Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-08-16
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The total Chinese territory. IN
Guiding China proper and her CON
tiguous possessions, Is put at 4.oSS,SOV
square miles.
--Sicily's sulphur is estimated ~
about 100000 tons, from which the
world draws 400, 600 tons yearly.
London is said to have eight homes
for poor working girls at which break
fast, dinner and tea cost only one dol
lar q week, and room not over one
dollar more. They are said to be well
managed and literally supported oy
charitable people.
Glasgow will soon be the second
city of the United Kingdom. Its
boundaries are to be extended SO as to
include number of pOpulOus subur-
ban towns, and it is estimated that it
will then have population OF nearly
eight hundred thousand.
The guides to the intricate recesses
of the CatacOnbs under Rome some
times use a card. which they fasten at
points along their way as guide to
their return. For want of such guild
ance explorers of these inner recesses
have sometimes persisted.
"A French company. with a capital
of seventeen million dollars, is said to
be waiting for permission from the
Russian Government to begin work on
a canal that will unite the Sea OF AzOv
and the Black sea. The canal will he
11S kilOmeters long. will take five
years to construct. and will benefit the
southeastern districts, which produce
grain, salt, minerals and fuel.
The fever bacillus and other dead
~ germs find a permanent home in
Bengal and destroy large proportion
of the natives In childhood or before
they reach their prime. The survivors
are an attenuated race, with slender
bodies, but of bright intelligence and
marvelously patient of mental labor.
The promoters of n burial re-
FORM movement in England demand
''cOffins of the most perishable and
lightest material. all lasting substances
being rejected; interment rs early as
possible; the pail to be discarded as
an unnecessary and baneful covering.
and burial in plain earth with total
disuse of vaults and bricked graves"
Burial FAULTS are especially condemned
as tending to the spread of disease,
and as injurious to the health of per-
sons attending burials.
The Sultan of Morocco has such
ideas Of the dignity of rank that when
he rides in the carriage presented to
him by Queen Victoria he compels the
coachman to walk on foot. because no
one must sit on a more elevated place
than the Emperor. He .imagines that
he has taste for geography, but it
has been necessary to construct CO.
pecial maps for him, so that Morocco
occupies three-fOurths of the globe.
In Paris masters and mistresses. it
is alleged by a correspondent, dread
ing the criticism of the servants hall.
and desiring comfort in the dining
room. have dispensed with the services
of walters; instead miniature electric
railway is laid down on the dining
table and continued on the same level
to kitchen through an aperture in the
wall. Dishes come in, and after hav-
ing made the round. go out on a sort
of small truck. The truck can be
stopped anywhere, and does its work
admirably. and any amount of art may
be lavished on it to make it beautiful.
The old saying that ''beefsteak is
better medicine than quinine'' is re-
ceiring able support from many white
men on the Congo. Stanley regarded
Bona as Il particularly unhealthfui
place, but it has lost part OF its bad
reputation since cattle were introduced
and European vegetables began to
thrive in the gardens. The thirty
white men at this settlement have not
been called upon to attend the funeral
of European for u year. Their herd
has multiplied until they are able to
haze fresh meat on their table every
day, which they think a great improve
ment on the timed meats and canned
vegetables upon which Stanley and his
followers relied for strength to lay the
foundations Of the Congo enterprise.
WOODRUFF FOR PAPER