Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1900-01-01
The Reporter:

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New York is said 70 nave $500 bar
Der shops and $4,000 BARRIERS
The fruit business Of Omaha Neb
Is valued at S1,500,o00 annually.
To maintain the charities depart
ment in Boston last year cost STA.
S4S
Herod is the name Of the judge who
sits in police court in Chanute, Kan.
An examination made in Rochester
OF the eyes of 1.005 school children
showed that 252 had defective vision.
The wool on the back of a sheep is
the shepherds barometer. The curl
Ter the wool the finer will be the
weather
Scotland has lac parishes without
paupers, poor rates or public houses,
the absence Of the last, perhaps ac-
counting for that Of the first two.
English collectors complain that the
prices OF rare books on musical topics
are going up rapidly, largely on ac-
count of the increasing demand for
the libraries of rich Americans.
A plan has been adopted in Eng
land for political purposes, in which
in every constituency a protestant
hundred is organized to promote the
return of protestant members TO par
lament.
The consumption Of rubber in the
United States has attained enormous
proportions, and is still rapidly in
creasing. In 1896 we used 3i,000,OO0
pounds, in 1897 over 100000, and in
1898 44,256,026.
The Chicago Tribune, having kept a
record Of crime for ten years, declares
that the saloon business in the United
States is directly chargeable with a
total of 53,436 murders during that
time
An expert has risen to explain that
stage fright really comes from dis
ordered stomach. He argues from
this that persons mediating public APP
pearances should be careful ia their
habits and adhere to regular habits.
A certain Nauyoo woman assured
her husband that she never told him
a lie and never would. He told her
that he did not doubt Il, but would
hereafter cut a notch in the piano
when he knew she had deceived him.
mo you won't" she screamed, I'm
not going to have my piano ruined
Firemen of Macon, Ga, are super
stitious over the fatality of a bed in
the truck house. Four men have died
soon after occupying 1t. A fireman
who occupied It a few nights ago says
that one Of the former occupants Of
the bed named Smith appeared TO him
in his sleep and he believes he is go
ing to die. The bed will not be oc-
cupied again.
A divorced mans club has been or
ganized in Alameda county, California,
for the purpose of sending out scouts
and missionaries, men who have found
marriage a failure and whose object
it is to impress upon mankind the
dangers of matrimony and give those
inclined that way an opportunity to
. profit by their sad and narrowing ex
| periences.
Berlin has added sign painters to
{ the daily increasing list of women who
t work at mems trades. These women
7 have served a regular apprenticeship
} including gymnastic training, so that
they win not lose their nerve while
working on scaffolds or ladders. They
[ wear the gray linen frock and cap tha'
! are the house painters badge, as wei
r as his shield from paint
4 Thousands of little apple trees, som'
a already five inches high, have beef
e found growing on the western shore
S Of the islands of Null and Iona, on tn
4 Scottish west coast, just above higl
:. water mark, and the crofters ar
{, transplanting them to their gardens
n The seedlings have grown from tn
apples cast ashore from the Dominion
= line steamer Labrador, wrecked las
e fall.
l. Iced chloroform has been used a
S an anesthetic IN Prof. Shorburg's cir
ic in the Jules Hospital at Wurzburg
Bavaria, in over 1000 cases without
single unpleasant result. The advaI
:. tage claimed for this preparation G
@ chloroform are the quiclSness Of it
f. action, it's comparative freedom fror
= danger and the absence Of nausea an
r depression so common with other az
n aesthetics.
IS At least five direct descendants {
e. signers of the declaration Of indepenC
a ence are prominent in our politics L
y day namely: Governor Wolcott, {
81 Massachusetts, a descendant of Olive
a Wolcott; Senator Hoar, Of Roger She
81 man. Robert Treat Paine, of RObel
ie Treat Paine, his namesake; Charlie
d Francis Adams. of John Adams. an
le T. Jefferson Coolidge, of Thomas Je
e ferson.