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a uISthnce 81 l4U miles.
According to Chauncey NJ. Depew.
more than a million dollars is spent
in New York annually for public ban
quets.
Corporal Tanner Is said to have
made $l97. 900 since leaving the pen
sion bureau in fees out of pension cases
he has handled.
Tsheug-Ki-Tong. the Chinese gen.
eral. has published in French book
that is said to be an imitation of the
modern French novel.
Robert G. Insersoli denies that he
made the prediction attributed to him
that about this time two theaters would
be built to one church.
Daring the last academical year at
Cambridge l.024 students matriculated
and 1.546 degrees were conferred, both
being the largest numbers on record.
Won Moltke. on his ninetieth birth
day. was asked how young he would
like to be. about 80" answered he,
the vision of youth rising to his minds
eye.
Il
the fving OF balloons from war ships,
A balloon lowering over ship can de-,
tect every movement of submarine
boat coming to the attack.
The CITY gas works Of Berlin brought
$3.50 0O0 clear profit into the treasury.
during the last financial year despite
the unusually heavy expenditures for
new gas house and conductors.
A Connecticut boy is famous just
now because he has "A tin whistle one
aud half inches in diameter and
several inches long in his stomach. He
swallowed the toy while playing on it.
There are few such common-sense
proverbs rs every man is the archi-
iect of his own fortune" Appius
Claudius. Roman censor used 1t in a
speech delivered by him $50 years be-
fore the christian era.
Birds are the only animals besides
man which can be taught distinctly to
articulate and utter sentences, which.
though of couYse not understood by the
birds themselves. are none the less sur
prisinS to listen to.
1t is told of Able List that on one
Of his concert tours through Germany
he was rendered banquet at a small
town by his admirers. When it was
found that thirteen were seated ut the
table the general embarrassment was
checked by List remarking: do not
be alarmed ut such Il triflc. / can eat
tor two persons"
So careful is the packi process in
birds that the parts that lind the food
and act rs teeth are placed. not in the
jaws. but in the center of the body-in
the gizzard. These parts consist of
small stones. which most birds swallow
for this purpose-all those that is
which feed on grain and other sub
stances that require grinding.
Baron Nathaniel Rothschild of
Vienna can lie seen walking about the
village of Waereshoien, near Munich,
barefooted. undergoing the nerve-cure
OF the Roman Catholic priest, Father
kneip. This doctor makes his patients
go barefooted most of the time, take a
plunge every morning into icy cold
water and eSchew all meats and in
toXicating drinks.
ANY vessel causing n disaster at ner
launch is regarded Ivy the Japanese as
doomed to ill-fortuue for her whole
career. At Osaka lately vessel cap
sized while being launched, several
persons being drowned. and her own
crs determined to destroy her at once
before the unlucky craft produced q
further catastrophe. The destruction
was carried out by night with much
ceremony.
10 Howard saws Of Henry Ward
Beecher: II have seen him hundreds
of times take his letters from the post
Office, open thcm us he walked along
the street. continue opening them In
houses where he called, aud. in other
words, attend 10 his own business.
That Mrs. Beccher opened some of his
letters is quite likely. but to say
that il was the regular procedure, she
determining what to answer and what
to throw away. is simply silly"
TIE late FRENCH author. Alphonse
Kari, had one of the most caustic Of
pens, which sometimes brought him in
10 trouble. On one OCCASION he pub
lished few satlrical verses upon a
certain poetess. who in revenge
watched for him Ia the street aud
stabbed him with poniard. Tho
wound luckily was not dangerous, and
the only revenge the satirist took was
to suspend the dagger in the study.
with the following inscription at
tached: Presented nv Mime. -
TO Alpbonse Karin the back"
Crispus Attacks. the famous colored
martyr of Boston. whose statue stands
on the Common. is now believed to lie a
myth or. at least, the name Is an alias
for Michael johnson. Dr.. Green. a
Boston antiquarian authority. says that
il Is Ivy no means sure that even
Michael johnson was tho right name.
"Attucks," said he. ''or Johnson. IL he
is To be so called. was a renegade half
breed. an adventurous sort of fellow,
II sea-faring man. who merely hap
pened TO e in Boston at the time.
and it Is quite probable that both the
names Attacks and johnson were
aliases"
Apropos Of stories, there arc some
funny ones going tie rounds about a
woman who il the authoress of most