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The worlds record for steamships /.
$50 miles a day and for sailing vessel!
325 miles.
The manufacture of sugar in Italy
now sufices for two-thirds of the ma
tional consumption.
The original Ramona of Helen Hum
Jackson's story is said to be living
near Temecula, Cal.
Only SO,331 of the 100000 British
subjects who died last year had any.
thing TO leave by will.
The rice mills of South Carolina
clean and polish about S100, o00. OO(
worth of rice each season.
The %boroughs of Manhattan and the
Bronx, in the Greater New York, now
have more than $4,000 telephones.
Belgium sold in the United States
last year in firearms, principally rough
bored gun barrels, S52,23O.67 worth.
The mortality from accidents to rail.
way employees was reduced 35 per
cent last year by improved coupling
devices.
An English writer calculates that
Americans are investing an annual
sum Of $3.50, 100000 in Europe, mostly
in English securities.
Arkansas is to furnish a smoking
CON for both the blue and the gray at
the st. Louis fair. Conversation ought
not to lag in that room.
The Carthusian Fathers have decid-
ed that in future visitors cannot be re-
ceived for the night at the monastery
of La Grande Chartreuse.
Paul Revere's house in Boston, from
which he started out on the ride on
April 10, 1875, im~mortalized by Long
fellow. is now a "Banca I%taliana."
Great Britain is spending this year
upon forty-ive armored ships the sum
of S154,000,O 00. In a recent trial a
twelve inch gun was fired twice in a
minute.
The Royal Society of Great Britain
has announced a new determination of
the heat Of the sun. It is made by Pro
fessor Charles Wilson. who places it
at II, 1872 degrees F.
An English writer calls attention to
the fact that more lives are sacrificed
each year on the railway than the to-
tai casualty list of the eight biggest
battles in the Boer war.
Foreigners will not be permitted to
travel over the Siberian railway with
out special Russian authorization. This
has been officially announced by the
Russian consul at Shanghai.
The first Tagalog-English and Eng
li~sh-Tagalog dictionary has just been
completed. 1t is the work of DR.. Stem
pie of New York, who worked on a
Tagalog grammar before our war with
Spain.
The recent census returns show that
the population of Belgium now stands
at 6,G93, SIC, having doubled during the
last %siXty-nine years. Belgium is now
the most densely populated country in
Europe.
The oldest piece Of writing in the
world is on a fragment of a vase found
at Nippur. 1t is an inscription in pic
ture writing and dates $500 years be-
fore Christ. The University Of Penn.
sylvania has secured it.
Recent storms have done much dam
age to the beautiful South Carolina
monument on the Chickamauga battle
field, but it Is not beyond repair. The
monument consists Of a large bronze
palmetto tree OF a marble base.
A London firm has issued a cata-
logue Of the goods it keeps for sale. 1t
is an encyclopedia work in two hand
some volumes of $50 pages, Sc In col
ors, size 10 by II inches and two
inches in thickness. Its publication
cost 100000.
Bolivia produces one-twelfth of the
worlds tin and is rich in copper and
placer gold. Yet it has only 200 miles
of railroad for its 100000 square miles
of territory. The almost entire lack
of transportation facilities has kept
back its development.
The negroes from the Tuskegee in
stitute who were engaged in 1900 by
the German government t teach the
natives Of Togoland, German West AT
RIGA, how to grow cotton have succeed
ed in producing cotton which is graded
above American middling.
The British government has Just
completed the survey Of the English
section of Lake Victoria Nyanza, in
central Africa, for the establishment
of a steamer service on the lake in con
nection with the Uganda railway.
which has recently been completed.
According to Golfers Weekly, the
most destructive shot fired in the Phil
ippines was fired accidentally by a
Philippine corporal who put a lighted
cigarette in o six inch shell to discover
if it was loaded. He never was able to
tell, for he was one Of the twenty or
thirty men killed.
A Bohemian couple holds the record
for procr%astination. Franz Rosner, 100
years of age, was married on his death
bed to Anna Renner. aged ninety-three,
at OberpolitZ. The groom died two
days later. The two had been in. love
for seventy-five years. but had kept
putting off the wedding day.
The musket used by Major John But
trick at the North bridge. in Concord,
on ADriI 10 177I has laap nrocopta1