El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-13
GENERAL AND Personal.

GENERAL AND Personal.
Manitoba has 100000 acres of
wheat.
Fried wasp soup Is considered great
luxury in China.
Governor Steunenberg, of Idaho,
never has worn necktie.
The area of the worlds coal fields is
AL 800 square miles.
The value of canaries raised in q
year in Germany is S250,0O0.
A man in Glasgow is making manu-
script copy of the Bible.
There are 300 women In the United
States licensed to preach.
Farmers in South Carolina have
raised 20, 600. 900 pounds of tobacco this
year.
The value of all the precious stones
found in this country in 1898 was $780,
92O. In 1897 the value was s130,675.
The Savoy hotel in Kansas City has
dog that acts ss bellboy. going for
the mail and carrying notes to the
clerk.
| The TRANSLATION of Captain Dreyfus's
letters to his wife is selling at the rate
of 600 copies day--an almost unprece-
denied sale for book of that charac-
ter.
The Glasgow town council has
awarded contract for two electric
traction engines to an American COM
pany solely on the ground of an earlier
delivery than could be promised in
Great Britain.
| Figures collected from the manufac-
turers of clothing go to show that dur
ing the past ten years the girth of the
average American citizen who wears
"pants" has increased from 46 10 Al IA
| inches.
A Boston bank ing house has in its
keeping S65, 900 with which it does not
know what to do. The money was
raised by the Volunteer Aid associa-
ton, and was to be used in caring for
our soldiers during the Spanish war.
The Old Colony company has applied
for q charter to construct q railroad
tunnel under Pixies peak, with bran
ches encircling the Cripple Creek dis
trict, the total length being fifty miles.
The tunnel will enter the mountains at
Colorado City and emerge at Mari
gold.
St. Vincent's hospital. New York, is
to have q motor ambulance. It will be
propelled by electricity, and is expect
ed to effect great saving of time in
to the hospital. The ambulance is to
be presented to the institution by q
wealthy resident of New York.
| Only one-half OF those who enter the
military academy at West Point con-
tinue in it long enough to obtain q
comm ission, and in part because of the
seve rity of the discipline. Six thou
sand six hundred and fifty-eight cadets
were admitted to the academy up to
and including 1896, and only 1884 of
these were graduated.
| Mrs. Clara E. Wright, of San Fran
cisco, started the Rampant City Whirl-
pool in the Klondyke last January, and
it has proved to be great success. It
is Issued once a month and sells at 81
a copy. 1t is typewritten instead OF
being printed-the work being done by
Mrs. Wright and her daughter-and is
we'll filed with good, paying advertise
ments,
According to estimates of the SAL
mon pack made atthe.principsl Gamer
les on Puget sound in the last few days,
this years. product of canned and pick
led salmon will reach fully 00C
caees, or a gain of 80 per cent over last
years pack. This means that the pro-
uCt vi LUZ CduncFlGS SUlu III
and American markets will realize
about 2, 300,O 900.
Simpson Fennel is q farmer living
within fifteen miles of Nebraska City
He has only about 5000 acres in his lit.
tie homestead. But last week he sold
small bunch of cattle to an English
man for direct shipment to Liverpool
The amount received for that little
herd was more, in gold, than $50, 900
How much better would Fennel feel
it were silver? Every steer in Fen
nel's herd brought 6 cents pound OF
the oof at home.
Now comes notice from London of
new novel, entitled "Under tn
Siam bok,' dealing with l.fe at th'
} present tine under the rule of tn
Beers. The sjambok is the terribl
whip, of rhinoceros OR hippopotam u
hide, used among the Beers to kee
their black servants in order. The In
8 cidents and scenes introduced are bas
ed on the actual experience of tn
author, G. Hansby Russell, who live
for d considerable time in South Afri
ca.
a The Corean government is not stric
ly democratic, but it has q way of dis
pensing justice which seems ideal