The herald., 1895-02-12
OUT OF THE WAY FACTS

There are II, 1876 divorced women in the
United States.
In Great Britain the yearly loss in
wages through ill-health is Eli, 900, 900.
On the LIST of June last the snow around
the south pole of Mars was about AO0
| miles across.
Boston has had a succession of bache-
| loF Mayors, and thay haven't proven a
bad lot, either.
Last year there were 404 rear-end collis-
ions in this country, Bill head collisions
and SO at crossings.
The total tonnage passing through the
! Sault Ste. Marie Canal during the season
was valued at $143, 900, 900.
The French claim that gasmaking was
| invented by Lebon in 1902, who made gas
by the distillaton of wood.
| Daniel Webster was extremely fond of
oxen, and all those on his farm knew him
by sight and would follow him like dogs.
The brave Marshal d 'Abbret could not
endure the sight of a pig, and was subject
to fainting fit if he looked steadily at
| one.
Whenever Whittier had an inspiration
| he would go to a corner of his room and
kneel down while he reduced his thoughts
/ to words.
| Spinozas favorite amusement was to
set spiders to fighting, and he would laugh
|
struggles.
George Eliot wrote for eight years with
the same pen, and when she lost it she
bewailed her misfortune as almost too
hard to bear.
In Zante, one of the Ionan isles, there
is petroleum spring that is mentioned
by Herodotus. 1t has been known for
nearly 5000 years.
Napoleon's favorte amusement was in
dulging in intrigues, which, he said, re-
Taxed a mans mind when tired with
serious business.
Ex-Governor Northen of Georgia acted
as fagman the other day at Atlanta when
the Georgia train for Nebraska was sent
out on its errand of mercy.
In Vermont more than $500 votes were
cast for the red clover out of total of
1851, and the legisla AZURE has passed a
bill making it the state flower.
Rhode Island an Colorado are both
names descriptive of color the latter
named from its bright hued cliffs and
the former from its ''roody" or red cram
berries. ,
1t is announced that the Turkish MIN
lister of public works has decided to re-
construct the aqueduct which supplied
Jerusalem with water in the time of King
Solomon.
Both of the legs of Miss Eva Dooley of
Boston, were amputated at the knee re-
Gently to save her life. They were poi
soned by the dye in red stockings which
she had been wearing.
There is a movement in North Adams,
Mass, to make the town a city. With
population of 81, 000 it claims to be the
largest town in America, with the excep-
ton of Watervliet, MY.
The Brewers Journal states that Eng
fish syndicates have SOL, 000 900 invested
in American breweries, the dividend on
xrhi nh of apf 1aet
900, and was paid in gold.
Lack of trained sailors for the navy is
seriously felt in the United States, where
only two-thirds of a crew has been OBJ
tanned for the swift cruiser Minneapolis,
just placed in commission.
A drug firm at Excelsior Springs, Mo-,
will award prize of $50 to the members
of the Mississippi Valley Pharmaceutical
Association who identifies the largest
number of drugs by the smell.
Badges worn in the buttonhole have
taken the place of Communication tickets in
Belgium, where the new system of fort
nightly season tickets, good on the rail
road over the whole government system,
has greatly increased the number of COM
muters.
uln 1880 a sailing car was tried on the
South Carolina Railroad. Its trial trip
was made with fifteen gentlemen on
board When going at the rate of twelve
miles an hour the mast went overheard
with several of the crew. and the result
was general encouragement.
The first real estate entry of record in
Kanawha county, West Virginia, was
made January 2, 1895, and is of $50, 600
acres of land to Phineas Taylor, of Water
bury, Conn, who was the grandfather of
Phineas T. Barnum, the great Snowman.
The property has been in litigation al
most ever since.
of hn
Emperor and Empress of Japan were sa-
cred; they were seen by no one save high
court officials. and even to these the EN-
peror's face must be yelled. The empress
now visits the free hospital of Toxic, and
talks or gives presents to the patients as
freely as in any western land.
The board of studies of Cambridge Uni
versity on account of the ungrammatical
English written by their undergraduates,
recommend that English composition be
made part of the previous examination,
and that an English essay be required of
all candidates for honors. The blame is
put on the preparatory schools.
A curious instance of how phrases are
spread by school books is shown in the
last number of DR.. Murray's Diction-
airy. No earlier authority could be found
for the term ''black death, describing
the plague that devastated Europe in the
fourteenth century, than Mrs. Markham's
which first appeared in 1886
The new volume of Debrett's Peerage for
1895 contains in the preface a quotation
from letter addressed to the editor by a
well-known Countess, who informs him
that las long as you put the date of the
births of ladies in your Peerage | will
never allow copy of your work in my
house." This sensitive Peerless appar-
entity does not realize that the reason
that induces her to taboo the book is
one which leads great many to pur-
chase it.
The liquor men of Memphis who are
delinquent in their taxes through politi-
cal favoritism seem to have won the day.
Some time ago a movement was made to
collect from them the delinquent licenses
for the years 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893 and
1894. Suits were filed by Estes Fentres
acting with G. W. Ewing, attorney for the
state and it looked as if the liqor men
would have to pay up. But they didn't,
and have now secured compromise.
The movement to unite New Foundland
with the Dominion of Can.da gains
strength in the province, but it is not re-
garded with SO much favor in Canada.
The question is raised whether Canada
would not pay too dearly for the new &C.
QUESTION, and good many Canadians
Seem to be answering this question il. the
affirmative. In taking New Foundlano
Canada must take the debt of that col.
ony, which is about IS, 00o, 900, and would
more than offset the income which Cam
od would rocoiva from tho oo1on,, Co.