Worth Knowing

That a cholee orange, both peel and pulp, sllced and covered with fragrant hot tea, makes a beverage fit for the gods. Building ground comes high in London. Lately a plot of flfty-seven square yards in Lombard street sold at $6,500 per square yard. The oldest known apple tree in this country ia in Cheshire, Conn. The seed was planted 140 years ago, and the tree still bears a few apples. A company producing only one form of one part of a bicycle, the jointless rim, covers two acres of ground with its works at Birmingham, Eng. Six of the newspapers now published in Germany were established over 200 years ago, the oldest being the Frankfurter Journal, founded in 1615. The recent enumeration of roters in Indiana shows the total vote of the state in 1895 to be 627,072. Of this number 613,750 are white and 13,332 colored. In some southern localities the colored people believe that if a crow croaks an odd number of times foul weather will f olio w; if even, the day will be fine. Japan has ordered 800 miles of submarine cable in Englant', which is to be uaed in a line to Formosa. The Japanese propose to do all the work themselves with their own cable shlps. Twenty years ago a Chinese bel!e eould be bought for $25. The price has gradually risen to $600, and the custom of murdering birl babies has diminished correspondingly in public praetice. Cars in which aluminum will be used for all metal work, save the wheels and axles, are to be put on the state railroads of France. The saving in weight for an ordinary train wiil & UdrtJ '.ons. ____