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CURIOUS FACTS.

The English language has 100000
words.
In India medical students hair turned
white during an examination.
Wood can be sawed in veneers only one
two-hundredths of an inch thick.
The weight of the heart is from eight
to twelve ounces. 1t beats 100, 600 times
day.
If all the telephone wires in this coun.
try were stretched in a continuous line
they would go seven times around the
globe.
The latest fad in photography is the
portrait stamp. 1t is the size OF postage
stamp, and is gummed ready to apply to
| letters.
In Berlin heavy wagons arc not allowed
on certain streets. In Paris any CARLOAD
of rattling material must be fastened till
it can't rattle.
The record for hard-boiled egg-eating
is held by young man named Canary,
who once disposed of fortytwo eggs In
forty-fve minutes.
What an Ohio farmer plowed up and
took to be the bones of an ancient ten
feet in height turned out to be the skele'
tons of two five-foot men.
The sweetest thing King Solomon knew
of was honey, but in these day thai de-
Gcacy is positively sour compared to three
or four different compounds.
The French factory of Matois is the
only one in the world where glass large
and perfect enough for the lenses of o
big telescope can be successfully cast.
! Alfred S. Kidder, of Portland, Ore.
gon, inherited $4,000 four years ago.
He lost it at poker, and when his last
$500 went that way recently in Rich
mond, Va, he blew out his brains.
Belgium is a poor place for physicians.
A writer to medical journal published
there says that they have the care OF
three-fourths of the population, get moth.
ing at all from one-half of their patients
and very poor pay from the rest.
In 1857 the sea retired from the shores
of Peru, and returned in mountainous
waves, which destroyed everything on
the coast. In 1726 the same phenomenon
took place, and only 200 out of 1000 in
habitants of Callao saved themselves.
There were found recently in the heart
of q big red oak, cut down near Hick-
man, Tenn, the "three chops" where
with the original surveyors of the country
blazed it, and over which were the rings
indicating seventy-fve years of growth.
The latest crank prominently re-
ported is the maidstone crank in New
York city who sublimcly offers to allow
himself to be bitten by a mad dog for
and IN consideration of the sum of $500,
relying on his precious maidstone to effect
cure.
Under what is known as the Union OF
Calmar, Denmark, Sweden and Norway
were united in June, 1896, under
Margaret, Queen of Norway and Sweden,
"the Semiramis of the North" The
union continued until dissolved by Gus
tavus Vasa in 1923.
For several years there was standing
offer of $40 for partridgc's nest con-
tanning more than twelve eggs, the records
| at the Smithsonian Institution in Wash
ington giving that as the greatest num-
Der of eggs Of that species to nest. A
party of Worcester (Mass.) girls recently
won the money by finding nest with
fifteen eggs.
The reason why fishes and mollusks
livingmor than three miles under water
arc able to bear pressure of several tons
is that they have exceedingly loose
tissues, which allow the water to flow
freely through every interstice, and thus
equalize the weight. When the pressure
is removed they perish.
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