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Show --- SCRAPS Kantneky raises more tobacco thai any other state in tha country. Chl! irrigate more than 2,300,000 acres of land and has nearly as many more available far irrigation. Australian gold la distinctly redder than that found in California. The Ural gold Is tha reddest found any-wkfre. any-wkfre. In soma of the cltiea of Europe a dog ts taxed according to its size a little tax foe a little dog, and a big tax for a big deg. The wives of many English fishermen fisher-men keep a black cat In the house in the belief that doing o assures tbeif husband's safety at sea. Napoleon's handwriting was so 11-laible 11-laible that his letters from Germany to Josephine were at first taken for rough maps of the seat of war. The -walrus furnish abeut 1,500 pounds of meat, 1,000 pounds of oil and 000 pounds of leather, and the white whale furniebea much more. The Chinese bava a kitchen-god. which la suppaaad to go to the Chinese Chi-nese heaven at the beginning of each yiar to reprt upon the private life of the Xamlliee under tils care. Helnrich Heias, celebrated German poet and attic vu of Hebrew descent. de-scent. For the last 24 years of his life he lived In Paris, where he became the victim of a painful and incurable malady. mal-ady. Ha died February IT, 1S56. |