Evening journal., 1901-09-12
CAUGHT AT RANDOM

recognition of a French artist by Ger
many has given great satisfaction in
France.
The Dukes Of Sutherland. Buccleuch
and Devonshire are joint lords of 3,
004 800 acres of land. an area repre-
.senting a slice of land stretching from
the South of England to the extreme
North of Scotland, more than five
miles wide. If this land were all in
England. about an acre out of every
sixteen would belong to one or other
of these dukes.
Three million acres Of Montana land
are to be auctioned off at a minimum
lof $40 an acre
Last year France averaged about
lseyenty-fve strikes a month. This
year the average for the first five
months was less than fifty.
Tress which have grown on a north
tern exposure, as on The north side of
bill, produce better. harder and more
durable lumber than those which have
been pampered by the southern sun.
DO you think that unselfshncss
ever pays in pOlitics?"
"Of course, it pays" answered Sena-
tor Sorghum THE unselfsh man is
the one who doesn't want any of your
money And he goes down as clear
profit Washington Star
Tho inhabitants of the province of
Ontario write more letters than those
of all the rest OF Canada
The Westchcster IN. W kissing
bug or the dying boring bug" is
classed by Professor Buetenmuller
head entomoloeist of the Museum Of
Natural History in New York, as
an Alorhina nitida. 1t is called the
South Carolina beetle. because It is
found principally in that State, but is
frequently seen in all the States. 1t
is harmless. and much resembles the
l"hgeater," with which every small boy
in Charleston is familiar.
One OF Professor Osborn's parties.
tiNI bAif hUNA nAlllE III tAuEt AtlUli ~
that their very first discovery was a
deposit of skulls of the three toed
4 horse. protohippus. associated with
/ limb bones It will be recalled that
this expedition is specially charged
to search for horse remains.
! In China there is no regular stand
ard of distance Standards vary in the
/ different provinces of the empire, the
I chih. or unit of length varying from
mine to sixteen inches in diff
ferent provinces. A Chinese mile
,. may be from a quarter of an English
mile to a mile and three-quarters,
according to the province.
The annual importation of mailing
into the United States from China is
! estimated at S00,OOOOOO cubic yards.
Another sugar beet factory-capital
s6OOOOOO capacity 5000 tons sugar per
i year-is being built in California
/ Venus has often been seen at noon
with the nallid eye quite near the sun
(, Once when this attracted public atten-
ton Napolson turned it to advantage
by causing it to be rumored that it was
his own special star.
p Utah viii produce this year 10000
1900 pounds of beet sugar
Sympathy you'd take, but you can
get il; consolation you'd take, but i
isn't offered; pity you hate, but it,
thrown at you by the basketful.
what did Name say when her faith
er gave her that new gold watch?' ask
ed one gladstone girl.
"Oh, the same thing that she Away
! says. She remarked that she was having
+, a perfectly lovely time"
e Aitesian wells sunk 200 feet II
6 Washington reach abundant water a
S 20 degrees temperature.
d England spends eS.4OO.OoO a year O
T. her paupers; Scotland. e9O0O0O; Ire
3. land, c14OO00O; France spends les
4 than el5OO0OO.
Miss kulchcr-Did you ever go /
Is for literature Mr.. Gay
p Mr.. Gay Weller not exactly, ht
E. once when ] was at college J wrote
n short story and got 500 for H.
b. Miss Kulcher-R Really? What was il
ol Mr. Gay-"Dear Father I'm brok
AL Please send me q hundred
m General Booth. the founder of th
,tl salvation Army. intends TO visit Oh
$ lcago i'm November. accompanied b
n twenty leaders in the army
M general inspection will also he mad
or OF the work in this country.
of Frank W. Hackctt, the Acting Seer
lc tary of the Navy comes OF family
lawyers in Portsmouth. n II. II
o- father. w. n. Y. Hackettwas familia
vs VI known as Alphabet 1ackett.
n. Professor Paul c. Freer. of the ge
It's cral chemical laboratory Of the Unive
ch sity of Michigan. has gone to the Phi
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