FACTS OF FOREIGN INTERESTS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3556, 5 August 1905, Page 2

FACTS OF FOREIGN INTERESTS

The total of crimes in Ehgland an.o Wales fell from 185,933 in 1873 to 158,* 931 In 1898. Only one among the seven president* of t 'hc French republic has Served ou* a full t,e'<*n- ~ - M ; ss Beckwith wa * on ß’ 14 years olq when, in istf, she swam from London to Greenwich, It was in 1853 tlfc* force® by an American squadXp n °P en ports to foreign trade* In 1831 Great Britain els of grain per inhabitant* JJiigfc.J’Ca* she grew seven bushels. Electric cab service in PsrfS fe** proved very and it is that the loss represents $900,000. . In the blastings at Bishopton* on $.119 ■ Greenock railway, 314 tons of gunpow* ■ ae? were used on a length of ®,300 i yar'&J, , A record dstch of sturgeon on the r Volga has juai been made by an Astra- 1 khan fishing firtS; one fish weighing - i more than 46 pootif, or about 1,700 pounds. The head weighed .about 400 pounds, and the aroe, from which the famous caviare is prepared, cdsp* to about 220 pounds. The sturgeoo was valued at S4OO. Eleonora Duse was born in a wagon f »«ar Venice and was beingiaken to a 1 church for baptism, according to local * custom, in a glass cradle ornamented gpld when a detachment of Austrian came along. Regarding this sumptuous cradle as a shrine full of holy rflics, J.hey presented arms. This delighted the father.

THE BOOK LOVERS’ CORKERS' R. Crockett, the novelist* fia9 ft jfreat collection of indexed scrap-books from which to draw his material. “Eben> Holden”, is reported not to have been a" success in England. The reading public Sid not take to it at al. The reason, why bevy owed books aro seldom returned is that it is eatnet to retain the books themselves than what is inside them, —Gilles M&page. The United States government has Just ordered of the publishers a large number of copies of Prof. L. 0. Howard’s “Mosquitoes” for tie use of the army. George Croal, of Edinburgh ia pro®}" ably the only survivor of the. largo assembly which in 1827, at the Edinburgh Theater Royal dinner, fieard Sir Walter Scott acknowledge the authors! ~0 of <h- Wnverley novels. Mj. Croal is now 9J years old. The /famous detective, SherloclJ Holmes,\s not dead, after all. He has only been' resting, and did not end hi« career over that terrible precipice in Switzerland, for, it is eaid, his creator, Dr. Conan Doyle, will shortly resume the story of the marvelous feotsof tins detect ive's ingenuity.

Cole Younger, the famous Missouri, bandit who is serving a life term the penitentiary at Stillwater, Minn.j is librarian of the prison and occul pies his spare time in reading. He was a mari'of no education when Eeivj tsneed, but by persistent reading i> now fairly well posted, J