Show JOURNAL JOTS there are arc afify one metals colorado is first state in silver ulass glass buttons were mado made A D 70 florida Flori dais is third in sur 0 mirand sixth in in rice london cons consume umeo nearly as much fish as meat I 1 ceylon is the most remarkable gern g gem deposit in the world there pro 2000 licensed dram drain shops in the city of st louis harky barley hark y water and linseed tea sire are said to ite be for the voice vine fine cloths claths were made at gednn under n der the patronage patr onaga of mazarin 1456 cashmere shawls were first r brought br ought to england el from india in 1606 the total mileage of railways railway now no w open to traffic in japan is 1717 of the earths surface acres are devoted to tobacco culo cul cu o ture john job n D rockefellers Rocke fellers two daib tors will probably inherit ahe the bunting season in tap united stated and canada is bon lion the open op en the descendants of a sing single e fp fe malc wasp will often number 26 in one season reason in the united states there are H nid id to be freemasons Free masons and odd fellows A tunnel under the thames was war proposed in ill 1799 the present tunnel was fi fini nihed ched in 1843 R needles a year rear while the united state turns out ont over the tha greatest cathedral in the cita of mexico is the largest in america 9 and abid cost nearly half a million lives are daily dependent upon the efficiency of iron ard steel ropes tn in 1552 1532 books on geometry and as astronomy tron oiny were destroyed in england is as savoring of magic mrs hattie I rothrie of lowell mass faes is 32 years of age arid and is the youngest grandmother in america the first paper published in holland appeared jan 8 1676 it is now ilow known as the haarlem courant california wines threaten to replace the spanish varieties in the french market for wilding blending pur j poses the most perfect echo is at killarney Kil larncy ireland it repeats repeat a cornet note nearly twenty minutes aim atte addia 9 inked pansi iii bait n are never known to have cholera smallpox scarlet fever or influenza the british museum posses possesses Fes an all iron of 1370 years 1 B C the oldest st authenticated iron implement pleni ent known richmond vu va is built over a bad of chalk that contains minute extinct shells to every pubic inch odthe of the stratum ratum Et nests of the ants of south africa are often 12 feet high slid and ar grouped together in clusters the tal tallest les t in the center after the conquest of mexica alexica aud and peru emeralds were so abend iut alst that one spanish nobleman took hoine three bushels of them the diani diamond ond though liard is one of the most brittle stones A fall on a wooden floor will vill some tunes crack and ruin a fine specimen the in habitants of london each eat every year 05 65 pounds of apples 2 of cherries 40 of pears 17 of p plums lumet 1 of raspberries rasp berries and 4 of strawberries pianos were invented in 1711 competent authorities now declare that chive hundred are made dur inz tile the hours of every working day I 1 in ill the year year an ali educated indian who recently paiit p rt half an hour in reading the i epitaphs in a cemetery remarked I 1 r guess the only goo good d white man inan is a dead white man mail A californian california claims to ID have invented v e anted a method by which grapes grapel 0 of f the muscat and other sweet varieties can call be made into perfect granulated sugar A chica chicago o building society lias has increased its capital from 4 0 OUO to sp declares the national loan herald Piea Pie ent sent assets are bijil 11 A writer lias has figured that of the 15 persons mentioned in ap ons cyclopedia of ainer american i 1 uan bio raphy 1 I as fa famous in american history 5 3 ate aie college bradu ate the tenth census shows that 2 23 inhabitants of the united states ire are supported by a kicul ture 11 by manefa manufactures and by commerce A flo flourishing 0 new baltimore export industry lias been started by ex senator henry G davis tha t of ri ehi aping hipping west virginia Virg coke to tile alie silver re regions ions of ireni co tile turkeys turl Leys of the knitel states are annually flavored with over bus liels of cranberries C grown I 1 rown mostly in ill new jersey and wisconsin texas is a hig big and still a roomy state of its counties twenty six have save less les 9 than inhabit thirty teven others have less than 1000 only eighty one olle haw have over MOM california puts the rest of the country under obligations by ful sup plying I 1 us tie with pounds of raisins every year most of which are r oo 00 aten in the united plates tates an X fn austria laborers who ha ve passed the age of GO may claim from th alie e governing government rit a pension iqual to one third of the daily dails wages they received durin during g their working year ars itally gives giver to the world outside her ter borders oran oranges es spain portugal L 80 flo ida nearly I 1 na is many as para guay india has peats goats which produce daily quarts of milk and devour annually three times linies their own value of articles i hat their owners can ill afford to spare there is a steady decrease in the value of old english mansions oakley hall in essex it a fine property I 1 per ty of COO acres valued fol forty ty years BRO ato at has been sold eod for 4 the smallest republic in the world is franchville Fran ceville eeville one of th the 0 islands of the ile new hebrides tile the ants consist of 40 10 eu europeans rope atis and black workmen employed empl eyed by a french famil family there has been baen an increase of per cent in the number of divorces granted in this county from 1867 to 1886 in ili the lie same time there has been an ail increase in population of 69 per cent documents just disc discovered prove that in 1836 a city called belgrade was projected a few miles below detroit arid and cassandra was mapped a few miles north neither city ever got farther than on paper in birmingham england there recently died a detective named black who had bad in his life discovered over three thousand criminals and at a race near rugby he once arrested eight pickpockets pick pockets in thirty five minutes minutes tho the faut famous ious chojak tunnel of india pierces the khwaja amran mountains about sixty miles north of if inetta at an elevation of feet it is feet long and was constructed broad elou enough ali to sarry carry a double track the long longa st fc j iron roil ra railway I 1 way bridge on m the european co continent was bened opened last week across the river sian poland and culmsee in germany it is 1150 yards lung and cost marks interesting experiments have recently been made with the new nev tents which the german soldiers mrry carry with them the aud in view is to make the tents tent or rather their cloth serve to construct ferryboats ferry boats for the col soldiers diers baggage statisticians claim that the earth will not support to exceed people the present population is estimated at tile increase being 8 per cent each decade at that rate the utmost limit will be reached in the yc year ir 2072 the first aerial voyage was made september 1783 by a sheep it a cock and a duck to a height of 1500 feet the first hum human n tr traveler ar through the air was mr francois de rozier who mou mounted n ted the following month in a free baloon A single match requires from 1 to 1 looch of a grain of phosphorus for its production yvet yet the consumption of matches is so large that it is estimated asti maled that the flie total of 1200 tons is less than the amount consumed in eui eusope ope 1 in n their manufacture tile the medium aid given liy by the city of copenhagen to the poor 11 in in 1893 1803 was 80 for husband and wife a and lid 55 for a single person but few received inucci the average bein being I 1 15 45 for husband and wife and 21 2 J for single I 1 persons i er 9 on s about four fiat fifths b s of I 1 choso h oso receiving D aid were ivere over 65 years old statistics just issued show that aurill during el the alie past year but twenty one pa passengers iseno err and nine employed emp loyes thirty persons in in all wele killed in railroad accidents in great britain and ireland in ili the same eallie period passengers were carried when an ail old black walnut tree twenty three feet in circumference was cut down at flatbush L I 1 the other oilier day a four foot hole was found in its center from its roots to its branches at the first bratich branch a red current bush had thrived for three years and this it is tb thought ought capped the ihu life from the t trees re Is heart I 1 prof Willi william arn E kiln knapp ap pp of yale who is soon to take the chair of romance lan gurgos anti and literature in ia tho the university of chicago is the t tie master in aster of 0 feigh eighteen teen languages including icelandic eredish yr edish sh welsh spanish arabic hebrew russian lius sian portuguese 0 and bohemian |