The morning news., 1897-07-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

in Massachusetts in 1862.
The American cents of 1857 bore the
motto Mind your business"
The annual shooting of the United
Kingdom is estimated at s12,O0OYO9O.
Wages of school teachers In Connect-
cut have been doubled in thirty years.
The population ruled by the queen is
nearly one-third that OF the entire earth.
The United kingdom spends more than
S5O,OOOooO a year on charities of various
kinds.
The foreign trade of the United king
dom is just about double that of the Unit
ed States.
Sir Edward Arnold. besides being a
poet, is a sportsman, yachtsman, traveller
and eyclist.
The fisheries of the United kingdom
are worth S32 10000; those of England
alone, s21. 10000
-On December 81, 1896. there were open
in Russia, 25,756 miles of railway, of which
5,O34 miles were double lines
Mr. and Mrs Peter Lynch, of Scots
burg, Ind, have % children-12 sons and
The pope in 1856 prohibited the cross
bow as barbarous, and threatened cross
bowmen with accommodation.
The United kingdom has 100000 fac
tory operatives, France, 1,7SO. 900, Germany
100000, and the United States 2,750, 900.
The United kingdom has 100000 acres
of forest, worth $10,OOO,OOO The forests of
the United States are worth $56O,O00,OO0
The value of the house property of
London is 1886, 10000; that of Paris ST.
49O, 100000; that of New York $1,S55, ,OO0, ,O0O
The Philippine Islands have 5000 900 in
habitants of whom 100000 live in the
mountains, and refuse allegiance to Spain
Great Britain and Ireland contain $50
banks the most important being the Bank
of England. which has a capital of $79O o.
900.
In the third crusade, a single stone
from an English engine killed y Turks
and. after the truce, was shown to Saladn
as a curiosity.
The British own 25,OOO sailing vessels
and 1900 steam vessels. The annual en-
tries into the ports of the United king
uCAAA oAC HSosVvV NS9SCASs
Austria is the country most lenient to
murderers. In 10 years over 500 persons
were found guilty of murder, of whom
only % were put to death.
England has 5000 miles of canal. Ire
land COO, Scotland 15O They carry in a
year S6OOOOOp tons of traffic, yielding
more than 800, ,OO0, 900 revenue.
France makes nearly 100000 pairs of
gloves, and exports 100000 annually. In
ten years Great Britain imported 15,OO0,-
900 pairs per annum, valued at n,5OO,0OO.
There are in the United Kingdom 300, -
900 families of gentry, whose average in
come is $3.50; but there are 4,775OOO work.
ing class families whose average income
is only $4S5.
The British empire has an area of H.
100000 square miles and a population of
4OO,OOOOOO. The British empire is six times
as extensive as that of ancient Rome in
its palmiest days.
Mrs. Charles H Spurgeon, widow of
the late pastor of Metropolitan Taberna-
Gle, London, recently turned the first sod
of the ground at BeXhill whereon a large
Baptist chapel will be built. Bexhill is near
London.
Gov. Dyer of Rhode Island, said, in a
recent speech in Providence to the Pam
American Commercial travellers: "Rhode
Island has a language peculiar to herself
If you will listen you will hear that Ian
guage-the hum of her machinery"
-"Jeanie Deans " gravestone. in Iron
gray church yard, is being clipped away
by relic hunters. The name of the girl
whose story Sir Walter Scott used in '"The
Heart of Midlothian" and whose appeal
TO the Duke of Argyll procured her sisters
pardon, was Helen Walker
The memorial just erected over the
grave Of the late Gov. Greenhalge of Mas
sachusetts is a Celtic cross of gray gran
ite, beautifully sculptured with Runc
lines. Within the halo of the cross are
four balls, and on the upper part of the
circle are two cherubs heads.
The Duke of Roxburg comes of age
this summer. His grandfather, the sixth
Duke, came of age sixty years ago, when
Victoria ascended the throne. She created
him an Earl in the peerage of the United
kingdom, he being the first person on
whom the young queen conferred a peer
age.
%+N N-'NtAfNNA ~ ~APNAhNNiA - GpAAoNhAlA-
ly in demand, making addresses before
women's organizations. Especially has
this been the case since the degree OF doc
tor of laws was conferred upon her by the
Queens university, at Kingston She was
the first woman in Canada to receive the
honor.
Human perspiraton, II injected into
dogs or rabbits acts like a deadly poison,
according to M. Arloing's experiments.
Precipitation secreted during hard muscu-
lar work has more toxic power than the
ordinary kind while hat obtained from
subjects whose secretion has been cheek
ed by cold is very poisonous
in a case before London magistrate
the question was as 20 the ownership OF
some antique ormolu articles. and two
worSmen, who stoutly claimed the art-
cles, said that they made" them. To
prove their assertion, they set TO work in
court, and showed how ormolu was made
antique" with pumi,e powder
Two very interesting questions have
been offered by one Of our English con-
temporaries and which are rarely touched
upon except from the dry-as-dust stand
mint Of efnfigffciana saws tho Naus Wi.