Arizona republican., 1897-10-07
THIS BUSY WORLD.

The learned professions of Italy comprise 295,000 persons.
 The Caynans in the West Indies export nothing but turtles.
 The chemical name for Epson salts is sulphate of magnesia.
 There are 10,8OO teachers in the diminutive kingdom of Belgium.
 Ripping Forest is the largest pub lie recreation ground i'm the world
 Few people in India eat more than twice day, and thousands only once
 Laplanders think nothing of cover ing 150 miles day on their skates.
 Paris is admiring a 5OO-pound Ca nadian negroes who is on exhibition there.
 London has 1880 miles of streets; Paris 600 miles, and New York 575 miles.
 About eO0,0o0 stamps are found loose in the letter bags of the United Kingdom each year.
 M. Bondeard states that Roentgen rays can diagnose pleurisy and simi- lar complaints.
 The greatest cape in the world is
 
 over 5000 feet high.
 All that remains of Queen Cleopa- tra is an ugly mummy in a glass case in the British museum.
 The Gold coast extends for about 250 miles alolg the coast, south of Ashantee, in western Africa.
 IA single tree in an orchard near Corvallis, Ore, has yielded this sea- son 300 pounds of Bartlett pears.
 The only animal that is really dumb is the giraffe, which is unable to express itself by any sound what ever.
 The relative size of the earth as compared with the sun is, approxi- mately, that of a grain of sand to an orange.
 As far as calculations can decide, the temperature of comets is believed to be 1000 times fiercer than that of a red hot iron.
 A recent invention is cradle that rocks by means of a clock work mec- hanism, and, at the same time, plays baby tunes.
 Japan, within five months after taking possession of. F'ormosa, built two lines of railway, one fifty miles and one thirty-five miles long.
 A Spanish inventor renders from grasshoppers fatty substance which is declared to make the finest soap yet produced.
 On June 12, 1755, upward of 2,4O0 salmon were taken above the bridge in the river Tyne, and sold in New castle at Id and 114d per pound.
 Do not disfigure the hands with caustic to remove warts, but touch them with strong soda water several times day. They will disappear.
 A ten-year-old boy in Berlin hang ed himself because, at his older sis ter's birthday party, the piece of cake he received was smaller than hers.
 The purchase by the Russian gov ernment of the Sebastopol ship build ing yard has been completed, the price agreed upon being 100000 troubles.
 Ta-tini, the great violinist, com posed the Devils Sonata under the inspiration of dream He fancied the devil invited him to a trial of skill upon his own instrument, and woke with the music of the sonata ringing in his ears. He at once trac- ed it on paper.
 Professor Cushing has just made an examination of the Pine Island Keys in Florida, and discovered re- mains of villages and numerous rel ics of ancient lake dwellers, whose racial affinities are still unknown. Judging from their steel and copper implements or weapons, their pottery. masks and modes Of sepulture, they appear to be akin to the ancient Mex hcan people.
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