Evening star., 1897-05-31
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Mexico has a scaRcity IL corn.
Germany has paper horseshoes.
There are se4, ,6e5 Bell telephones.
There are 712 papers, in New York.
A trolley is being. built,to the Pyramids.
St Louis Is to have cripples conven-
tion.
California has new law protecting song
birds.
A Crows Island. Me- boy sees only at
night. il :
Atlantic City's post office Ii In the new
building. ~
Detroit exempts her Masonic hall from
taxation.
Seattle mills grind flour night and day
for Japan.
English doctors say railway journeying
cures gout.
Mississippi has decided to have a fine
Few capitol.
Two Iowa school houses are to have cy-
clone cellars.
houses yearly.
vermont gained but 1900 inhabitants
from 1850 to 1890.
Bakersfield Cal. gets electric power and
light from Kern river.
New York has appropriated million for
the Adirondack Park.
A Kansas man uses a bicycle to measure
distances in surveying.
In four years the United States has ex-
ported $50 locomotives.
A New York man was arrested the other
day for stealing stole.
California town recently built church
| from a single redwood tree.
rie Jardin des Plantes female hippopota-
mus is dead at forty-three.
The Kansas supreme court sustains her
uniform state text book law.
A forr-year-old girl has journeyed from
| Kansas City to San Diego alone.
California's orange crop this year is about
6,900 ear loads, against 1890 last year.
Professor Blake Of Kansas University
says electricity will bleach the color of the
negro.
M. vaillod. now member of the Fren h
| senate, used to be the cannon man in a
| Gil Gus.
posing them to be lost souls Of English Of
| ficers.
Mr.. A. E. Keet, who has been the editor
Of The Forum since August, 1895, has re-
signed.
Wisconsin is suing her agricultural So
cicty for money advarced to buy state fair
grounds.
A large flock of wild pigeons has taken
possession of grove in Shasta county.
California.
John W. Creation, who invented the alloy
used in the five-cent piece, died last week
| in Brooklyn.
At Silver Beach, WASH, one man in six
days sawed 426,000 shingles and another
bolted them.
A Muncie. Ind, parrot cried Fire. firer
and woke up her owner, who found his
house in flames. a..
John Tannis and his r1ibe sons voted at
the spring election in Sheridan township,
NeWaygo county. Mich. iE
Mayor Strong has given away none of the
| bricks from Grant,s tomb. He says they
will go to the G. A. r. posts.
Bogota acrobat named Warner has
walked tight rope loVer4 the chasm of the
Tequendama gorge,u479 feet deep.
The Passion Play is to be given in Mexico
City at a cost Of S3DQ,0OQ under direction
of Joseph SchurZ ofI0bera mmergau.
The Young Mems Business Association
of Richmond has determined to secure the
building ofba cotton mill in that city.
A Chicago girl has sued neighbor for
$4,000 damages from being stung by bees.
| Blood poisoning followed the singing.
The coarse gold deposits of the Aztecs are
| believed to have been found where the
| Acapulco railway crosses the Balsas river.
Langtry has a dressing bag said to be
| the costliest of its kind. 1t is adorned with
gold and jeweled fittings, and cost 81, 800.
Captain Mahan's Influence of Sea Pow
| err and De Grifis Life Of Commodore
Perry" have been translated into Japanese.
English tfainmen have decided that an
express train is one having a connection
| cord and running twenty miles without
| stopping. .:,'1.' .'t
| Georgia Is to erect large monument at
| Chickamauga. It will be triangular. with
bronze inscriptions to infantry, cavalry and
| artillery.
has retired with 5000. 900. In 1866 he was
penniless, and for six months earned 81
| day with push cart.
| The Kansas supreme court has affirmed
a judgment against the city of salina for
damages by the iyrching Of Dana Adams
by a mob four years ago.
| Gerome. the painter. has sent an eques-
| trian statuette of ''Bonaparte in Egypt" to
/ the Salon. Napoleon Is represented dressed
in early Egyptian costume.
The bulk of California's output of wine
| for 1896 has been bought by New York
dealers at eighteen cents a gallon, and
| 3,5o0.Ooo gallons were covered by the deal.
New York broker. not long ago. by use
| of homing pigeon. which he had taken
| with him on q fishing excursion. sent an
| oEucA " AilS OIOAST LIAl ulduc $O,OOO lOT
him.
! The French are wrathy at Russia for not
| sending back the guns and flags abandoned
| On the retreat of Napoleon in 1872 France
| has returned to Russia her trophies of the
Crimea-
Norcross, Ga, colored people have been
| using a nostrum to turn them white. In
| stead, the stuff turns the skin into fiery
red, and in several cases serious poisoning
| occurred.
The Ohio medical law has been declared
| constitutional in the lower courts at Co.
lumbus. 1t requires physicians to register
and have certificates based upon practice
| or examination.
! A California ex-convict has been recon-
mitted for theft which he said he COM
mitted for the sake Of getting home. The
| mans excuse was: ''Once a convict, al
| ways q convict"
| A young man and a young woman took
a plunge in the surf at Atlantic City Sun
day night. AS they came out in dripping
| bath robes they Chartered: 1T W-W-as