Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1889-09-13
CURIOUS FACTS.
Cornell University has no holidays bu

sundays.
New York law still permits imprison,
ment for debt
Desertion from the army or navy.is not
an extraditable offence.
Bull fighting is getting foothold
among French amusements.
Swallows are being trained in France
to act as carriers of dispatches in case Of
war.
An Englishman of letters wears con.
stantly round his neck portion of Shell
ley's charred skull.
Dartmouth is credited with publishing
the first college paper, Yale the second,
and Union the third.
James Horner, the wealthy Pittsbuo
manufacturer, has a remarkable collection
of cacti. One plant in his collection is
valued at $780,
Charles F. Pfuger has just arrived in
this country from the Hartz Mountains,
Germany, with 1000 singing birds, which
are to be turned loose in Portland, Ore
gon, and vicinity.
The largest university in the world is
at Vienna, with 5000 students and 2S5
professors; while the largest college is at
Cairo, Egypt, having 300 professors and
10000 students of Mohamet
The Burmese believe that the ruby
ripens like fruit. They say that a ruby
in its crude state is colorless and as it
grows older turns yellow, then green,
then blue, and lastly, a brilliant red.
There is no national bank in Switzer-
land, but there are thirty three chartered
banks. The Government has a system
of loaning money to the people at inter
est, the details of which we do not know.
From the Egyptian manuscripts owned
by the Austrian Archduke Rainer it ap-
pears that printing with movable types
was practiced in Egypt in the ninth cen
tury of our era, and that paper factory
existed in Bagdad as early as 794.
Bartholdi, who modelled the celebrated
statue which bears his name, also created
the wonderful fountain in the Botanical
Gardens at Washington 1t is so large
and requires such an enormous quantity
of water that the authorities permit it to
play only on rare occasions.
Nine. Euphrosyne Leblanc, who has
Just celebrated her centennial birthday in
Nova Scotia, has had II children, 105
grandchildren, 222 great grandchildren
and 10 great great grandchildren. Most
of them are living. She claims direct de-
scent from Longfellow's Rene Blanc.
The Sultan of Turkey maintains 474
carriages which incur an expense of
100000 francs year. Most of these
carriages are of French make. few
made in Turkey show cleverness in con-
struction. The Sultan personally has
use for only about four of the vehicles
referred to.
The Salvation Army has a new method
of advertising itself in Paris An open
carriage is daily hired and in it are
placed four of the most conspicuous
members of the con-fraternity-a North
American Indian, Chinaman, an Egyp-
tian and Persian. These are driven
wherever the crowd is greatest.
The most remarkable roof in Danbury,
Conn, or perhaps in that State, covers a
greenhouse at the nursery of J. II. Ives.
1t is composed of negatives from the pho
tograph galleries of Z. r. Ritton. Mr..
Ritton had at one time 20, 600 of these
negatives, the accumulation of the long
years he has been in the business.
Many years ago while circus was
showing in Gorham, Me-, the clown,
whose name was Reynolds, was thrown
from a horse and killed. He was buried
in the Gorham cemetery, and it is said
that since that time, whenever circus
has visited the town it has been made the
custom for the company to visit the
clowns grave and strew flowers on it,
while the band plays dirge.