Penman's Art Journal and Teachers' Guide . red fb] al I Hi years, his lees having increased from $50 to $200, ami the aggregate amounl beingestimated a< (350,000. Most of this money, however, was lost. Ai Giurgevo, on the Danube, an acci-dent has recently led to the discovery of aseries of systematic murders. Numerous peasants and workmen from the interior ofHoumania have been in the habit of crossrag the Danube at the above-mentionedport for the purpose of seeking labor inBulgaria, but on their return journey withtheir savings, fearing the indiscrecquestions of the Roumanian customsofficia
Penman's Art Journal and Teachers' Guide . red fb] al I Hi years, his lees having increased from $50 to $200, ami the aggregate amounl beingestimated a< (350,000. Most of this money, however, was lost. Ai Giurgevo, on the Danube, an acci-dent has recently led to the discovery of aseries of systematic murders. Numerous peasants and workmen from the interior ofHoumania have been in the habit of crossrag the Danube at the above-mentionedport for the purpose of seeking labor inBulgaria, but on their return journey withtheir savings, fearing the indiscrecquestions of the Roumanian customsofficials, ihe travelers have long evadedthem by landing on a small island in the Danube, whither they were rowed bvTurkish or Bulgarian boatmen, mostlyduring the night. From this island it is possible to reach the Roumanian shore in different ways un-noticed bv thi authorities. Some timeago a soldier, occidently walking on the banks of the river, heard terrible screamsissuing apparently from some reeds nearthe island. After a silence of several. pulsations of the cardiac organ are G9 eachminute, and the assumption that the forceof each pulsation is 9 feet. Computedthus, according to his figures, the mileageof the blood through the body might betaken as 207 yards per minute, 7 miles perhour, 168 miles per day, 61,320 miles peryear or 4,292,400 in a lifetime of three-score years and ten. The number of beatsof the heart in the same long life wouldreach the grand total of 2,538,848,000. Some Recent Novel**. A Perfect Jewel—An EngagementSolitaire. Through Fire and Water —Bricks. What the Spring Brought —A Raiseof Rent. A Hero oi the Pen—The AveragePugilist. The Way We Live Now —In Flats. A Golden Bar — The HoffmanHouses. A Story of a Sin—The BoodlersTrial Unspotted from the World —TheSnow-white Bull dog.—Puck, A It ill in-it Citj In Texax. The surveys at present being made forthe Kansas City, El Paso and MexicanRailroad, at a point north latitude 38°and west longitude 1
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