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 The population of Canada increased 101a per cent. in the decade from 1891 to 1901.
 Berlin imported 4s1, ,457 tons of Eng fish coal during 1901, an increase of TO- 516 tons on the imports of the previous year.
 Under one roof at a farm near Eau quembergues, in the department of the five generations.
 The railway up Mount Iilatus in Switzerland was used last summer by 21,273 persons. England contributed BOA per cent, Germany 22S, France 10,4. To find work for a certain number of tine unemployed in Germany the ifnper- ial government has ordered 7S7 locomo- lives and 10,O33 railway carriages and wagons to be built by next March at a cost of e4,6OO,oo0 Professor Pavloff of St. Petersburg criticises physiologists who write on diet for attending solely to the nutri- | tive value of foods as such, overlooking | the importance of the appetite, without l which that nutritive value is not assim | Hated. The latest novelty in Paris is the cof- | fee cigarette, made, not from the | ground bean, but from the leaf of the tree. It affords fragrant and, it Is claimed harmless smoke, completely weaning the palate from tobacco, and thereby comforting benefit on the race. The cigarettes are made in different de- grees of strength.
 A prudent but uninformed British missionary of the Established Church I when sent to British Columbia took with him lot of canned salmon to eke out the meager diet he expected to find in that benighted region, not being aware that British Columbia's output Of canned salmon is large.
 Professor J. J. See, U. s: N., the as tronomer in charge of the equatorial of the United States Naval Observatory at Washington, has been honored abroad by being elected to membership in the Deutsche Mathematique-V Verein- lgung and to the Socete Mathematique de France, two leading European socie- ties of mathematicians.
 Iceland is about to obtain home rule King Christian of Denmark has called for an extraordinary meeting of the Althing next summer to consider re- form of the constitution A plan to be submitted is for the appointment of a minister for Iceland who shall be ac- quanted with Icelandic and shall re- side at Reikjavik instead of Copenha- gen. Marquis Ito, who recently visited this country and was one of Yales most noted bicentenniaI guests, has written | an introduction for a new book on Jap l an. It is not the usual sort of preface l meaning well and saying little, but one ( which really goes into the subject of z Japan. The author of the volume is Alfred Stead and the nature of it is to , be gathered from the title, Japan of l To- Day. Z There is a billiard table in London ( two centuries old It belonged origi- f