The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-01-24

William Neff of Colorado unearthed six baby coyotes on his ranch and train cd them so that they followed him like dogs
 The guarantee fund for the Paris ex. position of 1900 amounts Co Sl5, OOO,' 900. The balance will be defrayed by state and city.
 The working classes form 69 per cent. the middle class 2s per cent and the upper class per cent of the population of this country.
 In the Crimean war 95, 6l5 lives were sacrificed. and at Borodino when the French and Russians fought, 7S,000 men were left dead on the battlefield.
 The United States shore lines of the great lakes are as follows: Ontario. 23O miles; Erie, SEQ miles; Huron. 5lO miles: Superior. s55 miles; Michigan, l.320 miles
 No oua can toll where che diamond goes Co in combustion. Burn it and it leaves no ashes. Tho flame is exterior, like that of cork. and when it has blazed itself out there remains absolute ly no trace of it
 The heron seldom flaps his wings at a rate of less than l20 Co l50 times a minute. This Is counting the downward strokes only. So that the birds wings really mako from 240 to 800 distinct movements a minute
 London vestries are objecting to pay. iug burial fees to clergymen for services that are never held owing Co the sup prpssion of the parish burial grounds. In Lamberth alone sl4, 900 has been paid out in this way in five years.
 In California there were experiments m storing raisins SO as Co have them as free from seeds as the ordinary currant. Srcccss has followed. till now seeded u,isins are becoming an important item among the fruit industries of California.
 Am immense sun dial. certainly the largest in the world. is at Hayon HorOO a large promontory extending 5000 feet above the Kgean sea. AS the sun swings around tue shadow of this noun. tain it touches one by one a circle of Is. lands. which act as hour marks.
 There are only about 500 Germans in Spain. but many of them occupy prumi neut business positions. The electric business which is beginning to assume great proportions m Spain, Is almost entirely m German hands. The Ger mans of Madrid have their own club.
 Up Go the end of lS97 RuSsia had ex- pended within fraction of $2OO, OO0,- 100 on her great Siberian railway. Be tween this and 1900 an outlay of anoth' .r SlOO. OOU, GOO is expected. when the .uad will be m running order. with trough trains from St. Petersburg to the Pacific.
 Near Briancon l. the Alpine Glacier lu Casset. which snow being regularly worked as an ice quarry. the product 1 being shipped by rail Co Paris. The ice gein is about 100 feet wide and 25 thick, md it Is found that it can bo worked at ! prunt. making the fir-t commcroisl 1se of the glacier so far known.
 The German army dogs are trained when they find dead body to set up a prolonged bowling. If no one comes, they take the dead mans cap or some small article and with this in their teeth go on a hunt for their trainer whom they lead Co the spot. II the man Is wounded. he gives his cap Co the dog and the same object is accomplished.
 A Shan princess has written the fol. lowing letter Co the medical officer in charge of one of the cantonments in the Shan states: Kindly supply me the aforementioned medicines by bearer as am unwell, being fell down iron. elephant. and Oblige. One does of smell ing suit, one does for cureing headache, one does for cureing the pain at neck. "
 Dr. sheldon Jackson, superintendent, of government schools in Alaska, denies the report that the reindeer brought Go the territory have starved. A large herd has reached the moss growing region away from the coast and arc doing well Moreover. the Laplanders who came with them propose to bring herds of tiltlE NMn duu tluulAh lu NhN nAfAAA'0' of raising reindeer for sale and for us. iu transportation.
 Hemp is of antique origin. for 1t was used by the Scythians at least 800 year. leforc the Christian era. It grows wil4 in India and many parts of our owu In5. and it was known Co the Chimes thousands of years ago. The Rumans were familiar with the use of hemp for ,ails and cordage. India and Porsia is the native home of hemp, and it is oll ,iyated in the United States in Ken lucky, Illinois. Nebraska and Missouri Recently California has become inter ested in its growth. and in that state > often reaches a height of l5 or 20 feet
 Miss Braddon. the novelist. who has just published her sixtleth book, re- jolces In the fact that the only picture of her ever printed was from a photo graph made SO long ago that no one can now recognize the original