The national leader., 1889-02-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.

to be lighted by 1,500 gold candles.
What dripping there must be In the
course Of one ball.
philadelphia has $1,000 mora
houses than New York. But they are
not built "all the way up" like they
are In New York.
Statistics are published to show
that the number OF suicides at Monte
Carlo, the great European gaming re-
sort, were fewer last year than the
previous one.
The thistle at the antipodes seems
to attain most vigorous growth. Its
root penetrates to depth Of from
twelve to twenty feet, and this root,
even when cut into small pieces, re-
tains vitality, each piece producing a
new plant.
Over seventy million pairs Of
suspenders were made in the United
States last year. That would give
every man at least two pairs, and it
looks queer to see some men going
around with piece of clothes line
glrted about them.
1t Is now proposed to have another
international exhibition In the great
crystal palace at Sydenham, near
London, In 1891, In the buildings in
which the exhibition of 1851 was held
In Hyde park, but which were after
ward removed to Sydenham.
There has Just been landed at San
Francisco freak worth mention. In
shape of black mare from Australia
that is utterly and absolutely without
hair, even where name and tail ought
TO he. In all other respects she 10
model OF the equine race.
-Philadelphia is enjoying greater
growth Of population at the present
time than any other large city on the
Continent, for out Of the S,262 new
buildings erected during 1883, 1858
were intended In whole or In part for
dwelling purposes.
Mary Anderson and Mrs. Langtry
are saying some hard things about the
hustle, but that ''hldeously ungrace-
ful" and essentially unartistic" COM
bination of wires and things continues
to keep the popular bulge on the larger
half Of humanity.
The old oak tree at Waltham,
which so excellent an authority as
Prof. Alexander Agassiz said was 700
years OF age. has been cut down. It
has been dead for some time, and
stood In the path Of modern improve-
ment. Fart OF the venerable tree will
be preserved In the library.
Florida Is something else than
land Of flowers, orange groves. and in
dolent tourists. They have demon
strated that they can raise tobacco
there equal to the best Havana; and
the raising of cane and making sugar
and molasses is just as successfully
done now in Florida as In Cuba and
Louisiana.
Yale college in 1895 had but four
or five students who were church men,
hers. To-day nearly One-half hold such
membership. Princeton In 1913 had
but two or three openly protesting the
Christian faith. To-day about one
half. and among them the best scholars.
In Williams college LAT out OF 24S,
and in Amherst 233 out Of 352, are
church members.
Very pleasant is it to read Of the
interchange of cOurtesies between the
retiring occupant of the White House
and the one who is to become Its Occu-
pant. Quite IN marked contrast Is
this with the department OF the elder
Adams q little over four score years
ago. It is to be hoped that henceforth
there may be party loyalty without
personal rancOr.
-Twenty-seven years ago an acorn
lodged somehow In the mortar or be-
tween the stones of an Ohio court
house spire, took root, and sent out an
oak shoot. To-day miniature oak
grows on the spire, eighty feet from
the ground. It draws life from the
cement, the "skin Of the rock" and
the air, but principally from the air, as
there is very little cement in the spire.
The process of whitening sugar
was discovered In curious way. a
hen that had gone through clay
puddle went with her muddy feet into
a sugar house. She left her tracks on
a pIle of sugar. 1t was noticed that
wherever her tracks wera the sugar
was whltened. Experiments were in
stituted, and the result was that wet
clay came to be used In refining
sugar.
Julian HaWtnOrn0 Is one OF Lne
handsomest of American literary men.
His face does not possess the grand,
majestic power that distinguished his
father. but 1t is. perhaps, counte-
nance that possesses greater attrac-
tions for women. Over beautifully
shaped head fall curls OF dark brown
hair; his eyes are very fine. and would
brighten a far less handsome face: he
is tall. graceful and manly In figure.
The total number Of murders
committed in the country as reported
by telegraph to the Chicago Tribune
dnrjng 1883 is 2184, as compared with
1885 in 1857, 1899 i'll 1886, 1873 in 1885.
The causes of these murders may BE-
classified as follows:
OuarrelS. ..... .......''.'. lO03
ITnknown 247
Iaalonsy ola
I,inuor 1872
rv hiohwaymen. ...... lab
Highwaymen killed ed.............. 82
Insanity '''........... 81
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