Show I Miscellaneous Matters The income of the emperor of Russia I for one day is 25000 that of the sul of tan of Turkey 18000 emperor Austria 5000 German emperor 3000 I king of Italy 6500 Queen Victoria 6500 king of Belgium 6500 president of France 3000 president of the United States 130 I A practical western newspaper writer I says that statistics gathered from I I religious periodicals and womens mag azines show that fully half the bullets I fired in the late war were turned aside from the heart of the man shot at by a pocket Bible given him by his weeping weep-ing sweetheart or his mother Brussels sense of propriety has been so shocked at the entertainment advertised ad-vertised by a naturalist playwright verised from Pars that the frontier and all of the actors of the theatre Realiste who notified to I were French subjects were leave Belgium within 24 hours The Svantlans who live in the inaccessible in-accessible mountain range between the Black and Caspian seas are probably the laziest and dirtiest people in the world They have made no advance toward civilization in 2500 years I I is their invariable rule to observe holidays days four times a week with saints I days as extras Up to March 23 4560 Klondike miners I min-ers licenses to prospectors mostly been issued from the United States had I sued at the custom house In Victoria at 10 each The cash receipts there for were 45600 and the cost being IQSS I 560 I than 3 per cent the remainder of this to the sum was turned over direct I dominion government The streets of Manila are s modern as to be quite out of keeping with the general appearance of the town They I are perfectly straight macadamized and provided with ample granite walks I Of these the Escolta and Rosario are the best In both there are excellent I shops kept principally by Chinese merchants mer-chants most of whom come from Amoy Tin roofed houses line each side of both thoroughfares A Welsh jury not long ago found a prisoner guilty of the murder of his wife under great provocation Counsel for the defense argued ctt I this was equivalent to a verdict for manslaughter but the judge treated the conviction as one for murder deem I ing the additional words to be mere surplusage The defendant was sentenced sen-tenced to death but may yet escape on an appeal to a higher court |