San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-02-27
ALL SORTS ASSORTED.

but ll6 divorces.
Every day the queen Of Italy has
spin on her bicycle.
No unmarried woman in Arme-
mia may speak to a man.
The chief products OF San DOmin-
60 are sugar and cabinet woods.
Uruguay furnishes hides, tallow,
wool, frozen meat and meat eX-
tract.
Venezuela gives sugar, coffee,
vanilla, rubber, TONGA, beans and
cocoa.
To preserve fish, sprinkle finely
powdered boraX over it and place
in cool, dry place.
Considerable money was lost last
year in attempts to introduce Cali
fornia grapes in the English mar
ket.
The island of Tobago was named
because of its resem blance in shape
to the tobago or pipe used by the
natives.
Ethiopia was thus named by the
Greeks, the original word signify
ing "the land Of the burned or
black faces"
Sweden was so named because
it was conquered and inhabited
by the Sweoi, or Suedi, a tribe of
valiant Goths.
Paraguay was so called from the
River Paro, meaning the River of
Waters" an allusion to its numer-
Gus tributaries.
England was so called because
the dominant tribe Of Saxons who
conquered it were called the
"Angles,' or Engles."
Venezuela means Little Venice"
The early explorers found the ma
tives living in houses placed on
piles in the marshes.
The mighty Ottoman empire,
which at one time threatened the
civilized world, sprung from a
band Of 400 wandering Turkoman
families in the central part of
Asia.
The expenditures of the German
army in 1889 was ElS,S40,000, or
about $3.50 per man. OF the aggre-
gate sum, f5,500,0O0 was for pay,
f4,3OO,OO0 for food and II, 100000
for clothing.
The navy Of Great Britain has
$1,000 men; France, $1,000; Ger
many, 10000; Russia, $4,000; Aus
tria, 5000; Italy, 1900; Spain, H.
900; Holland, S0O0i Turkey, $4,000;
the United States, 10000,
The public debt of the Austro
Hungarian empire is 1920, lS5,OG3
tlorins, mostly contracted by the
French war Of the early years OF
this century, and the seven years
war with Prussia,
The form Of the skull may be
changed, as in the case of the flat
headed Indians, without injury to
the brain, because this body adapts
itself in shape to the cavity it is
designe to fill.
The finger tips are composed Of
round, soft cushion, and by this
means are able to grasp and retain
very small objects. If they were
hard or horny they could not pos
sibly possess this faculty.
One titled lady in London, with
view to ascertaining what organ
grinders made, hired an organ, dis.
guised herself and sang in Russell
square three hours, during which
time she collected three pence.
Renaudot, the great religious
and dOctrinal COnversationalist, is
said to have known seventeen Ian
guages to the extent Of being able
to conduct an argument in any one
to almost any length.
The home Of Timothy Tarr, in
the parish of button, near Apple
by, Westmoreland county, Eng.
land, is the most isolated dwelling
place in three Kingdoms. Nc
human being lives nearer thar
eleven miles.
In the London streets and SUI
burbs there are about 200 piano
organs, owned by 400 men, for
takes two men to work on instru
ment. One-third of this numbe
are Italians, the other two-third
being Englishmen.
The tunes Of piano organ ar
changed once a year, and the cos
OF new set, consisting OF ten tunes
is about $l5. Owing to the intri
cacies Of the instrument, if a ney
tune is required, an entire fresl
set must be put in.