RULERS—The same as previous year.
POPULATION—Washington, D. C., 147,293; New York (including boroughs now forming Greater New York), 1,935,367; New York (Manhattan), 1,206,299; Chicago, 503,185; London, 3,834,194; United States, 50,155,783; Great Britain and Ireland, 34,868,648. World population, estimated at 1,433,000,000.
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.—Marcus Aurelius. (121–180.)
FROM THE LIPS OF ANANIAS.
These Little Tales Illustrate How a Good Lie, Well Told, Is Far More Honest Than That Polite But Hypocritical Invention Which Is Known as “Fiction Founded on Fact.”
A FISHERMAN’S REVENGE.
Enos Wilson, an enthusiastic fisherman from Brockton, Massachusetts, who is here on his spring vacation, is receiving the congratulations of his friends.
While out fishing in a canoe lately Enos got a bite from a dogfish. The dogfish bit the bottom out of the canoe and also carried away a portion of Mr. Wilson’s trousers.
This so enraged the doughty fisherman that he threw away his rod and line, and, jumping into the water, swam after the fish, overtaking it and holding it under the water until it was drowned.
The dogfish weighed nineteen and a quarter pounds on its own scales. It was a fresh-water dogfish and very vicious.—Boston Post.