Show facts and new news A fiddle in parl s ky wae was made in Alaba alabama mahas has more women than men arkansas haa hav doubled ita its population on in ten yeara the laal wolf was killed in great britain year years ago A stove made in 1828 in york nork pa was recently sold for 1000 there are almost aa many dogs as children in berkeley co va america produces about one fourth ortho wheat grown in the world since tile year 2176 suicides auk idea havo have been committed in new york water and sulphuric acid make one of the delightful white whit winea ewines of paris tho the crematory in pennsylvania ia is said to reduce bodies to ashes a at t 45 each tha the british wild ox is extinct ex ceat in ili a few english and scottish parks minneapolis mina minn boasts an I 1 increase in population pu lation from in 1880 to thia this spring Accord according inz to the tile eastern pers san francisco baa has a worse decol record for divorces mail chicago er or st louis A west point cadet begins with the ame same pay which a prussian usla captain receiver receives after twenty years service A farmer in in clark county indiana works a farm of 1600 acres which he h own owns without being able abl to read or write benjamin franklins old bulls bul lB eye 0 ye watch is owned bya beaman man in lan aster taster pa large offers have been refused for it the div wives ex of meat of ortho the molly maguires who were hanged in pennsylvania afew a years ago age are now keeping dram shop there aro arc statistics to chow show that la in the city of glasgow forty one families out of one hundred live in houses having baving only one room A pitch pine tree on grant creek missoula soula county M T is fet feet high and find 27 feet 4 inches in circumference firo five feet from tho the ground new jersey ers standi second in retard regard to railway facilities cili ties in the united states I 1 here are 1800 1600 miles of road and the capital invested reaches tha the cattle of the pampa pampas are computed at thelara the do descendant descendants ant ants of a bull and eight t cows which were wore brought there by two portuguese brothers in 1553 durand Clay clayether ethe most distin distinguish d of french sanitarians sanit arians says an n address just u t published talat that the only practice practicable tica 1 1 was of disposing of sewage towage is by by it iu iti irrigation russia norway and austria have each a third of their their surface forest sweden hungary and ger germany in a m y a fourth italy and switzerland switzerland ft a fifth france and belgium a sixth seven years ago last january a couple lar near aa as to who should light a fire in the par lorand from that day to this none has bea boon made in that room there are 1100 foundlings fit ata a I 1 single I 1 institution in new now york city Cit yand and int t the tol collection lection has been made within willa two years most of them wre were left upon the ali doorsteps of wealthy residents tiffany Ti flany of new yorka york haa has among his treasures eurea a diamond valued at and it is eaid by those who know ibo about ut such things to be the largest in this country it weighs karau the postal carda cards are made at holyoke ok e masa am by bv fort forty men who turn ou out t about a million L daily alv they have diminished the consumption of writ ing paper pa by from fr om to a year A pretty novelty was int introduced at a recent lunch party in new york roses were frozen in a large cake of ice ic which waa was placed on a mat of smilax the effect was as if these were standing etan dinc water A london magazine for 1794 contains the following almost unique death announcement in child childbed ed of her thirteenth child the th wife of joseph sims at the bell inn cambridge county gloucester in this the most treacherous season 8 of f the year a question of life or death often bangs hangs upon a chance change of flannels it ia is a good old fashioned rule to stick to those beat producing garments until they stick to you during the sessions of congress Con grera it is said that the five cent cagara at the CO congressional ress ional restaurants are bought by tte the members while the ten and fifteen cent ones are taken by the clerks and other aass A lady in providence has among her elegant articles artl clea of bric a brac in her parlor a I 1 large a carved wooden oat spoon i with a W wooden 0 e n chain attached aurig by the side of the fireplace this unique ornament is over years old in a AL private collection of curiosities rn maine I aIne there is s a large silver spoon which represents represents all the mone money T pad d for building a saw and grist ini mill t the e payment having been made in silver silver which was melted down and cast into tile th it is popularly sup supposed that the only wall papers to be feared on account of the arsenic which th they ey may contain are of green color thedrus the drug ia is freely asuit dmd however in many of the this rd red fawn lawn and other papers of recent fashionable shades telegraph posts cost about 0 1 I each the th wira wire hed on theta busts about 16 15 a mile the crosa cross arms arin coat scott nv fire couts a running foot the hirsula tors cost two and a half centa each by the hundred fur for light wire wires and sev eau on to v eight ight centa for heavy N wires irel out of f tt a total po population Oa of about fifty millions it in t this 1118 countr country cru there were in asso a little over peo peu idi bic blind and dealand deaf and nio dumb i in every of POP ul a tion there were 1834 victims tima ol 01 in sanity r 1533 idi idiots ot a 76 blind and df dett and dumb the new york tribune estimates the population of odthe the country to n have hare been on ort th the first of january t about professor treadwell of nam acan setta found that a half grown american robin ip in confinement ate in one day sixty eight worms weighing together once and a half as much as 09 the bird himself hims elfand and another had pro pre riou fily starved upon a dally daily allowance of eight or ten worms or about 20 per centon cent of his own weight |