Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-19
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Korea has one locomotive.
Alaska contains 573 saloons.
London has IL, 452 policemen.
Persia's Shah smokes 4 $1,000 pipe.
United States has 2OS, 3SS saloons.
There are 800 breweries in Belgium.
Alabama has a wonan cotton planter.
In Berlin sheet music is sold by weight.
Summer cars were running in San Fran
cisco last week. The temperature was 80.
The shipyards Of Great Britain could turn
out a big steamship every day of the year.
1t is said that the present annual output
of chewing gum is about $1,000, 900 and Is
increasing.
The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
has in James II. Kelly a subscriber who has
taken and paid for tue paper for sixty cue
years beginning his subscription February s.,
1888.
President Krueger's insensihility to
physical pain is very great. Four years ago
he was kept awake one night by toothache,
and he extracted the tooth himself in the
middle of the night by means of a pair of
pincers which he hunted up in the kitchen.
President Mckinley's signature is, next to
that of John Adams and Tyler, the p~laincst
of any of our chief executives. Van huren's
was the hardest to decipher, though Jeffer-
son, Taylor, Hayes, Benjamin Harrison and
Garfield never lifted their pen m signing
their names. J. 9. Adams is small, cralnped
and the only back hand" IN the lot.
Folks is the most ornate; Jackson's the
longest, four inches, and Pierce's the
largest.
A Maryland man estimates hat during the
eighty-four years of his life he has con-
sumed 2S,560 loaves of bread, at 3 cents per
pound, value 1855 so; 26, $50 pounds of meat,
at 5 cents, 81, $40; 1928 pounds of vegetables,
eggs, fish, etc, at . cents, S154.5G, and II, 760
gallons of water, tea, coffee, beer, wine, etc,
at an average cost Of l cent per gallon,
$117.60; total, $2,46S.96. lie also figures that
Of the 1850 days of his life 10.0S0 have been
spent in sleep, 10,920 in work, and 2,f60 in
eating and pleasure-seeking.
The historic Washington elm, in Cam
bridge, Mass, beneath whose branches Cen
eral Washington took command Of The Con
ttuental army, is rapidly decaylng, and the
Cambridge Park commissioners say that it
will be impossible to save 1t more taan i
few years longer. A short time ago work
men went over the tree and cut OFF Il cen
siderable amount of dead wood, and there Is
not very much left to keep alive. Il is in
tended to make a thorough overhauling Of
the tree in the spring, and 10 do everything
possible TO preserve 1t.
Abraham L. Graham, who has been suing
a Jersey City trolley company for damages
for the killing of his 4-yea:-old son, has for
the third time been AWARDED a verdict Of
So, 900. Twice the company appealed the
case and twice the supreme court set aside
the verdict as excessive. The opinion ac-
companying the second decision said the
services of a child 4 years old were of no
value to its parents from a monetary point
of view and a verdict of 81 would meet all
the requirements of the case. 1t is under
stood the company viii appeal the case
again.
Suit was recently instituted in the New
York supreme court at Buffalo by DR.. Will
lam j. Bot to recover $3.50 ior services
rendered the defendant as a base bah pitch
er in the summer OF 1896. Amoog ether
things it is alleged in def an1e that the
plaintiffs curves were so defective and so
lacking in sinuosity and The quality that
opposing batsmen had no dificulty in locat-
ing the ball at will. DR.. Bott VIII introduce
a good, marketable line of variegated curves,
promised TO pay for them, and served them
up in the most approved manner.
There have been many theories to account
for the spontaneous combustion of hay
stacks. This phenomenon is now ascribed to
a microbe which breeds in the close, moist
atmosphere of the hay and causes a fer
Llentation which generates heat, and finally
ignition. Herr Benesch, who has an ex-
preimental farm at Meirhof, has long been
making tests of hay under various condi-
tions Of moisture and pressure. During his
experiments he discovered a method by
which farmers can always be cognizant Of
the state of the interior of the stack. HI
has devised a kind of long fork, by which a
sample of hay can be drawn from any part
of a stack at any time and examined 10 see
whethere 1t is abnormally warm or not.