Evening capital., 1890-12-05

We have 247, ,67S Indians
Brazilians speak Portuguese
Ireland loses SO, 900 people yearlv.
Uncle Sam has 9. 900 female doctors
Massachusetts has 100, 600 Canadians
Panama's army-One hundred and
twenty men.
In Kansas 20 per cent of the voters
are farmers
Whisky was first made in Ireland by
an English monk.
There are 5000 colored people in the
city of Washington.
A man on the deck of vessel at sea
can see about five miles.
New York has expended 50, 600 600 in
buying land for new parks
There are six farmers in the Senate,
and 35 of them in the House.
There are over 1000. 900 square miles
in Labrador that have never been ex-
plored.
The Unitel States has seven times
the railroad mileage OF any other
country.
One hundred and thirteen places in
the United States are called after Mad
Anthony Wayne.
The average of wealth per head in
England is 81 545; in Scotland $1,2l5;
in Ireland but $685..
The oldest dated monuments in alpha
betical writing as yet known belong to
the tenth century, b c.
The aggregate debt of all the colonies
of Australia is $2l5 per head of the
population or $6Ss, 000. 600
The most ancient theatrical poster in
existence is dated 1880. and the oldest
religious p ster was printed in 1902
Pierre Lorrilard originally purchased
the 5000 acres of land that embrace
Tuxedo for cord wood and railroad ties
Weeden, in his History of New Eng.
land" says that in 1868 Is families
came to Newport. r l., from Holland,
bringing. with their goods and mer-
camille skill, the first three degrees Of
Free Masonry.
In China all the land belongs to the
State. and trifling sum per acre, never
altered through long centuries, is paid
as rent; this is the only tax in the
country, and it amounts to about 60
cents per head
Sixty years ago railroads were un-
known in the United States. and the
poulation consisted of $4,000, 900 people;
to-day there are upward of 1856, 600 miles
of railroad. and the population has in
creased to 65,O00 00O
Heather nations have different Leg
ends as to the origin of women. The
japanese believe that she grew on a
tree. the Laplanders that she was once q
rabbit the Persians that she fell from
was once toad.
The area and capacity of the Hotel
del Coronado of San Diego, the largest
hotel in the world, is: Area of grounds.
20 acres; area covered by building,
acres, total floor area, At acres; capac-
ity of reservoirs. $50, 900 gallons; area
of dining rooms. 10000 square feet.
The largest reservoir or artificial lake
in the world is the great tank of Debar,
90 miles southeast of Udaipur, Raj
pootana. which covers an area of 81
square miles; the masonry dam is 1000
feet long by 05 feet high, so feet wide
at the base and Is feet at the top
About 45o B. c. the Ionians first in
troduced the present system of writing
from left to right; previous to the above
date from right to left prevailed, al
though the method called boustrophedon
| Chat is, alternately from right to left
and from left to right was somewhat
extensively practiced.
OF all the vegetables which furnish
nourishment to man the banana is the
most prolific; single cluster often con-
tains 100 to 180 pods. and weighs from
| 60 to so pounds. Humboldt says that a
piece of land 1870 square yards viii pro-
duce 1000 pounds weight of fruit, while
the same area will rarely produce more
than 80 pounds weight Of wheat or 80
pounds of potatoes.