win* dow." The Canadian Government is gradually removing the Indians to reservations far* tlier and farther west, as the demand for the land occupied by them increases. The authorities of Sing Sing, New York, finding that the lightning rods on the prison conduct more prisoners than lightning to the ground, have decided to remove them. The Salt Lake Tribune declares that Brigham Young's new house will be "ond of the most gorgeous residences anywhere between sunrise and sunset." The United States possesses more miles of railroad than all the nations of Empire j combined. The completed lines of the States measures 70,178 miles exclusive of 43,009 in course of construction, while in all Europe there are scarcely 65,000 miles. Leather made from the skin of the white whale, it is said, is now a regular article of manufacture at some of the villages of Canada. It is both fine and durable, and shoe thongs made of it are said never to break. it is related that when Wilkie Collins was about to step in front of the curtain at Syracuse (U.S.), he said to Mr Hanchett, who was to introduce him, " Don't introduce me as the greatest living novelist. I've been introduced so a number of times, and I'd rather be simply Mr Collins. You know everybody i> th« greatest living Bom« thing,"