The advocate., 1897-09-29
Advocate Museum.


gagged in building the great Siberian
railroad.
BY late improvement in telegraphy
it is asserted that 1000 words can be
transmitted in minute.
The New York City public schools
opened the fall term with 225,OOO sChOl-
ars, to be taught in III buildings.
The worlds fastest runner, Bernard
]. Wefers, is % years of age, and has
been running for four years. He is six
feet tall in his stockings and weighs 1856
pounds.
DR.. Francis Boaz, who for ten years
has been making a study Of British Co
lumbia Indians, is convinced that they
are related, and that the first Indians
on this side of the Pacific came from ST.
IBERIA.
The total number of paupers in re-
ceipt of relief on January 1, 1897, in the
649 unions and parishes under separate
boards Of guardians in England and
Wales, and the ten contributOry (out-
relief unions, was S36,S36.
In a. few weeks Camden, N. j., will
stop drawing it's water from the Della
ware river, and be supplied with pure
flood drawn from artesian wells. The
wells from which the supply is drawn
number seventy, and are said to give
5O,OOO,OOO gallons daily.
Italy has produced the smallest book
in the world, volume Of 2O8 pages
measuring four-tenths by a quarter Of
an inch. Each page contains nine lines
and from ninety-fve to 100 letters The
text is an unpublished letter written by
GallileO in 1915 to Nine Cristine, Of Lor-
ralne.
Commissioner Jones, of the Indian Bu-
reau, has had an investigation made at
the different Indian agencies of the
number of insane Indians at each Of
them. The poll shows only sixty-eight
insane Indians in the country, and some
of these are regarded as idiots, rather
than lunatics.
India is the only country that makes
death by the attacks of serpents and wild
beasts feature of it's annual statistics.
That it has good cause for doing so is
shown in the impressive figures Of last
years mortality, 1,133 deaths from snake
bites and 291 people killed by tigers and
other wild animals.
A Waterloo, Ind, dispatch Of Septem-
Der IA says: The skeleton of huge mas
todOn was partly exhumed five miles
north of this city. The pieces of tusk,
allowing fair proportion for tapering
ends, would measure fifteen feet long,
and the mastOdOn is thus estimated to
have stood eigteen or twenty feet high.
According to the latest figures, the
cost of educating the LIS, 1872 school chill
dren in daily attendance at Chicago,
was SC, ,08O, ,427, or $34 for each pupil. The
cost of educating the 7,497 pupils in at
tendance on the high schools last year
was $52.S0 each, while the 342 attending
the English high and manual training
school cost the extravagant sum of $166
apiece.
Although India is one of the most
densely populated countries on the
globe, the increase of human inhabi-
tants does not have the effect of de-
creasing the number of wild beasts, as
it does elsewhere, because the religion of |
the natives, or a great proportion of
them, forbids them to take life, even of |
dangerous beasts and serpents; hence |
they let these destroyers thrive and null
tiply in the midst of their communities. !
Afghanistan is not nation, properly |
speaking, but rather an agglomeration of |
tribes living in one country, yet divided |
against themselves by racial and relig- |
iOus differences. Each tribe maintains |
it's separate tribe of fighting men. All |
the fighting tribesmen in combination |
could probably put 100000 men in hos
tile array. England's security on her |
northwest Indian frontier is based on the