Birmingham state herald., 1897-03-06
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1 A smart New York woman lawyer has l a law class of fifteen female pupils. l Their average age is about 27. 1 The most extensive cemetery in the | world is that at Rome, in which over 5000, ,O00 human beings have been in- tered.
 The business of farming in Spain is so much depressed that the government is about to devote s1, 100000 to the relief of that industry.
 old who has three families. He was di-
 vorced one afternoon recently from his
 third wife, and he was married to a
 fourth on the following evening.
 An Iowan has invented machine
 which he hopes to have in opera ton by
 the next harvest season for cutting corn
 and separating the ears and stalks at the rate of fifteen acres a day. One of the lawyer members of the Mon tana legislature at Helena, requiring the sworn verihcation of a Butte client of a legal paper, called him up and had the oath administered by telephone. There are forests of leafless trees in some parts of Australia. They respire, so to speak, through little stem appar- ently answering the purpose of a leaf.
 The tree is known as "the leafless
 acacia"
 When lions and tigers are born in cap
 tivity the greatest care has to be exercis-
 ed to keep them for several days in the
 dark and undisturbed, as otherwise the
 mothers will almost invariably destroy them.
 A French statistician has calculated
 that the human eye travels over 1000 yards in reading an ordinary sized novel.
 The average human being is supposed to get through 2,500 miles of reading in a | lifetime.
 | Arizona people have been for nearly a month felicitating themselves upon their l climate, birds having been reported as | building their nests on January 19, at l Stafford. and buds having begun to swell soon afterward.
 | The closest contest in any of the states l at the recent election Is believed to have | been that for the state treasurership in | South Dakota, where the republican can | didate won by majority of two votes in total of more than 90,000 l The number of persons in the United i Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland l who use Gaelic as their native language l is much larger than is commonly sup posed. It includes 660,000 in Ireland 350,- 900 in Wales and ,000 in Scotland. Lighted cigarettes were distributed the other day among lot of monkeys at the zoo in Paris by some mischievous ur-
 chins. The animals puffed away at the weed in evident enjoyment until the ad- vent of the keeper, who put stop to it. 0H
 The populist legislature of Nebraska mas repealed -tne Dlll paSSeda two years ago placing premium on the destruction of the Russian thistle The seed makes | fair fodder and fuel, and does not spread as rapidly as some of the f6fmers would | like. l.
 | Fire starting on an upstairs hearth in the house of United States Marsh Il James 1 Mckay, at Tampa, Fla. burned through I the floor at a. m. and severed the cord l of picture, the fall of which aroused the i family, who sought burglars and found | the fire.
 | Perhaps the most splenddly decorated | church in England is that of the Whitney court, Worcestershire. It is entirely con- structed of white marble, the pews are
 chastely carved and the pulpit is of gen.
 uine Carrara marble, richly paneled with