VENEZUELA.
SOME TIMELY AND INTERES
INC INFORMATION.
Condensed Facts About the South
American Republic--its Feople
Government and Resources,
Yenezueln is in the extreme north
ern part of South America, directly
facing the Caribbean Sea. To the West
of it is the Republic of Colombia, to tie
South is Brazil, Kast are the
territorial three Euro
pean governinents combined under the
The fur-
Frenc
Squar
to the
possessions of
geographical name of Guiana
thest away Venezuela is
Guiana, a
miles and 2
ity
from
territory of 46,000
000 nonula
ein
offences
at any
tory of almost
poling,
as the Frencl
ulation twi
the chief \
to Venezueln
» of whiel
it of
The
miles
area of Texas
by th
is mor
nezuela
2 H00.000. This
than Switz
st Const
han Dem
official e
Mass:
1804,
ral census
silation of
and
i pop il
ives
vont
quette
lomatie
tween
ment at
lous foreign
of routine
ir the Ne
rather to thu
several isla
large area,
uracon,
land of "1
the isiand
isle of St (3
Some of
lajuacions
too Come
The lenzth
to West is
10 ..
ties of
esl
tek oos
ice,
he coffe
to S15, 006) Ox
avern
Two-thirds
mostly to Er
of the
fee is Known os
Venezuela
its
ent
centre
independence
republic wi
the same
an independent monarchy
political factions in Venezu
Unioniats Foederalists
former favor a contralized government,
the latter are oth are
opposed to foreign inva encroach
ment or confiscation
The army of Venezuela,
footing, consists of 1.000 horsemen,
4.000 infantry soldiers, and 1.000 ar
tillerymen, exclusive of the local milit-
ia, and irregular troops iv the law
of Venezuela all citizens between the
ages of I8 amd 45 (both inclusive)
are lable to service in the national
militia.
The average gold product of Venez.
ueln in a year is $1,000,000, The stand
ard of value in the Republic of Ven
ezuela is the belivar, called after
Simon Bolivar—and the value of it is
"the same as a French franc 19.3 conts,
Yenezuela does not produce silver,
year
and the
for home rule,
sion,
on
ft peace
Say
i
the improvement of the approaches
the larger towns, ‘There
States in Venezuela, the
being based on the
the United Stated
an Federal district,
ponding to the District of Columbia,
are several outlying territor
some of
twenty
division
to
Ae
official
COV os
hore Is also
and there
uel,
iglisn
Venez
which Ei
by summary
territory to
iron, zing,
antimony
{he mineral products of
to gold
are seeking
Venoezueln
wldition
peenlntors
annexation of
the British possessions,
(oiekallver, lead, tn
There extensive
are
and
products ol
are also
sult. alum, lime, sulphur and asphal
tum
VY onesie lu
April. Th
April to No
the
the
eqn thie
summer Be
November to
from
ason in
roin
season lasts
The climate of temperate
onntry is
finest in
and
Sun
About
Ianguang
Nonuth
Big California People.
tall men have
San Fi
rest
Hfornia's
up by the ancisco BE
showe that there are
of unusually
te of big things
air
and the
fall
Not
women have been discoversd,
the hunt for big men
The picture and pedigree of the tallest
niin in county are printed, and
tue handsome collection
of big, brawny citizens
The tallest man in the State lives in
San His Jen
Kins was born in Oakland twenty
nimber
people in that Sta
a notable
tall
aneidentally, in
i few
each
showing is a
Francisco, name is Joe
He
England. The exports
exceed the imports by
year.
There are more
lakes within the boundaries of Venezu.
ela, one of the largest being 1.000 feet |
above the level of the sea,
long as the Hudson river, but less
than one-third the length of the Ama-
gon, and less than one-half the length
of the Mississippf. ‘The roads of Ven
eznela are inferior. Communication is
difficult. The Government, however,
tall. His parents ad reitives
average height
Wiley Chuareh, of Sonoma Coumty,
years old; is already 7 feet
and a quarter of an inch tall and is still
growing. No other member of his fam-
ily is above Ye average height. The
next tallest man is Joseph W. Hyds,
of Btockton, whe ig only haifan-inch
ninder seven feet in height, He is only
9% years old, and may streteh out a liv
tle more yet, His father is more than
six feet tall
are of
Has Laid 8, 000 Egos.
