Alaska sentinel., 1908-11-05
THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW
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 a mistake in never marrying
 In a St. Petersburg newspaper there recently appeared the following ad- vertisement: The wife of present member of the Douma, having given up all hope of getting intelligent occupa- ton, seeks a place as chambermaid-"
 The admission of Oklahoma as a State means an increase In the author ized number of midshipmen at the Ma val Academy of twelve, or from aS5 to ee7. The number of cadets at West Point will be increased only six.
 Mrs. T. P. O'Connor, wife of the Irish advocate of home rule. is said to be convinced that English women will have the full right of parliamentary suffrage within the next seven years. Mrs. o'Connor was Texas girl.
 The British government will devote t20, 900 to start the cultivation of New Zealand hemp in the island of St. Helena, the inhabitants of which have been reduced to practical Restitution by the withdrawal of the British garri- son.
 The sum of s15oOo0 was left to Henry Baxendale In England by his father if he would return to the Ply mouth brethren, but as he had allied himself with a fraternity vowed to the simple life, he refused to accept the be quest.
 King Anderaya of Bunyoro, In Gen. tral Africa, himself a Christian, has written to one of the missionary so- cieties of the baptism of his father, Kabarego, who was notorious in Cor don Pasha's day as the slave-raiding King of Bunyoro.
 r. L. Marston, who is known in Eng land as the stanordshire Spurgeon, and Is only nineteen years of age, Is one of the most successful Baptist evangelists of that country, this being his eighth year of Christian work in behalf of others.
 Many Chinese monaster!es are en, dowed with land or a tribute of rice, but seldom 80 as to be self-supporting, and the monks, armed with gongs, go down Into the cities to beg for susten- ance and most of them have become very capable beggars.
 Martin W. Lttleton- leading coun sel in the Thaw case, is well known in New York for hls sharp and acid wit At a recent dinner MT. Littleton, In a sparkling speech. said of certain jurist: "It's pity he doesn't know a little law. as then he'd have a smatter- ing of everything"
 Mrs Elizabeth Custer intends to build home for impoverished literary women as a memorial to her husband, who fell in the Little Big Horn ngh. with the Indians thirty years ago. Mrs Custer has recently bought a site for the proposed home in BroHxyille, West. chester County, New York.
 Having been fined for neglect oi duty, a postal subordinate In India ad. dressed his chief in the following terms: Your honor may be right, may be wrong; I may be right and oonor wrong let honor give me back ths fine, and then at day of resurrection. when all hearts will be open, If am wrong, I will most gladly, sir, return your honor the money
 Public streets in the towns of Java are daily swept and kept clean by na' tive conyicts. They go to work chained together In parties of twenty or thirty, under the superintendence of bare footed native soldiers clad In ill-fttins uniforms, who would instantly shoot their charges down if they tried to es. cape during their working time, when they are unclaimed.
 Justice o. W. Holmes, of the Uniteo States Supreme Court has purchased the home of his father, the famous poet, Oliver Wendell Holmes, known as the Marshall estate, In Beverly Farms owing to the deep and abiding erection be has for the beautiful spot, because of the tender associations that have ID II lEDIn luC tlllC lhc <AdloGi of the Breakfast Table" made 1t his summer home.
 Mandy was a young colored giri fresh from the cotton fields of the South. One afternoon she came to hel Northern mistress and handed her a visiting card "De lady wha' gib me dis is In de pa'lor," she explained "Dey's anodder lady on de do step Gracious, Mandy" exclaimed the mis tress. "Why didn't you ask both ot them to come inY' "Kase. ma'am, grinned the girl, de one on de do step done forgit her ticket"
 Within twenty miles of New York'i City Hall there is a population oi 1000, 900 Jews, more than h all Ameri ca besides. It Is the greatest aggrega ton of Jews in any one spot on earth being one eleventh of the entire Jewish population of the globe. Here are one | l.