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ment was close upon $40, 900, 900.
Thunderstorms are more frequent in
Java than in any other part Of the world.
No woman has entered the Convent
Of st. Catherine, on Mount Sinai, for
/. 400 years
The Oldest national flag i'll the world
is that Of Denmark, which has been in
use since the year 1919.
In Buttons experiments he once
found Frenchman who could exert
force of GA pounds with his jaws
Once upon time the Scottish high
lands Were part Of vast chain Of noun
tains separating the Arctic sea from the
Atlantic.
Peace was proclaimed at Paris after
the Crimean war on Monday, March 81,
1856 and i'll London ON Tuesday. April
20. 1855.
Pulverized tiger bones are used as
medicine in China 1t is believed that
they impart 10 the invalid the strength
of tiger
In the United States a driver of horses
sits OH the right and turns his team in
that direction. In England the national
custom is the reverse
The most eminent critical philoso-
pher was Kant, whose "Critique of
Pure Reason" began "a new era in the
history Of philosophy
Cromwell, earl of Essex, established
parochial registers for births, deaths and
1 l,at -,
the reign of Henry VIII.
Dust showers are frequently reported
from ships i'll the center of the Mediter-
ranean sea and from hundreds of miles
off the west coast of Africa.
The dance called hornpipe dates as far
back as 1900 and took its name from the
instrument called the pibcorn. to the
music of which il was danced
st. Jerome states that he saw Scotch
men in the Roman armies in Gaul whose
regular diet was human flesh and who
had double teeth all around "
In Australia horses and cattle are now
being branded 10y electricity from stor-
age batteries. The temperature is uni
form and the brand safe and artistic.
The first great fire in an American
city occurred at Boston Aug. s, 1897.
BY this conhagration 80 buildings We're
destroyed, the loss amounting to over
f200, 900
In France man can put away his
wife if she goes on the stage without his
consent i'll Portugal if she publishes
literary work without first asking his
permission
An English writer says that the Glas-
gov water from Loeb Katrine is very
soft, and on that account it is computed
that the annual saving To the city i'll
soap alone amounts to some $50, 900.
That the earth is solid right to the
center with the exception of lakes and
reservoirs of molten matter below the
crust, has been demonstrated by the re-
cent researches of Lord Kelvin and other
authorities
Among the additions to the Geological
society's gardens, London, is Il Mexican
skunk, which was captured on an estate
Ill Yorkshire, having escaped from cap
tivity Three young cheetahs from So
maitland have also been added to the
| collection.
John Frederick Bottgher. who in
vented hard porcelain, was originally
an alchemist, who, while employed at
the transmutation of metals by the
elector of Saxony, discovered red porce-
lain and later, 10y strange accident,
white or true porcelain
T.. 81, - 81.
great converts We're sometimes sum
moned To councils and in the reign of
Edward III seven countesses and three
baronesses were summoned TO attend by
proxy ut council at Westminster (1362)
along with mobiles, abbots, etc.
The ages at which the greatest COM
manders made their regulations are
these: Alexander the Great. between 81
and 33; Hannibal between 20 and 45;
julius Caesar, between AZ and 55; Fred
erick the Great, between 30 and OIL;
Gustavus Adolphus, between 80 and 3S:
Napoleon, between 2, and AZ.
The king Of Benin, on the west coast
of Africa, believes in the efficacy of hui
man sacrifices. When times are good, he
Kills large uulnDer Ol slaves, ana III
seasons of calamities he kills an equally
large number of these unfortunates, and
in both cases TO appease the gods, who
are supposed TO be equally angry at the
good and i'll fortune of mortals
1t is not generally known that the re-
mains of all the czars Of Russia since
Peter the Great lie in memorial chapel
built OH one of the islands of the Neva.
All the cenotaphs are exactly alike, be-
ing block of white marble, without
any decoration whatever. The only dis
tinction by which each one is marked is
the name Of the deceased emperor.
There are instances of countesses,
harnesses and ADDRESSES being summoned
to send proxies or to furnish their mil
itary service, but not to attend parlia-
ment as peeresses. The nearest approach
to such a summons is that of four alb
besses who, in 1906, were cited to the
great council held to grant an aid on
the knighting of the Prince Of Wales.
OF all the numerous instruments en-
ployed in our time, the Oldest and most
| widely known are the drum harm and