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CURIOUS FACTS.
A shekel of gold was SO.

A bin is one gallon and two pints.
A Lapland wedding lasts sixteen days.
A petrifed man has just been discov-a
cred in Wisconsin.
Whalebone is not bone, and is said not
to possess single property of bone.
An attempt was recently made in Aus
tria to prevent schoolma'ams from marry
ing.
Oil was used for burning in lamps
as early as the epoch of Abraham, about
1921 B. C. ~. -
A hospital for lepers was founded at
Granada by Queen Isabella, of Spain,
about 1904.
The longest canal in the world is the
Imperial canal of China. It has length
of 1000 miles. -.
An anti-fat restaurant has just been
established in London for the benefit of
corpulent people.
The Cuba way of keeping ripe toma-'
toes fresh and firm far several days is to
pack them in dry ashes. -. =;
Hair powder came into use in Eng
land in 1890, and in 1895 tax of a guinea
was laid upon persons using it.
The Oxford English Dictionary shows
that there are Is, 900 words in current
use beginning with the letters A and B.
The population of imperial Rome: at )
the time of its siege by the Goths, dur
ing the reign of Honorius was 1900, 1000.
A colt in Georgetown, KY, possesses
three heads. One of them is that of
goat, the other that Of donkey and the
third colts head. -.
Colonel Tufft, of Georgia, has not seen
the bottom of his corncrib for more than
twenty years, and is now selling sound
grain grown in 1876. -.... u. -,.z,r
Mrs. Ann Hardin, the first woman
married in Texas after its annexation to
the United States, has just died neat
Hillsboro in that state, at, the age Of
eighty years.
Perhaps it is not generally known that
in 1856 the Legislature of Massachusetts
laid duty of one per cent on hemp, tq
be devoted to encouraging the raising
of this product in the State. h
A colony Of the son of a Welsh prince
probably landed on the North American
continent about the year 1170, the cea.a
tury succeeding that in which the North
men are said to have made their dis 2
covery.
The Plymouth colony remaineda dis
trict or Commonwealth until 1891,
period of seventy.one years, when, greatly
to the chagrin of the colonists, they
were included under the new royal char
ter for Massachusetts,. =. -. ,..~a.ss.s5-
There is watchmen in the New York
post-office whose chief duty is to collect
the KEYS that are left in the boxes BY
careless men and boys. Generally there
is some sharper on the lookout to steal {
keys that are left in this way.
The wife of John Putnam, of Neosho, !
Wis, has suffered severely for years from
rheumatism. Three weeks ago theil
house was struck by lightning and she
received sharp shock. Since then she
has been entirely free from rheumatism.
A London bookseller recently received
the following order from steward, whs
had been intrusted with the task of fill.
ing up his masters literary shelves: .sH
the first place, I want six feet of theology
the same quantity of metaphysics, and
near a yard of old civil law in folio.p
A curious fish, with head almost
identical in shape and expression witt
that of frog, was caught off the coast
of California, near San Diego, recently.
Near the head, on either side, is fin re-
sembling frogs foreleg. =, The fish is
poisonous, and its bite, it is said, means
certain death. -
Nine years ago a Mrs. Manning, 0,
Paris, ILL.,, vowed that if her son married
certain young lady who was 90,
jectlonble to her she would 60 to BED ana
Stay there until she died. The marriage
took place, and the mother, true to hel
resolution, lever left her bed nntll shs.
was borne to her coffin. ..- .'.