Evening journal., 1901-11-05
CAUGHT AT RANDOM

CAUGHT AT RANDOM
Some Of the wooden churches OF Nor
way are fully 700 years old and are
still in an excellent state of preserva-
ton. Their timbers have successfully
resisted the frosty and almost Arctic
winters because they have been repeat
edly coated with tar
The Court of Civil Appeals in Texas
holds that a person who receives a let
ter addressed TO another and who re-
| tains 1t an unreasonable length of time
is guilty of obstructing the mail, and
is liable for whatever damage may
thereby result
Portugal is the most illiterate country
in Europe; 81 per cent. of its popula-
tion cannot write. In Italy the proper
tion of illiterates is SO per cent, in
Russia &c. in Spain g. in Britain, 31s.
Perdita-I understand Mr.. Binks
plays the cOrnet.
Lydecker-You have been misln-
formed. He works It,
The bird fauna Of Iceland is credited
by Henry II. Slater with 1O3 species.
or these are resident, 27 summer mi
grants. p occasional visitors and IS
rare stragglers. The land birds are
few. including only residents and 5
that come in summer to breed. The
great aux once resorted to the island
but the most interesting birds now
probably are the northern wren. the
great northern dive and the Iceland fal-
con. Singing birds are few.
A memorial portrait Of Captain Aus
tin r. Davis, who was killed in the
attack on Tien Tsin. is to be placed in
the Carnegie Library in Atlanta. The
library building occupies the site of the
house in which Captain Davis was
born.
Arrests for drunkenness in 129 cities
of the United States are said to aggre-
gate $4,000 during the last fiscal year
What are those books the boys are
distributing to the news stands?"
That's the Halstead history OF the
Louisiana race war OF day before yes
terday"
The biggest grant ever made to
railway company was $4,000 square
miles given by the United States Gov
ernment to the Union Pacific Railway
which was opened in 1869.
Nearly one-third (31.53 per cent? of
Switzerland's imports last year came
from Germany.
One OF the srangtest botanical Curl
osities in the world is the Wonder
Wonder" flower found in the MALAY
Peninsula. 1t Is simply a blossom,
without leaves, vine or stem, and grows
as a parasite on decayed wood.
Tho Minister-Do you ever try count
ing to put you to sleep?
The deacon-Oh. yes; this way
firstly secondly, thirdly, and so on.
He came home from Manila.
With health somewhat precarious.
And to inquiring friends he said
He guessed he was Malayrious.
In 1770 the American colonies export
I'd 6,017 tons of pig iron, valued at
s14562S: 2463 tons of bar iron. valued |,
At Sl7S.S91; two tons of castings. valued
at Sl5S, and eight tons of wrought iron.
valued at $50.
Statistics collected in Germany
showed that more than so per cent. of
the cases of consumption could be
traced to the habitual breathing of dust
tainted with injurious substances.
Minnesota is called the Bread and
Butter State" and rightly too for last
year her mills turned out 26.6S050O
barrels of flour and churned over Co.
900 pounds of butter.
The exports of agricultural imple-
ments from the United States TO for
eign countries for August amounted to
1867 O3l For the same month last year
exports Of the same goods amounted to
S7i9655
The first president OF Ann Arbor Uni
versity. John MOnteith, was paid sal
ary of $3.50 year 1t was then known
as the Catholepistemaid, or "institu-
ion of all learning" At that time the
territory Of Michigan had 1000 inhabi-
tants
In Manitoba there is a grain crop for
he wear of nearly S6,OO0,000 bushels, OF
which 1887 255 are wheat, SO,266,775
lats. and 6,433,919 barley.
Among the pets OF the Sultan of Mo-
.occo are seven lions. These he per-
nits to range the courtyards of the
palace at night, to act as guards OF the
'oyal harem.
You cannot be in a very nice frame