Omaha daily bee., 1891-05-25
LITTLE OF EVERYTHING,

Boston proposes to pension all disabled
firomen.
Plenty of violets in April iusures a large
peach crop.
OF 5000 persons ill of cholera in Japan
last year 81 800 died.
On dark nights a white light can he seen
farther than any other color; on bright
nights red takes the first place.
The shortest sentence containing the alpha
bet will have thirty letters. Here is ono
with thirty letters What vexlng quips lab
my craGed folk.n
The cells of the human lungs are $4,000, 900
IN number, covering surface from TWO ana
half to three and half times greater than
the whole body surface of ten full-grown
men.
A ship railway is proposed in France rs
convey vessels from the Atlantic to the Med
iterranean without their having To 20 round
by way of Gibraltar 1t will be 2S0 miles
long
The amount of coloring matter stored in
coal is such that one pound of the mineral
yields magenta sufficient to color 800 yards of
fiannel, aurine for 100 yards, vermillion for
1850 yards, and alizarine for 255 yards Of
turkey red cloth.
The following advertisement appears in
German newspaper: Wanted by Il lady of
quality, for adequate remuneration, few
well behaved and respectable dressed chill
dren to amuse cat IN delicate health two or
three hours day.
The wife Of Rev. Mr.. Malsom of New
Goshen, Ind, complained for several months
of an acute pain in the side and the surgeon
being consulted, needle was extracted
which the lady swallo wed when little girl,
nearly forty years ago.
The report of the German railways for
1880 has just appeared According to it there
are 2i,6O0 miles of railway in the Empire,
with 1923 stations. There were in use last
year l., ,620 locomotives, manufactured AT an
average cost OF Sll 900 each.
A Louisville couple were to have been mar
Iied in the church and great preparations to
that end had been made, but when the time
came their timdlty so overcame them that
they stole away from their friends and were
quietly married in minister's parlor
Over one year ago William Boucot, a Nor
r.stown (Pa.) hotel proprietor placed brass
check on the back Of a swapping turtle which
he released The plato bore Boucots name
and the inscription, good for one drink
A few days ago he found tho animal stroll
ing over his property, and thinks it came
back for the drink.
During last year .he number of vessels
passing IN and out of the Mersey 10 aud from
Liverpool was II ,2O1, daily average of ll3.
The cargOes OF these vessels aggregated
S6nS, $40 tons OF inward freight and $3.50, GS6--
tons of outward freight There were sixty
five wrecks, nineteen OF which were total, in
the river, and forty-four lives were lost.
The founder of Montreal, Canada, is about
TO be honOred with q statue on the Place
d'Armes, above the fountain, facing Notre
Dame street and the st. Lawrence. Maison-
neuye is modelled fixing in the ground tho
pole of a flag, and at the same time pointing
to the place where the new town is to rlso
The figure is OF bronze, nine feet high and
will stand on pedestal of polished red gran
ite twenty feet in height.
The longest bridge in the world Is the Lion
brldge near Sangang, China 1t extends five
and one-quarter miles over an area of tho
Yellow sea, and is supported by 300 hugo
stone arches. The roadway is seventy feet
above the water and is enclosed in an iron
network. A marble lion twenty-one feet long
rests on the crown of every pillar. Tho bridge
was built at the command of the Emperor
Rieng Long, who abdicated in 1896 on account
of old age.