Evening journal., 1907-04-25
FACTS IN FEW LINES

king, IS printed IN seven different Ian
guages.
Every Servian subject may claim Eve
acres from the state, and this cannot
be alicnated for debt.
in six weeks run at Drury Lane
theater 250,153 men, women and chill
dren saw the pantomime "Sindbad the
Sailor"
Mounted on bicycles twenty Chinese
bandits raided a tobacco shop near Pc
king recently and made off with the
contents Of the safe.
Mrs. E. A. G. Holmes Of Manchester,
n. H.. has an ancient map Of London
that was printed i'm 1890 The print is
still plainly discernble.
1t is only domesticated dogs that can
bark. II a tame dog runs wild, as it
does sometimes in Alaska and else
where, it loses after a time its power
Of barking.
The national union of Hungarian
bakers is organizing a grand interna-
tional exposition Of bakery to be held
al Budapest from May 10 to June 30
Of this year.
Since the conquest England has had
no fewer than twenty-four separate
wars with France. These are calcu-
lated to have cost more than 2O,O0O,O0O
human lives.
A London tea merchant recently sold
a pound Of tea for $40 1t was gold
tip, which is much superior to ordinary
tea. On every tea bush grow four or
five minute gold tips
The ink plant is a native Of New
Granada, in South America. Its juice
is a perfect. ready made ink, ana writ
| ing IN this ink will remain legible after
long immersion in water.
Among the queer things contained in
q tiny directory of Worcester published
in 1913 is statute which forbids the
smoking Of a cigar or pipe in any Of
the roads, highways or streets Of the
town
One of the recent candidates for posi-
ton as librarian in the New York Pub
lie library wrote on her examination
paper in answer TO a question regard
ing the novels Of Lew Wallace that his
/ principal work was Her Ben
The world now produces G,S00,000
tons of beet sugar yearly, and the to-
tai produce Of cane sugar in the West
Indies has fallen to 22sOOO tons. A
hundred years ago the West Indies
supplied sugar to half the world.
The vigilance with which the Japa-
nese guard the approach TO the emper-
or IS shown by the fact that the direct
or of the household department was
/ turned away from the gate the other
day because he did not have his pass.
The earliest example Of the use Of
paper In Europe extant is letter
dated 1916 now preserved in the Lon
don Record Office. The writer asks for
payment of about 81 for three ship
loads of salt sent from France to Eng
land.
A Leeds England policeman, hear.
ing suspicious noises in dark cellar,
sprinkled cayenne pepper on some cot
ton wool. set fire TO the cotton and put
it through a grating Of the cellar. Two
burglars speedily came out aud were
captured.
The highest cultivated land in Eng
land is said to be that round the vii
lage of Allenheads, in Northumber-
landshlrc. which is 1,4OO feet above the
sea. Part OF the prison farm on Dart
moor Is at the same elevation, and ex-
cellent crops are grown.
Only in America Is chewing gum
made Until quite recently it was con-
sumed principally in this country, too,
but a dispatch recently stated that
whereas a few years ago Scotland was
free from the chewing gum habit now
q large part Of the population chews
gum.
For the year ended June 80, 1906
the exports Of copra dried cocoanui
meat from the Philippine Islands
amounted TO 145SJ1.913 pounds, OF
which France took SS,33G,35O pounds
or about 81 per cent The next most
important buyers were Spain and Ger
many.
The Peruvian government has ap
pointed its charge d'an0lres I'm London
Il. Lembccke, and r. Role. honorary
chancellor of the Peruvian consulate al
New Orleans, to be the delegates OF
Peru at the conference Of the Red
Cross to be held during the summer fl
Geneva.
Paper bags arc absolutely necessary
IN certain lines Of business and, con
Eidering that there is no cash return
constitute probably one Of the large
Items OF expense to stores and market
stalls. The expenditure for ordinary
paper bags. such as are used in gro
cery stores, during 1906 reached nearly
S9.2OO,OOO
Greater New York has during tn,
last five years built 1G,15S fathouses
furnishing homes for 5S5,O21 tenants
The cost for construction has beer
S39O,512505. When the cost OF land Il
included the total Investment ha.
reached S1,CO0,0O0.OOO. The investmen
TO house each person has been S1.71O
If each tenant has paid ON the averag,
10 per cent a year for housing accom-
modations the annual rent which sucl
an Investment demands from each ten
ant is Sl71.
On March /. I'LL, appeared the FRS
number OF the Spectator of Steele anC
Addison. The story of No. II. whicl
contains The Epistle of the Enamore.
Footman In the Country 10 His Mis-
tress" and signed James" is interest
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