In one coop at the poultry show is a
hen which bears the world's record foe
length of days and ability to lay egg
Aceording to President iy
this speckled Plymonth Rock is fone
fourteen years, “Old hamortad,”
she iu called, han contributed about
5.000 eggs to tae world's supply. “We
bave nickoamed her ‘Immortal’ ” res
marked Mr, Steinmesch, “because ber
as
NOTES AND COMMENTS
Call unys
the Union
California that ean eelebrate
Christmas holidays with
pee festival in one place
The that
there [8
san Francisco
no State In
hoy
pal
picnic
an ice
and a
another
itmid blossoms in
“Bear's ofl”
beneficial in
and ns
arance, is very
all kinds of bland oils, veg
and anima... have been used un
it name, generally with ben
the the genuine oil is
and rancid
so long and favorably
known ns promoting the
srowth of the hair,
np
genuine, a»
improving
its HOW weeldom
etithle
der the
ofit to
HE ITH
HSer, 08
HOATee, oon hecomes
that
in the
miners
show many
north
An
inter
Reports from Alaska
h inde
mull
miners will w
» being
flelde by =
ty of is
order to hegin
Many
Prog
the
spring
have
men to slangh
ew York Bun is p
the city of Vintah
nher bn | of the
f1itexd
from
Novel
and ove
fie fond
like
projonged
amd sharp
Furkisd
the y and
fo
«dl on row
On the
Votes mined
amd worst of hams
Perry. a Chiengo contrac
has been spending two monthe in
Africa.
Americans to Keep
Johannesburg, South save: “1
want to warm away
from that part of the workl
nothing to .
is unhealthful,
high, and the
almost in a
There in
go there for. The climate
exorbitantly
who are there
are condition,
Natives do all the work in the mines,
which are all owned by Barmato amd
Ithodes, The place is a desert where
searcely anything grows, and there is
a wate famine most of the time. Ev.
ery imagmsble thing is taxed heavily,
Een Pretovia’s own paper has printed
7c warning to the world to Keep away
from the place. The people who have
living is
people
starving
times, When
motocyele and
behind ths
about the
I told them
the Kineto-
tales, and would not believe me,
Dr.
Paby hood:
Nathan Oppenheim
“Oar usual method
falsehood is
to learn handwrit-
at a glance. A
in addition, only
it has been definitely decided
ehat hig physical and mental conditions
after we feel sure that his
environment has been so normal,
sweet, acd clear that every predis
sosing cause from this side has been
pemoved: after we have eliminated all
facts which conld possibly act in the
way of making subjective impress.
sions, of whatever intensity, WwW)
might lead the child to a missap
fension and misstatement of fr.0ts
Miss Imma CO. Bickles, who acaleved
considers ble reputation for the courag
| cous part she played in the Indian up
| rising nt Pine Ridge Agency in 1800,
has received a gold medal from a =o
ciety in France motto is “To
to perish Miss Rickles was
in the Indian
Agency, amd was well
all the ris
1800
w hose
BAVe ol
i teacher school at ine
Ridge
ed
(E50
l
teeied her
the War
Proctor
acauning
When the
volun
vith
sing occurred in she
mediator to
Neoreta
Rervices
Drenart ment
Cieneral Schofield
tioned her enterprise managed at
fis Nn
and Sal 1
she
great personal risk to get into the camp
of the tile Indians, and alt
ihe massacre of Wounded
always maintained that
ral Miles timely infor
ntentions subseqaent
Los hongh
Kee took
i she has
{300011
wholesale slau
nearly
“There
add It is dithieult
Ainin
ire
wintions
all parts of
there
nperty the
A Terribie Scene.
the famons
natives
sohiswe bede
isle the
Vienna
nrch ddays Late
lami FOE Ors red on the walls
ie
announcing schneider wonld
effeet a hall
of Herr Pramper. 11 PRO A
of the White
Notwitid
OO 0 fi in the TEER TE
andi
Homie
stilling » facet thar
forbidden the rndlord
police had |
hay t ree family, from taking
4 1
frit Dost eter
» performance
josure at winged th
tle ain
delight of the
the ©h¢
to the no small
Bled multitude At a
talloon rose in the a
and the landlord sitting
Some of
given signal t
Rtrobschaends
on the tr
beneath flier ators Je
clare that the latter turned as pale as
a sheet luring his upward fighs,
thongh he did pot fail to wave his hat
to the crowd, After reaching a
height the two balloonists
Eee
dizzy
were of
ows.
