Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-02
THINGS WORTH KNOWING.


ture of artificial silk.
A Japanese brides playthings are
burned on her wedding day, typifying
the end of her childhood.
Labrador has 900 species of flower
ing plants, fifty-nine ferns, and over
$50 species of mosses and lichens.
At recent wedding in Kansas there
We're twenty bridesmaids. The
effete East is outmatched at every
point.
The sawmill showing Of Minneapolis
gives grand total of 491 ,256, 793 feet
of white pine lumber manufactured
during 1898.
1t has been estimated on recent Off
cial authority that the population Of
Maine is now $4,000, a gain of 1900
in four years
Chicago clergymen have formed a
club to instruct prospective mission
aries in foreign languages by means of
the phonograph.
The Board of Education. of Mount
Vernon, n. Y, has decided to expel
from the public schools any boy caught
smoking cigarettes
The Russian Government is contem
plating the erection of grain elevators
along the Government railroads in the
grain districts.
A company has been formed to util-
ize the power of the Susquehanna Riv
er for electrical works, something like
those at Niagara.
The new Siberian railway traverseS
regions where game is SO abundant
that the project of establishing Gamer
les is being considered.
The income for the McAll mission for.
the last year was $50, $50, of which $2G,-
73O came from Great Britain and $751;
7S0 from the United States.
When a Chinese woman is married
she goes out after the marriage cere-
mony and prays before the tombstones
of her husbands ancestors.
A religious canvass is being made at
Abilene, Kan, with the result that up
to date 261 families have been found
that are Christian and Ill that are not.
In Turkestan, if a wedding engage
ment is broken, the girls parents must
either return the lovers gifts or sub
stitute another daughter, if they have
one.
The first shipment of oysters in crates
TO England left Newport News by
steamship. Sixty-five crates were con-
signed to Liverpool firm as an expert
ment.
The WOman's Foreign Missionary
Society of the Methodist Episcopal
church has issued over 100000 pages
of missionary literature during the last
year.
Canadians are beginning to buy yell
low pine from the Southern States in
large quantities, finding it especially
desirable for flooring, joists and inside
finishing.
In the last year 21,OO0 people died in
India from snake bites, nearly 1000
were killed by tigers, and 1,8OO by 9th
er wild animals. About $4,000 head of
cattle were destroyed.
At Helsingfors, in Finland, a news
paper has been started, edited and
managed entirely by women. The chief
editor is Miss Minna Kant, who is we'll
known among the Firms as a novelist
In 1856 Dr. Rickel, at Wurzburg,
lighted his house with gas made from
the dry distillation of bones. He dis
continued his experiments because lie
was suspected of sorcery and feared
trouble.
After Victor Hugo's death more than
10000 isolated verses were found scat
tered about his room written on small
slips of paper. He used to write inces-
sanity, even while dressing himself in
the morning.
In Switzerland there is a law by
which railway and steamboat CON-
panies, factory establishments, etc,
are liable to indemnify their employees
in case of accidents, or their widows
and children in case of their death
The chief seats for the production of
edible snaiIs in France at present are
the department of Jura, Cote dor, and
Barses Alps. AT one time the snaiIs Of
Burgundy were celebrated, but the in
duStry there has died out
In Siam each year is named after an
animal, and people born in certain
years are forbidden to intermarry
Thus, an elephant baby can't marry
tiger, nor a lion lamb. And there are
heavy penalties for lying about ones
age.
The erection of great reservoir In
Upper Egypt is now an assured fact
The work will begin this spring. In