The Washington bee., 1895-10-05
FACTS IN FEW WORDS.

London has thirty persons whose
incomes are over 100000 a year.
Silk is so cheap in Madagascar tha.
The poorest people wear clothing maGe
Of it.
A Minnesota man has sued a barbei
for $500 damages for running his
beard.
The newest thing out in London'<
world OF swelldom is "a hand-palnte1
shirt front.
If you sneeze in Vienna cafe, even
strangers will remove their hats, anG
exclalm: God bless you!'
Buffalo has 2.440 saloons, 113 hotels,
"a storekeepers, 73 druggists and 81
taverns licensed to sell liquor.
The number of police in England i
as l to every 73O inhabitants, 1 to 92o
in Scotland, and 1 to 341 in Ireland.
1t is estimated that two years are
| required for the gulf water to traVe4
| from Florida to the coast of Norway.
1t is said that most 5000 horses ship
ped from America to Europe recently
| were intended for slaughter as food.
Almost without exception the Am
| erican leaders in the revolutionary
war were thin, while the British gen
erals were stout men.
Paper tires are soon to be manu-
factured for cycles. They are sup
posed to last longer than rubber and
| to puncture less easily.
| Over 400 diamonds are known to
have been recovered from the ruins OF
| Babylon Many are uncut, but most
are polished on one or two sides only
1t is stated that in one week of las
year one railroad issued to members
| of the New York Legislature, foi
themselves and friends, 458 passes.
A man in London is making a lot
of money by lending out $1,000 Bank
of England note for swell weddings to
be exhibited as the gift of the brides
father.
To open an account in the Bank oil
England person must deposit MOI
less than $500, and the authorities re-
quire the depositor to be introduced
by customer.
A London firm, which has manu-
factured eight of the eleven cables
linking the United States to England
makes fifty-five miles of cable every
twenty-four hours.
Buffalo, N. Y, is the latest city Il
adopt the Pingree plan of potato patcf
farming for the poor. Mayor JeWett
of that city, has appointed commit
tee to raise $4,000 for the scheme.
A balloon recently sent up in Paris
equipped with self-registering ther
mometers and barometers reached al
altitude of ten miles and the thermo
meter recorded 110 degrees below
zero.
One who describes himself as
practical floriculturist, has discovers
remedy for hot-house pests in
soap made from the oil Of the lr tree
Nothing, he AYERS, is more disliked b,
the insects.
South American ants have beel
known to construct tunnel thTe
miles in length-a labor for then
proportionate to that which would b
required for men to tunnel under tn
Atlantic from New York to London.
Paris is to have a competition o
laundresses In the Palais de Beau:
Arts, in the Champs de Mars. 1t i
organized by the Town Council as ;
protest against the fashion of send
ing Paris linen to London to be wash
ed.
s'Grog," the sea term for rum-an6
water, it may not be generally known
derived it's name from Admiral Ed
ward Vernon, who wore grograu
breeches, and hence was called "Olt
Grog." About the year 1745 he or
dered his sailors to dilute their run
with water.
The parasitic fig indigenous to th'
tropics is an extraordinary plant IT.
seeds are distributed by birds, an.
should one drop and lodge in tree i
will germinate there and send Ion:
root to the ground, whence it cal
draw nourishment. 1t then rapidl.
spreads in growth over the unfortun
ate tree, which soon dies.
Among the many historic landmark!
which are disappearing in Europe ar'
the ancient gateway at Calais. bull
by Cardinal Richelieu and so graphi
cally pictured by Hogarth, and the ia
nous mills of the River Dee, in Eng
land, which date back to the days O.
King E0awrd VI; while in LondoI
the Seven Dials, so familiar to tht
readers of Dickens, Smollett, Field
ing and other novelists. is about tt