Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-07-02
MISCELLANEOUS.
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 sixty feet, according to the scientists
 The Viking ship, which was one of the attractions at the worlds fair, has been presented to the Field museum, in Jackson park, Chicago.
 He Proved Ii. Emeline-.sW Will pro posed to me last night" Angeline-- "Yes? I thought he would; he told me the other day that my rejection of his offer had driven him clean out of his mind. Brooklyn Eagle.
 An invalid, after returning from southern trip, said to friend: 70, shure, an it's done me & wurruld O good, goin away. I've come back an- other man altogether. In fact, Im quite meself again.
 A size in coat is an inch; in underwear two inches; in 8 sock, an inch; in collar half an inch; in shoes one-sixth of an inch; in trousers, one inch; in gloves, quarter of an inch, and in hats, one.sighth of RR inch
 The real as4ats fneregRea debt of five counties in the state of New York, mainly those close to the city, and of six counties in the state of New Jersey Ia st, ,s7s, ,s4s, ,7os or 21. ss per osRt. of the whole real estate mortgage debt of the United States
 Clerlr--sDoes 1t take you an hour to go around the corner2'' Boy-"A man dropped a quarter down hole in the sidewalk" Clerk-"And it took you all this time to get it out2a Boy ''Yes. sir. had to wait till the man went away. ."-Harlem Life.
 --Mulhall estimated that the agricul- tural earnings of the United States are sS, 40o. .00o. GOO; the earnings from manu- factures, &4,3s0, COG, 900; from mines, S4sO. .oOO, ,o0o; from transportation,s ,sl, 1s5,- 900, ,00e; from commerce, 3i60, coo, GOO; from shipping, s8o,0oO, GOO; from bank ing Se60, GOO, 600.
 The internal revenue tax yielded our government last year $15S, 900, 900; of this sum So1, ,0o0, GOO was from the tax on distilled spirits. s31 1000, GOO from that on tobacco, S80, ,000. 900 from fermented liquors, x1 ,e66, ,oO0 from oleomargarine, and the remainder from miscellaneous sources 4
 During the reign of Solomon the taxation of the Hebrews became sc heavy that immediately on the acces- sion of his son demand for reduc- ton WAS made, and upon It's refusal the chief tax collector, Adoram, was stoned to death and a secession of the ter tribes at once followed
 There are s70 members forming the house of commons, while the United States, with nearly twice the poputa' tion, has hardly half as many congress men. The American senate numbers eighty-eipht, and even when all the territories become states can never ex- ceed 100, while the house of lords has b70 peers.
 The display of sugar canes at the recent agricultural exhibition of the island of Mauritius is said to have been the finest ever brought together in one room More than seventy varieties ot cane were shown. including seedlings of all sixes. from the tiny shoot to the full-grown cane twelve feet high, grown in single season from home grown seed. 4
 Among the Hebrews during the the. ocracy the taxes were very severe There WAS poll tax of half a sheksl about thirty cents, tribute of the Arsi fruits and first born of animals, re. demption tax of the hrst-born son, q tithe for the tabernacle, another for the Levites, and third, every third year, for the poor. 1t has been com. puted that the total taxation exceeded s5 per cent. of the land valuation.
 In paper recently read before the New York Electrical society on "Elec- tric Heating from an Engineering Point of View it was shown that electric street car heaters cost only five cents a day more than coal stoves, the figures being twenty and fifteen cents respect ively. It was also stated that present installations of cooking apparatus dem onstrsts the success of electric cooking, both as regard cost and simplicity o1 operation
 The glory of such city as Phila. delphia is that she early started and has brsvely kept to the system by which every man of spirit can and does own his own house. The system of ground rent there favored plan which is hap. oily working out from Philadelphia SC that it is taking hold in other cities In avery part of Philadelphia where this system holds-that is, where the street is inhabited by the people whc own the houses the street is well cared for and the section well administered It is said that 1s0,00o workingmen ir Philadelphia own their homes
 -Moslem has it's famous widow iu the person of Ayesha the third wife oi Mohammed. The first two were widows when hs married them; she was young girl, but such was the nScendancy she obtained over her husband that though she was repeatedly charged with being unfaithful to him, and Oh one or two occasions the statement was proved, he never could make up his mind to part with her, but, In her vindication, com. posed chapter for the Koran. After the death of Mohammed she retained much of his authority among his fol lowers She was called the Mother of the Faithful" and in all difficult points the interpreters of the Koran consulted her to ascertain what had been Mohammed's meaning. She re tained her influence until her death, and was buried with her husband.
 The New Evolution.
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