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The first training school for teachers
was organised in Prussia In 1TS5.
Red hair can be dyed brown, but
cannot be given golden tint
A New York insurance company is
getting a good deal OF lucrative busl.
ness in China.
Kid gloves, with hand-painted flow
ers on the back. are the latest fad on
the Continent.
Dried FISH was formerly and is still
to some extent medium OF exchange
in Iceland.
The people OF this country consume,
1t is said, 100000 bottles of pickles
annually.
The barrel-organ of the streets was
unknown until the early part of the
present century.
In India the native barber win shave
person while asleep without waking
him, so light Is his touch.
In the palace of the Emperor william
In Berlin 500 housemaids and 1880 liy.
cried footmen find employment.
At the end of each hair OF cats
whiskers is bulb Of nerve fibre which
makes II a very delicate "feeler."
Some old leases of buildings In Bos.
ton. still in force, stipulate that the
rent shall be paid in iron or grain.
A peach thirteen and three-fourths
Inches In circumference was raised in
McMinn County, Tenn, this season.
In popular estimation the hair In
England In the sixteenth century was
considered little better than vermin.
Cheese Is held In abomination by the
Chinese, who call 1t "mllk-cake," and
consider 1t in the light OF rotten milk"
The share Of land failing to each
inhabitant Of the globe IL It were all
equally divided would be about 23la
acres.
In every mile Of railway there Is
seven feet and four inches not covered
by the rails-the space left for expan-
sion.
In Poland cucumbers are usually eat.
en- with honey. On the Continent they
are cooked and dressed In variety OF
ways.
The number Of pupils in the schools
Of the United States last year was 16,.
415,197, an increase of nearly 100000
since 1890.
There Is little doubt that the making
of Wills originated with the Egyptians,
and that the custom did not prevail In
Europe until ages after.
Grasshoppers attain their greatest
size In South America, where they grow
to length Of FIVE inches and their
wings spread out ten inches.
The town of Marblehead, In Massa-
chusetts, gained Its name because the
white quartz, which Is so plentiful on
the headlands. looks from a distance
like marble.
All plants have periods OF activity
and rest. Some are active In the day
time and sleep at night; others repose
during the daylight hours and are
awake at night.
Massachusetts convicts are getting
fastidious. Not content with Boston
baked beans for breakfast every day
they have just sent in a petition for
custard pie every Sunday.
Not every Catholic priest is az poor
as the proverbial church mouse. Father
T. ]. Butler Of Chicago, who died at
Rome few weeks ago. left personal
property valued at $4,000.
The great basillca of st. Peter at
Rome, 1t is said, does not possess near
ly so good an organ as many one In an
American country church. There are
two small instruments that Can be
wheeled about.
The Chinese Idea OF charging diners.
out In public restaurants Is, It seems,
to present six diners with a bill for two
persons, It being reckoned that a din.
ner for three costs no more than din.
ner for one.
The Irish bagpipe differs from the
Scotch in having only two drones in.
stead Of three, but the music is very
much softer than that produced by the
Highland instrument. II is a smaller
instrument altogether.
Kid gloves, though so called, are sci.
dom made from real kids skins. Those
that are so manufactured are of won
derful softness, and are extremely ex-
pensive. The reason for this Is that
the animals that will De sacrificed for
the purpose are specially reared, and
on milk diet, even the very choicest
green food making the skin harsh.