Show For the Curious There are 20000 Englishspeaking Episcopal clergymen in the world The population of the Sandwich Islands has increased 23000 since the last census This increase however comes principally from Chinese and Portuguese The United States Patent Office did a larger business during April than it ever did in any previous month The applications appli-cations for patents were 3150 and the fees 100640 Love potions are tabooed by the doctors doc-tors A medical paper says There is no drug in existence having the effect when administered of making the will of the person subservient to some other persons will or inclination A telegraph operator who copies directly di-rectly from the sounder upon a typewriter type-writer is reported from Nashville Tenn I the first and only operator in the world who has succeeded in doing this One night recently he received and copied 15000 words of press matter delivering it to the news editor of the paper in handsome hand-some typewriter copy The aggregate annual cost of the armies ar-mies of Europe is nearly 750000000 and the average number of men withdrawn with-drawn from industrial employment for military service is about 3000000 Almost Al-most all national debts are the product of war and the campaign against Napoleon added about 3000000000 to the debt of GreatBritaiii as the rebellion did to the I debt of the United States France paid 2000000000 for the chastisement inflicted in-flicted by Germany and the conflict ot Russia and Turkey cost 700000000 besides be-sides 100000 lives although it lasted hardly more than six months |