MURDERS AND SUICIDES.
Melrose, Wis.
Give, if you can, the number of murders and suicides in the United States in the course of a year.
Ira Jones.
Answer.—According to the census for 1880 there were 1,336 cases of homicide, or murder, and manslaughter, and 2,517 cases of suicide, of which 472 were by self-shooting, 155 by drowning, 340 by poison, 1,550 by other means.
RAINFALL IN NEBRASKA.
Van Cleve, Iowa.
What part of Nebraska has the greatest rainfall? What parts have the second and the third largest average rainfall? In what month is this fall the greatest?
J. W. Johnson.