The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-10-28
NOTES AND COMMENTS
PERSIA Is about the only country
where the telegraph 10 not yet at home.

n
tistics 10 show that married men live
much longer than bachelors.
THERE is less difference between the
ancient and the modern Greek tongues
than between Chaucer's English and the
English of to-day.
A FIRM in Palestine is engaged in sup
plying water from the river Jordan to
churches. 1t is put up in sealed bottles
and sold by the case.
The only Greek insurance company in
existence, the National, WAS organized a
little moro than year ago, and in the
first twelve months piled up *li3, 600 in
profits.
The universities and colleges of this
country have SS,63J, 3S5 worth of scien-
tidc apparatus and appliances; their
grounds and buildings are worth SOL
$50. .3i4, and they have S74, ,070, AIS in
productive funds.
THINK of 3.57l church members
Christian converts-in poor Egypt Civ
ing the sum of 1885 for each member
per year. This church, too, nearly
doubles its membership every five years.
RUSSIAN papers complain OF the
gradual diminution of the volume of
water in the rivers of that country. In
1891 the losses Through necessary land
transportation amounted TO over a mil
lion rubles between Tobolsk and Tju-
men alone.
VIENNA is second among European
t.1- e.. .t
Professor Umlauft, in the Deutsche
Rundschau, traces the city's expansion
from early times, when from the Celtic
settlement of Findbon il became the
Roman Nindobona.
The difference between the atmos.
phere Of the best ventilated houses and
the outer air is illustrated by the conduct
of cut flowers. Blossoms that retain
their freshness but day or two when
standing in water within doors will some
times live twice as long when dropped in
q shady place out of doors.
IT is said there is room behind the
Olympic range in western Washington
for 5000 homesteaders in addition TO the
1000 or 5000 already settled there. As
get the country is cut of from the out
side world, is sparsely settled, aud is as
much wilderness as Kentucky was in
the days of Daniel Boone.
CHEMNITZ, in Germany appears to be
a very sensible place. The municipality
there has established eating houses where
food is furnished at minimum cost,
with view To removing the shame that
every one feels in accepting food as
charity, and yet permitting needy people
to obtain it at trihing prices.
JosEPH CHAMBERLAIN expresses his
profound astonshment at the marvellous
physical and mental vigor of Mr.. Glad
stone. He says the grand old man is
vastly better now in both respects than
he was in 1885, and he goes SO far as to
say that he wouldn't be surprised to see
him Prime Minister Mt the age OF one
hundred.
ACCORDING to the census figures, the
silk manufacturing industry in this
country has grown wonderfully in the
past ten years. In 1890 goods TO the
valne of 500, 900, 600 were turned out, as
against $34, 800, 600 in 1880. The mum
Der Of hands employed here also in
creased from about 81, 900 to 81, 900,
and the number Of spindles have ex-
panded from sos, 1877 to 1884, ,79S.
TIE Emperor Duc-Tu, Of Cochin
China, protects his treasures by placing
them in hallowed trunks of trees,
which float about huge tank situated
in the center OF the royal palace There
are twenty crocodiles in the tank as well.
When he wishes to draw upon this bank
all the reptiles arc killed; but this can
not take place without the joint consent
of the Emperor and his Minister OF
Finance.
IT is evidently a veteran sailor who
makes the suggestion that, as n vessel
goes ashore to leeward and the lifeline
shot from the shore must therefore be
fred against the wind, aud with all the
difficulties which this implies, every yes
sci should carry supply Of rockets,
which, attached 20 decp-sea fog line and
signal -halyards. would connect them
much more speedily with the shore.
Ir is a singular fact that Great Britain,
invester and money lender in every
quarter of the globe, has only about IA
much cash per capita as the United
States The amount OF all kinds Of
money in Great Britain is equivalent
Sl3.42 for every person; in the United
States it is S2i34. The lowest amount
Of money per capita among the leading
nations is found in Russia, S716, and
the next in Germany, $l2.12. The
purse OF France is the largest Of all,
$40. So for each inhabitant.
THE extent TO which British law Is
made for the rich instead Of for the poor
is shown by the statement of the Secre-
tary Of the Treasury in the House OF
Commons that imprisonment for debt re-
mains in existence for debts under 800.
The only way TO stave of imprisonment,
therefore, is to plunge deeper into debt,
an anomalous system that weighs heavily
on the poor, whose restricted circum-
stances do not enable them to get into
debt more than few dollars at time.
Az almost startling application 20 or
dinary coal oil Of the principle by which