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There will be 1,O93 churches within
the boundaries of the greater New
York.
Springfield, Mass, is building a car
to carry fire engines over the electric
roads.
Scandinavian sailors are said to pre-
dominate on vessels of nearly all ma
tionalities.
Last year 17,5OO,OOO pounds of hops
were imported from the United States
by British brewers.
The London markets have been flood
ed with pearls since the outbreak of the
plague at Bombay.
Comorn, Va, and vicinity is revelling
in wild turkeys, which are more plenti-
full than ever before.
The oldest national flag in the world
is that of Denmark, which has been in
use since the year 1919.
A st. Paul Judge has awarded a citi-
zen $5 damages because motorman
refused to stop a car for him.
Vice President e. G. Chamberlain, Of
the Western Mining Company, is train
ing elks for driving at Portland, Ore.
The Arkansas Senate has repealed
the law which allowed members to
read twenty papers at the States ex-
pense.
An automatic singer has been ex-
hibited in Paris The voice can be heard
220 yards off. The apparatus is said to
be simple.
Nova Scotia has been very slow in
making Dominion Day, July /, public
holiday. but now, after lapse Of near
ly thirty years, it has done it.
Over 400 diamonds are known to
have been recovered from the ruins Of
Babylon. Many are uncut, but most
are polished on one or two sides.
From ripened cornstalks are now OBJ
tained cellulose, celluloid, smokeless
gunpoVder lacquer, roofing cloth and
substance equal to papier mache.
A bright little newspaper. the Indian
Guide, is published at the Shoshone,
Wyo., agency, the editors, printers and
devil all being full-blooded redskins.
The most dangerous waters in the
world for the passage of ships lie off
the coast of England, Cape Ushant, in
France, and Cape Finisterre, in Spain.
The Supreme Court Of Missouri has
decided that women are eligible to hold
any elective office in that State from
which they are not specifically debar-
red by statute.
A delicate surgical operation was per-
formed at Painesville Ohio, when Har-
ry Waters was supplied with an alumni
mum nose. 1t is the first case of the
kind on record.
The most valuable fur is that of the
sea otter. One thousand dollars has
been paid for single skin of this ami
NAL not more than two yards long by
three-quarters of yard wide.
A London chemist, who analyzed a
sample of chair restorer," sold at half
a crown for a two-ounce bottle, found
it to contain only common water, with
traces Of salt and sage extract.
A gentleman recently deceased in
Portland. Me-, bequeathed $4,000 for a
fund. the interest of which is to be ex-
pended in caring for neglected graves
in Evergreen cemetery, that city.
The city of Mobile, Ala, has just sold
some of it's bonds at par for the first
time 1t is said In it's history. The NOM
ination of business man for Mayor
carried them up per cent. at one
jump.
If all the cows in Illinois were stand
ing. heads and tails. in single file. the
leader might have her nose stuffed in
a feed box in Maine while the last one
thoughtfully switched flies in sunny
California.
A frog makes his home in the
wheel pit of the engine room at F. W.
Hunts tannery at Island Falls, Me-,
and comes up from below only before
a rainstorm. He is honored as proph-
ct in the tanners country.
1t is reported that an Eastern capi-
talist has purchased the Stonewall fur
mace in Cherokee County, Alabama,
where some Of the Confederate warri-
ors cast cannon during the war; and
will develop the ore mines there.
The Russians are colonizins the
whole of their vast Asian possessions
and carrying with them everywhere
the mir or self-governing village
wherein women who are heads Of
households are permitted to vote.
The midnight music of cats so annoy.
ed Jerome Summers, of Weaverville,
n. Y. that he hurried out barefooted
with his pistol to shoot them. In the
yard he stepped on a rusty nail, which
caused lockjaw and in ten days he died
The cheapening Of literature in Eng
land has resulted in the production of
books creditably printed and sold for a
penny. Dickens, Scott, Goldsmith, Lyt-
ton and other standard authors, bound
in stiff covers, are now procurable in
this series.
Efforts are being made by railroad
officials to induce the Canadian Gov
ernment and Provincial authorities to
bear part Of the expense of rebuild