Evening star., 1897-06-14
S T AR GIL EAN IN G S
The Eiffel tower weighs 1000 tons.

| "oii ShiiiS are IN uenanu Tor Dan1o neaOS.
Texas is to have Spanish taught in her
| schools.
| The first English steel pens were sold at
| 30 shillings each.
] Friendship, Me-, has great grandmother
| but fifty-three years old.
Living is nearly 10 per cent cheaper in
| London than in New York.
Chicago's new assistant city attorney is
| a woman-Cora B. Hertzel.
Over sl,TJoOO0 worth of matches are
| imported into China annually.
! Ex-Gov. Northern of Georgia is getting
| up another old soldiers colony.
John Grass. the Sioux chief. is police
| judge al Standing Rock, s. ID.
Sunfower seeds, used as bait in the trap
| are said TO be irresistible to rats.
Boiled alligator flesh tastes much like
| veal II Is much eaten in India.
1t Is said that salmon. pike and gold fish
| are the only fish that never sleep.
Mrs. Christina Kaiser. one hundred and
| eight. died at Jefferson. Wis. last week.
Lake Michigan's revenue cutter Andy
Johnson. sold at auction the other day for
$3.50.
An Arkansas man the other day married
| woman he owed rather than go to jail
| for debt.
Kansas priest officiates In five towns
every Sunday. Mass is said in one of them
| at am.
"Googoos." "cits," "molbuzzers" and
| spanqulikens' are new words in Manhat-
| tan politics
Imperfect teeth are sign of civilization.
| among savages
| Forty-two Danville, ILL.,. merchants have
| been arrested for keeping nickel-in-the-slot
cigar machines.
| according to the pension report for 1896
| there were 3.1S1 persons drawing pensions
| who resided abroad.
Mrs Polly Young of Conneaut Lake Pa
| has read the Bible through eighteen times
| in the last nine years.
carload of potatoes shipped from Mans
| field. Pa, a few days ago netted the farm
| ers twelve cents bushel.
Washington. Pa. has a widows row.
where there are nine lone females in a
| block and only one bachelor
Irrigation ON a Connecticut strawberry
| farm trebled the yield and made differ
| ence OF S59I an acre in receipts.
| australia has no orphan asylums. Every
| destitute orphan child is sent to a private
| family at the expense of the state.
The shah of Persia is the possessor of
| what is doubtless the most expensive pipe
| In the world, 1t being worth some $500 0D
| Kansas City woman has got a divorce
| because her husband insisted on secludng
] her from public gaze by locking her in her
| room.
There's no kissing in japan EXCEPT be-
| tween husband and wife-not even between
| a mother and child; no shaking of hands in
| salutation.
Ex-Mayor A p Rowe and Mrs. Rowe of
| Fredericksburg. Va, celebrated the fifty
second anniversary of their marriage last
Wednesday.
L halo Of
exceed 81 feet. The floor of the last story
must not be more than 65.6 above the level
of the street.
Robert Douglas, one of the best-known
foresters in the country, died at waukegan,
| Ill.,, last week. He domesticated the Col
orado blue spruce.
Japan is filled from end to end with all
the apparatus of the latest civilization
| down to the electric car and the inter
| national exhibition.
James Webster of Eldora Iowa In lSo3
| sold all he had and buried 100000 in money
somewhere. then lost his memory and is
in the county poor house.
If all the corn in the United States last
year were in one field it would be twice as
large as all Turkey in Europe and two
| thirds as large as France.
The original mint Qirst United States
government building erected) was in Phil
adelphia, on Ith street, below Arch and
| the building is still standing.
Seven lions are among the pets of the
Sultan of Morocco. AT night he let's them
| range the courtyards of the palace TO act
as guards to the royal harem.
st. Louis woman had a guardian ap-
pointed fo, her husband on prov.ns that
he spent all of his pension money. $50.
every month for patent medicines.
Prof. Lucy Salmon. Vassar College. is
strongly in favor of the abolition of the
college commencement. which she char
acterizes as "a relic of mediaevalism.'
Sir Robert Peel, who has been numerous
ly Tilted by young women in England and
America. has found a bride-Mss Graffen-
ried, German heiress and daughter of
baron.
A City of Mexico man put strychnine on
a banana peel to kill mice. The cat put ii
in a water pail, and the whole family was
poisoned, and but for the stomach pump
would have died.
Shakespeare provided motto for every
thing. That for Victoria on the occasion
of the jubilee found in Henry VI Go
Salisbury, :tni tell them all for 1 thank
them for heir tender, Loving care
The latest thing in bicycles in Newbury-
port was noticed in the way of a man rid
ing and having attached by two shafts a
small two-wheeled continuance with pneu-
matte tires, in which were three children.
teacher of district school near Ga
lena, H., has just one pupil The school is
integration of the district and a union with
other districts where the taxes are un-
usually heavy.
Bavaria's representative at Queen Vic
toria's celebration will be Prince Ruprecht,
eldest son and heir of Archduchess Maria
Theresa of Modena-Este, who, according to
the Legitimist Kalendar, should by rights
be IN Victoria's place.
j. C. Hubinger, the Keokuk millionaire
announces that he will protect all users of
his telephone system against any suit for
damages that may be brought under the
recent decision of the Supreme Court In
favor of the Bell company.
A Nevada rancher the other day sur
rendered his land to the bank he owed and
leased it back on shares. he to have two
thirds, and is making money by it. The
banks one-thrd in grain is far less than
the per cent interest was.
A 1OO-miie bicycle race in Chicago on
Decoration day was won by a man fifty
one years old, who chews a whole plug Of
tobacco every day. The winner OF another
race Of the same distance on the same day
never touched tobacco in his life.
The late Col. Norths greyhound Fuller