The Washington bee., 1895-10-19
FACTS IN FEW WORDS.

FACTS IN FEW WORDS.
London has thirty persons whose
incomes are over S500,000 year.
Silk is so cheap in Madagascar that
the poorest people wear clothing made
Of it.
A Minnesota man has sued a barber
for $500 damages for running his
beard.
The newas. thing out in Londons
world of swelldom is a hand-painted
shirt front.
If you sneeze in Vienna cafe, even
strangers will remove their hats, and
exclaim: God bless your
Buffalo has 2,440 saloons, 113 hotels.
"a storekeepers, 73 druggists and So
taverns licensed to sell liquor.
The number of police in England is
! as to every $50 Inhabitants, to 923
in Scotland, and to 341 in Ireland.
1t is estimated that two years are
required for the gulf water to travel
from Florida to the coast of Norway.
1t is said that most 5000 horses ship
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 last
year one railroad issued to members
of the New York Legislature, for
| themselves and friends, 45S passes.
| A man in London is making lot
of money by lending out f1,OOO Bank
of England note for swell weddings to
| be exhibited as the gift of the brides
| father.
To open an account in the Bank OF
England a person must deposit not
| less than $780, and the authorities re-
uuire the depositor to be introduced
|
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 to
adopt the Pingree plan of potato patch
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-registerlng ther-
mometers and barometers reached an
altitude of ten miles and the thermo-
meter recorded ITO degrees below
zero.
| One who describes himself as a
| practical f1oriculturist, has discovered
a remedy for hot-house pests IN
| soap made from the oil of the fir tree.
| Nothing, he AYERS, is more disllked by
the insects.
South American ants have been
known to construct a tunnel three
miles in length-a labor for them
proportionate to that which would be
required for men to tunnel under the
Atlantic from New York to London.
Paris is to have a competition OF
laundresses in the Palais de Beaux
Arts, in the Champs de Mars. 1t is
organized by the Town Council as
protest against the fashion OF send
ing Paris linen to London to be wash
ed.
"Grog," the sea term for rum-and-
water, it may not be generally known,
derived it's name from Admiral Ed
ward Vernon, who wore grogram
breeches, and hence was called 'Old
Grog." About the year 1745 he or
dered his sailors to dilute their rum
with water.
The parasitic fig indigenous to the
tropics is an extraordinary plant. Its
seeds are distributed by birds, and
should one drop and lodge in tree it
will germinate there and send long
root to the ground, whence it can
draw nourishment 1t then rapidly
spreads in growth over the unfortun-
ate tree, which soon dies.
Among the many historic landmarks
which are disappearing in Europe are
the ancient gateway at Calais, bull
by Cardinal Richelieu and so graph
cally pictured by Hogarth, and the ia
nous mills of the River Dee, in Eng
land. which date back to the days CT
King Edawrd VI; while in London
the Seven Dials, so familiar to the
readers of Dickens, Smollett, Field
ing and other novelists, is about to
make way for St. Andrews Circus.