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ment Of wounds by ozone, founded upon

ment Of wounds by ozone, founded upon
this very Zulu practice.
Whales live to a great age, and they are
sometimes found To be from two hundred
to four hundred years old. Their age is as
certained by the size and number of layers
Of the whalebone, which increase every
year.
Enormous quantities of provisions and
fodder are being shipped from New York
TO South Africa for the British army. One
steamship conveyed to Cape Town million
and half pounds Of fresh beef and 500 tons
of hay.
A London journal recently offered a prize
for the best list of six old English words
which might be revived with advantage.
Two of the words in the winning list are
"commorient" dying together) and al
gate" (at any risk.
Agents of the Russian Quaker sect. the
Donkhoters, are inspecting sugar beet
lands in southern California. and II proper
payments a colony of 1900 Russians will
move to Los Angeles county next March.
The Turk is a fatalist of the most pro-
nounced type. "kismet-it is fate is MS
watchword. He may lose the most cher
ished object that his life holds, but 1T will
not move him to tears. or applications or
to rage, IL he believes IL was TO have been.
The population of China is estimated at
| 800, 000, 600, and of these some 10000 are di-
rect descendants of Confucius, who lived
generations removed from the founder of
| the Confucian religion, and constitute the
aristOcracy of China.
| The magnitude of the implement and We
| hicle interests of the United States may be
partially realized when IL is known that
| these interests, together with the acces-
| sorry trades, are second in Importance to
only one other business interest In the
country, viz, the railways.
| The houses in Guam are built on posts
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| them from dampness in the rainy season,
| but are entirely comfortless and furnished
| in the most primitive manner. Their uten-
| sils are simple and homemade, but all the
| clothing comes from Japan.
| Havana's bread carts are usually two
! legged; that is, bread is carried about the
| streets in large, shallow baskets, borne on
| top of mems heads 1t is served in sticks as
long as baseball bat, or in small loaves
| or pones, one of which is supposed to serve
| for the morning meal of an ordinary citi-
| zen.
| An apostle of physical culture says that
| an excellent and never failing cure for
I nervous headache is the simple act OF
| long as II is usually necessary to prone
| made. II sometimes, however. requires more
| than ten minutes to walk 1t off, If one Is
| very nervous"
The population of India is about four
| times that of the United States, while the
| latter has about double the area of the
| former. The bulk of the people are EN-.
| ployed in agriculture. Each man rents
| generally, but few acres. There are, OF
| course, occasional large plantations run by
| rich man or rajah, but they are excep-
| tional.
Returns of our militia forces for 1899
| just transmitted to Congress, show a grand
| total of 10,343, 152 men available for mill
tary duty running from 5000 for Alaska tc
100000 for New YORK and 912,964 for Penn
! sylvania. Ohio has $4,000, Indiana 5O000
! and Massachusetts, ASS, 537. The organized
militia number 1921 officers and SSSlS men
| total of 339.
The ancient plow of India, costing per
| haps 80 or IS cents, pulled by oxen, is used
| Few implements are employed. The ma
mooties. a kind of mattock, more like
| carpenters adj, with a wider blade, arr
universally used for all manner of work II
the ground. Natives will not use the wheel
| barrow or the shovel. Women carry dirt
mortar. brick and. in fact, everything IL
baskets on their heads.