All at the
headlong into space.
ror arose from the
Iandiond
A shout
spectators
once
of Lot
find Pramper I
What was their
covering--not a
ure dressed In
| Knits,
Rrockeran in trinmpl.
astonishment at dis
corpse, but a lay fig
one of the landlord's
A Tongue Twister.
Try it vourself, very slowly and
carefully. until you can say it easily.
Then pass it slong to your friends
Here It is:
“She stood at the gate,
him in.”
Ten to one a person $rying to pro
' pounce the sentence for the first time
will fumble It Inughably., Those
tongue-twisting sentences, however,
are good elocutionary exercises. They
give you control of your vocal organs,
so that you can enunciate properly, just
ns finger exercises on the piano or or
gan give control of the fingers
What an immense amount of mechan:
fea) practice does it require to estal-
Jish anything like a close sympathy
st Zeon the brain and the physical
: STAAnS,
welcoming
AN UNDERGROUND SEA,
| Myth About an A'leged Western
Phenomenon.
thout a Zeal subterm
Inke with ebhrask
fxs and 4 part of
rounds
Hill, ©
RUTrye
Ong
Robert
veologieal
panied by details
temless
itches of
her
potids occups
land have
ered
tpposed
FepOrt en
Lion are real
ohibg and flows
“Such tales
mo
HIS PORTRAIT.
A New Enalang Giri Put to Con-
fusion.
bolts of
had bent
One aay
iri Was
44
rying
ICY
to pug
money in Dank
The
fe rte
syvings
other day she trip nto the
link
and several
pend
ular gle patronized
bank book
things In her
paper-mek novel,
of
Moveral peop »
1
%
Gther little
f
hands, including the last
and a few patterns
velveteen
were crowded aronndd
the cashier's window, but as they were
all men, amd she was pretty, they
lowed her to get to the window first
“low much?’ asked the cashier
briskly. indeed rather too briskly for
strict polithess
“Three dollars” she answered, fry
tng not to blush, as she saw that a red
headed man was taking a warm per
sopal interest in ber affairs,
“Three dollars? All right.” said the
cashier. He gathered In the three
Hiiils and the hank-note in ite envelone
with a flourish. sloshing around 88 os
tentationsly as a butcher selling a
“huck steak
As he pulled the book from the on.
dope there was a heartless grin on
Bix hitherto binok face, and he msped
ou! to the shrinking blonde:
“1 beg sour pardon. This «la’t the
hook.”
The cashier was holding ws for the
gaze of the red-headed man and others,
the portrait of the man te whom the
blonde had given her heart. She bad
slipped the portrait into the big on
velope to keep it from the profane gaze
of the world, and had handed it to that
eashier by mistake.
The blonde is thinking of retiving
ro a convent, and the haughty young
man at the dry goods store, Innocent
of what bas abashed bY, dancee, Is
spending all his salar; on fowers and
theatre tickets in tb endeavor to over
come her settled nielancholy,
| THE JOKER’S BUDGET.
| JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY
MEN OF THE PRESS.
Properly Classified - Not Informed
«Childish Ingenuity -~Conditions
of Mappinoss-~Ete., Eto.
tnent (hal ann
IKFiY
He-~1 adore you 1 love madly.
1 esnnot live without
sap Pardon Mr. Arden; I'll pst
your name the waiting fst, i yon
wish, and will eonsider your propossi in
due order upless it is withdrawn beiore Rt
is reached
you
yo
oi
FEMININE TASTE
Old Graybeard- -11's
a pretly bird in a cage
Mrs. De Style lant it a shame !
a pity to keep such
How
On Tuesdays there is boat practices;
{his consistz in hanling the boat ere
riage to the beach, unloading, Iaanca-
ing and pulling out through the
surf -backing., farming or doing just
what the Keeper commands, he steep
ing the boat. After practice, the haat
i« put on the earriage. hauled mek to
the boat-house, cleaned and left in pers
feet order. Woerlhesday is signaldeill
day. There is an international omdos
of signals, composed of flags represents
ing the different letters of the alpha.
bet. Each surfman lias a set of mine.
fature flags, and he signals to the kKeop-
er. who answers them with Lis flags
#0 Any man at the station an vad 8
message from a wrecked ship, All
the prineipad maritise nations have
adopted this code, and as vessels are
provided with fags, and books
tmiping the key to different =
printed In many lsaguages, comin.
uicntion betveen vessels and —
san be easily earried on, whatever the
<hin's nationality.
her,