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 To American women belongs the dis function of having the smallest hands In the world. Next come the women of Austria, Spain, France and Italy.
 Faneiul Hall, ''the cradle of liberty" Is found on examination to be much weakened by age and in danger of early collapse. Of course this historic situation will be properly repaired and preserved
 A London reporter who lately inter- viewed Dr. Creighton, the bishop of London, incidentally mentions the fact that during the conversation, which lasted about an hour, his lordship rolled and smoked no fewer than nineteen cigarettes.
 The Illinois Supreme court sustained the demurrer made in behalf of the negroes of Alton, who desired admis- sion for their children to the public schools of that city. The next step will be to demand a peremptory writ to admit the negro children to the Alton school.
 "Bad men for good roads," is the idea which takes we'll in North Carolina. That State has worked her convicts on the public roads with apparently good results. Eighty counties report the la Dor as not at all intractable, while the cost of maintaining the convicts is con- siderably reduced from the expense of keeping them within prison walls. Be- sides which there is marked improve ment seen in the roads.
 The municipal year book of Berlin shows that one woman in that city, 41 years old, is the mother of twenty three children. In 1896 there were five families with nineteen children, sixteen with eighteen, seventeen with seven teen, ,thirty-two with sixteen, ,sixty-three with fifteen. eighty-three with four teen and 126 with thirteen. Two hun dred pairs of Berlin parents counted a dozen children each, the mother in one case being only 26 years old. A mother of eighteen off-springs was 35 years old, while women of 23 and 20 had borne eight and five children respectively.
 The Virginia legislature, following the example of Massachusetts, has set its seal of condemnation on the trading stamp business, both houses having passed a bill prohibiting it in that State. The bill passed the house with but slight opposition, whilst it passed the senate unanlmouSly ana WltnOut debate, showing the feeling of the sen- ators on the subject. The senate adopted an amendment making the act take effect July instead of at an ear Her day. This was done to give the holders of stamps an opportunity to complete their books and get the prizes on them before the law takes effect.
 Michael Davitt, in his book on Life and Progress in Australia" gIves a curiousillustration of the way in which the protective laws there may and do operate He says: It is related that a bull, once growing tired of his Victorian pastures and pastimes, crossed, with out knowing it, the Hist meridian of east longitude, where the boundary line into South Australia is fixed as cus- toms fence against all persons and anil
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