Omaha daily bee., 1897-11-28
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Paris has 10000 professional beggars.
Peruvian cotton grows in twelve different
colors.
Ono hundred roses are required to make
one drop of the famous altar of roses.
The average weekly loss of vessels on the
seas throughout the world is twelve
A 5-cent stamp must adorn every day book
ledger or other account book kept by bust
ness house in Mexico.
While going over a corn field at Dwight,
Kan farmer found a gold ring that his
wife had lost the.e eleven years ago.
The largest number of tracks in any Ger
man railway passenger station is at Frank
fort-twenty- y-one-Munich coming next with
sixteen.
There are 256 railway stations within a
six-mlle radius of st, Pau's cathedral Lon
don, while within twelve mile radius there
are nearly 400.
The largest wine tank In the world has
been completed at Asti, Sonoma county, Cal.
Its capacity is 500. 900 gallons and II is built
under ground. The tank or reservoir is built
OF conc: etc, cement and iron.
There are plenty of ways to get rid of
money In Chicago, but mIser in that city
who kept Off the streets at night and stayed
around home most of the day managed to
leave $35 900 for somebody to fight over.
Nuremberg, the great toy making center,
has had banquet to celebrate the compile
ticn of the 30O00Oth model steam engine by
a certain well known maker. The same fac
tory has turned out more than 1876, 900 magic
lanterns
Colorado's gold production has increased
from IS, 600, 900 in 1898 to $22 200, 900 in 1897
putting it ahead of California in gold min
ing. Colorado has aHo mined this year
nearly $20,000O00 in silver, lead, copper and
iron.
Kansas is generally reckohed to be a pro-
hibition state, but from the returns OF the
Santa Fe Railroad company 1t transplres
that during the last fiscal year the company
transported 3S ,672 tons Of wines liquors and
beer, of which H. l93 tons originated in Kan
sas.
Mike Dooley, st, Louis car driver has
Travelled 27l $50 miles in thirty-One years, all
on one street Practically his entire working
life has been passed In this way. Sixty
days absence because OF sickness constitutes
the only interim In long mOnotonOus career
on the front platform
One parrot will live in luxury all his life,
He belonged to Mary J. Bradford OF South
Boston. When she died she left $4,000 the
income of which she wished to be devoted
to the support OF her pet. And 1t was fur
ther added. with Bostonese exclusiyeness,
that he should not be placed in any place
of exhibition.
At LuchOw In Germany, 129 fathers have
been fined l mark apiece for allowing their
children under 10 years OF age to dance at
the harvest festival Of a village near by,
The village pastor objected TO the dancing,
and reported the case to the police. II was
discovered, however, that his children had
danced, too, and he was Aired with the rest.
An enthusiast on mushroom growing does
not hesitate to say that $500 per acre is d
possible profit TO be derived from this in
dustry. This makes the mushroom field ap-
M lga ln ma N2yF IN
desire lucrative outdoor employment, and
may kindle spark Of hope in the hearts Of
poor eountrywomen who see Ia the prophecy
a means OF increasing limited Income.