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 Paris has one acre Of park for every fifteen persons; Liverpool, one for sv. cry one thousand.
 Rome has water supply of 2OO,. 100000 gallons a day; London only 160,000O0O, and Paris 0O,O0O,OOO
 The children of the poor in Japan are nearly always labeled, in case they should stray away from their homes while their mothers are engaged on do nestle duties.
 Mrs. Alexander Hamilton had the first ice cream in the city of Washing ton. She used to tell with amusement of the delight with which President Andrew Jackson first tasted it.
 , Dealers in charcoal in Havana arc said never to have yellow fever, while in lay circles 1t is advised always to have 1t about during its prevalence, because of Its absorbing properties, it Is presumed.
 Near the famous Stony Cave, in the Catskills, there is smaller cave in which ice exists all the year round This locality is locally known as the Notch, and is walled in on all sides by steep mountains, some of which are more than three thousand feet high.
 In Denmark there are companies which insure women who have a fear of becoming old maids. They pay stated sums every year, and should they marry before they are 40 what they have paid in goes to the less for. tunate. After they are 40, they re ceive pensions for life.
 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. It 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 citizen.
 The most crooked railway in the world is one from Boswell to Friedens, Pa., the airline distance being five miles. The road doubles on itself four times, and at one point, after making loop of about five miles, the road comes back to within three hundred feet of itself on grade fifty feet lower.
 In 1889 Harriet Mar1neau visited the United States, and reported seven occupations only open to women teaching, needlework, keeping board CTS, working in the factories, typeset- ting, bookkeeping and household ser vice. Now there are about four hun dred occupations in which women are employed.
 Professor Mohn of Christiania hay ing discovered that at the Lofoten Isl. ands cod are invariably to be found in waters whose temperature is always between four and five degrees above the freezing point, Norwegian fisher men now make use of the thermometer as recognized means of detecting the presence of the fish.
 A scientist once put an automatic music-box on the lawn and spent many hours watching the robins, blue tits and other birds gathering about 1t. A looking-glass put up where the birds can see themselves in 1t is also very attractive, while a combination of a musical box and a looking-glass please the birds more than anything else one could put out for their amusement
 Physicists have concluded that tho earth in its motion does not drag the ether along with 1t and thus each body on the earth's surface, in virtue of itS motion with the earth, Is traversed by a stream of ether. The question thus arises: Does light travel through such body with the same speed along tho stream of ether as 1t does against 1t or across it1 The experiments of Michel son and Morley in America lead to an