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John b. Curtis, of Portland. Me-,
has made nearly 81, 900 900 in the man
ufacture of chewing gum.
A medal has been struck in COM
memoration of the fftieth anniversary
in England of penny postage.
Fifty shillings an ounce was the price
paid in England for an Irish toilet SER
vice of the time of William and Mary.
1t was not very highly ornamental. but
it sold for 1880.
While sinking a well in the Santa
Lucia range. San Luis Obispo county,
Mr.. Anderson exhumed the fossil
vertebr3 of whale. His we'll is g.
GOO feet above sea level.
Since the Inauguration of new sys-
TEN of postal wagons for emptying the
mail boxes in Berlin an ordinary city
letter reaches its destination in an hour
after leaving the hands of the sender.
The great contest between tea and
coffee, as to which is to be the univer-
sal beverage, is gradually leaning to
tea. As long back as the memory of
man goes cold tea" has always had
the call.
Miss Olaf Krarer an Esquimaux, is
the first woman of her race to come
forward as a public lecturer. She
speaks English with remarkable ac-
curacy. Her height is only three feet
four inches
An enormous growth of ivy has par
italy destroyed the wall of Christ
Church Waterloo aud few days ago
brought a section of it tumbling to the
ground. The church has been built
fifty years
In Kent, England, a farm of 500
acres that has been let for So. 600 per
year has just been re-let to the same
tenant for 81, 800. This is said to be "A
fair illustration of the decline of farm
values in England of late years.
At Buda Pesth recently two men met
to fight duel to the death. The dis
lance was twenty-five PAGES, and each
man was to have six shots. Neither
party managed to hit the other in that
time. and the affair was abandoned in
disgust.
Thuuderstorms are more frequent in
globe. On an average they occur in
the island on ninety-seYen days of the
year. La England the average marks
thunderstorms on about seven days in
the We tr-only half the number record
ed in France.
A French family in the department
of the Sarthe is excited over the story
that fortune of $40, 900, 900 awaits it
in this country, having been left by
relative who died here twenty years
ago, and whose estate has since, they
are told. been unclaimed. Sixty heirs
have turned up already
Paris public schools are overcrowd-
ed. and the authorities propose to help
to remedy the difficulty by forbidding
the attendance ut them of children of
foreigners. There are 60, 900 foreign
children in the city aud at least 5000
Of them are getting French education
free at the public schools.
Two foreign women noted for their
proves as huntresses are travelling in
this country-namely, Lady Marie Eide
Won Ameline, famous As a tiger killer,
and Lady Eva Wyndham Linn who slew
six man-eaters during visit to her
uncle, the governor of Nepaul. Lady
Ameine killed four tigers in India and
has their claws and skins
During storm which recently ragged
in the canton Of Neufchatel Switzer-
land. shower of living caterpillars
tell on the hill of Cretes. They were
in myriads and Of three species some
yellow, tue others black, and varying
ia length Among the caterpillars
were many other insects. The source
from wAich the gale conveyed them is
unknown.
The number Of gondoliers at Venice
has been much diminished since the in
Productions Of steam launches ia tho
canals which form its thoroughfares.
The few gonpoliers left in service
however, are not complaining. as they
receive better wages through lack of
competition in their own special line
and their sculling is much in demand
by visitors.
Education does not seem TO make
people anv the less superstitious.
About fifteen hundred different kinds
OF dream books are IN the market, and
all of them find BUYERS. while sales
steadily increase about in proportion
TO the increase of .people. Nor is the
demand for dream books confined to
the poor. Women with sealskius and
diamonds buy them.
The London Institute of Actusries
proposes to dispense with the services
of medical men in examining FOR in
surauce in cases whore the applicant
prefers to make a statement before a
responsible officer. This change is
based upon the idea that thousands of
people in good health will not insure
because they have to pass through the
doctors surveillance.
Recent observations Of the waters of
Great Salt Lake prove conclusiyely
that the statements made that no form
of animal or plant life exists in the
lake are erroneous No ish or other
large form of animal life has been dis
covered, but the presence Of vegetable
organisms in the lake may be con,id-
cred a fact from the abundance of min
utp animal pNiSteupps