The Delta independent., 1890-01-21
SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.

Ion in Alaska.
King Kalakaua has designs on literature.
He has written play
An imperial edict forbids applause in the
theaters of ST. Petersburg.
Florida is making preparations for an.
other sub-tropical exhibition.
According to official statistics Marselles'
traffic has nearly doubled since 1870.
King, the aeronant in thirty-eight
years has made aO2 balloon ascensions.
Kate Field says her paper can not tell Q
lie. That is probably why she calls IL
Washington.
In Japan there are thirty-one schools of
medicine, one of dentistry and two Of
veterinary surgery.
The three hundredth anniversary Of the
invention Of the microscope is to be ccle
brated in Antwerp in 1890.
Jane Detheridge, of Kingston, Jamaica,
has refused thirty seven offers of marriage.
She has 100000 and is an orphan.
Patti. the critics say, has not the voice
of long ago. There has been no decadence,
however, in the price Of admission.
A hog that weiged 900 pounds was recent
ly butchered near Laurel, Del. 1t was
heavier than one of the farmers horses.
The rapid decrease in the number of kan
garoos in Australia is beginning to attract
the attention of scientific societies there.
The largest incandescent circuit in the
world is forty-fve miles in length. The
company working iC is located at Ottawa.
This country is getting along with one
office holder to l57 adults. The civil SER
wants of Uncle Sam draw about S165, 900 900
yearly.
A citizen Of Warren, Ohio, claims that
two ghosts met him on the street ole
evening. He recognized both as friends
long dead.
Gladstone has not universally been sue
cessful. ''Proverbial Philosophy" Tupper
once defeated him in o contest on q theo-
logical essay.
A Wheeling man, who recently moved
from one house to another, found In q clos
ct of his new residence coat with $S in a
roll in the inside pocket
There seems to be good deal Of wildness
up in Maine. The game commissioner OF
the state estimates that there are 10000
wild deer in the north woods.
tits said that at least six novels by popular
writer's of fiction are to be written this
coming year, based, like "Ben Hur," on
scenes and incidents of the Bible.
''True love never did run smoothly"
Mrs. Langtry is said to have made up with
her "former'' husband. If this be true, he
will probably soon be the boss Of the box
Office.
Tho new official report Of the condition Of
the English beer-brewing industry shows
that Great Britian's 1868 breweries pro-
duced 2S, ,644, 900 barrels of beer in the last
fiscal year.
A bibulous individual of York, Pa, went
to sleep while soaking his feet in hot water,
and when he;was awakened in the morning
by his wife the fire had gone out and thin
ice had formed in the tub.
Electric lights have been adopted to
such an extent in the cities and towns Of
Guatemala that the importation of mineral
oils has largely fallen off. At the capital
the use of oil has diminished one half.
The Prince OF Wales has large lot Of
garments. When he visits he makes 1t
point never to be seen in the same suit
more than twice. The prince is more mo
notonous in his speech than in his dress.
Physically, Speaker Reed is the largest
man in the house. He weighs as much as
ex-President Cleveland and is taller. He
is an accomplished French scholar and
reads every new book published in Paris.
The latest recensement figures set down
the population OF Berlin at l, 173, ,S53, and of
Vienna at ,ll0, 764, a steady advance being
made by both capitals through additions
from small towns throughout the two en-
pires.
A bowling craze has broken out in Troy,
N. Y, and all the young men who enthused
on base ball during the summer are now
devoting their energies and spare cash to
bowling, which is an excellent game and
will do them good.
M. Alphond tells the Parlsians that they
can now have an exhibition every year on
the Camp de Mars in the permanent build
ing left over from the great exhibition, and
they think strongly OF holding annual
Festivals OF industry"
An exchange says: Pour one tablespoon
full Of clear solution Of tannin "a heaped
teaspoonsul of tannin to gill Of RAIN
water) into tumbler full Of the suspected
water. II no turbidity occurs within one
hour the water is decidedly unwholcsome
Tho Chinese are fairly overrunning the
Sandwich Islands. They number one-ffth
of the population and nearly monopolize
many DrauCueS Ol WtICanLllo UublUcSS,
while there are six Chinese mechanics out
of every seven Of this class on the islands,
The bastinado is still in use in Hungary
to make refractory peasants testify about
accomplices or as to their own misdeeds. and
the Hungarian press has recently engaged
in a campaign against this relic Of barbar-
ism.
William Allingham. the Irish poet al.
ways wanted to be friend Of Carlyle but
the crusty sage could not well tolerate him.
Once he said: "Allinghsm, ye're NO, bad
fellow. but I'd Just have We to know that a
man can never get in q word Of sense for
your everlasting iabberinR."
The queen Of Italy recently found q
streak of ugly and indelible green color on
her favorite lap dog, and on inquiry found
that King Humbert, for whom she had pro-
cured from Paris bottle OF hair dye which
she desired him to use on his gray mustache
had sensbly concluded to have 1t tried on
the dog.
Daniel Dougherty of New York says
that while boy in Market street drug
store. in Philadelphia, he came near being
arrested for murder, all for attempting to
declaim the last part of "Richard ILL.,"
when q western man, who had never heard
of Shakespeare, was in the next room listen
ing in horror