The sun., 1897-11-28
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

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$3, 900, 900.
French railroads earned SlO.850 per
mile last year. of which SIG per cent
was used for working expenses.
One of Yale's football players is .
theological student who breaches to q
suburban congregation every Sunday.
! A Massillon man has planted 10000
frogs eggs in a pond near that place,
and the citizens look forward to a lively
spring.
Fontainebleau's great grapevine pro-
duced 7,G72 pounds of grapes this year,
which, when recently sold at auction,
brought in $7l5.
Irish donkeys are being sent out in
large numbers to South Africa. Five
thousand pounds has already been spent
in three counties alone.
A breeder of Charlestown, Md, has
pair of golden fawn rabbits with ears
that measure 2l inches from tip to tip
and drag ON the ground.
An American company is making es-
Inmates of the cost Of cable road from
the City of Mexico to the sulphur de-
posits i'll the crater Of Popocatepetl.
A doctor says that in society one may
always tell the girls whose parents have
risen from the humber class to wealth
by the superior quality of their hair.
Several cases of boomers were among
the booty taken by tramps from freight
car at Chillicothe, O. The police are
puzzled to know what the marauders
intend to do with the garments.
The camphor trees of Japan, China
and Formosa are beginning to fail, and
the United States government has tried
the experiment Of growing camphor in
Florida with encouraging success.
The little island of St. Helena is said
to be the smallest diocese in the world.
There is bishop, DR.. Thomas Welby,
whose annual salary amounts to only
5000. There are also three clergymen.
Two new asteroids have been discov-
cred between Mars and Jupiter by M.
Charlois of Nice, bringing the number
discovered by him up to Sc. Palisa, the
Austrian astronomer, has discovered 03.
1t is we'll known fact that the tops
Of all such high buildings as the Eiffel
tower will sway under certain condi-
tions backward and forward, often to a
distance Of several feet out CT the per-
pendicular.
A unique organization, called the Au-
tumral Straw Hat association, has been
formed in Boston. Its object is to per-
suade men to wear straw hats after
Sept Is, provided the temperature
makes it justiiiable.
The great bridge at Montreal, 1000
feet. in length, built to accommodate
two railroad tracks two trolley lines
and two footpaths, is to be erected by
American contractors and made OF
American materials.
The public schools are the means Of
saving great deal Of property 1t is
said that during the vacation the
school children CT America destroy,
waste or damage property Of various
kinds to tie amount of $l,000,000
day.
Switzorland's bears were supposed to
be extinct, bat some chamCis hunters in
the lower Engadine recently shot and
secured one and report that another es-
capped thcnl. This will add to the eX-
q ol i'm ln
Alps.
Architecture and Building says there
is nothing about tho Dismal swamp
in Virginia to create miasma. "All is
fresh and sweet, and the air is laden
w tn balmy odors.'' The water ia
thought to possess certain medicinal
qualities.
The Penny Press of Middletown,
Conn.,, says: "Walter Sneed pumps the
organ in St. Stephens church, makes
the fires and keeps the schoolhouse in
order, peddles two newspapers and has
q position to fill at certain hours Of the
day in the postoffice. He is about IA
years of age. That boy will succeed in
life
The Yankee has been headed off by q
New Zealand John Bull. In freezing
meat the heat lingers at the center and
often ruins the whole. But hollow
cylinder may now be driven alongside
the bone. Through this the freezing
agent passes, and the joint is frozen
from the center outward, and all trou.
bio is averted.
The London newspaper that has been
dropping the letter "u" in words like
labor and color and spelling program"
without the "me" is now overwhelmed
with protests from readers against this
surrender to q demoralizing American
ism in spelling. Such butchery Of the
English tongue, they argue, should nev-
CT be condoned.
An East Hebron (Me. horse proves
his wit in this wise: Two nights in
succession the nag slipped his headstall
off and pushed all inner door in the sta
bic open and slid the outer railroad door
with his teeth and went into the field
and helped himself to grass. He was de-
tected by tie prints Of his teeth Oh the
crossbars of the door,
Mr.. Harmsworth, who betrayed the
expenses of the jackson expedition in
Franz Josef Land, has declared that he
will send two ships to the arctic re-
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