The St. Johns herald., 1896-08-15
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 Among the English nobility 19 per cent. are childless.
 In the new Hotel Cecil, in London, there is telephone in each room.
 Of the 9,533 sailors in the United States navy 4,400 are foreign born.
 New buildings under way at Cripple Greek are estimated in value at S796,- 800.
 Sunfower cake has been found, espe- cially in Russia, one of the best auxil- iary cattle foods.
 American ebony is one of the heaviest woods known, weighing SS.1S pounds to the cubic foot.
 A meteorite which fell in Australia recently had mass of pure copper i'm bedded in one side.
 Fashionable young ladies in Japan, when they desire to look very attrac- tive, gild their lips.
 A French railway company has or dered clocks to be placed on the out side of every locomotive.
 The highest inhabited building in Europe is the Alpine Club house, on Mount Rosa-12,OOO feet above the sea level.
 Slight repairs to the stone wall at the Bloody Angle, Gettysburg, made the other day, uncovered 100 bullets, pieces of shell, parts of guns, etc.
 The North German Lloyd is soliciting offers for the construction of five steamers of 5000 tons each for the traffic between Bremen and Brazil.
 African natives universally know how to prepare intoxicating liquors from such simple materials as the tops of broom corn, sugar cane juice and cocOanut milk.
 From rough calculations lately made by contributors to the Geological Rec ord, it appears that over 360, ,000 species of animals have been described by nat uralists up to the present date.
 The playing of golf on Sundays is practiced to such an extent that in certain parish in England, it is said, the hour of service has been changed to suit the convenience of players.
 A good deal of "reaP morocco is made from the skin of the ray. As for the salmon its skin is also tanned. The result is very attractive scale-marked leather. This is used chiefly in Asia.
 The Siamese, as class, are not over ambitious in trade, and the greater part of small retail establishments and vari- ous kinds of shops are in the hands of Chinese. The latter also furnish the labor of the country.
 A horse dealer in West Woodstock, Vt, has owned 452 horses during his life and has never told a lie about a horse. One man who has dealt with him was so impressed with this remark that he recently gave him hatchet.
 A report on the State farms in North Carolina, which are operated by con- victs, shows there are now 5000 acres in corn and 4,000 in cotton, and that the condition of the crops is 25 per cent. better than last year at this date.
 The ancient Greeks, to secure reson- ance without the use of woodwork, placed under the seats of their theaters earthen pots, with the mouth turned toward the stage, the vibrating mass of air in these serving to re-enforce the sound.
 The houses of parliament are partly lighted by 10000 electric lamps, which number is being constantly increased. Fifty experienced electricians are en- ployed to keep the system in order. But there is still yearly gas bill of over $10,000.
 Western Australia's supply of jarrah and karri the hard woods used for street pavements, is practically inex- haustible. The jarrah Eucalyptus marginata) covers 14,000 square miles of the country and karrl E. diversi- color) 2,000 square miles more.
 The performance of Rubinsteln's musical drama, Christ" which Herr Lowe of Breslau superintended at Ere men last year, has been forbidden by the Prussian police in virtue of an old decree prohibiting the representation of the Savior in public entertainments.
 A cruel custom prevails on the death of prince of the royal family of Aus tria. His horse, covered with black cloth, follows the funeral, limping painfully. The lameness is caused by Irving a nail through one shoe, and is intended to typify the animals sor- TOW.
 There is a Kansas editor who takes the right view. Recently, under the headline 'We Are Thankful" he pub- ;ished the following editorial note: We slipped and fell the other day and peeeled our shin and nose; we feel grateful that We did not break our Id neck"
 If the Mikado of Japan carries out his plan of visiting Europe and the United States he will be the first Jap anese Emperor who has ever been al- lowed to leave his country. The con- Servative Japanese are much opposed, however, to the scheme, and it may have to be abandoned.
 It is a whole days task for two men to fell a mahogany tree. On account of the spurs which project from the base of the trunk, scaffold has to be erected and the tree cut off above the spurs, leaving thus a stump of the very best wood from ten to fifteen feet high.
 Kissing is out of order in the house