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ll.kee 8.1‘01981‘1 ............. annulus N‘lllM-u-ud. Panama. Pa'opnn‘rt. . 0! 83,000 children in Edinburgh schools 20,000 are connected with Band- ot Hope.. - While cur-in: his daughter for naming against his wishes, : Texas mun was stricken with Mb. . Helhourne. now the Bevehth city of the British Empire. confined at tha time 0! Oman Victoria’s accession of Ween huts. ‘ Tbbmco smokers have been more exempt from influenza during the re: cent apidemleg thaia than persons who are not habitual mokérs. Dr. 8. W011- Mitchell, 0! Philadelo ”ohm. has contributed to the records at media: science no less than 135 mute mm and books. A clock is being canal-acted for Liverpool Strut station in London. The iMeflor 01m use could! allow the pauonn to dine comfortably. Britain holds the honor of having first formed societie- tor the preven- tion or «malty to animals, find or hav- in: first. legislated for punishment to oflenders. The Register of Marlgh, 13., says Col. Henderson 13 the only man 'in the ooumry yiho knows how to say “God bless you” as it Ihou'ld he laid. War in the hardest at In aub- Iuncos hat, with the single excep- tion of ”men an. The cutest two at mercury and load. which stand in this respect on nearly the «no tom.- 18:. mésma' LINKS. ulna. 22617 IBERIDAN ROAD N BWS-LETTERâ€"PAR‘!‘ II. numawm I? 110 fl A Maul Judge "canny pve nu in an tor and!” n elxn day clock. Amon; 200.000 £11thch at Pulas- tlne then are 00,000 Jen. a all! of 26.000 ln twenty nun.- In uyln: on her brother’- cbtlus a llonuna woman pulled a:- neck“. too tight and vu strangled. In Abyulnh tho c0800 plant mu wild in am notation uad derive. in lime M‘lhla, a dhxtrlct of that Wooten Aintnlla. bu an, at ll tom. prohibiting the humus of to! on who can not write out a. given pu- II‘OII llkliuh. ' ' In 1850 our producth or choose val 106500.000 pounds. In 1800 It. was 350,750,000. At pment It I. eltlmtod to be tbout 280,000,000 pounds. One’ of the nights at weapon. II... on a recent afternoon van a sand- daughter of fourteen you: Inching ”(grandfather how to. ride : bike. Spur-now mlnmer to the United sum. the Duke d'-Arcos, In I“!!! .nd- below medium height. Ho your a, stunting mu heard. his hulr is thin. und he hu 1 bald pm: on the top of his head. _ In 1850 u: was estimated that tha con- sumption of pure nicohol in France eqngled 1% litres I bend or the popu- lation. In 1896 it had Incremd to 4219 litres. apart from the (we or who, bears and elder. Kins: Oscar bf Sweden In 3.112 most musical ctrelznlng monarch. In-hls younger dun he was regardéd arthq most accbmpmhod teno; in Europe.and could havemdde a fortune out hi his voice oh the stage. genre and portrait painter, was born in Lowell Me. - Our leading sculptorâ€"pat least who divides the place of honor with Ward â€"|a Saint- Gaudens. a native 0! Dub- lin. __ ' ‘ ‘ The richest man in the city. and in the world, is John D. Rockefeller, a. native of Tings-county, New York. ‘ In finance‘ .the admitted leader is" John Pierpont Morgan, who was born in mrtford and caime to New York at the use of 2o.~ - Joseph Hodges Chaate, one or the most distinguished lawyer: at the age, was born in Salem. Mass. and came to this city at the age of 24. The greatest aftersdlnner oratm'. _a politician, a railroad man. a lawyer, and United States senator, Chauncey Mitchell Depew, was born in Paokskili. N. Y. and W9. not a. New Yorker until 83 years old. In surgery Dr. Levin Amer: Sayre stands at the top. He VI.- born at Battle Hm N. J.. and began practic- in; ,here at the use of a. He was In- tonded for the church, but got to bl such {avatar that the cloth would not at him. ‘ Eastman Johnson, the distinguished Lacuna MEN or GOTZHAM. INTERESTING WOMEN. Ana the Poet nature out Was le- . h . waned with, s be... ‘ _ Park Correspondence Chicago Rec. and: At the “is alaht o! the Comedic l'raseeise one or the most luxurious and prominent house was occupied by ll ordinary W's clerk, whose pres- “ w an interesting story. Two months no. when the historical socie- U here was arranging its part in the Racine (ate. it made up its mind to Place a commemorative tablet on the home in Paris in which the poet had lived. But the name 01 the street and the numbers have been changed so aften that there was great dincuity in deciding which house it was. Some descriptions of the place exist in let- ters of and about Racine, but they mizht have applied to two orthree houses. A great dispute arose, and there seemed only one way of. settling it. I! the original lea-e. by which Racine held the house tor so man” yeers, could be found it might con- tain specification too deiluiteto admit of doubt. Did this lease exist? It should. tor all such documents are tin- elly died in the notarial archives. or which there are twenty diflerent branches in Paris. K. Claretie, direc- tor of the Theater Francais, «altered to the notary who would ilnd the lease a : first-class box for the evening of the Comedie's celebration and other news- [ paper honors dear to the Parisian heart. The result was that after a iortnixht’s hunting a very dust-be- crimed young man turned up at M. Ciaretie's once with the precious doc- ument gripped tightly in his hand. He was a notary’s clerk who had been living for two weeks amid the docu- mentary flotsam and jetsam “or 200 years ago. luau 3nd climate of arm v' Siberia is not the had buried in mow and peopled with exiles only that it is imagined t6 he, even by many Russians. In its southern parts it is rich in natural production: as are the southern parts of Canada, and besides 600, 000 of natives it has a population of more than 4,,000 000 as thoroughly Russian as that to‘ the north at Mos- cow. ‘ Style In the Walt. There is something wrong when western Kansas papers print menus for yacht luncheon, styles for bathing sum. etc. F'echxunma~ people ever saw a yacht, and we alt know there is no bathing in the state except in a tub by the kitchen are on Saturday night-Ataxia») Globe; Literary sinuous-id. ‘ V A. French statistician declares that Switzerland produces. annually more; book's than nny other country in pro“. portion to the number of inhabitant. namely. auto every 8,000. Germany cones next with one for every 3,200; Ital? with one for 8.300; Fiance, one for 8.500; England. one for 0,600; Unit- ed States. one for 12,400. * POUND THE LEASE.