The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-02-23
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.
Eisht hundrod th0usand poopl0 stlll


 speak Welsh.
 The cheapest rate of postage in Eu- rope is that of France.
 rhero arc at least 10. 900. 900 nerve ebsrs in the human body. ,,
 Nearly one-hfth of the students at Swiss universities arc women.
 A miniature Morro Castle has been erected at che Thousand islands.
 The first envelope ever made is in tho possession of the British museum.
 No fewor than I,l7S persons have beon buried in Westminster Abbey.
 Great Britain spends on tobacco and pipes about ei4, ,Ooo, 900 every year.
 The maintenance of the sultan's ha. rem costs Turkey about sl5, GOO, 900.
 Twenty-Five per cent of the shares in American railways are owned in Eng land. ... .-.e
 In Brazil there are said to bo 800 languages and dialects spoken by tho Indians "A
 Tho battle of tho BoynO was not fought on July i2. as alleged, but on the lst
 One out of every six inhabitants of France has an account in the state sav- lnss bank.
 An employer e German clerks says tbat they work 20 per cent slower than English ones.
 There have been 27 cases of insanity in the Bayarian royal family during tho last 100 years
 It is well known that toothache is often caused by disordered stomach, and is removed by simple aperient
 A Brighton (England) young man killed himself because his wife made fun of him for kissing the servant girl
 The wonderful part of the Maxim gun Is that it has only one barrel, and yet [ can discharge 600 shots in one min. ate.
 In Germany and Holland girls are chosen in preference Co young men in all occupations vhcre they can De ad- sartageously employed
 Cne-fourth of the people oE the earth
 btfoTe the age of 6. oie half before is age tf lG, sId cue rcrson ID each GO born lives to the ago of G5.
 There are several varieties ot fish that -rrct swim In every instance they -s- d,sp scI dwell,rs. aul crawl about ho rocks. using their tails aud fins as cgS.
 When clrbolio acid is Co be used as Q lisiufCciau, it should bo mixed with Soil.ng water lt Is more soluble, and 'hCtw con. binei into a solution will sccp for weeks
 Ii ha, bcop found in Japan that the uost effective way Go teach tho natives to take prccautiors against the spread lf disease k tl rhow them tho livins 1Isauisms in polluted water by means lf microscopes placed in tho temples.
 Frances Imprimcric Rationale is prcpsriGg as a show piece for the ex. hili,ion of 1900 "The History fl French Printing In the Fifteenth and sixteenth Centuries. by A. Claudin, with !, 200 plates of reproductions from rare books
 The largest lunatie aslyum in Eng. land is at Prestwich, wIere the Lan- cashire County asylum has over 9, 800 patients. Conley Hatch, in the parish of Friern Barnet. in Middlesex. six miles north from London. will accom- modate g, 250 patients.
 At the sale of the Morrison canoes ip London Greek gold ring set with Go iniaglio of Bacchus from Tarsus was sold for sl, ,l50. another ring with A figure of Bacchus for S925. the signet a Asander. king of the Bosporus, from Rerteb, for s2. 800. the Sessa ring for S525 and fhe ie;aSlio bust of DomitiS tor s420
 Turning the Stock.
 A writer in The Dry Goo1s Chronicle ays: "A good point for the retail mer- chant to remember is that 1t IS not how large a business he does, but how many times bis stock Is turned in the course of the year. that really indicates the succesSful merchant.