The sun., 1898-01-23

noisy insects on the streets Of cities.
A Kansas City shoe merchant say.
that women's feet are becoming wider.
He attributes it to the use Of the bicycle
The officers Of a leading London hos
pital believe that the general increase
of cancer is due to excess in meat eat
ing
The cinematograph registers slow as
well as rapid motion, and camera has
been made to register the growth Ct
plants.
The streets of the cities Of Japan are
usually too narrow for carriages, and you
find them only in Yokohama, Tokyo
and Kobe
1t is estimated that North Carolina
mills are consuming annually so, 900
more bales of cotton than are produced
in the state.
Before fire brigade can start for a
fire in Berlin the members must all fall
in line in military fashion and salute
their captain.
For the first time in 80 years bat
TALON Of the guards left England Sept.
2S for spell Of foreign service, their
destination being Gibraltar.
II the standing armies of Europe
were marched in rows of five, and at
the rate of three miles an hour, it
would take ~ days before every man
could have passed any given point.
A Baltimore judge has decided that
faith cure doctors are not entitled to re-
muneration for their services. He takes
the ground that faith cure physicians
render no apparent service to the sick.
Turkey is more correctly written
Turkia, the country Of the Turks. The
title, ''the Ottoman empire was CIV
Ell in honor of Othman l, who assumed
the government Of the empire about the
year 1900.
It will be a severe blow to some of
the stage celebrities if Autographs are
abolished. 1t has been said that when
al actress is young she has her pictures
taken, and when she is old she does not
depart from it,
Russia constituted the country of the
Russ, a tribe who overran it at a very
early period. The Russian empire was
founded by Ruric, Or Rourik, a. Scandi
navian chief, whose death took place in
the year A. D. S79.
The name California, derived from tho
two Spanish words caliente fornalli-
j. e., hot furnace-was given by Cor.
tes in the year 1886 to the peninsula
now known as Lower California, of
which he was the discovcrer, on account
Of its hot climate.
By the term Australia is meant "the
south, y and by Australasia southern
ASIA" agreeably to the Latin australis,
southern. Previous to its settlement by
the British Australia was known as
New Holland, owing to its discovery by
the Dutch III 1900.
The names Of no fewer than l05 bat
Ties are emblazoned Oh the standards of
The various regiments which form the
British army. But many actions Of
great importance, both as regards mill
rary results and the roll Of killed and
are not SO comMemorated.
Spain is the English of Hispania, a
founded upon the punic
span, a rabbit, owing to the number of
wild rabbits found in this peninsula by
The Carthaginians. The ancient name
If the country was Iberia, SO styled
rom the lberi, a tribe who settled III
he vicinity Of the river Ebro.
An Alaska traveller recently described
one extraordinary phenomena connect
ID with IL small lake named Selawik,
situated near the seacoast Tides rise
md fall in the lake, perhaps on account
# All underground connection with the
ca At the bottom, he says, the water
s salt, but OH the top there is layer
# sweet water.
DR.. Edward Everett Hale mentions
IS one Of the surprising things in Bos-
OH S history that though for over 100
ears, or between the death Of Win.
hrop and the advent Of Sam Adams,
here was not what one could call
rst rate man in the community, yet
till the colony drifted steadily Oh to-
pard democracy.
No fewer than 100000 acres Of
and have been made fruitful in the
ahara desert, all enterprise represent
lg perhaps the most remarkable EXAM
le of irrigation by means Of artesian
'ells which can anywhere be found
.lgeria owes to this method of cultiva-
ion that it is becoming most impos-
mt wine producing country, as may be
auged from the fact that it sent to
rance in 1856 10000, 900 gallons.