OCR Text |
Show bonds belonging to a Paris couple. The bonds were kept In an old hat box. St Peter's, at Rome, is In the form of a cross CM feet long and 450 feet wide. Its height Is only two feet less than its width. Almoat the entire commercial wraith of India, with its population of 300,000.000, Is aald to be in the hands of less than SO.OOO persons. A Madrid restaurant-keeper has sued a woman for a meal. He swears that she ate and drank without ceasing from 8 p. m. to I a. m. The first Japanese ever brought back under the extradition .treaty was sentenced sen-tenced at Honolulu on December 6 to imprisonment im-prisonment for perjury. The Rev. Michael King, the pioneer priest "of Oakland, Cal., where he had served more than fifty years, died there recently at the age of 75. The 1M German societies of San Francisco Fran-cisco are planning to erect a magnificent structure that will furnish a theater, a large assembly hall, meetlng-rooma, a library, li-brary, classrooms and clubrooma. Offlcfal statistics show that the area under un-der crops in Great Britain showed a decrease de-crease of X.tts acres this year on the figures fig-ures of 10. the acreage under wheat being be-ing 1,875.184, which is the smallest area ever recorded. Odds and Ends. I In Formosa a man must have a license before he Is allowed to smoke opium. Moscow asylum authorities are experimenting experi-menting on a hypnotic cure for alcoholism. alcohol-ism. N On . a rough average, 45.000 sovereigns pass over the Bank of England counters every day.. It is supposed that the aversge depth of the ssnd In the deserts of Africa Is from thirty to forty feet Rats B"we eaten COOO worth of bearer |