The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1892-12-22

Europe, with It's territory Of eight square
miles and It's standing army Of l26 men,
purposes to have a universal exposition
next year.
In the time Of Shakespeare there were
not In all the world as many English
speaking people as there are now in New
York and New Jersey. To-day more
than 100, OOO, 900 people speak English.
In India and South America there is
said 10 be q small tree known as the
"sorrowful tree" which bears sweet
scented flowers that "bloOm only in the
night time and fall of at the break Of
day."
The order issued by Postmaster-Gen-
eral Wannamaker q few days ago for
the reduction Of the registry fee OH mail
matter from 10 to cents a piece, will be
in force on and after January l. Though
devoted to the subject Of postal improve
ment, Mr.. Wannamaker was too shrswd
business man to allow the government,
through his department, to let go Of the
sure thing Of two cents 4 piece on the
hundreds Of thousands Of Christmas pack
ages to be consigned to the mails dur
ing December with the registry fee at
tsehed.
Some very interesting figures are given
In recent census Office bulletin 10 re-
gard to the railway mileage Of the world
in 1890. The United States leads all the
other countries with l63, 597 miles-equal
to AIS per cent Of the whole, and ex'
ceeding BY 3,942 miles the entire mileage
Of the old World-that Of Europe, Asia
and Africa combined amounting 10 but
l59,655 miles. In 1880 there were less
than forty miles Of railway in the United
States. and nearly half Of the growth has
occurred since 1880, when the figures were
placed at 81 TIA miles.
Aphides are q species Of minute insects
belonging to the order Of Hemiptera, sub
order Homoptera, and taken collectively
100 Of them would hardly weigh a grain,
Now, let us try . comparison: The av-
erage man, We will say, weighs 1900, 00C
grains. Yet it has been found. by &C
tual calculation, that II these minute in
e sects were left unchecked to only thu
tenth generation the descendants Of 4
single pair would be equivalent, in point
Of actual weight, to 100000 very heavy
men. This would be equal to One-tbird
Of the population Of the globe, suppOsinG
each person to weigh an average Of 2sC
pounds.
In the province Of China, Of which
Canton Is the capital, there are at least
10000 lepers. Leprosy also abounds in
the maritime provinces Of the south and
in central China. 1t Is recognized by all
oriental leprOlOgists that every child Of q
leper has an inheritance Of the disease,
but diminished; and that after the fourth
generation, Il no healthy blood inter
Venes, the disease is entirely extinguished.
The Chinese believe that leprosy is com
munieated by cOhabitatiOn, but it is also
. belief among these people that while
the intercourse Of leprOus male with q
healthy woman will strengthen and nour-
ish the leprO- bacillus, that a woman af-
hicted with leprOsy can be cured by co.
habitation with healthy males.
HaiTpinS are made by automatic and
very complicated machines. The coiled
wire Is put upon drums and becomes
Strengthened as It feeds itself to the ma
chine. 1t passes along until Il reaches
two eutterS, which are so constructed AZ
TO point the ends at the same time they
cut It the length required. This piece Of
wire then slips along an iron plate until
It reaches q slot. through which it il
pressed into regular shape. The hairpini
are then put into a pan and then japan
ned, after which they are heated IN ar
oven with Temperature Of from 800 L
40 degrees. There are but four Ameri
can factories. The largest are in Birm
ingham and Waterbury, Conn; the
others are In Philadelphia and Brooklyn
Five hundred thousand dollars worth OIL
hairpins are annually imported from Eng
land. France and Germany.
The books Of the law were the frs
books Of the Bible 10 DO collected by th
priests and leaders Of the Israelites; ate
the law came the written history Of IN
people, In the fifth century B. c the col
lection Of the prophets by Nehemiah
and from this time onward the collection
Of photographic, the Palms, Proverb,
Job, Cantieles. All Of these had bee
preserved by the priests, copied and r,
copied as occasion required, and circuit
ted in manuscript. as Of course all wri
ingB were circulated in those days. II
dispersion Of the Hebrews and their n
QUESTION Of other languages and loss
the Hebrew language, necessiiated Il
tFanslation Of the Scriptures into 9TH
than the Hebrew, and previous to Il
second century B. G. what we know
the septuagint translation, the LXX
was completed in Greek, designed espe
tally for the Hebrews living In AIexa
dria and other parts d Egypt. The Sc
tuaeint comes from a tradition that se
enty scholaFs-seVenty-tWo actually
made the translation. Tfanslations al
receusions into ths Arabic were al
made, and these trahSlatiOnS were cOpi