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Glue from whale refuse is new
article of commerce in Russia.
At Frankfort. Germany. 500 horse
power is transmitted by electricity to
distance of no miles.
According to Chauncey M. Depew,
more than million dollars is spent
in New York annually for public ban
quets.
Corporal Tanner is said To have
made $l97 600 since leaving the pen
sion bureau in fees out of pension cases
he has handled.
Tsheng- Ki-Tong the Chinese gem
eral has published in French "A book
that is said TO be an imitation of the
modern French novel.
Robert G.. Ingersoll denies that he
made the prediction attributed to him
that about this time two theaters would
be built to one church.
During the last academical year at
Cambridge /. 024 students mair!culated
and l. $40 degrees were conferred. both
being the largest numbers on record.
Won Moltke. on his nnetieth birth
day. was asked how Young he would
like to be. About 80" answered he
the vision of youth rising to his minds
eye.
The submarine war boat has led to
the flying 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
Sl.750 90 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 Il tin whistle one
aud II 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. a Roman censor, used it in a
speech delivered by him $50 years be-
lore the christian era.
Birds are the only animals besides
man which can be taught distinctly to
articulate and utter sentences. which.
I though of couYse not understood by the
birds themselves. are none the less sur
prism. TO listen to.
1t is told of Able List that on one
IF his concert tours through Germany
he was rendered Il banquet ut n small
! town by his admirers. When ii was
found that thirteen were seated ut the
table the general embarrassment was
checked by List remarking: DO not
be alarmed ut such Il triic. 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. bur 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 SUBJ
stances that require grinding.
Baron Nathaniel Rothschild OF
Vienna can he seen walking about the
village of Waereshofen. near Munich.
barefooled. undergoing the nerve-cure
Of the Roman Catholic priest, Father
Kneip. This doctor makes his patients
20 barcfoOted most of the time. take Il
plunge every morning into icy cold
waller. and eschew all meats and IN
toxicating drinks.
ANY vessel causing disaster ut ner
launch j. regarded by the Japanese us
doomed to ill-fortune for her whole
career. At Osaka lately "A vessel cap
sized while being launched. several
persons being drowned. and her own
ers determined to destroy her ut once
before the unlucky craft produced u
further catastrophe. The destruction
was carried out by night with much
ceremony.
DO Howard saws of Henry Ward
Beecher: Il have seen him hundreds
of times take his letters from the post
Office. open them as he walked along
the street, continue opening them In
houses where he called and. in other
words. attend to his own business.
That Mrs. Bcccher 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"
st iplt ElCHCu Uutuul,
Kari. had one of the most caustic of
pens, which sometimes brought him in
TO trouble On one occasion he pub
lished few satirical verses upon a
certain poctess. who in revenge
watched for him in the street aud
stabbed him with Il poniarl. The
wound luckily was not dangerous. aud
the only revenge the satirist took was
to suspend the dagger in the study.
with the following inscription at
tached: Presented bv Mime. -
to Alphonse Karin the back"
Crspus Attacks the famous colored
martyr of Boston, whose statue stands
on the Common. is now believed to he "a
myth. or. ut least. the name is an alias
for Michael johnson. DR.. Green. n
Boston antiquarian authority. says that
! il is by no means sure that even
Michael Johnson was tho right name.
"Attucks. said he, ''or johnson. If he
: is To be so called. was renegade half.
breed. an adventurous sort of fellow.
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