Cathay was the ancient name for China.

Twickenham is famous as the home of Pope.

The Sistine Chapel in the Vatican was built in 1473.

Andrew Jackson rode to his inauguration on horseback.

London wall defines the old boundary of Roman London.

The tide in the Bay of Fundy often rises as high as seventy feet.

The largest cavern in the world is the Mammoth Cave, Kentucky.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, alone, is left of the great American poets.

Leland Stanford will be famous for the noble university he founded.

J. C. Flood, the California millionaire, kept a saloon in San Francisco.

P. T. Barnum earned a salary as bartender in Niblo's Theatre, New York.

Miller (Hugh) taught himself geology while working as a mason (1802-1856).

The most extensive park is Deer Park in Denmark. It contains 4,200 acres.

Jay Gould canvassed Delaware County, New York, selling maps at $1.50 apiece.

Chicago is little more than fifty years old, and is the eighteenth city of the world.

Fleet Street, London, was once a swift-flowing stream - now converted into a sewer.

The deepest rock salt bore in the world is near Berlin, Prussia; it is 4,185 feet deep.

The Italian for "beautiful view," is belvedere, and is applied to a part of the Vatican in Rome, which gives its name to the famous statue of Apollo.

Bunyan wrote his " Pilgrim's Progress" while confined in Bedford jail (1628-1688).

Cobbett learned grammar in the waste time of his service as a common soldier (1762-1835).

Alfred the Great founded Oxford University and Charlemagne the University of Paris.

Bloomfield composed "The Farmer's Boy" in the intervals of shoe-making (1766-1823).

Whitelaw Reid did work as correspondent of a Cincinnati newspaper for five dollars a week.

George W. Childs, of Philadelphia, was an errand boy for a bookseller at six dollars a month.

The largest park in the United States is Fairmount, at Philadelphia, and contains 2,740 acres.

Adam Forepaugh was a butcher in Philadelphia when he decided to go into the show business.

It was in Kiev that Christianity was first planted in Russia. Here is the cathedral of St. Sophia.

The original inhabitants of Wales were the Cymri, from whom the country was named Cambria.

With different environment the same spirit governed those typical Americans, Curtis and Whittier.

The deepest coal mine in the world is near Tournai, Belgium; it is 3,542 feet in perpendicular depth.

The deepest hole ever bored into the earth is the artesian well at Potsdam, which is 5,500 feet deep.

Ferguson taught himself astronomy while tending sheep in the service of a Scotch farmer (1710-1776).

Etty utilized indefatigably every spare moment he could pick up when a journeyman printer (1787-1849).

Andrew Carnegie, the iron master, did his first work in a Pittsburg telegraph office at three dollars a week.

The deepest coal mines in England are the Dunkirk collieries of Lancashire, which are 2,824 feet in depth.

The "Man With the Iron Mask" did not wear a mask of iron. It was of black velvet, secured by steel springs.

The highest inhabited place in the world is the custom-house of Ancomarca in Peru, 16,000 feet above the sea.

The foremost American critic of today - Edmund Clarence Stedman - is a banker, who makes literary work his pastime.

The highest natural bridge in the world is at Rockbridge, Virginia, being two hundred feet high to the bottom of the arch.

The largest empire in the world is that of Great Britain, being 8,557,-658 square miles, and more than a sixth part of the globe.

Golden Lane, St. Luke's, London, received its name from the large number of goldsmiths who at one time lived in that vicinity.

Baumann's cavern in the Harz Mountains consists of six principal and many smaller compartments full of beautiful stalactites.

The "Weeping Philosopher" was Heraclitus of Ephesus; while Democritus of Abdera was called the "Laughing Philosopher."

The longest tunnel in the world is St. Gothard, on the line of the railroad between Lucerne and Milan, being 9)4 miles in length.

The daughter of the Duke of Kent and wife of the Black Prince - on account of her great beauty was called "The Fair Maid of Kent."

The most remarkable echo known is that in the castle of Simonetta, two miles from Milan. It repeats the echo of a pistol sixty times.

Franklin, while working as a journeyman printer, produced his "Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain" (1706-1790).

The loftiest active volcano is Popocatapetl. It is 17,784 feet high, and has a crater three miles in circumference and one thousand feet deep.

Carey, the missionary and Oriental translator, learned the rudiments of Eastern languages while employed in making and mending shoes (1761-1834).

The Bridge of Sighs at Venice has no romance worthy the name. Most of the unfortunates who cross it are petty thieves who are sent to the workhouse.

Thunderstorms are more frequent in Java than in any other part of the world, there being an average of ninety-seven days in each year upon which they occur.

Chiswick is the home of William Morris, poet and aesthete, and is famous for its market-gardens and as the seat of the gardens of the Horticultural Society.

The electric railway has penetrated even the fastnesses of the Tyro-lese mountains, a road twenty-seven miles long being projected between Riva and Pinzolo.

In Bengal, India, there are three harvests reaped every year, peas and oil seeds in April, the early rice crop in September and the great rice crop in December.

The maelstrom is not a whirlpool which sucks ships down into the depths of the ocean. It is an eddy which in fair weather can be crossed in safety by any vessel.

The city of Amsterdam, Holland, is built upon piles driven into the ground. It is intersected by numerous canals, crossed by nearly three hundred bridges.