The herald., 1894-02-18
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

A girl is considered OF marrisgea BILE
age at IL in Switzerland, Spain, Greece,
Hungary and Portugal,
The popular notion that the human
race has deteriorRtrd is disproved by the
fact that the average man cannot
squeeze himself into ancient armor.
At depth of 5000 feet in the famous
Cometock mine at Virginia City, New,
the waters that trickle from sides, roof
and bottom have a uniform temperature
OF 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
A floating paragraph says: "a cow at
the University OF Pennsylvania, upon
which an autopsy Was performed, was
found to have her heart in her throat"
1t was probably sent there by hearing
the college yell,
A Chinaman counts his birth from the
first day of the year in which he was
born. The child that 10 born the day be-
fore New Years day is two years old on
that day. New Years day lie national
holiday in Chiua.
Ward McAllister's book. "Society as 1
Have Found It," Handsomely bound,
was sold under the hammer in New
York not lohg ago at twenty cents copy.
Think of seeing society at twenty cents
peep. One can almost feel four humid
red convulsive shudders.
Celia Draper, good looking 1S-year
old Kentucky girl, has married four men
in the last two years, AT the age of l6
she ran off with rover named Silas
Peeling. She soon left him, however,
and married a new man every six
months until she was arrested recently
L. L..
druggist, is so much in love with her
that he ruined himself trying to clear
her.
At a recent meeting of the Sorosis-
Jenny June" Croly said: ''The quail
tiles that make good business woman
are the qualities needed to rule house."
Mrs. Croly told Sososis that in all the
forty years of her business lie she had
never received one word Of discourage
ment, one word of discourtesy, or set
back of any kind from the many men
with whom she had come in contact.
And Sorosis smiled with pleasure.
Pierre Brady, Philadelphia riding
master who belonged to wealthy fam
lily of Southern France, killed himself
recently for love OF Nine. Jane Hading,
the French actress. He came to this
country hoVorAl vearb ago, huu fOT boLuo
time was cowboy in the West. He was
q regular attendant at the theaters, and
often went behind the scenes whore
Mime. Hsding was playing. He was
very distinguished looking.
George Hawkins, we'll known Chica-
20 gambler. will startle Chicago society
with the furnishings which he proposes
to put into the parlors of his big stone
residence on Michigan avenue. Every
thing in the rooms will be made espec-
tally for them from designs by an artist
in Cleveland. The drsperles alone will
cost SIS, 900, and Mr.. Hsnkins will spend
SAC, 900 ON the rooms. Thus will the
small earnings OF the laboring men and
clerks make q display in gamblers
home.
States State departments arethe most
carefully guarded of all the nations
secrets. One of them is called the
"sphynx"-it ia so guarded. The
"sphynx" was devised by a New Yorker
now in the State department, and Ia as
susceptible to change as combination
lock OF safe. Hundreds of messages
have been sent by it, and it has never
leaked. The Hawaiian correspondence
with Willis ia carried on entirely in this
cipher, and it is never employed except
on urgent occasions.