Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1900-01-05
THE EXCHANGE EDITOR.

ed.
Nearly It's Congregational churches
have adopted the individual commu-
Mon cup.
switzerland's expense for the keeping
Of each inmate In the insane asylums is
S4S q year.
German physicians prescribe electric
light baths administered in mirror
lined boxes.
Nikola Tescas new laboratory on
Pixies Peak Is long. wooden structure
with a big veranda.
/ Taking all civilized countries, the av-
, erage age at which women marry is
said TO be twenty-three and half
years.
The official records Of Kansas show
that there are sixty-one counties in I
that State where there is not a single /
bicycle.
car Nicholass usual tip for servants
when on a visit is Sc. The Kaiser usual /
iy gives about $3.50 for the same SER
vice.
Upon President McKinleys desk in
the White House lies the old-fashioned
Bible given him by his father when he
first went away from his home.
There are 500 900 goats In the United
States. 25gOOO in the West Indies
Cyybere goat mutton is extensively
r used). Is 900 in England and 100000 in
= Spain.
: Central Asian railroad managers try
} 10 meet the desires Of their public.
harem car with latticed windows has
Y been constructed for the Emir of Box
hara.
A missionary paper reports that the
opposition to the Natural Foot Society
( in China comes chiefly from the women
1 who are afraid to go against fashion.
n Among the points dwelt on at the re-
cent tuberculosis congress in Berlin
were the facts that more than 40 per
+. cent Of the printers Of Berlin who had
died were phthisical.
A German fish-breeder named Jane
has succeeded. after several fruitless
:, attempts, in transporting from Colora-
u do to Germany the eggs of the purple
, trout (salmo purpurata) and raising q
! large brood.
y A Whangarel New Zealand) youth
y who advertised for q wife was amazed
o to find among the replies letters from
n two of his sisters, with photos inclosed.
d In this case the mania for matrimo-
ie NAL alliances seems 70 have been quite
II a family disorder
d When the Queen of Roumanla makes
a stay at the seaside she delights to
o. sit on a camp-stool in the middle of
~ the sands, gather around her all the
t. children, and tell them fairy tales OF
" her own composition. Most OF the fairy
Or tales of Carmen Sylvia have received
ID the appreciation OF a large circle OF
al children before publication.
Thirty years ago the sardines and
young herring in Canadian waters wers
4 In
Il " a million boxes of sardines in oil
were put on the market. The price paid
IS to fishermen varies extraordinarily ac'
s. cording TO catch, season and year, be-
ING sometimes as low as Sc per hogs
head and sometimes as high as 500.
~ John williams, young farmer, o.
s. West Union, o., is an expert squire
~ hunter. and is also afflicted with som
nanbulism. Last Saturday morning a
IT, daybreak he awakened to find himsel
We at the edge of a wood half a mile from
d home. He was In his night robe, ant
en- was carrying his gun. he had evidentl,
n started off on a squirrel hunt.
a An extraordinary occurrence hap
ok pened the other day in Brussels.
Of miIkwoman with her cart, drawn b,
II. two dogs, was passing through a stree
So in the center Of the city, when OF
n sudden the roadway opened and tn
an cart and dogs disappeared Investi
cations showed that the roadway ha
va been undermined by rats, which swarr
he In the neighborhood.
~ Princess Louise seems likely to be
n come one OF the richest members Q
10 the English royal family. Her marriag
as with the Marquis of Lorne has nc
uu necessitated the keeping up of an
'er great state, and, being childless, he
.l- expenses are comparatively few. o
ne marriage she received a dowry of $3.50
600. and she had magnificent weddin
gifts OF diamonds, rubies, pearls an
other Jewels. Like the rest Of III
led Queens children, she has. an income {
St $4,000 q year
fli Rudyard Kipling, according to II
IN. London Chronicle, was taken by Thon
a as Hardy to see a house which II
me latter thought would suit Kiplin
ga When Mr.. Kipling moved out of cal
nc shot. Mr.. Hardy observed to the occt
INV pant: Il may mention to you that tn
gentleman is no other than Mr.. Ru'
yard Kipling." us that so2' she n
w piled. II never heard the name before
Presently Mr.. Kipling in turn, four
gs- himself alone with the lady, and r.
IKE marked: Possibly you may not
/
ION me here to-day is Mr.. Hardy, the EN-
m nent author" "Oh, indeed" was u
I 4 reply, Il don't know his name"
Once upon a time Parties offered
OF sell a Farmer a tin box for $500. "B
IL contains only sawdusti" protests
the farmer. who took seven daily p
pers. YES" replied the parties, smiliI
+ patiently, "but with a sucker beii
of born every minute there's going to
W., a great demand for sawdust There
re bound to be bulge I'm sawdust soon
fiji or later" The farmer was much stru'
U. with this theory and bought the DO
in mortgaging his farm to raise the mo
de ey. This fable teaches that with q
common people become so exceeding
intelligent as they now are, meth1
Of doing business with them will ha
-, 70 be revolutionized. Detroit Journa
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