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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1830, 13 November 1874, Page 3

In the ten days ending July 20, thirtyone ships passed through the Suez Canal. The transit revenues of the Canal Company for tho same period amounted to £24,080. Mils Kingsley, daughter of Canon Kingsley, has written a book about the Bocky Mountains, with a preface by her father. The Emperor of Kussia has seat the Mikado of Japan a magnificent vase, four feet high, cut from a single piece of agate. The Prince of Wales's debts are reported to amountto £650,000, and it is proposed to *ipe them off by means of a bill through Parliament. The British Beekeepers' Aisowation intended to hold a bee show at the Crystal Palace, London, last month. The Freemasons of Sheffield are going to erect a hall which will cost £10,000. Cbeam of Tartak. —The Czar. The Eight Size fob a Man.-—Exer-cise. If speech is silver and silence is golden, how much is a deaf and dumb man worth ? Editing a newspaper is like carrying an umbrella on a windy day. Everybody thinks he<could manage it better than the one at the handle. . New Haven has a female letter-earner, but she stops and gossips so often that she down't £tt over half her route.