The Winslow mail., 1897-02-13
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There are 391 railroad depots aud sta
tions in London.
Famine and plague threaten to deci-
mate the inha bitants of India
Not single infectious disease is
known in Greenland.
You get bath in Japan for cent
and laundry work is Is cents a dozen.
Eighteen million emigrants have
landed in the United States since 1920.
Confirmed gambling is now regarded
as sufficient grounds for divorce in
Franee.
A St. Louis judge fined man $50
the other day for expectorating in a
street Car.
The date of the confederate reunion
at Nashville has been changed to June
i22, Is and "a,
A mile minute has been made by an
iceboat on Lake Minnehaha, near Chey-
enne, Wyoming.
Maryville, Missouri, has 65 charming
widows, with bank accounts ranging
from $1,000 upward.
Chicago has 1000 saloons Their re-
ceipts are $21,OO0,00O, and 95 per cent.
of it comes from wageworkers.
The Methodists will have building
and literary and historical exhibit at
the Tennessee Centennial exposition.
In New York and surrounding cities
and towns fully two-thirds of the men
in the woodworkers' trades are idle.
If a burn is sprinkled freely with
powdered charcoal the burning sensa-
ton will be relieved almost Immediate
lily.
It costs Great Britain $4,000 year
to maintain the queens pack of deer
hounds. The. people are petjtioning
her TO give them up.
A thrifty farmer who lives $50 miles
from the nearest railroad, brought a
wagon load of eggs, chickens and cab
bage into Eddy, N. NJ.
It is reported that the Casino at
Monte Carlo recently refused admis-
sion TO Ellen Terry on the ground that
she was too i'll dressed
The salvation army at Lawrence
Kansas, hanged. the devil in effigy' the
other day, after rejecting as irrelevant
the proposition to burn him.
Sponges, states and slate pencils are
no longer allowed in the public schools
Of Cam bridge, Mass. Paper, pens and
pencils have been substituted.
There was a mixture of feeling in
the household of Pete Berry, of the
Colorado Grand Canyon, when the cat
had litter of breed polecats.
The city of Stockholm has $4,000 tel
ephones, or one for every twenty citi-.
zens, higher average than can be found
anywhere else in the world.
At Mountain Spring, Ariz, All aban-
doned shaft and tunnel have been found
of which the earliest settler has no
knowledge. It has paying gold, too.
The hoase where DIR Faust is sup
posed to have been born, at Roda, near
Weimer, Germany, has been pulled
down and sold as old building material
for SO.
South Carolina boasts that it raised
764,7Q0 bales Of cotton last year, beat
ing all the other states in the number
Of dale8 to the square mile under cul-
tivation.
Minneapolis Sunday school associa-
tion will take a religious census Of the
city, sending its enumerators from
house to house to ascertain the rali.
gious preference Of the inmates.
One British writer spent 81 900 in ad-
Vertising his book and never sold a
copy. Another spent $50 in calling at
tention to little one dollar book and
sold $4,000 copies within one year.
A proposed wolf chase at Emaus, Pa,
came to naught by the wolf taking pos
session of a fence cornerand thus pro-
tected in the rear, fighting OF all the
hounds attacking him from the front
The minister Of education at Korea,
is devout Christian and lay preach
er in the Methodist Episcopal church.
He graduated at Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, Tennessee. His wife is also
a Christian.
One citizen of Atchinson, Kansas,
found himself t4o other day a party to
three lawsuits il as many different
courts at the same time, one of the
cases being divorce action brought by
his second wife
a feature Of the population statis-
ties Of western Australia is the large
proportion Of males to females. The
disparity is maintained in the arrivals
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