The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-05-20
MISCELLANY.

houses. and each house floats on q bamboo raft.
 Many of the millinery stores in Lnn- don serve alcoholic stimulants to their patrons, and on the bills they are charged as "trimmings." The busiest telephone exchange in the world is in Chicago, where the daily average is 180, 900 messages.
 Berlin has professional bird catcher appointed by the government, He supplies educational institutions with birds. birds nests. and eggs.
 The order for the budding of forty locomotives for the Nippon railway in Japan, is reported to have been given to the Baldwin locomotive works of Philadelphia.
 A negro in Hogansville, Ga., while blowing. unearthed sixteen thousand dollars in gold coin. The money had been concealed uoder some stones, evidently by thieves.
 A Chicago gentleman who studies the ease and convenience of his patrons rents burglars tools to those who need them, and sends them in wagon to \ retired spot near the sceue where they are to be used.
 "Pay weddings" are not uncommon in some of the rural districts of Ger many. All the guests pay fixed sum for the entertainment and the receipts are used to furnish home for the bridal couple.
 A consumptive in Lyons, France. whose case had been given up by sev- sral doctors. submitted to transf,,sion of blood from the veins of vigorous and healthy farmer. A thorough cure was effected in eleven weeks.
 Queen Vicioris's daily income is $8,OOO. The German Emperor gets elO,OOO day. the King of ltaiv $S,. 900, the Emperor of Austria SIP, 500, and the Czar of Russia manages Co pay his bachelor bills on $50, GOO daily income.
 The bark True Love, built in PhiIa- delphia in l764, has been found upon search to be yet ahoai. in The capacity of coal hulk, on the river Thames at London, engaged in active trade a, the age of 133 years. This discover, was made through a casualty recorded in the Maritime Exchange.
 Not yet extinguished is the spirit of the Indian warriors death chant in the northwest. Charcoal, an Indian murderer of one of the mounted police at Mcleod, Manitoba. was SO in6rm ip the legs that he had to be earned to the scaffold, but he died full of de- fance, giving three ringing war wboops as he was taken up the stairs.
 William Kingston, an English farm CT. was born without arms, but never theless made such good use of his feet that he could do with them almost any
 d thing that was done by a person with hands. He could feed himself, using the knife and fork. and carrying his cup'to his mouth: could shave himself and could perform all the ordinary work of the farm except moving. He was even able to milk cows with his feet, aud wrote beautiful hand, holding the pen between the frs, and secopd toes.
 The greatest military engineer of any age was Sebastian Lepreste Vau- ban, born ih l633 and who died in 1707. To Vauban is due the credit of almost all the fortresses which to the present day protect the frontiers anu the coasts of France. During his career as military engineer he con structed on new lines over 300 old fortresses and built thirty-ihree new He carried on fifty-rhree sieges, being successful in nearly every one. and took part in no battles.