The sun., 1898-03-06
FACTS IN A FEW LINES,

Of the canary trade
France produces annually about 3O0,. i.
600 tons Of chestnuts
Dancing ~ All art antedates music,
singing and sculpture.
A London general omnibus is SUD
posed to earn el9 per week.
Asia comes from the Sanskrit Usbas,
signifying "laud Of ths dawn
Buffalo has one saloon for every l7s
inhabitants. the largest ratio in that
state.
Chinese coinage in tho shape Of .
knife has been traced back a. far ~ s940
B. q.
There arc houses still standing In
Nuremberg. Bavaria, that we're built in
1880.
The fad Of the Princess Marie Of Rou.
mania ID the collection Of perfumery
bottles.
The hair on dolls beads is from An.
CORA goats It is made into wigs BY
girls At Munich.
Burial In Westminster abbey IL not .
question Of money, but tho intermept
fees aggregate $500.
A fine ruby Of moro than three carats
10 worth more than . diamond Of the
same size and weight.
The officers Of the Swedish navy are
considered military officers and in full
dress must wear spurs.
The tomb Of Mohammed is covered
with diamondA sapphires and rubies
valued at $l2, 5000
There are nearly 10, 600 hounds main
tanned in the United Kingdom excln-
sivsly for hunting purposeA
It h stated that sharks have now pen.
etrated into the Mediterranean through
the Suez canal from the Red sea.
1t Is q pretty general belief in China
that women who wear short hair will
in future state be transformed into
men.
The title Of majesty was first giveI
to Louis XI Of France. Before that time
sovereigns were usnally styled "high-
ness." )"
Sumatrx kerosene IL competing with
ths Russian oil in ths markets of the
far sask The supply seems to he mex
haustibls.
Some sbesp wezs frightened by dogs
Il Greuobls. France, and 242 blindly
''talIowsd their laader" over aprecipios
10 feet high.
The first piece o6 cotton cloth made
IN America was presented to the wife
II General Nathaniel Greene, who had
dress made Of 1t.
1t 10 estimaeed xhat the amount Of
water preoipitatcd ON this globe annual.
~ in the form Of rain. Snow, etc.. is
$4,000 cubic miles
A pair Of gloves passes through about
200 pairs Of hands from the time the
skin leaves tbo dressers till the gloves
reach the hands Of tbs wearer.
No less than so,0oO signatures are
needed bsfope the petition against the
plan Of government assumption Of the
railway can be brought to . pubhc vote
In Switzerland.
Ms. Humphry Ward received so. 600
for Robert Els,nere," $50, 900 each fur
David Grievs" and Marcella, ,N5,
40 for "Sir George 9ressady7 and
SIS, 600 for Bessie Costren."
John E. Leavitt Of Portsmouth,, n.
H.. has had q gnvel made from original
oak in tho old frigate Constitution and
has sent it ~ q present to the MasSa.
chusetts Society Of the American ReNo,
luton.
One Of the novel ideas oi decorative
{ fleet in Japan is to catch firefies, keep
thom in a cage Or box of wire until you
have company. and thon release them
In the garden for ths guests to admire
and talk about.
~ the 81 silk mills erected in 1897,
rs are located in Pennsylvania. 9 in
New York state, 8 in Paterson, N. j.;
: i'll Connecticut, 8 in Massachusetts,,
II South Carolina. 2 in Virginia and !
IN Rhode Island.
There are in Tokyo 10 iron bridges
and II sjons bridges. Besides these
there are about 60 wooden bridges each
measuring upward Of l3 ken. Those
that are Of smaller length are too nu-
inrrous to be counted.
The disooverer Of the antidiphtheric
serum. DR.. Behring. uses up $l7,6
worth Of chemicals every month in pre-
laring the serum, which is used in hos.
ptals not only az remedial, but also
I" = propbylactic measure (vaccination).
On stone of the Temple Of Wing.
less Victory, on the Acropolis at Atb,
'n, an inscription has been found stat
ihS that the monument was built by
kallicrates, who was one OF the archl'
tots Of the Parthenon. This fixes Its
,4,' at about 45O years before Christ
InorwaIdsen's "Lion Of Lucerne,
cut IA the living rock, is cracking and
~uubliuy away owing to the infiltra-
IT," of water in the sandstone cllh oi
"Drh it forms part. 1t is to be pre-
'H'rl by isolating it from the mann
l'1y Of sandstone and draining the
Z! aud around it.
in Irish sergeant in the army
VII, died at Wilmington, England, LETT
o''cctons that bottle Of Irish whisky
Should ba brriad with him As the sex.