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cal topics. has become his own publisher.
General John c. Fremont, now in
Washington, is at work on his memoirs
There are over sixty thousand per-
sons on the payroll of New York State,
to whom there is annually paid about
$5,000,000.
According to recent English expert
ments, it is found that a growth OF ivy
over a house renders the interior entire
ly free from moisture.
Mr. George w. Childs has given to
the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
COPY of the death-mask of Lincoln, the
original being in the National Museum.
Washington.
Gen. Farnsworth, who was in the
same boat with Grover Cleveland in the
duck-hunt on Maryland waters, says
that the President handles breech-
loader very neatly, and that he brought
down seven redheads at one shot.
John C. Calhoun is on record as hav-
ing once tried TO write poem pref
ty girl asked him to do it, and he re-
luctantly gave his consent. beginning
the effort with tine immortal word
whereas. He never got any further.
There are American hams, writes Mr..
Sala, which when boiled in champagne
are palatable; but, as rule, both ham
and bacon in America, as in Australia,
are very nasty-hard, intolerably salt,
great deal too lean, and clumsily
smoked.
The word salary comes from the Latin
salariuna, literally salt money, from sal,
salt, which was part of the pay OF
Roman soldiers. So the young men
who say jocularly. when they draw their
pay, that they are taking their sugar"
are wrong; they are getting their
salt"
The longevity of women who are for
tunate enough to marry soldiers is
shown in the fact that our pension rolls
bear the names of about 10000 widows
of the veterans of 1912. The brides of
seventy-fOur years ago are nearly CEN
tenarians now, and the number OF them
quite surpasses belief.
The many individuals who persist in
reading by lamp or candle light while
they lie in bed and thereby necessitate
several times year the calling out OF
the fire department may possibly in the
future indulge their literary habit with
perfect safetye An Italian claims to
have invented luminous printing ink
which will make it possible to read
newspapers in the dark.
Layers of stone containing some of
the supposed human footprints lately
found near Lake Managva, in Nicara-
qua. have been sent to the Vienna Ma
tur,al History Museum. The stone is a
volcanic tula, and the impressions are
extremely sharp and distinct, and, if
genuine footprints, prove the existence
of man in Central America at very
remote period.
There is new pest for western farm
ers to fight in the shape of a yellow
worm which developes into black fly
about the eighth of an inch in length.
1t is very thrifty in some parts of the
Willamette Valley, Oregon. The in
sect is known to entomologists as the
'.whcat isosoma." 1t has appeared in
Kentucky, Illinois and Missouri. There
is only one breed a year.
The new oil-fields of Wyoming, in the
Bingham Basin, are directly south of
Billings. Mont, near the boundary be-
tween Montana and Wyoming. The
oil is said to contain 40 per cent OF
mineral sperm oil, 27 per cent of kero-
sene, with small percentage of gasoline,
benzine, and naphtha. Its illuminating
power is of a high order; and it is so
pure that ranchmen in the vicinity
burned it last winter in their lamps.
A citizen of Millview, Va, killed a
siX-foot moccasin snake last week that
had wire collar around its neck, to
which was attached button with these
words: Don't tread on me!" As this
was the motto of the famous Revolution
airy "Culpepper Minute Men," and as
the button was probably from one OF
their uniforms, the question arises as to
the probable age of this peculiar ser
pent.
Three dudish young men of Meriden,
Conn.,, decided to call upon three young
women who were not at all anxious to
see them. They did call, rugged out in
their best clothes, were ushered into the
parlor, and there found, conspicuously
displayed, quart of salt and q spoon.
After gazing at these for some time and
waiting in vain for the young women,
the callers came to the conclusion that
they were, indeed, too fresh, and went
home.
The glaciers of the North Pacific
coast are small but magnificent The
Muir is three miles long, with perpen-
dicular face of 400 feet, stretching like
frozen waterfall or gigantic dam en-
tirely across the head of the glacier bay
Its breast is as blue as turquoise. At a
distance it looks like fillet rent from
the azure sky and laid across the brow
of the cliff. When the full blaze of the
southwestern sun lights up its opales-
cence it CLEANS like the gates of the
celestial city.
M. de Lesseps is splendidly lodged in
a new house in the Avenue Montaigne,
which was purchased by the money
made by Nine. de Lesseps on her origi-
nal Suez investments. Her dowry of
100000 francs was employed in buying
shares when they were below par-that
is to say, at the time her marriage was
agreed to. That sum last year was
swollen to 100000 francs. and a great
deal of interest produced in the meafl-
while was invested in other profitable
ventures. The hall in the Lesseps man
sion is one of the largest in any very
modern private house in Paris.
The native Bermudians are an easy
going, good-natured people, very fond
of amusements, in illustration of which
letter in the Troy Times records this
incident: "a lady from New York was
in one of the largest stores here one
morning looking at goods, when the
clerks began to put up the shutters. She
asked what was the matter, supposing
the proprietor had died or failed, but
was informed that the yachts were just
going out, and that all the business
places always closed whenever there
was yacht-race OF anything especial 60
ing on"
The manufacture of lager in America
only dates back about forty years, but it
has gone ahead and spread itself like
the mustard seed in the parable. There
are now about 2,200 breweries in this
country, and they sold last year over
100000 barrels of malt liquors. OF
this, New York and Brooklyn contri-
buted near a quarter. The next largest
producers are Milwaukee, St Louis,
Cincinnati, Chicago, Boston and New