Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-04-09
lPittsburg Dlspatch.)

In Scotland, at one time, capital pun
| ishment was by drowning.
4 single bee collects only about tea
spoonful OF honey during a season.
III kept continuously running watch
will tick 100 l4l,000 times in year.
The Swedish mountain Gelivara is esti-
mated 10 contain about 5OoOCO,cOJ tons OF
| iron.
I army is greater than in the army or any
| other nation.
The aggregate population of Austria
| lasia is estimated at 4,4lOl2i, against
| $500, S95 in 1891
The first permanent military force in
| England was the Kings Guard OF feo-
men, established in 1856.
The costlest fur is that or the sea
| otter. A single skin Of this animal VIII
| fetch as much as $1,000.
The necessary expenses OF japanese
| student at the University Of Tokyo are
estimated at from 81 to sl2 a month
Indian wrestlers and athletes train on
a diet consisting chiefly Of milk, with
little goats flesh and plenty OF farina-
ceous food.
Washing is done in Japan by getting
into a boat and letting the garments TO
be washed drag after the boat by long
string
Cattlemen and sheep owners are bid
ding against one another for water priyi-
eges in the lower part OF Douglas county
Wash
At the close Of last century there We're
supposed to be 100000 aborigines in Aus
tralia. There are now less than lVOOV,
and among them are still some canni-
balls.
In the British Museum there are books
written on bricks. oyster shells. bones,
and flat stones. and manuscripts on bark,
ivory, leather. lead, iron, copper, ana
wood.
A horse can live twenty-five days with
out food merely drinking water; seven
teen days without either eating or drink
ing, and only five days when eating solid
food without drinking.
There is perhaps no more humane ma
ton I'm the world than the japanese,
who have recently erected Il monument
i'm memory OF the horses that fell in their
war with China.
Padlocks are being manufactured with
an auxiliary chamber. which carries an
explosive TO be fired by a hammer inside
the lock and give an alarm when the
lock is tempered with.
\ number of Russians Will shortly
start for Abyssinia TO act as teachers
also. one lady doctor and four assistant
surgeons for service at the Court OF
Menelek and with the Abyssinian troops:
Jerusalem now has population OF
CO 600. about double the number OF us IN
habitants about twenty years ago. cut
IL has the most imperfect ana unwhois-
Some water supply of any city on eattn'
\ well on Sambel Island. Fla, which
had always reen fresh water. changed
, 10 sulphur water few weeks after a
windmill had been built over II to utilize
the water for irrigating purposes.
ScarpolOgy Is the art OF reading cna-
racter from the shoe-soles. According
to q Swiss physician symmeuically
worn heel and sole indicate an energetic
faithful. well-balanccd character.
According 10 the Popular Science
Monthly there are in England and
Wales 80 900 children so defective In men
tai power that they are Incapable, IL left
TO their own resources, OF fighting the
battle OF life.
The Chinese emblem of the dragon con-
sists of a tiye-clawed imperial dragon.
SUSPENDED TO a yellow ribbon, and has
the following inscription in Chinese cha
racters: Before IL the lion turns pale
and the tiger Is silent"
Yale's invested funds foot up, all told.
e. 91l e9g against s2.27S.092 In 1881. The
amount Invested In real estate Is Si6s.6ti
in bonds and mortgages. sl.n2. 2si: IN rail-
road bonds. 81, .SIl: In other bonds, szso
600. and In stocks. SOB ,3lS.
Women have an important place IN
the Postal Department. OF the total OF
persons OF ali ranks of the service. per-
manent and occasional. employed by the
department throughout the United King
dom. nearly q 600 are of the gentler sex.
AT Soulac. In Gascony. cross Was
discovered projecting above the SAND.
Further investiga ton showed that II was