Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-09
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Police cost New York $11, 1885 a ?ear.
Uncle Sam has 45O, 900, 900 acres OF forest,
India imported 1858, 29S gallons of beer in
1898.
More herrings are eaten than any other
kind of FISH.
The new stables of the emperor OF Ger
many are to cost about 1000, 900.
Till recently the employment Of electricity
in any shape or form in Constantinople was
strictly forbidden. Incredible as it may APP
pear, the sultan naively imagined that a dy-
namo must have something to do with the
manufacture of dynamite.
1t has been found in New York that for
every 1000 births children bear the COM
moner names in this ratio: Mary IS. Will
liam &C, John 81, Eliza 81, Thomas 80,
George 80, Sarah SO, Anne 50, James 81,
Charles 20. Henry Il, Alice 10, Joseph IS,
Samuel II, Helen 10.
The horsehair used in making violin and
other similar bows IS imported from Ger
many. A hank of the best white hair can be-
bought for 20 cents; it might cost 30 cents
more to have 1t put into q bow. To repair a
bass viol bow costs more. the bulk of hair
required being greacer.
Few CT the million passengers or more
who make their daily journey in a London
bus or street car know that the horses
which draw them are nearly always Ameri-
can or Canadian. Great Britain. the horst
est country in the world, buys more than
20, 900 horses flom the United States every
year.
The New York Druggists League for
Shorter Hours is distributing cards contain
ing a list of Sanitary drug stores" in Man
haitian and Brooklyn. and also the leagues
definition of a drug store sweathouse." 1t
describes sanitary drug stores as not sell
ing liquor to their customers, opiates to drug
fiends, poison to would-be suicides, dis
guised intoxicants to the unwary, cigarettes
to boys or adulterated candy to children"
The first interment in the new dog ceme-
terry recently opened in Paris has just taken
place to the delight and financial betterment
of all the space writer's on the Paris papers.
The corpse was laid out on a sofa in a coffin
at the house OF its mistress and all its living
comrades gathered around it. The mourning
was opened somewhat suddenly by a little
terrier which set I'D a doleful howl in which
the remaining pets Joined. Then the line
of march was taken up to the cemetery.
The crowds of people who are visiting the
stranded steamship P~aris-some of them
coming from distant points in England and
France-are- SO great that the sailors and
fishermen of the Cornwall coast are getting
rich. Bicyclists to the number of 1000
reached st. Martin on a recent Sunday and
hotel keepers and restaurant proprietors are
also reaping a harvest. One fisherman made
$40 in a single day by taking passengers
around the wreck at 81 cents a head.
Eugene Brace of Geneva, N. Y, who was
struck on the side of the head by a falling
timber last April and appeared at the time
to have escaped serious injury, has been los
ing his memory ever since until he had
finally forgotten his name and the common
est words. Then he lost the power of speech
and his right side became paralyzed. All
this has now been remedied by an operation
on the skull. The patients memory and
power of speech have returned to him and
he is making rapid progress to a complete
recovery. ;