Show I BITS INFORMATION Vermont gained but 17000 inhabitants from 1850 to 1S90 Fewer potatoes are now raised in New England than 50 years ogo New Hampshire in 1S90 had gained but 56000 inhabitants in 40 years The value of the output from New England factories has quintupuled since 1830 In Garricks time when the weather was warm the men in the pit took off their coats and vests i In all the capitals of Europe save London some theaters are kept uo by government support Irish and French Canadians constitute consti-tute 70 per cent of the foreign population popula-tion in New England During the entreacts of the Greek theaters boys sell dates figs bread and wine in the seats In 20 rears the cultivated area of New England has diminished from 11 150000 acres to 10740000 In the last 20 years the rural population popu-lation in Maine Vermont and Rhode Island has diminished I I Garrlck tried to abolish prologues and epilogues but the audiences of his day would not consent i Bootmaklng is carried on in New England to a degree that eclipses all European nations Greek and Roman architects placed I earthen jugs in the walls of theaters to Increase the resonance The annual output of grain in New England fell off from 1850 to 1S30 from 525000 tons to 470000 tons I The earliest American theaters were I at New York and Annapolis 1753 Albany I Al-bany 1769 Baltimore 1773 Relatively to population no Eur5 i pean country can vie with New England En-gland In respect to manufactures The urban population of New England En-gland more than doubled since 1870 while the rural population has stood stillFrom From 1850 to 1890 the average annual wages paid to operatives in the New England factories increased 91 percent per-cent During the last 50 years there has been an increase of 35 per cent in the number of mUch cows in New England General Wolloo Is the name of the secretary of the British National Society So-ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Although Greece has an abundance of sea coast most of the fish eaten are imported the imports of fish averaging 700000 yearly Don Cameron of Pennsylvania has given a horse valued at 15000 to Pres ident Diaz of Mexico The freight charges were GOO in gold The annual output of the manufac tures of Great Britain represent 113 per inhabitant in New England it rep resents 319 per inhabitant In the last century the grave digger in Hamlet excited immense enthusiasm enthusi-asm by pulling off one after another a couple of dozen waistcoats Large numbers of rural farms In northern New England abandoned by Yankee farmers have been occupied and reclaimed by French Canadians Nearly 70 round towers from 30 to 133 feet high are found in various parts of Ireland They are believed to have been used In the ceremonies of fire worship If the landed surface of the globe were divided and allotted in equal shares to each of its human inhabit I ants it would be found that each would get a plot of 23 acres In the days of Queen Elizabeth it was customary to strew green rushes on the uncarpeted floor of the actors retiring room in the theatres hence the term green room Maine Is about as large as Ireland a u iitfariy tote t nice as largess Bel cinm yet instead of having from 5000000 to 7000000 Inhabitants it hut 11 IotO only 661000 A Chicago woman says that Josephs coat of many colors was violet a combination of all colors When it was dipped in blood it became purple hence the designation royal purple Manufacturing has tempted foreigners foreign-ers to settle in Massachusetts Connecticut Con-necticut and Rhode Island to such an extent that half the population Is composed com-posed of immigrants and their Children The Tower of Babel at Babylon was composed of eight square towers one upon the other the pile being CoO feet high Babylon was a square 15 miles on cacti slue the wails being Si feet thick and 370 feet high The wall of Severus separating England Eng-land from Scotland was 3G miles long and protected by 21 forts It was 20 feet high and 24 feet thick and to the north was protected by a moat 40 feet wide and 20 feet deep The increased output of milk and butter in New England has been such in the last 50 years that while the average value of farm products for the whole union Is only 11 per acre the average for New England is 14 per acre There are few immigrants in Greece only 2 per cent of the population being foreign born The country is not attractive at-tractive to one who wants to make his own living It does not produce enough of anything for its own consumption A French cyclist named Garaud a plumber by trade recently rode round the coping stone of a house in course of construction for a wager The cop ing stone was barely two feet wide and was about 50 feet from the ground |