Stikeen River journal., 1898-09-03
GLEANINGS,

N. Y. W ora.
In battle only one ball out of IS takes
effect.
Wine forms 4s percent OF Spain's gen.
eral export.
Blind men outnumber the blind wo-
men two to one.
Spain is smaller than Texas by about
$4,000 square miles.
Afghanistan has regular army of
about $4,000 men.
Paper made from seaweed is grow
ing industry in France.
The machinery of first class battle
ship weighs about 300 tons.
There are said to be in London alone
5000 children who are feeble minded.
Emperor William has contributed
10000 marks as prizes for English and
German sailing yachts at next years
kiel week.
The greatest pilgrimages to the holy
land are undertaken by the Russians.
1t is calculated that that between 30, 900
and 10000 Russians visit Palestine each
year.
The Hebrews are now in possession
of about 60 square miles of Palestine,
or one percent of the country, and have
agricultural establishments at EksOn,
Jaffa and Galilee.
A new kind of cloth is being made in
Lyons from the down of hens, ducks and
geese. Seven hundred and fifty grains
OF feathers make rather more than a
square yard of water proof cloth.
Better sleep can be obtained with
low than with high pillow.
Ninety reporters are employed in the
galleries of the house of commons.
Bathing the neck and face with cold
water will often check bleeding of the
nostrils.
Russia is the only country in the
world without it's Christian Endeavor
society.
The Nile is rising steadily, but the
flood is nearly three weeks later than
usual.
The demand for government liquor
licenses in prohibition Kansas this year
has been the greatest in the history of
the state.
The new French steamers which are
to carry the mails between Dover and
Calais will cross In fifty minutes Each
can carry 500 passengers.
A rattle for bibles takes place every
year in the parish church of St. Ives,
in Huntingdonshire. This quaint GUS
tom has been observed for 200 years.
About 10000 English ships entered
the 10 free harbors of China in 1896.
They carried only English goods.
The Rams Horn says that the Saliva
ton army during it's last "self denial
week., raised Sl65, 900 to carry on its
work among the lowly and neglected.
This is an increase of $40, 900 over the
amount OF last year.
The very finest brand of Havana
cigars are worth 81 500 q Thousand in
Paris.
In Mexico the family of dead duelist
can claim support from the person who
shot him.
Chinese streets are supposed to be the
narrowest in the world. Some of them
are only eight feet wide.
A collection of 1876 letters written by
Charles Dickens to various correspon-
dents was sold in London recently for
s745.
Philadelphia is to have an inspector
of gas meters, who will receive $1,000
a year for his services in seeing that the
citizens are not overcharged.
There are no typewriters employed
in the state department of the United
States government.
Fashionable Japanese young ladies
when they desire to look attractive,
gild their lips.
Among the Chinese coffin is con-
sidered neat and appropriate present
for an aged person, especially If in bad
health.
A direct telegraph line has been es-
tablished between Paris and Lisbon,
rendering communion between the
two countries more rapid.
It is q common Asiatic custom for the
bridegroom to give chase to the bride,