A child in Philadelphia has just been attacked by hydrophobia from the bite of a dog three years ago. Captain Traynor, who once crossed the Atlantic in a dory, now proposes to make the trip in a rowboat. During the present century 150,000,000 copies of the Bible have been printed in 226 different languages. The Governor General at Trieste was surprised Tuesday by the explosion of a bomb in front of his residence. The man who fired the first gun in the battle of Gettysburg lives in Malvern, Iowa. His name is Dick Gidley. St. Patrick's Day was appropriately (as the custom goes) celebrated in Chicago, and the other large cities of the country. Kansas has 420 newspapers, including dailies, weeklies, semi-weeklies, monthlies, semi-monthlies, tri-monthlies, and quarterlies. A Dubuque watchmaker has invented a watch movement which has no dial-wheels, and is said will create a revolution in watch-making. In the trial of Orrin A. Carpenter for the murder of Zura Burns, now in progress at Petersburg, Illinois, the prosecution has rested its case. All the members of the United States Senate signed a telegram to Simon Cameron, now in Florida, congratulating him on his eighty-fifth birthday. The inventor of a system of electric lighting announces that he is about to use the water-power at Niagara to furnish light to sixty-five cities. The British leaders in Egypt have offered a reward of $5,000 for the capture of Osman Digma, the rebel leader, whom Gen. Graham has now defeated in two battles. The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe road is at war with the Western Union Telegraph Company in Texas, and sends ten-word messages through that State for fifteen cents. Thirty-four counties and twenty-one railroads between Pittsburg and Cairo report fifty-five bridges destroyed by the February flood. The estimated cost of replacing them is $210,000. There is a movement on foot in Chicago which may result in the holding of both the National Conventions in Battery D Hall, which is said to have better acoustic properties than the Exposition Building. It is reported that more than six thousand Indians are starving at Fort Peck Agency. Game has entirely disappeared, and those Indians who have been turning their attention to farming, raised scarcely anything last year. The announcement is made at St. Louis that the Pacific Express Company lost $160,000 by Prentiss Tiller and his accomplices, and that $25,000 of the amount is still missing. Tiller, the thief, and a supposed accomplice, are under arrest. The British House of Commons was in session all last Saturday night, considering war measures. It is rumored that Parliament will be dissolved, and a new election held to ascertain if the Ministry measures are pleasing to the majority of the people.