Stikeen River journal. (Fort Wrangel, Alaska) 1898-1899, 1898-09-10
GLEANINGS,
All Wheat and no Chaff.

army of soldiers.
At least one third of the earth is COM
posed of oxygen.
The steam power of Great Britain
represents the combined strength of
1000, 900, 900 men.
The vapor of pure nicotine when vola-
tilted by heat is so oppressive that
breathing becomes difficult in IL room
in which single drop of the liquid has
been spilled.
The force of waves breaking on the
shore is equal to II tons to the square
yard.
Maori girls in the North island of
New Zealand are being tattooed by a
Urewere tohunga for Sl5 a piece.
About 10000 persons are employed
in the coal mines of the world. One
fifth of them are employed in the
United States.
\ coal mine at Daily, Scotland, that
took fire over fifty years ago has at last
burned itself out. All experiments
made to extinguish it failed.
In Il recently discovered Roman tomb
the skeleton of u woman was found,
which had complete set of false teeth
beautifully wrought in pure gold.
In the Russian markets fish are sold
alive. The only dead ones are those
dried.
Poker has been forbidden in Vienna
on the ground that it is Il game of
chance.
In Sweden there are floating Gamer
les. They are small vessels which fol-
low fishing fleets, aud men on them can
the fish while they are fresh.
Mangosteens from the Mouccas are
now sold in the London markets. They
are said to taste like IL combination of
strawberry, nectarine and pineapple.
The Prince of Wales gets 100000 Il
year for being heir apparent.
The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland gets
100000 for his services and expenses.
The German Emperor gets S4,o00,oO0
a year besides a large revenue from his
personal estates.
The Car of Russia has an income of
$4,000, 900, and can command the re-
sources of the whole nation.
The British government pays the
royal families of England $1,000 600.
The President of France receives
$40 900 a year, large salary when the
public debt is st. 200, 100000.
Little Afsonzo, of Spain, is allowed
81 400. 600 a year, besides 100000 for
household expenses
The nails on amputed fingers continue
to grow
In Africa wives are sometimes sold
for two packages of hdirpins.
African elephants can climb noun
tains with remarkable ease.
In Scotland at one time capital pun
ishment was by drowning.
The oldest iron vessel in the world is
the Michigan, built in 1914.
The Tartarian alphabet contains POP
letters, being the largest in the world.
In all Spanish America the indians
form the greatest mass of the popula-
tion.
1t is claimed that at present the Eng
fish language is spoken by ll6,0oo,00o
people.
Astronomical instruments of glass
were used by the Chinese as early as
1888 B. G..
The new constitution of Louisiana re-
quires only nine of a jury to find YER
dict in case not capital.
The earliest pottery with printed de-
signs of American subjects was made at
Liverpool at the end of the eighteenth
century.
Early man used to be able to wag his
ears as an indication of pleasure or to
brush away flies from under his back
hair, but as the muscles were not
brought into continual use they became
rudimentary.
Limoges has just held its human hair
market, women from all the country
round going there to sell their braids.
The price is now on the average s.
pound. Twenty years ago it was 80.
A bargain being struck, the wo-
man is taken to the nearest inn and her
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