The Dickinson press., 1897-06-12

FACTS IN A FEW LINES.
An Indian prince has q throne Of solid
glass 4e& sss#
In Paris there are over 1, 900 profes.
sional fortune tellers. y.
Cape Colony exports annually $780,
900 worth of dried flowers.
Michigan occupies the second position
among the salt producing states.
There was no postofice in England
properly postoface-until 1868.
Only "a white elephants have been
captured since the beginning Of the
Christian era.
There are about 1880 theaters in
Europe, Italy possessing more than any
other country.
A nailmaking machine produces a.
many nails in given time as were
formerly made by 1000 men.
The Rainbow, near the Inner Temple
Gate, as Mr.. limbs proves clearly, was
the second coffee house opened In Lon
don.
Among the Turks tho bodies of the
dead are held in extreme reverence, al
though the cemeteries are used a. picnic
grounds. - + = -,
About $4,000 Hebrews returned from
the Babylonian captivity in B. @. $50,
and among other belongings they
brought with them from Babylon were
1907 slaves.
In the Dutch West Indies the slaves
were emancipated in 1868. II is stated
that $4,000 were freed, their owners
being compensated at the rate Of eS2
for each slave.
During the sixteenth, seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries no less than
100000 slaves were carried by Eng
lish, French aud Dutch ships from AZ
RIGA to America.
The railways in France employ
24,080 women, the majority of whom,
however, receive small sum merely
for opening and shutting gates where
roads cross the track
The cross mark still used occasionally
instead Of signature did not originate
in ignorance. 1t was always appended
to signatures in medieval times as an
attestation Of good faith.
The stocking frame was an invention
of 1889, by which the operation of knit
ting was performed automatically, an
invention the chief motive Of which re-
mains unchanged to this day.
About 1866 Mr.. Farr, barber, who
had perhaps been in the Levant, opened
coffee house nearly opposite the Cock
tavern, London, and Sir Henry Blount
became one Of his patrons and frequent
visitors.
Extraordinary qualities are possessed
by the river Tinto in Spain. 1t hard
ems and petrifies the sand Of its bed, and
If stone falls in the stream and alights
upon another in few months they unite
and become one stone. Fish cannot live
in its waters.
During July, August and September
from the beginning Of the Glasgow
fair till the end Of the ordinary holiday
season-London and the south Of Eng
land generally are favored with the pres
ence Of an ever increasing number of
tourists from Scotland.
The finest mosaic pavement in Eng
land and one Of the finest in Europe ex-
lists in the remains Of the Roman villa
in the parish Of Bignor, Sussex. II tho
villa was equal to the pavement, it
must have been very sumptuous and on
level with the best in Italy.
Stories as, to the early arrival Of
cuckoos in England are once more be-
ing circulated. This year the places
mentioned where the notes of the cuckoo
are said to have been heard during the
third week in February are Hatfield and
the neighborhood Of Hertford.
Liverpool receives some curious car
goes at times-cargoes of turtles and
other live and dead animals, casks of
leeches, shiploads of bones from battle
fields, Of human mummies from the
Egyptian tombs and Of dead cats from
the cat cemeteries Of the same country.
On May 8, 1853, q lady who at New
market had laid considerable wager
that she could ride on horseback 1000
miles in 1000 hours finished her match
in little more than two-thirds of the
time. At her coming in, it is stated,
the country folk strewed flowers In her
way. ' 80 .'.@ '-''''--.
A very interesting volume Of poems
In manuscript by Keats is in the pos
session Of the authorities Of the depart
ment of manuscripts in the British
museum. The volume contains three
poems, 1.-THE Pot Of Basil, !" "Iines on
the Mermaid Tavern" and ''The Eve Of
st. Mark"
A French engineer has conceived the
interesting idea Of reproducing the
house IN which Napoleon lived at st.
Helena as an attraction during the Par
is exhibition in 1900: The house will
be an exact copy Of the original, with
panoramic canvases representing tbs
natural surroundings.
The monkey named Consul II is ono
Of the most intelligent Of his species.
He is about years Of age and stands 8
feet inches in height and rides q tri-
cycle with as much skill as any boy
rider. He can steer 1t anywhere with
the greatest dexterity, and is allowed to
ride his machine about the grounds Of
the Bellevue gardens, at Manchester;
England. .igs4sf sia53.t jz.a -
The London coffee house keepers seen,
the first to have tried to institute fines
for swearing, and they allowed no
wagers to exceed shillings. The COT.
fee house walls were often hung with
cases containing popular pills. elixirs
and perfumes. and scurrilous Ned Ward
(1879) compares a coffee house 50
adorned to the consulting room of a
quack doctor.
The Oldest inn in the world is prob
ably the Golden Gross at Ratisbon, Ba-
land. Charles V resided in it in 1916.
John Of Austria, the defender Of Europe
against the Turk, was born in it in
1b47. Ferdinand I sojourned in 1t in
1851, In the visitOrs' book which xuae