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Show SOME QUEER FACTS. Xttns usually live to a great ago. The emeJl of perfumes is said to prolong- life. Potatoes in Oroenland never grow larger than a marble. Horses sueeumb to cold quicker 1 han any other animal. Japan has a written history e.teini-ing e.teini-ing over L',.V)'l yea rs. Postage stamps are gummed with a starch made from potatoes. Fully one-; liird of the female population popula-tion of France labors on farms. More than four-fifths of Hie poo;.!:-of poo;.!:-of London never enter a place of -ship. If a snail's head is cut off and the animal placed in a cool, moist, place, another head will grow. .In spite of the closest espionage, the diamond mining companies of South Africa, lose, it- is said. ? I .non.lilio n year bytlieft. |