Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-12-28
Items OF Interest.

A letter travels from Khartoum to
London in seventeen days
Small noStrils are said by physiolo-
! s,.sts to indicate small and weak lungs.
It costs a little more than 100000 a
year to care for the capitol building at
Washington.
More than 200 municipalities in Eng
land, Scotland and Ireland, now own
the municipal gas works.
The nails of the Chinese nobility
sometimes attain the length of eighteen
| inches, being protected by long silver
cases.
| The average number of horses killed
in Spanish bull fights every year ex-
ceeds 5000 While from 1000 to 1900 bulls
are sacrificed
Italy exported last year 2l00o ancient
and modern works of art, valued at
100000 More than one-haif Of them
went to Germany
Inc British admiralty proposes to try
1anS worked by electricity in order to
improve the ventilation Of the lower
| decks of warships.
Executing grape Wine the oldest al
| cohollc beverage known to man is sake
I a rice wine. 1t has been used by the
Japanese for over Z. 900 years
Ihey are now referring to him as
Lieutenant Hobson Of the Mer-
risnack."
4 The recent death Of Oliver T. Morton.
son of Indiana's war governor, left his
| mother in Strengthened circumstances
!, During the Civil war General Merritt
Won IN two years seven brevets and
promotions for gallant and mertorious
services in the field
/ Paul Newman, eN-Attorney General
of Hawaii, has been admitted to prac-
tee before the United States Supreme
| Court. He registered as from 'the
territory of Hawaii"
/ Rev. DR.. w. D. Marshall of the Meth
odist church: is the latest claimant to q
| safe trip to Thibet. He says he stayed
/ there for eight months and converted
several natives. The grand llama re-
ceiVed him as an honored guest
Professor Shields. of Princeton, has
entered the ministry of the Episcopal
church solely because, according to the
Rev York Sun, Of the refusal of
license to the Princeton inn after he
had Endorsed and favored the applica-
ton.
Miss Florence Caldwell, daughter
Of United States Judge Caldwell, of
/ Cleveland, WAS graduated as a civil en-
| Sineer last June from the Colorado
State school of mines at Golden, and
nov she is about to marry another civil
engineer whom she met in Colorado
j. II. Mccarthy, the son of Justin
MCCARTHY, who is lecturirg in this
after q lecture in Brooklyn one Of the
hearers thanked him for his exposition
! OF the Persian poets work, and added:
II never before knew the difference be-
tween Omar Khayyam ana Hunyadi
Janos."
The largest private library in the
/ United States IS said - belong to Colo
Il .@l Reuben =. Dulrstt of Louisville.
\ isy-, and contains oves, $1,000 volumes.
tQoiiectGd during sixty years. Books on
#>he history of the vest predominate.
ara a19cEs5 tEan Calonel Roosevelt
Sorked' white tsreGaEins his Winning
II tile West
! Tile reucrt hat Mr.. Cannbon will re-
turn az; E,renst ambassador to this
coGntcy, inssead q being assigned as
tantassajol, 70 the Holy see, as has been
con;t-i2l Plate 81, IS coupled with a runor
! that ~ 'Nt1G3G net be fEarsona grato',
ut l!1e Vatican. though the reason for
such feeling Is. SO far neither limited nor
guessed; q {.
The deati' o flames. TYSON, who was
said To u the .iehe:st man IN Australia,
is aa!5euletG. lie began life as
| q buteief. at salarT III $50 a wear.
| In 1S5SEht. $3.50 f!4tss s.;:f{y sra17c chin -
a nd ra:.st. III &sls4 ~ MS turt,,re out 81
| it. IT 1882, y h:,1s -lueenslal,df was Is
such despesale financial straits, he Of
fered 50 tend ~, government So, 500, OoO.
| Mr.. Hobart enjoys tbs: distinction If
being tN& rals Esce5 President since
| Hendricks TINE: Pho IS ii the fun con
| fidence $ui the tenata letters Ia
knows al tll-ii' Fans and policies, and
does does much toHasl so-ro-llaring them.
INC au l..i =: atoss Hanna
confer With MIN 5aily, ana his iudg-
N1ent is genarasSy "ceneed.
| The blackslijtng Of Frederick s
Gibbs, New Terls ,nsa,bea, OF tie s1epub-
i!can non1lna 5fEeI: Committee when pro
po5 z,7 - as la,=.,1pcl the Republican
| because, while The clh. Gasrire its
name, is largely $ soia! organisation.
there were 10 votes cat 81. ~ .r,s.etiner
and friends of the resntsg spnlirant
claim there We're Less .ssl,, that nur,,bel,
in attendance.
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