The Washington bee., 1891-09-12
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The Duke of Fife has 10 residences
Panama claims $50 year old man.
A Chicago woman spanked Lincoln.
Vancouver will have a a ,0O0, 900 bridge.
A Baltimore mulatto is turning PINK.
Uncle Sam leads in mineral proouo-
ton.
Mr.. Coffin is a Bolivar (Mo.) under
taker.
A wren lives three years; raven lOO
years.
There are now in Baltimore about $500
Italians.
St. Peters Church, Rome, will hold
a 900 people.
The royal standard of Persia is black
smiths apron.
YM. C. As have DDS, 900 members
and $12, ,25O,OOO.
A pound of PHOSPHORUS is sufficient 20
cp / ,OOO,O 900 matches.
Mechanics head the list as inventors,
then come clergymen.
Eight eggs in every dozen consumed IN
England are imported.
Mexico has given the world more than
81, ,O00, 900, 900 worth OF gold.
There is only one sudden death among
women TO every eight among men.
There are more physicians in the United
States than in all Europe combined.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is patron
of 191 ivings; the Prince of Wales 81.
The Jewels belonging to the British
crown are supposed to be worth $l5, ,OOO,'
600.
A Eaedical journal states that i've
clergymen live as long as eight working
men.
The distance of the moon from the
earth ranges between 225, 900 and 251 600
miles.
1t requires about 5000 pouI Is OF ross
leaves to produce an ounce OF altar OF
roses.
| Excellent wheat lands north of Mani
toba Overlie frozen earth that never
thaws.
The pension list of the United States
on the 31st of May contained $50, ,394
names.
Newfoundland is an island rather larger
than Ireland. 1t has about 200, 900 in
| oabitants.
The first United States flag was made
N the old building, No. 239 Arch street,
Philadelphia.
British Columbia and New Zealand are
the greatest distances between which .
telegram may be sent.
| Farm lands IN the United States, tax
ing the country as a whole, occupy only
289 acres in every 1000.
If all the mountains in the world were
levelled the average height of the land
would rise nearly 220 feet.
The latest figures give France and her
colonies population of SO, 672 ,048; the
German empire, AZ ,169, $50.
The Italian lives more abstemiously
than any other immigrant who comes to
America, except the Chinaman.
The number of Italians in st. Louis is
estimated to be about 5000, of which
number at least half are Sicilians.
The average construction of railrJ~ Is
in the United States during the last 20
years is said to have been 5,700 miles an
nudlly.
Thread is simple thing, but simple as
it is there are 1000 kinds of it. and eacx
kind goes through hundreds of different
processes.
One hundred years ago there were in
the South j4,25S colored people to every
100000 white people; to-day there ars
but Al .416.
From 1921 to 1890 over $4,000. 900 i'm
migrants arrived in this country, a num-
Der equaling One-fourth the entire popu-
latiOn 0f the United States.
Printing was introduced into Chill in
the year 1872. with a little, screw press.
brought from the United States. which ia
still preserved in the National Museum.
The Italians in Pittsburg and Allegheny
county are estimated to number between
5000 and 10000. During the past five
years only l34 Italians were naturalized.
4 man inhales one pint of air at each
breath. While standing. the adult respi-
ration is 22 times per minute: while w.
ing down, 13. To save your breath. iie
down.
Boston claims To have better class of
Italians than any other city in the United
States. There are about 10000 of them
but nearly all are in good circumstances
and intelligent.
There are said to be 5000 Italians in
Chicago, and the number is increasing
all the time. Yet they do not seem
nearly so numerous as in New York. and
are infrequently seen in public places.
The Massachusetts census of last wear
shows that one-fifth of the native horn
married women of that State are child.
less, a condition without parallel in any
country OF the world excepting France.
There are about lO5 women 10 every
iOO men; one-quarter Of the population
Of the world die before the are of -
years; only one in | 900 lives to be 100
years old, and only six in !, 900 reach rs
Rev. A. w. Mann, the pioneer deaf
mute preacher, writes: The ratio ot
deaf mutes to the hearing is as / TO 600
80 there are over 10000 in the TTnitod
States, and about ,0OO, ,OC0 in the ertir,
world.
In the towns and cities of Chill all Lb.
shopping OF any consequence is done in
the evening. In Santiago the storas aro