Evening journal., 1902-01-22

| uOn Tor his clerks and secretaries,
the furnishings Of the White House
and the maintenance of the grounds,
is less tnan 100000 a year.
An Alton Qll) woman has started a
crusade against men who will not
work and support their families. She
wants an ordinance passed requiring
such men to be arrested and put at
work on the rock pile with wages
The money she would turn over to the
families for their support.
A French explorer has discovered on
the west coast of Africa what he re-
CARDS as the vainest people on earth
They are the Pahonins. a warlike tribe,
whose main employment is the adorn-
ment of their persons, chiefly by means
of tattooing. Great ingenuity is also
exhibited in dressing their hair,
which in many cases is arranged in
astonishingly elaborate fashion.
In Los Angeles, Cal, there is an or
dinance imposing a fine of S. for allow
! ing chickens to rum on the streets and
other peoples property. The success
of the ordinance is such that the city
of Oakland will adopt one similar to it,.
The Germans keep a war fund OF
! $50 900 900 in gold carefully preserved
in a vault which is watched day and
night A periodical inspection of the
! treasure has Just taken place. The
gold mas been lying there since 1874.
The walls of the vault are several
Yards thick and three heavy doors
lead into il.
Major Armstrong is at Fort Sill for
the purpose of investigating the ad-
visibility of releasing the imprisoned
| Apaches The famous Geronimo, the
! Apache chief is one of the prisoners.
Since the Apachos have been prisoners
of war they have been following agri-
cultural pursuits. Geronimo has made
a speciality of raising watermelons.
Edwin A. Abbey, the artist, super
intended personally the hanging of his
mural paintings of "The Quest Of the
Holy Grail" in the public library OF
Boston.
Generally speaking, Frenchmen are
mot chewers of the Indian weed, but in
the manufacturing districts, where
men work twelve hours a day, and can
not smoke during that time, they chew
| An Ohio man has 112 great grand
, children, % great great grandchildren
. and is himself 102 years old.
Two Italian officers in Paris recent
ly fought a duel with swords, about q
dog, and one was mortally wounded.
An employe in French tobacco fac
tory has invented a machine which
{ makes the head on cigars after thel
are rolled. and does the work of abOu
, a dozen hands.
During the recent maneuvers Of thu
French army telegraph wire so fin
that man could carry on spools, fou
J miles Of it was successfully laid at tn
rate of two and half miles an hour.
Port Florence the terminus of thl
Nyanza. was reached by the fret locu
motive recently. The 5S2 miles OF tn
line from the coast to the lake hav
q been completed in four years and fou
. and half months.
r. In 1900 there was about one boile
q explosion daily. on the average, in th
al United States. and there were 7SS vic
: tins Of explosions during the year l
II Great Britain during the same yea
: there were only twenty-four person
\ killed by boiler explosions and Onl
n sixty-fve wounded-eighty-nin vic
Ie Tins.
ic The first canal lock built in Amenc
l. Is preserved as a relic near the presel
le site OF the 500 Canal. Il was built b
% the Northwestern Fur Company
S, 1880. Il is 3S feet long and s feet
3 inches wide It had lift of feet an
d depth of 21a feet. During the Wa
rt of 1912 it was badly wrecked. tt
IS early day fur companies used tn
Id little waterway to lock down the
Of small Cargoes of valuable furs.
he Down In Vladosta. Ga, recently
as hog was killed whose gross weight vi
Mt 1860 pounds; his net weight was 3
pounds. Each ham weighed i
pounds This fat monster produce
n $40 pounds of lard, or nearly tier
M and a half-enough to last a smi
70 family about four years. Besides {
n lard there was nearly a wagonload
m sausage from this one pig. TO say not
he ing Of big dishpans of hogshead cheei
he liver pudding and other products.
ls- "Excelsiori" cried the Boxer.
ID The ordinary Chinese exchang
a. lglances.
of "He must be going TO box SON
ne thing" they reasoned acutely.
rm 1900
an A wine cask which holds $4,000 8
re- Ions. and is the largest ever built, M
la be seen at Maltermora. Cal The ST
hoops around it weigh 10000 pounds