Evening star., 1897-06-14

| her fathers poems which lay conspicu-
| orsly on table. was startled at hearing
| a grun voice say: Don't you get enough
| CT that at home?' 1t was Tennyson him.
| self who made the brusque remark
London embraces 6SS square miles; great
| er New York SO.
Titusvile. Pa. trap caught twenty
three rats in one night last week.
Franklin. N H., is a city. yet deer haunt
its outskirts in unusual numbers.
A Missouri cat is nineteen years old
Curfaw rings at pm. at Pittsburg Kan.
Children go in and all stores close then.
A Kentucky suicide had lucky rattle
| ticket on his body, and the proceeds buy
him a tombstone
Barnard's airshIp is to be at the Iowa
state fair.
Muncie, Ind. fruit jars are being shipped
TO Norway
San Francisco has 1s.OoO children that
cannot be accommodated i'm her schools.
The Bank of England contains silver in
gots which have lain in its vaults since
1896.
A st. Louis man who wouldn't support
his family was sold the other day for six
! months. The proceeds go to his wife.
A Louisville, KY, COW swallowed a small
silver clock the other day. An emetic re-
covered it,
The Des Mones Wcmen's Club will run
the street cars of the city June "a and
have the profits for a home for the aged.
Yale men In Minnesota gave Stanford
Newell, minister to Holland, a goodbye
dinner the other night.
Gov. Lowndes Of Maryland was initiated
into the Masonic order last week, taking
three degrees at once.
Emperor William ii has agreed to preside
over the peace congress which convenes at
Hamburg August Ills next
The western railroads quite generally are
adopting the policy voluntarily of carrying
bicycles free as baggage.
1t is estimated LOO tons Of ostrich
feathers have been exported from Cape
Colony in thirty years. valued at sl2,-
100000.
The manuscript of Lord Nelson's auto
biography is to be sold at auction In Lon
don soon. 1t was sent from Port Mahon
in 1879 to John Macarthur who published it
in 1859, four years after Nelson's death.
An autograph letter will be sold with the
manuscript.
According to the statistics compiled for
1896, the total length of the railway system
uted over the various continents as follows:
North America, 202 9S3: Europe. 152.4r7;
Asia, 2607S: South America, %, 799; Aus
tralasia, 13. 795; Africa, S,143.
Probably the largest weekly salary paid
to any writer for a newspaper is 81. 800. the
sum received by the man who writes
Paris Day by Day for the London Tel
egraph. Henry de Blowitz. Paris corre-
spondent of the London Times. gets a.
much for his work does the Presden. OF
the United States-s50.0O0 a year.
Elmwood as a public park, in memory Of
the late James Russell Lowell. is to be re-
newed this year under more favorable aus
pices The Metropolitan Park Company
has agreed to give one-third Of the $4,000
required, thus reducing the amount to be
raised to about $4,000. Five thousand
dollars has already been raised by private
subscription.
The French lens which throws electric
rays 100 miles to seaward. and which was
part Of the French governments exhibit at
the Chicago fair. is to be placed In the
BarEegat. N. j.. lighthouse. where II win
be the most powerful beacon on the Amer
lean coast.
The Jacksonville Times Union says only
two out Of the twenty members of this
years graduating class at the Jacksonville
High School are boys. The south has been
seized with the money-makfng mania" tt
remarks, 'and boys who ought to be tn
school are clerking In stores. working m
offices or engaging IN other business In
some cases this Ii necessary. In most
cases It Is not"
The Carnegie library at Allegheny. Pa.
has thrown out the books of e. p. Roe.
Horatio Alger, Marion Harland." the
ELSIE" books etc. and the Young Wo-
mems Christian Association of Chicago has
e. p. Roe and some others on the ground
that they are not sufficiently high hterar
ture.