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Our navy has paper boat.
Portugal owes $500, 600, 600.
Chicago has 1000 Arabians.
The Mormon Temple at Salt Lake holds
10000 people.
The ordinary watch gives 1ie,144.000
ticks during year.
Fully four times as many people speak
Chinese as speak the English language.
Every year there are coined in the Eng
lish language 100 new words, such as they
are.
A steamer drawing % feet Of water Is
the largest that can be got up the Della
ware River.
The use Of bells in places devoted to re.
lgious purposes is very ancient, dating
many centuries before the Christian era.
Seven countries of the size of Belgium
could be laid down within the borders Of
Kansas and yet leave 400, 900 square acres
for the coyotes to howl in.
A recent survey has established the
number of glaciers in the Alps at l,155,
of which 249 have a length of more than
four and three-quarter miles.
The word preface" used in the be-
ginning of books, was originally word
of welcome 10 a meal, and was equiva-
lent to Much good may 1t do you.
The colonies of Spain, once stretching
over more than one-half of the new
world, are now confined to the islands OF
Cuba and Porto Rica and few islets on
the east of the latter.
You think the light of day as you ordi-
narily see it is as light as light can be,
but light through the new Lick telescope
is nearly 1000 times as bright as that
seen by the naked eye.
London is the principal financial center
of the world. Frankfort-on-the-Ma Main Is
the financial center of Germany, Paris,
that of France, New York that OF tho
Western Hemisphere.
In its native habitat the shell of tho
oyster is always a little open, and micro
scopic, waving hairs set up currents
which carry the food plants 10 its mouth.
where they are engulfed, and afterward
digested.
In the year 1900 chimneys were
scarcely known in England. One only
was allowed in a religious house, one int
manor house, and one in the great hall of
castle or lords house, but in other
houses the smoke found its way out as it
could.
The word sulky, as applied TO wheeled
conveyance, had its origin in the fact
that when it first appeared the person
who saw it considered that none but
sulky, selfish man would ride in such an
affair, which afforded accommodation TO
but one individual.
The modern custom of lifting the hat
goes back probably to the age of chiv-
airy, when knights appeared in full ar
NOR everywhere, but removed the he'll
met when in the presence of friends as a
sign that they were trusted, so that the
warrior did not fear attack.
Asparagus dates back to ancient Greece,
where the wild sea plant was probably
gathered for food. The idea OF Turing
this plant away from its native sea
marshes to grow in our garden by sup
plying the beds with a sufficient amount
of salt is a trick of modern times.
At the equator the snow line is little
less than 200 feet above the sea level
Every mountain of between $1,000 and
$1,000 feet high, even in the tropics, has
snow on its summit throughout the year.
In the Temperate Zone snow is perpetual
on mountains between IL, 900 and 1900
feet high.
The state bed of the last king of Poland
was made of Smyrna gold braid, en-
broidered in turquoises with verses from
the Koran. Its supports were of silver
gilt, beautifully chased and profusely set
with enameled and jeweled medallions.
1t had been taken from the Turkish camp
before Vienna, and the standard Of Ma
honaet had stood over it.