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BITS OF INFORMATION,
There are A., ,0Oo, 600 Australians.
California has 2,675 giant trees left.
There are people who still eat mincs
pies.
Great Britain has debt per capita Of
$S1.7e.
Victoria's crown jewels are worth $i5..
000, 600.
Americans are tie greatest meat eat.
ers in the world.
There are more than ESQ, 900 Swiss In
the United States.
Under the law of Moses only II offenses
were punishable by death.
Molasses can be brought from Cuba In
tank vessel for cents gallon.
The total forest area Of the United
States is estimated at 4si, ,764, 59s acres.
An English statisdcian estimates the
worlds Indebtedness at &160, ,000, ,000, 900.
Queensland, Australia, owes the largest
national debt per cspita-$SS 46 head.
An English statistician estimates ths
worlds indebtedness at $l5O,0O0, 900, 600.
In 90 years there has been no counter.
feiting Of postage stamps in this country.
Ignorant Hindus believe in Cholera
Demon with head like huge earthen
pot.
The largest library is the Imperial Of
Paris, which conta4ns over 10000 600 vol.
umes.
Fifty-three United States Senators have
been chosen by the legislature of New
York State.
The United States has 6S7, 600, 900 gold
coins, and only All ,005, 900 of these are
in circulation.
The word nicotine is derived from the
name of John Nicot, who introduced TO.
bacco into France.
There are about $500 counties in the
Union, with an average size Of about
1000 square miles.
OF the 2,32s fires in Massachusetts, last
year kerosene caused 255, matches 262,
and electric wires 81.
The coast line of Alaska exceeds in
length by 5000 miles that of all the rest
of the United States.
The assessed value Of property in Cali
fornia rose from $564, SIS, 800 in 1880 to
81 ,112, 900, 600 in 1890.
The growth of New York is marvellous.
The natural increase of its population
now exceeds 60, 600 each year.
No monarchy has ever produced so
many millionaires in so short a time as
the republic of the United States.
The product of gold in the United
States the last 16 years has aggregated
the enormous amount of &572, 900, 900.
If all parts of the United States were
as densely populated as Rhode Island, the
population of the country would be 945,-
760, 900.
II is calculated that the expenditure
for liquors and narcotic, absorbs the net
proceeds of one days work of the world
per week.
Nearly fifth of the entire population
of the United States live in the 90 chief
cities, which have population of over
II 100000.
Statistics compiled by the Census
Bureau show that the debt of the United
States is now $14.63 per capita as against
S38. .38 in 1880.
There are now 1888 newspapers OF
different classes in the United States
and Canada, net gain over last years
record of ,613
Women are to be admitted to the phar-
maceutical profession in Russia. The
Academy of Medicine will open special
courses for them.
Medical statistics prove that it is less
dangerous to life to 20 on an Arctic ex-
ploring expedition than to have an at
tack. of pneumonia.
In the text of the Encyclopedia
Britannica" there are IL, 900 words which
have never been formally entered and
defined in any dictionary.
1t is estimated that the wealth of the
United States now exceeds the wealth of
the whole world prior to the middle Of
the eighteenth century.
The astronomers of to-day confess that
they have no good reason to suppose that
any of the planets, great or small, contain
any sort of organized beings.
After a time sheep may be useful only
for mutton. Wool, the chemists say, can
be made more cheaply from wood fiber
than it can be grown on sheep.
There are 10000 acres of land in the
city of Berlin, and less than half are oc-
cupied by buildings. There is an average
of 90 persons to each house in the city.
Don't wager that 10 10-oent pieces
weigh as much as a silver dollar. They
do not. The superintendent of the Mint
says they only weigh nine-tenths as
much.
Statistics now show that 1000, 900
of the human race wear clothing, 25O,-
900, 900 habitually go without clothes,
and 700, ,O0O, 900 only cover portions Of
the bodv
why Pay Rent.