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10y telegraph.
Thursday island, in the Torres strait,
exports $500 900 worth of mother of
pearl annually.
Great Britain has no fewer than 2, 900
magazines, $50 Of these being of reli-
gious character.
Many houses in Berlin are numbered
with luminous figures, which are easily
visible at night.
When first known to the Romans silk
was so dear that it was sold weight for
weight with gold
Hotel chambermaids are unknown in
Mexico Men make the beds and keep
the rooms in order.
Kissing the hands of great men was
an old Grecian custom, though original
ly of eastern origin.
Cyclists in Denmark are forbidden by
law to ride faster than the speed of a
cab through any town.
The largest building is the Coliseum
at Rome 1t is 615 feet in greatest di-
ameter and 1870 feet high
japanese do not care much for novels.
Among 1900 new books printed last
year only 462 were works of fiction
The stars on the United States coin
age are six pointed, while the United
States flag carries five pointed stars.
Billboard advertisements are posted
in some places 10y machines that reach
to the top of 30 foot wall without lad
der or paste pot.
Among the 3, 400 newspapers printed
in Germany GS are in foreign lam
guages, including 80 Polish, / o Danish
and French journals.
During 1898 the labor commissioner
of Seattle found employment for IS, "a
people. in addition to a large number
sent to the hophelds to pick hops.
Of "a, 600 adult immigrants admitted
20 the country i'll the last three months
of 1898, Al, 600 had money. Less than
5000 though, had more than $50
The Marquis of Salisbury keeps about
20 indoor servants, not counting depend
ents Of i higher class, such as private
secretaries, librarians and chaplains.
There is pine nut of Korea which
is rich in oil and is supposed to be so
strengthening that it is given to Korean
children who are delicate of constitu-
ton.
A relic in the museum of Seattle uni
versity is a desk shipped around the
Horn by the first governor of Washing
ton territory and used by him and by
successive governors for many years.
There is special class of farm labor
ers in Sweden who are given so many
acres of land for their own use in con-
sideration of so many days labor dur
ing the year for the owner of the farm.
Sudan ladies have a theory that high
landers wear kits because their wives
once took their trousers from them on
account Of their cowardice. That ex-
plains why so many women wear the
breeks.
A method has lately been invented of
converting sawdust into smelling gases,
something after the manner in which
acetylene gas is manufactured. 1t is ex-
pected TO revolutionize the iron making
industry.
Arbor day is now celebrated in "A
states of the Union by the voluntary
planting of trees by the people. IN Ari-
IONA, Colorado, North Dakota, Wiscon-
sin. Minnesota and Wyoming il is a
legal holiday
Japan imports 5000, 900 silver dol
lars worth of petroleum from America
and Russia every year 1t has been
found, however, that there is much oil
between the Hokwaido and Akito, and
80 behring's have already been made.
The potato crop of the United States
last year amounted TO 1914, 015, 964 BUSH
els, valued at $50, G43, 600 This is an
average yield of Ga Z bushels to the acre,
and estimating the population of the
country at 20, 600, 600 it gives us 81
bushels each.
st. Petersburg is to have a novel kind
of museum-a building containing
models Of famous insane asylums and
specimens of clothing and appliances
used therein, together with the brains
of lunatics, preserved in alcohol, books.
photographs. etc.
Silicon carbide crystals or ''oarbo-
rundum, as it is called, is to a great
extent to replace diamonds in the pro-
duction of finely graduated scales.
Small, fiat. hexagonal crystals are
chosen, from one-half to one millimeter
in size They are mounted in a steel
holder by means of drop of shellac. 1t
is stated that the lines are much more
even than those produced by dia-
mond They have been examined and
magaified 30 times and found to be still
sharply defined
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