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Show CLIPPED AND CONDENSED- The Paris Figaro pays yearly a dividend divi-dend of over 100,000. There are seventeen registered sects of wcsleyams anil methodists.' The Chinese endure change of climate better than any other race. People eat 20 per cent more brsad when the wheather is cold than when it is mild. A shoe firm in Macon, Ga., lias been conducting business at, one 6tand for sixty years. The number of diamonds knowD of the weight of thirty-six carats aud upward up-ward does not exceed twenty. A Chelsea man put his patent incubator incuba-tor over a duck's egg aud hatched a duckling with four eyes and two bills. William I. of Germany served in the army as a full private before he had attained at-tained his seventh year. At seventeen he was in action. . A Benton Harbor man has a musket which used to kill Frenchmen 200 years ago, and a powder tlask older by a century. cen-tury. In the year 1310 sugar is said to have been sold at Is 9d a pound, and was considered a very luxurious article till the eighteentn century. What Is considered tho finest and largest melon patch in Warwick, R. I., is lig htsd by lanterns through the night aud guarded by an armed watchman. An English geologist predicts that within fifty years convulsion of nature will sink the whole of New Zealand fifty feet below the surface of the sea. A Polandor woman living at Salamanca Sala-manca one day last week picked and marketed over twenty quarts of blackberries, black-berries, and in the afternoon gave birth to triplets. The mortality of the globe is said to be sixty-seven every minute, U7.7D0 every day, or 35,080.835 every year. The 'births amount to 100,000 every day, 8,7D2,0Q0 every year. "There's a place for you, Bill," said the tramp, laying down his newspaper. "Whnt is it?" "An actress advertises adver-tises for a walking gentleman. You've had a pile of experience." The Fiji Islands mission has 27,097 church members and 101,150 attendants in public worship. Fifty years ago there was not a christian on the islands; now there is not a heathen. Nearly $80,000 worth of half-frano pieces was found in the personal estate of M, Duraod, a rich solicitor, who died recently in Paris. It is said that this was M. Duraud, stock of small coin from which he daily gave large sums to beggars in the streets. The price ot good-looking female slave in the United States of Columbia is $100. They are usually excellent cooks, and many of them are expert in diving to the bottom of the streams in the gold districts and bringing up a gourd full of gold-bearing sand. Dr. Leonard J. Gordon, president of the Jersey City board of health, has raado a suggestion that all telegraph poles on which live electric wires are strung be painted red, that the public may be able to distinguish them. Dr. Gordon will bring tho subject up for discussion at the next meeting of the board. |