A HAWK flies 150 miles per hour; an eider duck, 90 miles; a pigeon, 40 miles.

A MAN'S working life is divided into four decades; 20 to 30, bronze; 30 to 40, silver; 40 to 50, gold; 50 to 60, iron. Intellect and judgment are strongest between 40 and 50.

HAIR which is lightest in color is also lightest in weight. Light or blonde hair is generally the most luxuriant, and it has been calculated that the average number of hairs of this color on an average person's head is 140,000; while the number of brown hairs is 110,000, and black only 103,000.

GOLDSMITH received $300 for the "Vicar of Wakefield;" Moore, $15,500 for "Lalla Rookh;” Victor Hugo, $12,000 for "Hernani;" Chateaubriand, $110,000 for his works; Lamartine, $16,000 for "Travels in Palestine;" Disraeli, $50,000 for "Endymion;" Anthony Trollope, $315,000 for forty-five novels; Lingard, $21,500 for his "History of England;" Mrs. Grant received over $600,000 as royalty from the sale of "The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant."

ONE woman in 20, one man in 30 is barren-about 4 per cent. It is found that one marriage in 20 is barren-5 per cent. Among the nobility of Great Britain, 21 per cent. have no children, owing partly to intermarriage of cousins, no less than 4% per cent. being married to cousins.

THE capital employed in banking in the principal countries is as follows: Great Britain, $4,020,000,000; United States, $2,655,000,000; Germany, $1,425,000,000; France, $1,025,000,000; Austria, $830,000,000; Russia, $775,000,000; Italy, $455,000,000; Australia, $425,000,000; Canada, $175,000,000.

THE last bells are the following, and their weight is given in tons; oscow, 202; Burmah, 117; Pekin, 53; Novgorod, 31; Notre ne, 18; Rouen, 18; Olmutz, 18; Vienna, 18; St. Paul's, 16; Westminster, 14; Montreal, 12; Cologne, 11; Oxford, 8; St. Peter's, 8.

Bell-metal should have 77 parts copper, and 23 tin.

AMERICAN life average for professions (Boston): Storekeepers, 41.8 years; teamsters, 43.6 years; laborers, 44.6 years, seamen, 46.1 years; mechanics, 47.3 years; merchants, 48.4 years; lawyers, 52.6 years; farmers, 64.2 years.

IN THE SMALL-POX epidemic of 1881, in England, the returns showed 4,478 deaths per million inhabitants-98 vaccinated to 4,380 unvaccinated, or in the proportion of 44 to 1. In the epidemic at Leipsic in 1871, the death rate was 12,700 per million, 70 per cent. of whom were unvaccinated. These figures are by Dr. Mulhall. In Boston the proportion was 15 to 50, and in Philadelphia, 17 to 64.