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pieces which are both handsome and
cheap.
Within a year more than 1000 skilled
vorkmcn have left the French silk fac
tories of RoubaiX and Turcoing for the
United States.
So popular and widely appreciated
have American dried fruits become in
Germany that they may be said to now
control the markets.
The greatest automobile in the world
is the traction engine used in hauling
boraX out of the Mohave desert. The
machine can make Death valley pro
duce.
Japanese wal ships equipped with
wireless telegraph apparatus have sent
and received messages to and from
Japan at n distance of about fifty
miles.
From 1891 TO 1902 inclusive the total
excess of exports amounts to the al
most incomprehensible sum of $3.110.-
100000, an average of some $52O.OO0.-
600 a year.
Taking into consideration all studies
available for the degree of bachelor of
arts. the average grade of the average
student under the average professor is
80 per cent.
The lizardlike pterodactyl. which has
membranons wings with a spread of
twenty feet, is the pattern for the air
ship which Professor Langley of the
Smithsonian institute has built.
Australia has as the result of last
years drought bought since January
100000 bushels of wheat or its equiv
a!rnt in flour from the Pacific coast
and 100000 bushels from New York.
The export trade in Galveston for
the fiscal year showed IN increase of
$2.OoC.o0O. Public ana private i'm
~pEovouncnts recently completed and un-
der way will aggregate in cost $o,1JS..
900.
There are now somewhat over 100.
600 students in our colleges. universe,
ties and technical schools and some,
what over 10000 students in our pro-
fessional schools of theology, law and
medicine.
It is seldom that anything but null
berry leaves are employed to feed silk
worms in France. Very rarely the
worms hatch before the mulberry
leaves are out, and on such occasions
they are fed young rose leaves for a
few days.
a recent rad in the fashionable world
of London is a hotel for pet dogs. This
establishment has been started by Mrs.
Chan-Toon in a dainty house in Bel
gravia. Mrs. Chan-Toon a year OF so
ago owned the Dogs Toilet club in
Bond street.
President Clark of the national irri-
CATION congress-. which met at Ogden
recently. estimated that homes may be
provided for from 1900. 900 to 15.OOO,-
600 people by the irrigation of the 81
100000 acres for which there is avail
bic water supply.
1t has been suggested that in view
of recent developments in ionic investi-
CATION all matters may be composed of
q single mother substance protyle.
This protyle is supposed to be manu-
featured by destructive processes from
concrete matter in the Crookes tube.
Liz "dStc SdSeS llOLl Il uOucIll ullSt
furnace are said to be capable Of de-
veloping 10000 horse power if utilized
in a proper gas engine. The Scientific
American rccites this fact and adds
that the lost power from three such
furnaces would be capable Of pumping
back all the water used by the Niagara
Power company.
Thn Eipot .H of Jb1 t.iS ic rrnu,o ,,1,t
ing itself OF the prediction it made
two years ago that one could soon
communicate with passengers on At
lantic steamers without lie aving the
boulevards. Recently the Compagne
Generate Transatlantique distributed
booklets giving the directions neces-
| sary for utilizing this mode of CORE
spondencc.
! The several varieties of the %eucalyp-
tus tree, of which there are about 100,
are held by foresters to be unequaled
as a forest cover. as windbreaks. as
shade trees. as a source of timber.
fuel. oil and honey and as improvers
Of climate. The tree has already serv-
ed more aesthetic and unitarian pur-
poses than all other forest trees that
have been planted on this continent.
At a recent Columbia university re-
union Harry Thurston Peck. littera-
teur and Latin professor, was the
theme of conversation. 81 wonder
why a nan of his dignity signs his
name Harry instead Of Henry"
unused one alumnus. "He probably
knew" replied another. chat if lie re-
manned Henry he'd go through life
tnrsed with the nickname Hen Peck"
Commander Booth Tucker of the Sal
walton Army says the project to raise
100000 for the purpose Of settling
| Jewish emiGrants from Russia in the
already established Russian communi-
ty at Woodbine, N. j., is only in a ten
tative stage. After a visit to the place
named Mr.. Tucker said hat he found
| the Russian Jews there were success