Show MRS mas the writer who Is s best known by the name of john strange winter says she of one happy marriage that was the result of a proposal made mada on the fourth day after a the couple wet met it Is her own MRS curtis acs has used the money received from the edition of prue and 1 I 11 published publish eaby by the harper brothers last christmas as A fund for a free scholarship in the staten island academy in memory of her husband two In hundri indred years ti t pap capt from froin which bank of angland Un gland nol af raade e has b as been manufactured at laver stoke in lampshire twelve beds at a penny a night each are offered to londona Lon dons homeless poor in a new salvation army shelter erected on the banks of the thames near bridge brid gw THE diamond is 19 not among the earliest liest gems ferns known to man it has not cot been found in the ruins of nineveh in the etruscan sepulchers nor in them the tombs tomb of the phoenicians Phoenicia ns ABOUT oooo worth of pearls have been taken from the waters water S of vis cousin streams during the last few years year soma singla pearls obtain obtained ea there have been estimated to be ba worth the french crown jewels were 1 inventories inventoried invent oried in 1791 there were w re 9 diamonds pearls rubies rabies isi sapphires sapp hires emeralds 71 topazes to pazes 3 amethysts and a number of unclassified now imports every year tons of meat THESE are in great britain owners owners of farms is 1137 virginia had plows and massachusetts 37 THE wheat area of india is estimated at acres CEYLON haa cinnamon plantations stations cov covering ering acres 1 IN i 1749 south carolina exported bushels of potatoes 2000 tons of horseflesh are annually eaten in paris paria NEW ZEALAND ZEA LAND cheep average avenge 70 pounds Arg argentine eutine 40 E diamonds to load two large coal 1 I 1 trains and having a total weight of f carats barats and valuation of Moo SS ooOo have been taken out of the cape diamond fields since their discovery in 1687 1807 ym low OW quartz or topaz resembles the real to topaz blaz in color only it is gofter s lighter different in crystallization and ancl cleavage and in electrical properties irs much of the yellow quaita quai tz is manufactured by heating ame As AN attempt is to be made by a hallway N J man to cross the ocean in a sixteen foot norwegian skiff A LAEGE aoe lake in the olympic mountains at an altitude of five thousand feet was recently discovered by two hunters |