Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-03-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The wedding of Princess Beatrice
cost more than s~25O,0 900.

11ENno ST 1Rt CQIO&s
The wedding of Princess Beatrice
cost more than $3.50, 000.
Manchester, England, has voted,
through its Town Council, a million
dollars for a technical school.
The electric cars i'll Frankfort-o III
the-hiain have been supplied with
stoves after the American pattern.
A sign of p~oliteness in Thibet, on
meeting a person, is to hold up the
clasped hands and stick out the tongue.
The prohibition town of Portland,
Me, uses $4,000 worth of liquor every
year for medicinal and mechanical
purposes"
The longest continuous street rail-
way in the United States is the forty
two mile strip from Lowell to Haver-
hill, Mass.
\ couple at Providence, r. L., met
for the first time, fell in love, became
betrothed, and were married inside
of an hour.
Billings, Mont, has a police force of
3 men. All have been arrested on the
charge of obtaining money under false
pretenses.
The celebrated Society for Employees
of Commerce, of Hamburg, since its
foundation in 1858, has placed gra-
tuitously 46, 1000 applicants for work.
The entire circulation of the news
paper press of the world is estimated
at 10, 700, 900 900 copies, and there ex-
lists one journal to every 50, 900 inhab-
itants.
Chill proposes to try the experiment
of State management of railways. The
Government has announced it's inten-
ton of buying up all the existing roads.
The largest refracting telescope v
constructed is that which is t. be pre-
sented to the University of Chicago
by Mr.. Yerkes. 1t has a forty-inch
object glass.
Lettie Arnold Titus, aged Z years, of
Lakeville, Ct, was saved from drown
ing by a Newfoundland dog. She was
playing tag with the animal on the
ice.
1t is calculated that if the children
under the care of the London School
Board to join hands they would
reach from London to Carlisle, a dis
lance of 800 miles.
The Chinese divide the day into
twelve parts of two hours each. The
Italians reckon t~wenty-four hours
round, instead of two divisions of ~
hours each, as we do.
The word clock is derived from the
German word "clocke," which signi-
fies a bell, and vas so called because
the hours were published originally
by being struck upon bells.
Japanese curiosity is very oriental.
An American traveller in the interior
has to put up with a circle of grinning
faces peering in at his window or fol-
lowing him about.
The famous house at Eisleben, Ger
many, where Luther was born, has
been repaired and restored and newly
opened to the public a few weeks ago
| as a kind of museum of relics of the
great reformer.
A Boston manufacturing company
recently celebrated a half century of
existence by making a distribution of
$50, 600 among its employees on the
basis of So for each year of service.
Typhoid fever cannot be transmitted
by sewer gas, is the report of the ex-
perts to the London County Council.
The bacilli of the disease, also, find it
hard to live in town sewage.
Mayor Jewett, OF Buffalo, D. Y,
suggested the utilization of the trolley
railways for carrying all street gar
bage out of the city from collecting
stations established at convenient
places along the railway routes.
In Paris the practice OF d~octoring
fruit by coloring is quite common. The
latest development of this business is
in connection with pears, which are
dyed red over a third of their area
and blue below, thus representing the
national color, when peeled.
There is one very good explanation
of the fact that great cities almost in
variably grow toward the west. AS
regards Europe, the prevailing winds
are from the west and southwest, SO
that these portions of the towns are
brighter, cleaner and healthier than
the eastern.