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In Greenland potatoes never get
larger than marbles.
OVER on the other continent there
arc seven volcanoes in operation.
A PHILADELPHIA hinaman glorics in
pigtail 5 feet IL inches in length.
J. HODGE TYLER was the other day
inauguratcd governor of Virginia.
SOLDIERS in the Italian army are per-
United to sleep n couple of hours at
midday.
MANY women are employed as car
conductors in Chile and the Argentine
republic.
SILVER coin loses one per cent of its
weight in 90 years, gold one per cent.
in 50 years.
BRANDY was first used incidentally,
and miraculous cures were ascribed to
its employment.
THE hardest known wood is cocus
wood. 1t turns the edge OF any Az,
however well tempered.
The work of the arbitration court in
the British-Venezuela case is expected
- begin about the middle Of February.
KNOXVILLE and West and North
Knoxville, Tenn, have been CONSOLE
dated, giving the town !: population of
50, OOO
The latest edition of q Berlin comic
paper has been contiscatel for publish
ing cartoon which offends the en-
peror.
UNDER the new charter Of Greater
New York no municipal franchise can
be granted for longer period than rs
years.
The elephantcan neither trot, canter
nor gallop. Its only pace is walk.
capable Of being fastened to a fast
shuttle.
The largest collection of coins in
the world is in Vienna. They are
placed in the public cabinet Of antiqui
ties, and number over ZOO.
TALKING is pronounced by doctors
to be a healthful occupation-good
for heart disease. and to some extent
substitute for bodily exercise.
The latest and most appropriate UNI
brella has a duck head handle-signifi-
cant of the fact that the water will run
off the umbrella, which is its back.
SKINNED milk is now turned into
champagne by an electric process, and
licious in flavor, though non alcoholic.
WHILE smoking, lack Cameron, of
White county, Tenn, stumbled and fell
on his face. The pipe-stem was driven
through his neck and he died in a few
hours.
In the British museum there are
books written on bricks, oyster shells,
bones and fiat stones, and manuscripts
on bark, ivory, leather, iron, copper
and wood.
LONDON has $4,000 policeman, Paris
ordinary arrests in New York in a year
are 5000, in Paris 100000 and in Lon
don $50, 600.
SUCC1. who recently completed his
sixty-fourth public fast in Rome, has
abstained from food in his perfor-
mances for $500 days of his ife-ncar-
~ seven years.
TIE largest tortoise living is said to
be the one lately acquired by the Royal
geological society. 1t is I feet inches
long, feet 10 inches broad, and weighs
about 500 pounds.
FRANCE consumes every year 49,
O0O, 900 gallons of wine, beer, cider and
alcohol, of which OCT 900, 600 gallons are
wine, 395 ZOO, 600 cider, a02, 500, 600 beer
and &c, 500. 600 alcohol.
In Antwerp alone nearly 1000 horses
were slaughtered last year for human
consumption. The number of shops
dealing exclusively in horsetiesh in the
Belgian ports exceeds 80.
NINE NoRD1cA when recently compile
mented on her improved health, said
| that she owed it all to the training
| which it was necessary to undergo in
order to sing Wagnerian roles
As one testimony to the rapid growth
of Palestine's population. it is stated
on good authority that while ten years
ago there were nearly $4,000 residents
in Jaffa, to-day there are nearly 50, 600.
! Some people are not satisfied with the
milk of human kindness-they want the
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