Evening star., 1897-06-11
jean Drawers.

rot long ago in closet in very old New
Jersey house. The cards are of English
make and evidently of the time of Charles
The Bristol copper mine, the largest in
Connecticut. will again be reopened.
June ] 137 marriage licenses were taken
out in Chicago.
Paris buys California pearls.
The navy buys 10000 pounds of plug to-
bacco at :s2 cents a pound.
Mcntanas wool yield last year was worth
SJ0.Ot0,0Go
The Han Yang. China, iron mills employ
I20O men and make Bessemer steel.
In japanese saws the teeth point to-
ward the handle, and both saws and planes
cut toward the workman.
Scotsman has named one of his asses
Maxwelltown. because it's brays are bonnie.
Dr. Koch's attempt to stay the ravagess
of the rinderpest in Cape Colony has beelfs
a complete failure.
A German doctor of reputation prescribes
aluminium cure for rheLma tiSm.
American firms own 42:,5 square miles of
timber lands, in the province of Ontario.
For nearly Two years the resolutions of
condolerce on the death of Secretary
Gresham passed by the Hawaiian govern
ment have remained in an express office in
ans address was not known, although it
appears in the directory.
Property to the amount of f59O00,OOO is
tied up in chancery suits in England
Few people in Ireland will take part in
the queens jubilee.
Foo Ling is the name of a serious Kansas
City Chinaman.
Dccters say people in Ireland who live on
the potato never have gout.
England has several women letter car
riers, and they are good ones.
Two girls own the largest salt works in
Oklahoma, and are going to college on the
profits of 1t.
Germany has in twenty years spent $780,
0OO,0OO improving the Rhine, the Elbe and
the Vistula.
Brussels streets are now sprinkled with
diluted disinfectant
The Birmingham gun trade has not been
so active for ten years as 1T is now. One
Birmingham firm has an order for 14,OOO
Martini rifles for the Boer government.
British millionaires die at the rate of
three in year.
Japan has built eighty-five miles of rail-
road in Formosa-
DR.. jenkins of Thurman. Ohio, has in
thirty-nine years practice attended 2,152
births
Olden farm, Missouri, has 10000 fruit
trees.
Huddersfield, England. with 100, 600 popu-
lation. owns and runs it's own gas, water
and electric works and street railways.
Prof. Cope directed that his collection of
specimens be sold for $4,000, of which
$4,000 was to endow professorship in the
University of Pennsylvania. Only 5000
has been subscribed toward it so far.
The famous Jefferson Hotel in Richmond
l-y<
The roof garden will not be opened this
year.
Missouri celebrates flower day in her
penitentiary. and each Of the $500 inmates
gets flower.
All northern Boone county. says a CO.
lEmbia, Mo-, paper, is dotted with cyclone
cellars. The round grass-grown tops look
like Indian mounds cr like the entrances to
coyote holes on the prairies.
The model of the Boston Bacchante was
a Brooklyn society woman.
The Pawtucket r. l., sealer of weights
is making crusade on short berry baskets.
Greenland has no infectious diseases.
There are fifty-seven poor farms in the
United States.
Nearly all our missionaries take bicycles
abroad with them.
The ladies of a Syracuse church nave
agreed to remove their hats during service.
Southern California shipped this year
s1soOOO worth Of ostrich plumes to Parts.
The czar and czarina give Victoria
500 900 set of emeralds for a jubilee gift.
Harriet Beecher Stowe spelled phoneti-
cally, and used a small letter for the per-
sonal oronoun.
Julia Ward Howe is just three days
younger than Victoria. She celebrated her
seventy-eighth birthday May q.
Ex-Governor AltgeId Is to deliver the
Fourth of July Grafton in the Brooklyn
Academy OF Music.
A London paper explains 10 its readers
that 'the plot Of Secret Service is laid in