Evening star., 1897-05-13
S 7 AR G L e A MN G S

Connecticut has ffty-four daughters Of
! revolutionary soldiers.
London has a penny-in-the-sIot device for
providing incandescent lights.
The mercantile and armed nav!es CT tho
world have l.6OS,oO seamen.
Killarney boasts an echo that reports n
corhet note nearly twenty times.
Peppermint farming is a profitable in
oustrS In southwestern Michigan.
Caleb Wall of the Worcester Spv has been
reporter sixty years on that paper.
Premier Rail- has a niece. Mrs Laurence
DE l-alande, living in San Francisco.
A Salem. Mass. genius has invented an
umbrella that can be put in his coat pocket.
1t is computed that 2o.oC0 tons of canned
salmon are consumed annually In England.
Kansas City has one hundred and forty
fingree farmers, and the supply OF ground
has failed.
DIR. Emma Wakefield is the first neeress
10 De licensed to practice medicine In
Louisiana.
A California naturalist is studying sea
NE around Santa Catalina with a glass
bottomed boat.
Arabs use camels' milk; Persians sheep's
milk; Spaniards, goats milk. Cows are
rare in the east.
Mrs Bradley Martin has a huge book
iilied with photographs OF the guests at
--~N Ao'O1o AdbSy uItsS Dali.
Tacoma's tea trade demands an inspect-
OF. Cargoes now have to wait until SAM
| pies are sent to San Francisco.
At Webster City. Iowa. a church social
was held last week down I'm a coal mine,
2f0 feet below the earth's surface.
Captain William ]. Clark. a survivor OF
the John Brown raiders In Kansas died i'm
Hobart Delaware county, n. Y. last week.
The Tarrytown, y. Y, assessors have as
sessed the Gould estate at s7p.GN. and
Helen. Frank and Howard Gould at S5oO.Do
each.
Mice are fond of music. and this fact in
duced machinist In Bruses Belgium, TO
construct a trap with a music-box attach
ment.
Mis-. X. F. Thorne OF La Cygne KAN
has made a lace handkerchief for Mrs
mckinley which contains thirty thousand
stitches.
Robert NJ. Fulton. at Elizabeth. N J.. the
| other day was buried with two services,
one in the Catholic and one In the Metho-
dist Church.
A Topeka, Kan, cat which was taken
| to Indiana by a family namei Mailing
found its way back to the sunfower state,
| travelling 60o miles.
The woman tennis champion of New Zea-
land has but one hand, and that is The left
one; but she can serve a ball that is cx-
ceedingly difficult to return.
The new state harness. to cost over a 600
mas been ordered for the six cream Flemish
horses which will draw the royal chariot
to st. Paul's on the I'D Of June.
Coroner r. c. Haslem of woodside, NY,
has ordered a seXtupet, so he may carry
his jury with him when he is called out
He and his clerk will ride a tandem.
According to the recent Russian census
the populations of the four chief cities are:
81. Petersburg, 1.25o.Wo; Moscow. l.o5o.voO:
Warsaw. 6ooooo and Odessa, 4lo,Vyo.
A revolving ralace. 362 feet high. is PLAN
ned for the Paris exposition of $500 Ii will
| be used for restaurants and theaters. and
| revolve continuously on a central pivot.
The Oregon railway commissioners report
that not road in the state has for four
years paid dividend, been able to pay
the agreed rate of interest on its bonds.
Distinguished New Workers of German
descent will give a complimentary banquet
| in New York on May - to Andrew ID.
White, the new ambassador to Germany.
Boston's Music Hall organ is to be sold
at auction. 1t was taken out and stored
thirteen years ago to make room for the
symphony orchestra 1t cost s6O.Uto, and
has 5,4I4 pipes.
| tries. according to Mulhall. was: China,
2U.0o0,oOo pounds; India, 9D.tsp,p0: Japan
40.oU.OUU: Ceylon 19V0.0O0: Paraguay, l0.-
OVo,VOU, and Java, 1.oo0Vp
St Petersburg paper says that in con-
sequence of a silly rumor that the Turks
had poisoned all the herring in the ocean,
the peasants of some parts of Poland re-
fuse to eat any more of them.
A preliminary census made by the
Egyptian minister of the interior shows
Egyprs population is now about 9.oo.ooo.
and probably exceeds that of the period OF
its greatest ancient prosperity.
The Kansas centennial wagon, which was
made al Leavenworth at cost OF SiaO for
the Philadelphia exposition. and took first
prize has been sold at Leavelwor:h to a
Stillingsvtile (Mo.D farmer for so.
The hand knitting Industry organized hy
Lady Arran in County Mayo 10 employ her
husbands tenants, has proved a success
financially. Seven thousand pairs of stock
irgs were knitted last year and 900 spent
in wages.
In 1895 exact statistics of visitors to
Paris were Kept by the police. to whom pro-
prietors of hotels and boarding houses had
to make returns. These statistics were:
English, 1888; Americans, 423l7; Ger
mans, 36,224.
Ireland sends out as emigrants to other
lands from 10000 to J0,OU of her sons and
daughters annually: while Scotland parts
with only from 1900 to $1,000. The figures
last year were: For ireland, AZ DID and for
Scotland, 6,S66.
Near Elkton. Mich, live probably the
oldest couple In the United States. Mr. and
seven and one hundred and five years.
Sunday. April .. the couple celebrated
their eighty-seventh year of welded life
The Berlin Acknowledging thinks the
American apple has come to Germany to
stay. 1t is not only good but can be sold
in the streets at less than four cents a
pound; and. what is most important of all,
1t keeps much longer than the German
apple
Hardham's tobacco shop on Fleet street,
London, near Ludgate circus. is to be torn
down. Garrick, to help the proprietor. q
former actor. praised on the stage his
Number ST. snuff. The shop became
fashionable and Hardham left $4,000 to
charity ar his death in 1772
Dwellings are to be heated by electricity
in Lewiston. Me-. power for The current
being furnished by waterfall at Turner,
on the Androscoggrn. The projectors say
they can furnish power at x36 per horse
power by the year. and heat a ten-room
house with three-horse power .he year
round.
The last of seven escaped Siberian con-
victs who were found at sea in a small
boat and taken to San Francisco a couple