The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-08-19
SCRAPS.
Henry George is an athlete and a great
cyclist

Henry George is an athlete and great
cyclist.
China,s national debt is trifie. mere trifle
Peace hath mightier tests of manhood
than ever battles knew.-Whittier.
The Brooklyn directory hath this year A3.-
6e1 names. I'LL more than appeared last
year.
On the occasion of recent festivities in My
sore; they had Nautch girls dancing on top
of elephants.
In Paris the houses are very high. and the
streets narrow; in London the houses are
low and the streets broad.
According to the statistics Of the depart
ment Of agriculture wheat land In Kansas
rents at s. 10 per acre.
There are 100000 bicycles in use in France.
each of which pays tax of $1.9S. great
many American machines are imported.
Peaches are SO plentiful in Harper county,
Kansas. that they are left to go to waste
on the ground there being no demand for
The present number of Buddhist priests in
Japan amounts according to Mr.. Inouye
Enryo. to 105, 022. nine thenths Of them being
priests only in name.
When humming bird alights near q
flower from which no food can be extracted.
citedly tearing the flower to pieces.
There are about 100 grains of iron in the
average human body. and yet SO important
is this exceedingly small quantity that It's
diminution Is attended with very serious re-
suits.
A Lewiston (Me.) matron has been I'M
PEELED to cut short her vacation at the end
Of ten days, her husband having In her brief
absence had two carbuncles. besides sprain-
ing his ankle and cutting his finger
ond largest monastery In Korea, there are
stone images Of five hundred disciples of
Buddha arranged in tiers like the specta-
Hundreds Of people visit the Hermitage,
Andrew Jackson's old Tennessee home,
and the ~ come Dc
sum to the association that keeps the house
in repair.
passenger engine built, the Rocket, invented
by George Stephenson. For two years he
made two round trips every day between
Liverpool and Manchester.
OF the nearly $4,000 barmaids in England
more than 1000 in London alone are the
Of naval officers, while 400 have fathers,
brothers or uncles In the church.
An old lady of Brussels, who recently cell
when Napoleon passed through her native
village of Fumay in 1910. g. peasant having
fallen on his knees to ask favor, the en-
tyr Upward va Of f2s,ooo 900 is spent annually on
sport in England. This Is an estimate Of a
writer who has been examining the subject.
The turf Is, Of course, the most expensive
sport, and accounts according to this au-
thority. for nearly f11,000,00O A modest sum
of $1,000. 900 will. it appears. cover the cost Of
cricket.
AS a result Of the visits of consumptives to
Mentuor, the earth, air and water are in
tested with the tubercle bacillus, and the
once healthy peasantry are consumptive al
most to a man and q woman. No more
complete or startling proof OF the truth Of
the once derided germ theory of disease
could be imagined than this.
At the recent Confederate reunion at
Richmond one of the subjects that attracted
a good deal of attention was a silk quilt
presented soon after the war to Mrs. Jeffer-
son Davis. by Mrs. r. V. Hurt Of Galveston.
who made 1t by hand. It contains the pic
lures of most Of the higher generals Of the
Confederate armies and several battle flags
worked in.
A cool Yankee. working for a railroad at
wood enough from q neighboring farmer
timber land to supply himself and several
the lumber into sled-runners by the aid Of
section hands whom he has hired to work
for him during the hours when they should
have been performing their duties for the
cOmDany.