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THE CENTURY BOOK OF FACTS. 



Cathedral of Notre Dame 



Cathedral of Pisa 



Church of St. Stephen . . . 

 Church of St. Dominic. 



Three of the best known volcanoes of the 

 world, Vesuvius, 3,978 feet; Hecla, 3,970 

 feet, and Stromboli, 3,000 feet, are of much 

 less elevation than many others altogether 

 unfamiliar. 



Capacity of the Largest Churches 

 and Halls. 



St. Peter's Cathedral Rome 54,000 



Cathedral of Milan Milan 37,000 



St. Paul's Church Rome 32,000 



St. Paul's Cathedral London 25,000 



Church of St. Petronio Bologna 24,000 



Cathedral of Florence Florence 24,000 



Cathedral of Antwerp Antwerp 24,000 



Mosque of St. Sophia Constantinople 23,000 



St. John's Lateran Rome 22,000 



Paris 21,000 



Pisa 13,000 



Vienna 12.000 



Bologna 12,000 



Church of St. Peter Bologna 11,400 



Cathedral of Vienna Vienna 11,000 



St. Peter's Cathedral Montreal 10,000 



Madison Square Garden New York 8,433 



Auditorium Chicago 8,000 



Academy of Music Philadelphia 2,862 



Theater Carlo Felice Genoa 2,660 



Boston Theater Boston 2,972 



Covent Garden London 2,684 



Academy of Music New York 2,526 



Music Hall Boston 2,585 



Alexander Theater St. Petersburg 2,332 



Opera House Munich 2,307 



San Carlos Theater Naples 2,240 



Imperial Theater St. Petersburg 2,160 



Grand Opera Paris 2,090 



La Scala Milan 2,113 



St. Charles Theater New Orleans 2,178 



Opera House New Orleans 2,052 



Grand Opera House New York 1,883 



Booth's Theater New York 1.807 



McVickar's Theater Chicago 1,790 



Ford's Opera House Baltimore 1,720 



Opera House Berlin 1,636 



Foreign-born Population. The fol- 

 lowing table shows the origin of the foreign- 

 born population. 



England* 



Wales 



Scotland 



Ireland 



Total United 

 Kingdom 



Germany 



Canada and New- 

 foundland., 



Sweden 



Norway 



Russia 



Italy 



Poland 



Denmark 



Austria 



Bohemia.. 



909,092 



100,079 



24'2,231 



1,871,509 



3,122.911 



2,784,894 



980,938 

 478,041 

 322,665 

 182,644 

 182,580 

 147,440 

 132.543 

 123,271 

 118,106 



France 



China 



Switzerland 



Holland 



Mexico 



Cuba and West 



Indies 



Hungary 



Belgium 



Portugal 



Spain 



South America.... 

 Other Foreign 



Countries 



113,174 

 106.688 

 104,069 

 81.828 

 77,853 



23.256 



62,435 



22,639 



15,996 



6,185 



5,006 



54,385 



Total 9,249,547 



*Includes Great Britain, not specified. 



The Five Wits. An old and curious 

 standard of mentality is that which credits 

 mankind with having "five wits ": common 

 wit, imagination, fantasy, estimation, and 

 memory. 



1. Common wit is that inward sense which 

 judges what the five senses simply discern : 

 thus the eye sees, the nose smells, the ear hears, 

 and so on, but it is "common wit " that in- 

 forms the brain and passes judgment on the 

 goodness or badness of these external matters. 



2. Imagination works on the mind, causing 

 it to realize what has been presented to it. 



3. Fantasy energizes the mind to act in ac- 

 cordance with the judgment thus pronounced. 



4. Estimation decides on all matters per- 

 taining to time, space, locality, relation, and 

 so on. 



5. Memory enables the mind to retain the 

 recollection of what has been imparted. 



Bell Time on Shipboard. 



1 Bell, 



2 Bells, 



3 " 



4 " 



5 " 

 6 



1.00 2 Bells 



1.303 



2.00J4 



2.305 



3.006 



4.30 1 Bell, 



5.00 2 Bells, 



5.303 



6.004 



6.305 



7.006 



8.30 

 9.00 

 9.30 

 10.00 

 10.30 

 11.00 



On shipboard, for purpose of discipline and 

 to divide the watch fairly, the crew is mus- 

 tered in two divisions ; the Starboard (right 

 side, looking toward the head) and the Port 

 (left). The day commences at noon, and is 

 thus divided : Afternoon Watch, noon to 4 p. 

 M. ; First Dog Watch, 4 p. M. to 6 P. M. ; 

 Second Dog Watch, 6 p. M. to 8 p. M.; First 

 Watch, 8 P. M. to Midnight; Middle Watch, 

 Midnight to 4 A. M. ; Morning Watch, 4 \. M. 

 to 8 A. M. ; Forenoon Watch, 8 A. M. to noon. 

 This makes seven Watches, which enables the 

 crew to keep them alternately, as the Watch 

 which comes on duty at noon one day has the 

 afternoon next day, and the men who have 

 only four hours' rest one night have eight hours 

 the next. This is the reason for having Dog 

 Watches, which are made by dividing the 

 hours between 4 P. M. and 8 p. M. into two 

 Watches. Time is kept by means of " Bells " 

 although sometimes there is but one Bell on 

 the ship. 



Pawnbroker's Sign, Origin of. It 

 is generally held that the three golden balls 

 used by pawnbrokers as a sign were adopted 

 from the armorial bearings of the Medici fam- 

 ily of Italy by the Lombard merchants, among 

 whom were several representatives of that fam- 

 ily.. This sign was used in London in very 

 early times by some of those merchants who 

 had emigrated from Italy and established the 

 first money-lending establishments in England. 



Indian Folklore. As a specimen of the 

 folklore of our own aborigines none can sur- 

 pass in interest the story of Hiawatha, the 



