Show facts and news A america is tile bet caito Wr for birmingham gini makers stence cx german arn it i beer is reeve I 1 froin potatoes pota flourish in a cold climate russia has the test feet ut of a good ora orange e ig is said to bo be iff it thin ilkin and iti heavy weight lt 1 I 1 aa i ile pennsylvania 11 ia ia i ona of tle few states it ates without a state board of the one railroad I 1 in wall all grecco Is five miles wiles long and each cuilo of it took tool a year to build tho the homestead of tile lato late sell senator a hill of georgia which cost 20 has been sold old for A apple tree on oil a it farm in georgetown township near new albany ind is eight feet in circum circumference forence the governor of kentucky it is is said pardoned in a year and a persons for murders mur dera attempts on life and preparations for taking life or liberty great brigu britain tin lias has no less lea than 1674 generals in her army but only of them are in active service service there arc are probably half a a million in the civil r ranks a ilk S of this thi q country 11 A southern correspondent of the Uart Il artford ford conn tunes times says that there are three seasons in P florida lorida the orange vegetable le and dinv inv enval inval tl d season the latter pays the best the northern pacific road has a gap of miles in montana eastern section having been completed ten miles of buzeman the tracks will probably joined in july in massachusetts there is one divorce H to twenty one no marri marriage aie s Vermont New tio connecticut ditc itc afi cut about one to fourteen in rhode island one to twelve in Mine oneto eight st louia louis medical schools school u so about subjects a year and claim that the supply from public institutions is so to largo large that chete is little or no give grave robbing the students pay from 8 to 20 cadi each for them the editors in iii chief of lie boston ii advertiser from 1814 one year after its founding up III to the present time have all been licen college graduates graduate two graduated from Il harvard arvard one fa from rom yale ale and one from williams A pair of american bald eagles g have made their home near stony stolly point monroe county mich lich 1 on oil the margin of lake erie for many years and it is believed they are nearly if not quite seventy five years old it is estimated that the immigrants who came to this coun jq ry in 1882 brought with them nil ail average of 83 each or an aggregate of and that was brought brou glit in the same wayn 1881 the highest x rate ato of wages paid for convict labor in the new jersey jensey states prison is sixty cents a day and the lowest fifty cents the sante receives but a dav for the la Vo convicts most af f the prisoners prison cis ate are employed by y pennsylvania I 1 contractors A philadelphia tenor took a it place fai m a church choir under liis his oun name and in iii a negro minstrel company at nt the ilia i ame frame time under an assumed one but the double salary did not last long for fur persons aror 11 the church recognized him through tl the 1 a burnt cork at the show and he lie was excluded from the choir gallery newfoundland fishermen working on oil share aharen are ire sometimes charged b ten cents for each shot hole they he make in in the the cal in killing it A certain fisherman shot a seal making twelve hole in its pelt with the shot from his gun the skin was worth sl 10 hu tool took it to the party with whom lid had to work and lien hid iiii account w was D cast up tip the fisherman found he lie had bad been cli arged arced 0 for holes in the skin in 0 other th bordi he was a seal skin and ten As an example of southern shih les ness a lady traveling in north L Carol Caro linit mft tells of the manner in which the daily work of a house among the mountains was car carried ried on there seemed to be only one household alip appliance liance a tin basin b aal it was first used for milking next 1 ni the biscuits were mixed in it then it came nto play as a wash basin afterward the baby was washed in it il then it was used for cooking hominy and finally the dishes were washed in it it had served servo ago tho di diverse yer ends of dairy and nursery A nautical mile or an english admiralty knitis knot is feet the united states coast survey li has as adopted meters or 7 feet as the standard mile Wi which bichis ChiS is popularly a minute of latitude ut but more accurately the sixtieth part of a degree g on oil the great circle of a sphere whose surface is equal to the surface of the 10 earth A minute of latitude according cording to the it head ead of the tile co coast ast survey would bo be meters at the poles oles and met atthe equator quator one minu teof the fi equator would be eters or feet |