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eyes" "But her tonsueT "Ah-that IA her
own"
LoSG ISLAND fishermen are excited over
the frequent appearance of late Of number Of
whales Off the coast. One was chased distance
Of 20 miles the other day, but without success.
The men are, however, in readiness for another
hunt.
"wHo Is that lovely grip" exclaimed the
witty Lord Norbury, IN company with his friend
Grant. "Miss Glass" replied the learned counsel
"Glass," reiterated the facetous judge, ~ should
often be intoxicated could place such glass TO
my lips"
AN English firm went to vast expense some
twenty years ago TO try and place Greek wines on
the English market, but met with very little sue
cess but now Greek wine is going into France for
mixture with other wines. In Cephalonia $780,
900 gallons were produced in 1882.
THE president of the arcopagus, the supreme
court OF appeals in Greece, receives 81, $50 year,
the vice president 81 $780, and the thirteen assistant
judges so7O. The lower order of judges get from
$500 to $3.50. The government admits that these
salaries are inadequate, but apparently cannot at
present pay IN ore.
A NEW and formidable fighting ship has
been built in England for the government of
Brazil She is named the Riachuelo, and Is q
steel armored turret ship, 3o5 feet long, having
displacement of 800 tons. She has finy-eght
armor eleven inches In thickness.
SIR JOSEPH BAzALGETTE's carefully COM
piled statistics about the water supply of the chief
cities of the world show the following per capita
distribution: Rome, l6O.35 gallons per head day
Marseilles, l5s.4 Washington, 143; Chicago, 1925
Boston, 1873; New York, $685. Philadelphia, 81 Is;
Hamburg, 45.5; Paris, &c., London, 81; Berlin 1873.
A YOUNG Partisan who lately came sud-
denly to his end .by the knife Of comrade was
| found to be euriously tnttooed. Beneath his
breast serpent raised his head in the direction Of
the heart, and all around were inscribed, II have
| been deceived in the past; the present tormens
| me: the future frightens me-" The death wound
was at the words ~ have been deceived in the
past"
Rosa BoNHEUR is now at her country
| place, Bye, where she keeps considerable me-
nagerie. including tigers. wolves lions, dogs,
horses, and all the subjects" she needs for her
sketches from life Her pictures always are sold
| in advance long before they painted, and she
has sufficiently recovered her health to do q deal
of work now. though her chronic complaint has
been for years: az shall never have time to do all
| that have to do"
| CAPT. TRAYNoR, Of Boston, who crossed
tire Atertio In tho dory City OF Bath, is about TO
| undertake another voyage of even greater peril.
| A new dory, seventeen feet long. five feet wide
and TWENTY-FIVE inches deep, is being constructed
| for him. The boat has cabin eight feet long and
sixteen inches Deep and is provided with .wo air
| tight tanks made Of tin to float her In case she
should fill or capsize Traynor intends to start in the
frail craft from New York June 10 for Bristol Eng.
land. He is to row the entire distance, and hopes
to accomplish the journey by Sept. /. His only
companion will be a cat.
THE king of Italy has offered gold medal
| to the Italian wine grower who shall produce the
best efiervescing white wine as substitute for
champagne. Sparkling Asst and other Italian
| wines Of the foaming class bear already certain
resemblance to champagne and a still greater
resemblance to sparkling Moselle; for they are
sweet aud, taken in generous quantities, arg apt
| to give headache The Italian cham payne must
be dry but this indispensable condition offers no
difficulty, for Capri is scarcely sweeter than the
natural wine of Oh ampagne before the strip Is
added in the process of turning 1t into eervescing
| wine.
The papyrus collie ction recently bought
| by Arohduke Renter, Of Austria, Is now being
| examined under the direction OF Herr Karabac-
EEK at the museum in Vienna. Hitherto $500
papyri have been examined, about half of them
| being perfectly preserved. This Is but q small
| proportion Of the mass. There are two papyri
dating from the beginning of our era. Then
comes fragment of Thucyddes. This, having
been written at the end or the third century after
Christ is Of great value. as the Oldest manuscripts
| are Latin pnpyrus OF the fifth or sixth century,
fragments of Greek Gospels Of the fourth century
and large number of Arab and Greek writings
Lev LABAR, of Purdytown, Pa, on the
eastern slope Of the Blue Ridge. fought "catch- .
| as catch-can" battle with an enormous wildcat
in his bedroom Tuesday night. About midnight
Labar heard strange noise in the room He
jumped from the bed to make an investigation
when the animal sprung upon his shoulders, but
Labar shook 1t off and delivered q stunning blow
with a club For fifteen minutes the conflict
ragged, the brute leaping from wall 10 wall, cling
| ing to the paper with its sharp claws, and then
bounding upon its opponent, screeching with
| Jury and with eyes shining like Goals of fire. At
| last Labar dealt the cat death blow. 1t meas.
ured eight feet from the tip of its nose to the end
offs tail. Llbar was severely lacerated about the
| face and arms.
THE germ theory of disease dates back
much farther than is generally supposed. Every
| form of disease was at one time believed to be
due to the presence of devil in the patient.
Tho first modification Of this was witchcrait. in
which the bodily form was changed TO a mere
influence exerted by the devil. The Chinese still
believe that pain is caused by maggot trying to
bore its way out of the body. II the dentist who
pulls tooth for II Chinaman cannot produce a
maggot along with the tooth, he is liable to So
we're fine for malpractice In order to make him
self safe he drops maggot into little recess In
the forceps before beginning the operation, which
tumbles out when the tooth Is laid before the pa
tient. The germ has become so small now that 1t
requires the most powerful microscopes to dis
cover them, and there very few scientiSts that
agree as to their nature formation, which leads
DR.. Langstreth TO remark that In a few years the
germ theory will die out and bacteria be recog-
nized as a result of the decomposition ofanimAl or
vegetable substances,
OK Jan. /, 1882, the inhabitants of Russia
numbered 9l,lls,5li, living in sixty three prov.
inces aud eleven districts During the year 1881
there were 4,oi3763 births and 1926, i3s deaths
registered, the growth of the population being
l7425 inhabitants. At this rate the population
would rise 10 a hundred million In 1890, aud in
sixty to seventy years It would double. At present
the population Of the empire is 9l,O0O,OOO The
growth Of the population largest in the southern
parts and smallest in the northern, where also the
mortality is greatest II Is difficult to say whether
this Is attributed to the climate or the economic
conditions Of the country. The average of life IN
Russia Is twenty-siX years in Europe and thirty
one In Asia. This fact is explained by the enor.
NOUS mortality of young children. It has been
ascertained that go per cent. of the children die
under the age Of six years, which means one and
half million OF deaths per annun among young
children. II has also been proved that more than
half Of the male population die before attaining
the age for military service. On An average, a
person is born In the Russian empire every eight
seconds, and death occurs every eleven seconds.
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