Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-05-21

| VI JIG " every E,SSO,oOU. RUSSIA mas a uni
versity Tor every 100000 only.
The Philadelphians are already making
| great preparNtionsI for the eighteenth ma
| tional sangerfest Which is to be held dur
| 1ng tne week begiRping June Il. in Sanger
| Halle. new and deliberately decorated
building in FotteraH square, 18th and Cum
| berland streets, that city.
II. matters little What it is that you want
.wnetner g. situation or servant-a
want" ad. in The Star will reach the
person who Gan fiji. your need.
At recent meeting of women, says the
| mad made earnest addresses, when little
woman IN the rear of the hall arose, and,
ADDRESSING the chair, said Madame Presi-
| dent. am tired of SO many s1ueaky So
pranos; l want to hear man.
Under the terms oof the new charter the
mayor of the Greater New York must, be-
| tore January 20, 1898, appoint six district
| Judges. four for Brooklyn and one each for
queens and Richmond counties. They will
| be appointed for one year, when their sue
| cessors Will be elected for full terms.
OF $50 men appointed as members of
| the police force OF New York between Au-
gust l. 1895, and January l, 1897 a period
OF seventeen months, 1,2S5 were natives of
| the United States, 211 of Ireland, 4S Of Ger
many, "A of England or Canada, of Aus
| tria and of Scotland. There were also
\ Russians and Holstein Dane.
fVe-acre tract Of land in st. Louis
county, Missouri, on which Fred Schaeffer
| mas fine young orchard, has begun to
slide down hill, with view of precipitating
! Itself over precipice, and the sliding of
the upper crust thirteen feet thick, has re-
vealed the fact that it overlaid stratum
| OF superior fire clay twenty feet thick.
No other machine ever had SO MANY
names. 1t Is called the kinetoscope, cine
| photographic, kaleidoscope, projectoscope,
graphoscope. photograph, kinematograph
anlmatascope, vitascope. cinematoscope,
nerlscope, Vveoscope biograph, rayoscope,
m1gn1scope, the zoetrope, animatograph
and at least a dozen others. In photo
graphic circles all are clasSed as projecting
apparatus.
With piece of string and little sand
ard grease, some Hindoo convicts recently
sawed through an iron bar two inches in
diameter In five hours and escaped from
| jail, according to the Pioneer Mail.
Paderewsk gets 5000 for one concert in
London In jubilee week. Patti gets a like
sum for three songs.
Austria has twenty-four political parties
represented in the lower house of the
reichsrath.
Mexico has but 1000 Germans.
Russia's population has increased nearly
million year for 100 years.
A Pennington (Me.) man ninety-two
old out riding the other day behind a horse
th1rty-four years old.
F,renchman politely passed toothpicks
to Turk at banquet in Paris, who de-
cl1ned. saying: No: thank you! 1 have al
ready eaten two of the accursed things
ana want no more!
Natives of Gibraltar and the Moors
across the strait have tradition that
there exists a cavern whence a subter-
ranean passage leads under the straits to
the mountains on the African side. The
existence of this passage, they say, is
known to the monkeys, who regularly use
| 1t in passing from one continent to the
other.
A question said never to have been raised
before In Maine. came up in the Biddeford
municipal court lately. man had put in
| the foundation wall for another man IN
| payment of debt, but HAD neglected to
lay his workmen.7 These sued the con-
| tractor and attached the stone in the
foundation, on which, in the meantime a
house had been completed. The court de-
| cided that the men had no lien upon the
stone, under the circumstances
Eighteen persons live in a one-room
shanty. l6 by 90 feet. in the town of
| Woodstock, VT, not far from the Bridge
water line.
Newfoundland has 1000 acres in pota-
| tees, turnips and other crops. There are on
| the island 5000 horses, 10000 cows 10000
| sheep and 10000 pigs.
| James H. yickery, Cornell, 90 has been
selected to accompany Ambassador Andrew
d. White TO Germany his private secre-
| tary.
| expert, official medical returns show that
| in Italy 100000 persons die every year
| from infection--that is, from preventable-
| ntaladies. most of them being young, 1.-The
| hope of families"
| The worlds agriculture occupies the at
| tention of 2SO,O0,0O0 men, represents a
| capital of $24 0Oo0O0,O0O, and has an annual
| product of $2o,O0O,0O0,000.
| The people of Germany and Belgium are
| the greatest potato eaters: the consumption
in these countries exceeds one thousand
pounds per head of population.
woman in San Francisco asked for the
privilege of caring for the lepers in the
city pest-house. she offered to serve with
out compensation.
Collins are rented at so cents a funeral
in Havana.
Ceylon has 10000 acres of cinnamon plan
tations
1t costs 81 an acre to irrigate in Egypt.
England has 176.5OO land owners; France,
6,5Go.0o0.
England has 7G0 lights on $500 miles of
| sea coast; France $40 on 500 miles.
Cape Cod boys and girls make about 81
| a day gathering arbutus.
While King George of Greece WAS staying
| at the Park Hotel at Weisbaden, he
i father the King of Denmark, had cut his
name with diamond King George took
| off his own diamond ring and engraved his
name below his fathers A few hours af-
| terward the czar saw the window, and i'm
mediately cut his name. Then came the
kaiser, who added his name TO those of
| the other royalties.
To every 1872 persons in the United
States there is a telephone.
A Jackson, (Mich) man, playing leap-
frog, fell against stone and broke his
neck.
During this century nineteen volcanic
islands have risen out of the sea-
An ordinance has gone forth in Japan
exhortlng the people to eat more freely of
meat, with view to increasing the aver
age height of the race.
A trained canary at Deering, Me-, dis
graced himself at a last weeks tea party
by bathing in the cream pitcher.
A captive bee striving to escape has been
made to record as many as $3.50 wing
strokes per minute in a late test
In the year 1896 1854 wills were offered
for probate in the surrogates court of New
York, and there were only A cases of con-