The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1892-03-08
THE ADVOCATE.
PEN AND SCISSORS.

The Empire of Persia has but on
vessel, small steamer built man.
years ago. :.
The Secretary of the Treasury esti
mates that Americans spend annual!
100000, 1000 in foreign countries. y"
Eight young girls were killed il
London on last week by the falling
of big chimney at the factory WHERE
they were working.
Mrs. Catherine Standish, Inca
descendant Of Lord Standish, thu
Irish nobleman who was raised to thu
peerage in 1910, died at Birmingham
Conn, recently in abject poverty.
The point of Sandy Hook is now
$500 feet northwest of its position in
17T9, the general direction of the ex-
IRENE point being almost due west, in
stead of north, as it was century or
more ago.
A railroad which. breaches the great
est elevation of the Alps, is in opera
ton upon the Rotthorn, IN the canton
of Berne. 1t is 1896 metres above the
level of the sea, 81 metres higher than
the railroad upon Mount Pilatus.
The Statistician of the Interstate
Convention says there are in the
United States 29,92S locomotives; Of
these, 1884 are passenger engines
and 16, 140 freight, equal to 10 freight
and passengers for each 100 miles
of operated line. There are 26,5OO
passenger coaches and 1,l64,l SS
freight cars.
The returns of immigration for the
year 1891 have just been made pub
lie, and show some startling facts.
49l,O26 immigrants arrived here in
1890, while in 1891, it reached 599,G66,
an increase of 99,64O, about 20 per
cent. the greatest increase of any
nationality being from Russia and
Portugal, that in 1880 was considered
very large being $4,000, in 1891
reached 100000.
NJ. Peligot has been making a
study Of the "usury,' or wear to
which coins are subjected in course Of
circulation. lie makes resume OF
the various experiments of the last
century, in France and in England, to
find the resistance of various alloys
used in coming gold, silver and cop
per. Other tests, made in France in
1888, show that the usury of coins il
in proportion to their weight and not
to their surface. But where docs this
waste Of precious metal go? The i'm
palpable usury, perhaps, floats in the
air, to be clutched by the invisible
hands OF the ghosts Of mOmey-lcmders
Among the great number Of relics
of antique peoples, which arc found in
the excavations at different localities
in Italy, two have, perhaps, especial
human interest. One of these. Il frag- |
ment Of a tablet discovered in course |
Of building the new Savings Bank at
Ravenna, relates to soldier belong !
ing to the trireme "Ncptumc.' The |
other is leaicm tablet With an EtruS-
can inscription recording the names OF
eight men and two women, who-ac-
COrding to thCOry-may have belonged
either to a sort of burial association.
or have been together at banquet in
honor Of the dead.
The LYNN Item says the way inter-
est counts up is illustrated by a bank
account at Newburyport. In 1920.
when the bank was opened there, d
person deposited $40. No more de-
posts were made, but the interest has
been accumulating for seycnty-two
years, and there is now credited to
the depOsitor the nice little sum OF
$69S. "a penny saved is a penny
earned" said Franklin, and a $40 bill
saved for seventy-two years earns
$67S. And the beauty of it is that il
cost nothing to the depositor. But
in the meantime the dcposito,
has probably gone where, if he could
have taken the money with him, il
would be melted.
A copy Of Poe's poem, "Thc Bells"
was sold in Boston not long ago at the
auction sale of Rev. DR.. Rallies COL
lection, for $3.50. 1t was in the poet
Handwriting, and there was livcl,
Three other poems OF
his brought from $50 to $lOJ, and
gold locket, containing on one side the
hair of Poe and on the other the hair
Of his wife, was knocked down for
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