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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3121, 18 February 1879, Page 3

Mahotactuee op Bails^in Amehica. •—ln 1872 the/United States ijnported nearly'6oo,66o tons of iron and steel rails for the railway system of-the. country. Fire years later, in 1877,. tttq : importation was reduced to 12 tons, the home produclion in that year having .risen to nearly 760,000 tons, or more than the total import in 1872. The, total-quantity of iron and steel" rails" manufactured in the United States in the fire years ended 1871 was nearly 3,000,000" tons', and in the five years ended 1877 the., total .production had increased to over 4,600,060't0n5.

gSHBBWD.—Mother: u'fTommy dear, here is > some .nice castor oil with: orange ice in it."—Doctor: " Now, remember, don't give it all to Tommy-rrleave some for me."—But Tommy dear was wide awake, having had a touch of the castor oil once before, and instantly replied, " Doctor's such a nice man, ma, give it all to him."—Ma laughed and Tommy got better without the aid of any more castor; oil and orange ice. , '>■-■

Profitable.—-The hair on a camel weighs about ten pounds, and sells for more than twenty pounds*, which shows that it was not only in the days of Mahomed that the animal bore a great prophet.