The Van Buren press., 1894-01-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

liver 81 per cent. u VII Vic l'ioPe.
" in the German empire is mortgaged.
The first public library in modern
Europe was founded by Nicholas MIC
coli, Florentine, in the fifteenth CEN
fury.
If foreign visitors to the United
States wish to see our standing army,
they will do well to look into the horse
cars and elevated cars morning and
evening.
-"What makes you think she Is
looking upon your suit more favor
ably?" "When she came into the par
Tor last night she spoke to me before
she did to Fido. Inter Ocean.
The cost of the worlds wars since
the Crimean war has been SIS, 265, 0oo,-
900, or enough to give $40 gold piece
| to every man, woman and child on the
globe.
Newton abandoned the idea of pub
fishing several OF his works for fear
Of criticism. They were left in manu-
script and were published after his
death.
DO you believe that practice al
ways makes perfect?" mo; 1t hasn't
made anything but row ever since
that idiot upstairs commenced with
his flute."-Inter Ocean.
The reading3of romanees is forbid
den by the Koran, hence popular tales
are never put in writing among Mo-
hammednns, but are passed from one
story-teller to another.
The Able De Marollcs in one of his
latest works calculated that he had
printed 1888, 1874 verses, and yet the pub
lie had not sense enough to appreciate
him us poet.
-Guest-"Can you get people out
safely in case Of fre?" Manager o.
Twenty-Story Hotel-"I have not hae
the time to think OF that, madam; get
ting them in is what interests me- -
Brooklyn Life.
-Professor-"And now, my boy
what is your ambition in life-the law
the ministry politics, science
Johnny-"Ef l can't be captain
wanter be half-back. cleveland Plair
Dealer
-Mamma-"Bessie, how many sister,
has your new playmate?" Bessie-"Ht
has one mamma. He tried to fool mt
by saying that he had two half-sisters
but l guess that he didn't know thai
/ studied fractions Y. Sun.
An absent-minded man boarded thu
express for Boston, and in half reverit
greeted q young man who sat in from
OF him: ,"Good morning, Willie. How
your father?" 1t was his own son.
Harper's Bazar.
tive been looking for my hus
band for the last two hours" said al
agitat6 woman to Q calm one. Don
be excited, madam" replied the latter
'I've been looking for a husband fo
the last twenty-five years. Harper
Bazaar.
Statistics just issued show tina
during the past year but twcnty-on,
passengers and nine employees, thirt!
persons in all, were killed in railroad
accidents in Great Britain and Ireland
In the same period nearly 600, 000, 00
passengers were carried.
"A single match requires from
| 1-SOVVn w l-1OOtu III kTdiu Vi puOSpuO
} rus for its production, yet the consump
} ton of matches is SO large that it i
J estimated that the total of 200 ton
is less than the amount consumed il
Europe in their manufacture.
"A woman mail carrier, Rose Shell
ley, carries the mail regularly between
Dexter and Goshen, an eighteen mil
stretch of lonesome road, in Lam
county, Ore. EARLY or late, snow o
shine, she makes the trip, and no strcs
of weather or fear of road agents ha
yet interfered with her performance o
her duty.
Cinnamon in southern California
are taking to cycling for bushes
transportation. Quite a number O
Chinese in San Jose and Los Angelo
own wheels and use them in goin
about for orders and delivering good.
.. They have found using bicycle pay
In the time saved and the wider circl
OF customers gained.
The Russian authorities have IL
tervened in behalf of the nightingale
The police of Kew found some bir
catchers who were On their way t
Moscow with 600 nightingales in cages
The bird catchers were captured an
.. fined and their little victims wer
taken to the Botanic gardens and re
leased. 1t Is said they rose in the al
. in song, which was responded to by tn
; other birds around.
The great oaks in Waverly Mass
| 1e ~ 4.
must have existed in that region, ae
cording to the biologists, as far bacl
rs the tenth century. They bear ever
evidence OF great age, and an elm tire
in the neighborhood is now almost dis
mantled, with It's great limbs lynn
around on the ground. Only one othe
oak tree in New England is known tina
y can be compared with them; that |
located at Ipswich, and is larger an
more venerable than the Wakerly oaks
The so-called Russian thistle
which has become such pest in tn
! northwestern states, is not properl
. thistle at all, but an annual, nearl
allied to the saltworts 1t has don
moro than $2,O00,O0O damage to tn
crops last year. 1t was accidentall
introduced seventeen years ago il
t some faxseed imported from Russi
( by man in Scotland, 8. D. 1t is est
3 mated that 1t will cost fully 81, 900, 90
' to eradicate it, and the department O
, agriculture has been appealed to t,
r take the matter in hand.
james Farren, an cighty-four-year
, old hunter OF jackson county, Wash.