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Show ALL SORTS OF NEWS. In Japan the man of "quality" never forces his steed out of a walk, lf the errand Is one which demands speed, the rider dis- mounts, ties the fore legs of Lis animal to- t gelher, and strikes off at a brisk gallop on j foot. Dickson county, Kansas, lias a county uperintendent of schools who, when he Tisits schools, takes along a box of tools, taw, hammer, etc., aud tix.es all Ihe broken eats, decayed doorsteps and delapidated brooms he comes across. The system of postal savings banks was introduced in France in 1882. During 1890 the 6S1T branch postal banks received 1,-49,371 1,-49,371 separate deposits, representing the I juui of $50,4fl5,832.'47, which is a far larger euni than was handled during the previous year. The gypsies believe that witches use egg shells to make plates, pots and dishes to feed out of at their banquets. Witches, to j preserve their health, must, with every in- j crease of the moon, suck the blood of such men as were born at the increase of th moon. The dimensions of the famous floating dock in Bermuda, the largest iu the world, are: Length over all, 381 feet; length between be-tween caissons, 330 feet; breadth over all, VSi feet 9 inches; breadth inside walls, 84 feet: depth over all, 75 feet; total weight, 8340 tons. There are many mysterious things about beetles. Those of Brazil are famed for their brilliant metallic hue, yet no one has been able to lind out what makes these colors. col-ors. Some are of gold, others of silver, yet others of blue enamel, seemingly, and so on through an endless variety of tints. The largest wooden bridge in the world is that at Two Medicine, on the. 8t. Paul tV Manitoba railway-. It is 751 feet long and 211 feet above the water. Iu the bridge are 750,000 feet of lumber, and anyone piece can be removed and replaced when worn out without disturbing the rest. The G reeks had a superstition that one who had bad his ears ticked by serpents would ever after have the gift of prophecy. This superstition arose from the fact that Cassandra Cas-sandra and Ileleuus, both of whom were said to foretell events, had their ears licked by serpents while sleeping in the temple of Appollo. A specimen of bread from the fame districts dis-tricts in Russia, as supplied by the government, govern-ment, waa recently analyzed and found to contain 10 per cent, and probably more, of woody fiber, husks, leafy matter, silicia and sand. It was of a dirty brawn color, like coarse pet. and many people failed to recognize recog-nize it as bread. A line specimen of the sea fox, or thrasher, was washed ashore at Nassawado, Ya., a few days ago, and created something of a eeusation, as nothing like the uncanny tiling bad ever before been seen there before. The fish was fourteen feet long, and about half of this was its tail, its weapon, with one of its edges as sharp as a knife. A modern compilation of cnirinccring maxims states that a horse can drag, as compared com-pared with what be can carry on his hack, in the following proportions: On the worst earthen road, three times: on a irood macadamized macad-amized road, nine: on piauk. twenty-rive; on a stone trackway, thirty-three, and on a rood railway, fifty-four times as much. Caviar, which is made, from the eggs of 6turgoons, is an important article of exportation expor-tation for many cities of Russia and Astrakhan, Astrak-han, and principally Taganrock. The annual amount is estimated at 40,000 pouda i one poud is equal to thirty-five pounds)). The greater pari goes to Turkey, ireece, Italy and Germany, very little to Kngland, aud still less to Krancc. An expert who claims to "speak whereof he know s." asserts that wine is a good investment, in-vestment, taking the chances of thirsty mobs nnd earthquakes, and a revolution in public opinion all over the world. A good port of 1815 sold in 1850 for $175 per do.eu. Tokay-laid Tokay-laid down in 1800 sold in 1850 for 10 per dozen, aud that must lie considered as paying pay-ing a fair interest on their cost and keep. Carp arc known to be hard to kill, but one Bent to Pendleton from Portland. Ore., the ther day beats the record. It had traveled all the way from Portland on ice, am! there were bruises on its head, showing that an attempt had been made there to take its life, but when the box was opened this "fresh fish'' was found to be moving around as though accustomed to such tribes. Mr. Plamand, who has been studying the inscribed stones, in the southeastern part of Algeria, has found many rocks upon which men, women and children, who were evidently evi-dently pre-historic, arc represented. The etones show the figures of horses, cattle, ostriches, and elephants, thoUaTfa the elephant ele-phant has not inhabited this region within historic times. No clew has yet been found to the identity of these people, who were evidently neither Berbers, Arabs, Romans, A'andals, or Visigoths. The designs bear eofniderahle resemblance to Egyptian figures. The greater number of the journalists of the metropolis of the eastern seabord are imported im-ported from the states or from the other Bide. Of the editors of the nine New York morning papers p ublished in the English language, seven are American born. The Pulitzer brothers come from t he other side. Of the seven Americans but one, Mr. Bennett, Ben-nett, was born in New York. Among the queer survivals in the United States navy is the theory that an ensign is necessarily a very young man. When lads were midshipmen ot 12 or 14, and there were wars to thin out the officers at the top, a man reached his lieutenancy at worst in his early twenties. But now that the midship-mite midship-mite is unknown and promotion slow, an officer may remain an ensign at 27 or 28. A few of the older captains and admirals Btill hold to the idea that an ensign needs looking after, and it is not long since men approaching their 30th year found themselves them-selves hampered by rules as to coming aboard ship at 10 o'clock and other like regulations, such a6 prevailed in the days of boy midshipmen and ensigns. "Mr." is the favorite title at Harvard, and even the president of the university is usually usu-ally spoken of as Mr. that is, when the speakers are not affecting sophomoric ways. Professors from small colleges are much surprised sur-prised at this absence of professional in.-i-t-encc when they come for special study to the university It is said that "doctor" particularly particu-larly troubles English EL D's when it is applied ap-plied to them. Professor Freeman was very-brusque very-brusque to Americans who tried to t all htm "doctor." Mr. Huxley gays: "From the time I first procured a visiting card (a proud day with even a philosopher) it has borne Mr. T. H. Huxley,' but I have no objection to the 'professor. The only thing 1 cannot etand is doctor."' According to an Indian newspaper the king of Stam endeavors to keep cool bv living under water. He has built a house of glass in the middle of a sluiceway. The walls, floors and ceiling are formed of a different thickness of glass. A single door closes hermetcially. AVhen the weather is ' very sultry the king enters his glass house, closea the door, opens a reservoir aud submerges sub-merges his house with the exception of a ventilating pipe. The result is said to be a particularly cool and pleasant atmosphere. H. H. Srimahaw is a queer old Englishman English-man who runs a hotel at Paola, Kan. At each meal time he appears at the head of a wonderfully long table and assigns his guests to seats at his right aud left. He wears a monstrous white apron, and stand-iug, stand-iug, gets a reign of silence by a rap of the handle of a large carving knife on the table. Then he says grace, asking the. blessing in a tremulous voice that makes the wildest think a little. Then he carves. He can call each guest by name from seeing them register, regis-ter, and he asks them what portion of the fowl they prefer. It is refreshing after ordinary hotel life. |