Evening journal., 1902-01-08
CAUGHT AT RANDOM

CAUGHT AT RANDOM
Asiatic Turkey is to be rescued from
semi -barbarism by the construction
of Sl40.000.0O0 worth of railroads, one
Of which will run through Euphrates
valley from end to end. The new
roads will follow the old caravan
routes. and they will touch all the
principal cities and towns of Bible
land.
An American rolling mill is building,
in the City of Mexico, which will util-
ize scrap iron.
More than half of the iewelry maze
in this country is manufactured in the
Attleboros. of Massachusetts,. Prac-
cally all Of the iewelry made in the
United States is turned out in New
England in the city of Providence, the
Attleboros and the town of Mansfield.
Nearly $4,000 people are directly and
Indirectly interested in the manufac-
ture of iewelry. Altogether there are
something over $50 factories for the
making Of iewelry in these four COM
munities. the output of which runs
into the millions Of dollars in value
ANNUALLY.
Does your landlady set a good ta-
ble?"
Fine"
That's good"
"Oh. yes. The tables a nice one. It's
what she puts on it that we're kicking
about"
John Higgins, a brakeman, who had
both legs cut off in an accident near
Emporia Kansas, last September, has
made a curious settlement with the
railway company. He is to be taught
ltelegraphy at the cOmpany's expense
and is to have employment for life
He is also to be provided with arti-
fciah legs.
-Four per cent. of sailing vessels and
212 per cent of steamships are lost in
a year.
The city of Dallas, Texas, is said to
be the largest depot of farm imple-
ment supplies In the world Every big
wholesale house i'm the country which
engages in the business Of manufacture
ing tools for the farmer has its branch
at Dallas. There are twenty-five nine
Istory buildings devoted to this trade.
/ Dallas lies in the very heart of the
choicest farming region of Texas. It
/ is the trading point of the great black
land belt of the northern and central
counties. which contain two-thirds of
the people and three-fourths of the
wealth of the State.
An international show of st. Bernard
dogs will be held next spring in Frank
fort, Germany
why. when he went on the stage
he intended to be a tragedian."
Il know. but his acting was so funny
that he became a famous comedian in
spite of himself"
The State in which there are the
least number of Government pension
/ ers is Nevada. in which they number
only 275. There are 500 in Wyoming
and $50 in Utah. Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania together have 2lO,00O--only 10
600 less than the total number of per-
sons engaged in the Federal service of
the United States at home and abroad
Good health is very much like
money: IL is valued most by those who
have 10 work hardest to get it. and il
! is sQuandered by those who come by
7, it easily.
Caleb Wright.
u is said that in France $4,000 .OOC
picture postcards pass through tn,
DOstOffce annually. That country
o takes the lead Of all others. Austria
d Hungary coming next. with 81 900 600
The total in circulation throughout tn,
world in one year is said by expert,
r to De 100000 OOO
His voice has a good compass"
z Yves. but it didn't prevent hin
being all at sea in that last song"
a 10 was recently announced in Chi
cago that a carload OF manufacture
honey. In the comb, had been receives
in that city from California. In repl
to this the publisher of the American
. Bee Journal has offered 500 for tn
sight OF a single pound Of manufac
tured comb honey He adds that h
has been making this offer for twent
years without finding a taker.
Women love good men-but are in
terested in men whose goodness
"A more or less impaired.
The Man from Glengarry.
Because of the poor quality of Rus
9. sian petroleum supplied it. the Grecia
Government has ordered in New Yor
er 100000 gallons.
If pens were spades, the isthmu
s. would be all dug up by this time.
Smallpox in Wilmington
"A case Of smallpox has been repOrI
ed to the Board of Health. the patieI
being the son Of Policeman Magee N,
us 106 West Twenty-fourth street. Th
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