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been discovered at Philadelphia.
SEvEN-EIGHrHs of the bread used In
London is made of American wheat.
JUDGE WELLHoUsE, of fremont, Kas.,
has an orchard containing LOIS acres.
INDIANA has two cabinet officers. and
The cabinet has two Secretary Fosters.
Cot ELLIOT +. SHEPARD is building a
million-dollar house near Scarborough,
n. Y.
"A MAINE woman conducts n large
foundry and engine works at Dunl1irb,
n. Y.
OVER 100000 postal cards are nee
essary to meet the daily demand in this
country.
The Eiffel tower is said to be eight
inches higher in hot than in cold
weather.
Missouri man ate eleven dishes of
ice cream and did not die till a week
afterward
NAN was arrested at Lawrence,
Kan, the other day for stealing n ride
on street car.
MOVEMENT is on foot in England to
secure the ultimate canonization of Car
dinal Manning.
ONCE every eight years the locks on
the United States mail bags arc changed
to insure safety.
ST. PAUL is the first city to make no
distinction. in the wages of male and
female teachers.
The greatest distance covered by n
steam vessel in one hours run is fixed
at twenty-six miles
AN ordinary day coach weighs about
90, 900 pounds; Pullman sleepers weigh
about 75. 900 pounds.
WELLsvILLE, Mo. has twice as many
dogs as inhabitants. 1t has l,74O resi-
dents and $3.50 dogs.
The old-fashioned notion of ring
In the brides cake is being revived at
fashionable weddings
WHILE there are now about ZOO. 900
Jews in the United States, there are
over 5000, 900 in Russia.
The largest Masonic library building
and the only Masonic library in the
world are at Cedar Rapids. Iowa.
IT is proposed attempting to stamp
out tuberculosis in cattle in Denmark
by vaccination with Kochs lymph.
a FARMER living near Rockport, Tex,
has been married twice, and is said to
be the father of thirty-eight children.
ONE of the Partisan newspapers is re-
ported TO be experimenting with type
made of glass, with gratifying results
CALF with only three legs is the
oddity that attracts scores of visitors
to the farm of John RinlSer, Lehigh
county, Pa.
THE original portrait Of Pocahontas,
painted in 1912, now the property of a
mill -
Worlds fair.
KANSAS has four cities in which the
vote of the women is larger than that
OF the men. One entire set of council
men is women.
POLITICAL riots and campaign fights
still continue in Ireland, and the candi-
dates for parliament have to invoke
police protection.
GERMAN man of science saws that
the lands in G ermany devoted to grains
used in beer production would support
100000 600 people.
MALE beauty is wanted as the
model for a Worlds fair picture. The
picture is TO adorn the dome of the hor-
ticultural building.
1T is stated that among every ]. 900
bachelors there are thirty-eight Grim.
lnals; among married men the ratio Is
only eighteen per 1000
Ii is proposed TO rear insects for or
namental purposes the same as foreign
ho~ers and plants are acclimatized il
lighthouses and gardens.
a BRASS BAND in New London. Conn.
announces that it has received two new
dirges and Is prepared to play at fune-
alsat the lowest figures.
THERE is a sign on the entrance to a
cemetery at North Wales, Montgomery
county, Pa, which reads: ''No admit
tance except on business"
GEN. BIDwELL prohibition candidate
for president, is a native Of Ohio. and
like Harrison, Reid, Cleveland and
Stevenson, Presbyterian.
JONI a. BRAsHEAR, of Allegheny CITY.
Pa. the astronomer and manufacturer
of telescopes, was once laborer in one
OF the Pittsburgh iron mills.
CALL has been issued for a conven.
ton Of confederate veterans 20 meet in
Columbia, ;. C., on July 10 20 organize
q grand army Of confederates.
KING OsCAB's refusal 20 allow the es-
Enlistment Of separate Norwegian con-
sulates has caused widespread feeling
and demonstrations of disapproval in
Norway.
A SOLID gold brick, weighing 500
pounds, and worth $3.50, 600. viii be ex-
hibited in the Mines and Mining build
ing at the Worlds fair by Helena
mont mine owner.
The new Kansas state house. on
which over g.. 900 600 has been expended.
and which is not yet completed. is SAID
90 be in danger OF falling down. owing
10 poor material used.
LEO XIII was made pope AZ the aoe
81 sixty-eight and now. at the adj
vanced age Of eighty-two. will attend
his parochial duties His life has been
full Of romantic and dramatic incidents.
ONE Of the most eloquent preachers
In Canada is DIR. George Douglass whose
arms are paralyzed and who IS totally
blind. His arms hang helplessly by his
side, and his voice seems to come from
a dead body.
Az Ohio inventor has patented col
Tar In which the end buttonholes are
placed in tabs made Of thinner mate.
rial thus avoiding the annoyance and
difficulty Of buttoning stiff and