Evening journal., 1902-03-06
CAUGHT AT RANDOM

OAOOf1l a 1 KAINDOM
The cars Of the United States Fish
; ;lCommission travelled 1O5, 900 miles last
year in the distribution of fish and
eggs.
The Worlds Fair at St Louis, it is
promised, will cover 1000 acres at an
ESTIMATED cost of construction of $50
100000 The construction cost OF the
Paris Exposition wos S9,O0O,OO0; or the
Chicago Exposition, $4,000, 900; of the
Buffalo Exposition, SlO,00O,0O0.
A Brussels publisher has felt Justified
in starting a periodical devoted wholly
to the scientific study of milk
The town of Trio, S. c.. is about to
receive q colony of Finlanders, who are
leing imported to work in the lumber
trade.
Gray foxes in Buckingham, Va, are
lacting in such manner as TO suggest
That there may be an epidemic Of in
Sanity among them. Persons have re-
lpeatedly been attacked on the high
ways. Some hunters hold the theory
that the entire fox tribe in that region
has been attacked with rabies.
Representative Kimbal has intro
lduced Va bill in the Massachusetts
House to license cats. Those unlicensed
'are to be killed.
The cusoms duties on the $11 ,OOO, 900
Of tea imported into this country
amount TO S9,OO000O All adulterated
land impure teas are excluded from COM
ing into the country by the tea inspec-
tion law. whioh was passed in 1897. III
tea is adulterated the authorizations are
added in this cOntry.
1t is said that King Edward will
not 20 to see plays in which soyer-
eigns are burlesaued.
Professor Charles Whitney Carman,
of Chicago, has invented a machine
which will produce on a screen solid
liquid, apaque, transparent, animate
and inanimate objects. The lense acts
as an opera glass, and the Photograph
or painting. or picture, is enlarged
about fifteen times its area when
thrown upon the screen, making a re-
production that is perfect in color and
The new bylaws of the New York
Board of Education provide that the
marriage of a woman teacher in any
of the boroughs shall be equivalent to !
a resignation.
The Rocky Mountain News objects
because the Denver CITY Council, for
partisan reasons only, says that the
city, which is the natural halting place
to every crook in transit across the
continent. shall be content with 81 perl
head for police while in the first
twelve cities Of the land the police ap-l
propriations rang from SO to $14O a.
head.
The type Of horseshoe common in the
Orient is a plate fitted so as to cover
the entire bottom of the hOOf, with a j
perforation in the centre The weightl
of the average horseshoe is three
fourths of pound The native smiths
usually cut these plate from sheets of
wrought iron and rudely shape them
for the purpose in view.
Ribbon makers on the Continent say
that their industry has suffered greatly
because Of the popularity of the bicycle.
Women who ride the machine wear
hats which have no other trimming
than the single band generally oil
black. and the picture hat is adorned
with feathers, to the exclusion Of rib
bons.
Eyes. sign blew down and hit him
and he got fifteen hundred dollars dam
ages"
quite a windfall. wasn't it"
A Cleveland man who had stolen 5
cents worth of coal was arrested the
other day and fined s. and costs, or
StO.S5. He declined TO pay the fine, on
the ground that it was unjust, and
when his wife paid il he refused to
leave the Jail. The turnkey was
Obliged to eject him. and he vowed he
would return at the first opportunity.
The grounding having vindicated
himself. Old Sol is taking a shy at the
weather.
The following Pennsylvania counties
had a smaller population in 1900 than
| in 1890: Bucks. Cameron, Centre, Car
/ ion. Crawford. Fulton, Greene, Hunt
ingdon. Juniata. Montour. Perry, Pike,
Snyder. Susquehanna, Tioga, Union
and Wayne.
The University of Paris has 2i5 pro
fessors. 76 of whom belong to the
medical faculty, while 50 teach literary
branches 40 natural science, etc.
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