The South western news., 1888-05-09
INTERESTING ITEMS

There ere %. 2S7 people in BOea
ton over ten years of age who can,
not read or write.
1t is reported from Rome that
six or seven roiles Of untrodden cats
acomhs have been discovered under
the Eternal City.
1t is said that the rusty hinge, OF
the door bolt that will not slide cas-
i1y, msy be cured by rubbing with
. soft lead,penciI. 1t is easily tried
and clearly.
In eighty>four years the United.
Statep has acquired by Purchase 2.
1852, 723 square miles Of territory.
costing. in cash s52, COZ, coo mt
Counting the cost of war.
Sun flowers have been raised foe.
centuries in Russia and Tartary for
fuel They are now being cultivat-
ed in Dakota for that purpose.
They nj Ike good hot fi9e.
There are now cables On Almost
every sea and oce1n he'd. the total
length ps the,wire being about 49,.
600 miles. There are niue cables
connecting Europe with America.
TIE n1mher of school children in
Ireland is said TO he f,,O00,,000 out.
of q population OF 5000, 900. The
government appropriates annually
over s., 900, 000to public schools.
Professor Bnnge, a DISTINGUISHED
German professor Of the University
of Base, characterizes beer as the
most mischievous among alcoholic
beverages, because no other is 60
seductive.
The statement is made that dur.
ing the half year past. we have in.
vested 100000, 900 in new rail-
roads, $500, 900, 900, and $780,,
000,000 in Southern mines and
manufactures.
Europe's annual expenditure Tor
armies and fl -ets is So, 867, 5000
The national debts incurred by war
aggregate s24, ,O57 ,655. on
which 81, 100000, 900 is annually
paid out for Interest.
Ithas been computed that the
death late of the globe is sixtyA
seven per minute. 97;;799 per day.
and IS, $50, S85 per year, and the
birth rate seventy per minute, 1907
800 per day, and Sc, 792, 900 per
year.
Japan possesses 1000 newspa.
pers--half-as many as great Britt
tan and. Ireland. Outside of Jas
pan there are /. 900 newspapers 10
Asia, most Of which appear in In
dia. Africa has 206 journals and
Australia 700.
There are now published n the
United States 14,160 newspapers
and periodicals of all classes. Tho
net gain of the wear has been 666.
The daily newspapers number J..
215-a gain of SO. Canada has
679 periodicals,
A North Carolina mo0nshiner re.
Gently made forty gallons of whis-
ky.from four bushels Of corn and
ten boxes Of concentrated lye. The
sale of such liquor viii soon settle
the temperance problem. But it
will settle tie drinkers ffS
The following curious sentence
coDtalns all the letters Of the alpha
bet: "a quick brown fox Jumps
over the lazy dog" II is a good
line for use in copy buck, because
the writer is thus able to practice
on all the characters from "a
to 81"
George III, celebrated the ju-
bilee of hre reign as king of Eng>
land, October 25, 1910, but it was
not observed III India till the next
year The news of the battle of
Waterloo, which was fought June
is. 1915, did not reach Calcutta
till December IS. Now Calcutta
and london are in constant COM
munidaticn.
There will be no leap year be-
tween 1896 and 1904. The ordinary
test of division by A would make
1900 a leap year, since no remains
der would be left but in revising
she calendar Pope Gregory Kill
found it would be necessary to
count as Iaa,, wears only thnxn cas,~