Alaska sentinel., 1905-04-27
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 The ships of the world are insured for a total of f95O,OoO,000.
 It is claimed that Costa Rica has greater variety of animals than any other country. Of birds alone there are about 500 kinds.
 A rainbow trout weighing more than nine pounds has been caught in Eng land. A record catch last year was a sixteen-pound river trout caught in the Test at Romsey.
 One of the latest industries devel- oped in Vienna and Berlin is the clean ing of playing cards. They are sub jected to various processes and emerge looking like new cards.
 Strenuous efforts are being made in Paris to simplify the photography of the French language, but some of the authorities, notably Francois Coppee are bitterly opposed to all changes suggested.
 A German periodical, the Garten- laube, offers three prizes for the best answers to the question, which is becoming more and more serious to mothers: How can l marry off my daughters!'
 Nearly one-half of the 2,011 clubs in England are golf clubs. Of the 250 so- cial clubs in London, twenty-six are for women alone and six others ad- init women. The largest women's club has 3,7oO members.
 The eight ambassadors of the Ger man empire in Madrid. Rome, Wash ington Constantinople, Paris, London, St. Petersburg and Vienna are all members of the nobility. Their emol- uments are S25,000 in the first three cities named, S30,000 in the next three, S37,500 in the last two.
 A Welsh magistrate has decided that in a liquor transaction, or any other purchase and sale, sale takes place when the money is paid for the article. So one may pay for his drinks during lawful hours and legally call and take them in the hours during which liquor must not be sold.
 Several years ago a company was formed in London which offered to all women who for a certain time bought half pound of tea at their stores a pension of 10 shillings week If they lost their husbands. The list of widows gradually reached 10000, and the com pany had to suspend payment.
 One of the most remarkable in- stances of heredity office among so- licitors Is that of the acting under sheriff for the city of London. MT. Tufnell Burchell sits in his sheriff's court in Red Lion square on the bench that his father, grandfather and great grandfather successively occupied St. James Gazette.
 The thickness of armor on modern warships is truly astonishing. The side armor of a f1rst-class battleship usually varies from sixteen and one half inches thick at the top of the belt to nine and one-half inches at the bot tom. The gun turrets are often pro- tected by armor from fifteen inches to seventeen inches thick.
 It has been seriously asserted by many people that we are naturally lighter after a meal, and they have even gone the length of explaining this by the amount of gas that is developed from the food. Average observations, however, show that we lose three pounds six ounces between night and morning; that we gain one pound twelve ounces by breakfast; that we again lose about fourteen ounces be- fore lunch; that lunch puts on an av- craze of one pound; that we again lose during the afternoon an average of ten ounces, but that an ordinary din ner to healthy persons adds two pounds two ounces to their weight.