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The one-inch leads will, if dissolved in water, make half a pint of good Ink. No. 3000. Short Handle for Pocket, 1-in. lead, 4s. per doz. | No. 3001. Long do. for Desk or Pocket Book, 2-in. lead, 8s. per doz Leads for above, one-inch, 7s. per doz. boxes of three leads. These Cases are fitted with Oil, Damping, and Copying Paper, and Copying Ink Pencil, and are thus so complete that a Post Card or Note may be written and copied in the train or on a journey by sea. ILLUSTRATED PRICE CURRENT. 1875. PERRY & & CO.'S MONTHLY Illustrated Price Current. A MEDIUM OF INTERCOMMUNICATION FOR MERCHANTS, MANUFACTURERS, STATIONERS, AND DEALERS IN FANCY GOODS. No. 93. VOL. VIII.] SEPTEMBER 6th, 1875 YEARLY A Booksellers' Fair Stationery and Fancy Trades' LITERARY CONTENTS. PAGE General Summary of Events I Literary Matters...... PAGE News of the Day 2 Periodicals 16 Political Summary.. Notices to Correspondents 16 Curiosities of Advertising. Report 17 Personal and Business Items State of Trade Generally Novelties Patents 20 21 21 21 21 22 22 Fancy Trades' Price Current... 23 SUB., 6s. territory, which will be occupied as a penal settlement, will follow without delay. The Cologne Gazette learns that all the States, with the exception of England, have promised, with | certain reservations, to take part in the St. Petersburg conference on the usuages of war. The formal invitation has, however, not yet been issued.-M. Le Verrier has presented to the Prefect of the Seine a plan for connecting, by means of a telegraphic network, all the public clocks of Paris with the principal clock of the Observatory.-Professor W. Stanley Jevons, in a treatise on scientific method, asserts that "if the whole population of the world, say one hundred thousand millions of persons, were to deal cards day and night, for a hundred million of years, they would not have exhausted one hundred thousandth part of the possible deals of a pack of cards."Several deputies of the southern departments intend demanding the establishment of an irrigation canal, to be dug along the Rhone, and to be made to traverse five departments. by means of a GENERAL SUMMARY OF EVENTS. This canal would pass through the Rhone Amongst the events of the month may be mentioned the "Foreign Loans Commission Report" on the speculative and financial processes of the day.The sentence on Colonel Baker. The O'Connell Centenary.. -The alarming collision with the Royal Yacht, and the Insurrection in the Herzegovina.It is announced from Brussels that the conclusion of the Sugar Convention between France, Great Britain, Belgium, and Holland has been officially notified, and will come into force six months hence.- By the South African Mail we learn that the feeling in favour of the proposed Confederation Conference continues to gain ground, but that the Free State and the Transvaal Republic decline to join in it until the boundary question has been satisfactorily settled.A Company has been incorporated in Berlin which proposes to found at Choa, the most southern province of Abyssinia, a permanent settlement, in order from thence to send out scientific expeditions into the unexplored portion of Africa, and to develop the commerce of the country. The objects of the company are, however, supposed to be more commercial than scientific. -The Russian government has fitted out a scientific expedition for the purpose of making chronometric verifications and astronomical observations in the various ports of the Black Sea. The expedition recently left Sebastopol on a schooner for Batoum, and will afterwards go to Constantinople.- -A Yedo telegram states that Russian Commissioners are daily expected there to complete the arrangements for the transfer of Saghalien Island. Formal possession of the newly acquired syphon so contrived as to water the valleys on both sides of the river, thereby impeding the progress of the phyloxera and improving vegetation.A correspondent of the Athenæum writes: The rumour of a portion of the marbles of the Parthenon still existing at the bottom of the sea is not without some foundation. It is true Lord Elgin believed that he had recovered all the boxes that went down in his vessel off the island of Cerigo, but so many shipwrecks have occurred off that dangerous spot, that it is still possible one or more of Lord Elgin's cases may be lurking at the bottom of the sea." A curious calculation has been made of the number of persons that the great cathedrals of Europe will hold. St. Peter's, at Rome, holds 54,000 people; the Milan cathedral holds 37,000; St. Paul's at Rome, holds 25,000; St. Sophia, at Constantinople, holds 23,000; Notre Dame, at Paris, holds 21,000; the cathedral at Pisa holds 13,000; and San Marco, at Venice, holds 7,000.-The latest discovery in Japan relates to anatomy. Dr. Hilgendorf, of the German Society at Yeddo for the study of the natural history and ethnology of Eastern Asia, states that the cheekbone of the Japanese is double in many cases, instead of being a single structure. The additional bone is united to the other by a suture, and is believed to be peculiar to the Japanese race. - The French Board of Trade Returns show that the value of the imports for the first six months of the year was 1,711,000,000 francs, and of the exports 1.056,000,000 francs.-The value of elephants' teeth imported in the last seven months was £452,275, against 6344,202 last year. |