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 Brazil is now the principal coffee pro- ducing country of the world. In 1895 the crop was estimated at 1000, 900 bags.
 In Bielefield, Germany, there is col ony of epileptics. numbering about 1,5o0. The colony was established in 1S6S and patients from all parts of the world go there for treatment. The use of coats of arms as badge for different families did not come into practice till the twelfth century. The Germans are said to have originated it, while the French have developed the science.
 The New York school board has de- cidednot only not to employ married wo- men as teachers in the public schools, but also that 'any intention of marry ing on the part of woman teacher shall be regarded as a resignation"
 To prevent elevators from dropping in case the cable breaks, curved steel bar is attached to the underside of the carriage, carrying blocks at the ends to grip the ways in which the cage slides, the blocks being normally held out of contact by levers connected with The cable.
 Miss Helen Gould has received twelve-inch projectile from the navy department. It was sent to Lyndhurst, her country place, south of Tarrytown, N. r., as a souvenir of the war with Spain. It weighed 800 pounds and wor- ried the baggagemen at the railroad station at Tarrytown in getting it off the train and on to the platform of the station.
 There are 54S public and 3S private schools in the island of Porto Rico. La- fayette post, G. A. R., with the consent of the government, proposes to give each of these an American flag. The flags are being made and will be sent to the island in charge of the junior vice commander, who will visit the schools and give each a starry banner.
 In moving troops of the British army by sea, allowance is made of 2h tons per man and tons per horse for long voyages, and 11s tons and 2h tons for short voyages. It is es- timated that one hundred cubic feet of ships measurement equals one ton, measuring the total cubic space below deck and total cubic space, in- closed, above deck.
 Since the year 1S95--that is to say, within the last four years-German yards have delivered no less than twen- ty-four men-of-war for foreign navies namely, thre iron -c1ads, ten torpedo boat destroyers and eleven torpedo boats and, besides this, there are now sn hand twenty-two other vessels namely, one iron clad, three other large men of war, ten torpedo-boat de- stroyers and eight torpedo boats.
 An Adrian county, Missouri, court has been wrestling with a peculiar lawsuit in which rats cut the principal figure IA farmer named Sturgeon hired one