Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-05-21
STAR G L E A N N G S

Arkansas has an ex-slaves' association.
Minhesota's 1900 BARRIERS are to be Ii
cersed.
A Trenton, N. j., dog has Matched six
chickens.
Our fur trade consumes a million cat
skins yearly.
A Brooklyn jury priced boys leg at
$16,S15 last week.
Minnesota's normal school sends out 273
graduates this year.
England has introduced compulsory edu-
cation in her prisons
Ex-Governor Waite doesn't like woman
suffrage in Colorado.
Since 1880 Paris police have arrested 90
OOo begging children.
But twenty Minnesota farmers have ap-
piled for free beet seed.
The Logan statue by St. Gaudens will be
unveiled in Chicago July %.
Five Irishmen landed in New York last
week who could talk only Gaelic.
Reading, Pa, has a baby eleven inches
long that weighs pound and a half.
Emma Games, the singer was born at
Shanghai, China, just thirty years ago.
Thomas E. Breckenridge, last of the FIRE.
mont party of 1S4S, died in Missouri last
week.
A Kansas woman has had a bill intro
duced in the legislature against wearing
corsets.
Havre has sent a bronze statue of Fran
els to st. Petersburg as a present from
the town to the car.
Katxuo Hatoyama, a graduate of Yale.
in the class of rs, has been elected speak
er OF the Japanese parliament.
At Wilmington, Del, James Harris was
sentenced to be imprisoned three months
and receive five lashes for stealing an UNI
brella
The Ohio dairy and food commissioner
has sent out a circular letter looking to
the calling of national convention of
dairy commissioners.
AT Berlin the veterinary school has found
that out OF 154 sick parrots "a We're suf-
fering from tuberculosis. The disease fs
hereditary in the birds.
A drunken Polander in New York was
found sound asleep the other night while
his leg was burning with a big blaze The
leg was wooden and got against a coal
stove.
Swinburne is quoted as saying: ..James T
was knave, a fool tyrant, a liar and a
coward, but / love him because he slit the
throat of that BLACKBOARD Raleigh, who in
vented smoking"
Ex-Gov. Peck of Wisconsin is opposed
to capital punishment. He says: II
wouldn't hang a lawyer; have a son grow
ing up in that profession. Why 1 wouldn't
even hang an editor
A prize of 5000 has been offered by King
Leopold II of Belgium for the best treatise
TO- be written before 1901 on THE Military
History of the Belgians From the Roman
Invasion Until the Present Day"
A few years ago 1900 600 bronze two-cent
pieces were set afioat. Three million are
still outstanding. Three million three-cent
nickel pieces are scattered over the United
states, but 1t is rarely one is SEEN
IT,
department i'll the British colonial Office
and the one man who probably knew the
whole truth about the attempted outrage
IN the Transvaal, died recently in Italy.
The bronze statue of Stephen Girard,
which will be unveiled in Philadelphia next
month, Is OF heroic size, and will rest upon
pedestal of gray granite 8 feet high maxi
ing the total height of the monument is
feet.
Admiral Canevaro, in command of the
fleets of the powers off the coast of Crete,
is South American by birth, having been
born in Peru of a Genoese father His
brother is Peruvian minister to Italy and
France.
1t is believed that the largest plant in
the world is the gigantic seaweed the
nerevcystis, which frequently attains the
height of 800 feet. The stem is as strong
as an ordinary rope, and large quantities
are dried and used as such by people of
the South Sea islands.
Efforts are being made to sell to the Poy-
eminent for $4,000 the farm of 112 acres
near Hodgenville, KY, on which Abraham
Lincoln was born.
A Woodford county, Kentucky, man BUYS
all the old broken-down horses he can get
for 81 a head. kills and skins them and
feeds the flesh to the hogs.
In North Dakota the killing of quail and
English and Chinese pheasants Is prohibits
ed until 1906 and beaver and otter Cannot
be trapped or killed until 1903
Grover Cleveland drew as mayor OF Ruf
falo 10000. as governor of New York
10000, as sheriff of Buffalo county (three
years. $4,000. as President of the United
States $4,000
In Washington state the bullet from a
gun accidentally discharged struck man
In the right temple and went around the
skull as far as the left ear without seri-
ously injuring him.
A prominent horseman Of Oregon SAYS
that there are absolutely no good young
horses in that state. He says that within
dve years good horse will be very ex-
pensive along the coast.
Sunday as a day of rest was not original
with Christianity. Hesiod speaks of the
seventh day "as a holy day." Homer de-
clares that the seventh day is 1.-THE day on
| which all things were perfected"
Switzerland = the land Of universities.