, 1899-06-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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Lotteries originated In ancient
Rome.
There are 1143 women clergymen
In the United States.
-Adelina Patti was born in Madrid.
Spain, February 10, 1S4S.
Miss Beatrice Harraden, the novel;
list, was born in London in 1854.
Nine. Melba keeps down her weight
by taking three cold baths a day.
The Sandwich Islanders estimate
the beauty of women by their weight.
Fish with white flesh are more cas-
lily digeSted than fish with reddish
flesh.
Helen Keller, the famous blind
e mute of Boston, has learned to
ride a tandem bicycle.
The Connecticut House of Repre-
s~entatives has defeated a bill provid-
ing for woman suffrage.
1t is a novelty to see a street car
run by air, but the companies are
often kept going by water.
In Boston are two large advertising
! agencies, the members of both firms
being women and all their employees
women.
Rome now has a newspaper pub
lished entirely in Latin. 1t is safe to
say few people write letters for its
editor to print.
The last Congress wasted a lot of
time to good purpose, it seems, after
all. OF S,463 bills introduced in both
houses only 1S,469 became laws.
1t is not generally known that a
game of golf closely resembling the
modern game was played in Holland
as far back as the fifteenth century.
Collins in Russia are never covered
with black. If the deceased is a child,
pink is used: if a woman, crimson,
though for a widow they use brown.
1t is stated that certain of the Eu-
ropean Powers fear us as trade rivals.
They. would be comparatively happy
if that was the only way they feared
us. -. -
Mrs. Booker T. Washington is her
husbands most efficient helper In the
management of the Tuskegee Insti-
tute. She is a graduate of Fisk n
versity.
Two ladies in Paris, France, haye
succeeded in tanning dozens of. butter
flies. They eat from their hands,
alight on them, and show. no fear
whatever.
"A writer in the Celestial Empire
declares that the Governor" of the
Kirin. District in China beheads over
500 criminals every. year and yet
brigandage continues.a scourge of the
province.
Female teachers and professors in
this country number one-quarter of a
million, exclusive of teachers of music,
who are 34,519 strong, and 10000 art
ists and teachers of art.
Marriage in Spain takes place by
day or night, according to the fortune
Of the young people or their station in
life. If well to do, the ceremony comes
off in the early part of the morning.
In the region of Laghonat, in the
Sahara, unusua rail storms prevailed
recently. Trees were uprooted and
houses demolished. The natives were
greatly terrified at the unaccustomed
phenomenon.
Some Egyptian boats made of cedar
probably in use $500 years ago, have
been found buried near the banks OFF
the Nile, and furSEa an interest
pSoof of TIE pow%SA that .wood@
ylthste wood-sawyers lof tir1anta, Ga,
200 in number, have formed a trust,
and have raised the price of saving
stove-wood from fifteen cents to 81 per
day. Every member of the organiza-
ton is a blind man or a cripple.
Some of the Greek historians as
cribe the invention of the trumpet to
the Tyrrhenians, and others to the
Egyptians. The trumpet was in use in
the time of Homer. First torches, and
then shells of fish were the signals
in the primitive wars.