Facts Tersely Told

The Ascot races were founded by Queen Anne. The largest landed proprietor among the peers is the Duke of Sutherland, who owns more than a million acres. James P. Jump of Owen, Ky., is not egotistical in claiming that he is the Champion eg-g-eater. He recently cimbed outside of twenty-two of them at one sitting. Cultivated plums, of which there are now several hundred varieties, all descended from the original species, which was a native of the south Caucasian country. It is calculated that 10,000,000 photographs of the queen, the Prince and tha Princess of Wales are produced annually, and flnd a ready sale all over the world. So much has the art of dressing and dyeing feathers been developed that numbers of the seemingly rare feathei boas worn have already been made from the plumage of the ordinary fowl There is a gigantic "rocking-stone" 01 balanced bowlder on the pinnacle of Tandil mountain, Buenos Ayres. It is twenty-four feet in height, ninety feet long and will weigh twenty-five tons. Glass is the most perfectly elastic substance in existence. A glass plate kept under pressure in a bent condition foi flve and twenty years will return to its exact original form. Steel comes next. The ancient Chinese and Japanese frequently used to draw pictures witn their thumb nails. The nails were allowed to grow to a length of some eighteen inches, and were pared o a point and dipped in vermülion or sky-blue ink. Elbert, the center of the French woolen manufacture, is so well off that il has abolished nearly all its town taxes and now petitions the governmene foi leave to do away with the octori, the duty on provisions entering the town.