Education in the United States, 1898-99.

POPULATION, ENROLLMENT, AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE, NUMBER AND SEX OF TEACHERS IN

Pension Statistics.

NUMBER OF PENSION CLAIMS, PENSIONERS, AND DISBURSEMENTS, 1861-1900.

Beginning with 1893, the total number of applications filed and the total number of claims allowed include army nurses and survivors and widows of Indian wars.

The number of patents issued in the United Kingdom between 1881 and 1899 shows the following extraordinary rate of increase:

English Bank and Stock Exchange Holidays.

BANK HOLIDAYS.-Good Friday, Easter Monday, Whit Monday, first Monday in August, Christmas
Day, and day following.
STOCK EXCHANGE HOLIDAYS.-January 1st, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Whit Monday, May 1st
first Monday in August, November 1st, Christmas Day, and day following.

Grape brandy exclusively to 1888, inclusive; apple, peach, and grape brandies to June 3, 1896; apple, peach, grape, pear, pineapple, orange, apricot, berry, and prune brandies since that date.

The Corn and Tomato Packs, by States.

(From the American Groeer, January 2, 1901.)

The twenty-first annual estimate of the tomato pack of the United States, herewith presented, shows a decrease of about 21 per cent. in the output of 1900, as compared with the pack of 1899, which was the largest on record. Preparations were made for an extensive pack, but unfavorable climatic conditions in Indiana, Maryland, and Virginia cut down the output. In Baltimore city the packing was about one-third the quantity put up in 1899, as peaches were more largely canned than had been the case before for many years. It is apparent that the pack of 1899 was so far in excess of requirements that it forced a carry-over great enough to overcome the decrease in the pack of 1900, and that present stocks are heavy enough to forbid trading for delivery in 1901, except in a moderate way in the West.