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Show INTERESTING ITEMS. About one-third of the human race lives on rice. The London Stock Exchange has 5,400 members. St. Peter's, in Rome, will accommodate accom-modate 54,000 persons. The lungs of an adult human being have 175,000,000 cells. Two million American made cigarettes cigar-ettes in boxes and tins anl seventy thousand pounds of tobacco in tins and plug were imported into Bangkok Bang-kok last year. Stealing electricity in Colorado is punishable by a fine of $50 and imprisonment im-prisonment for thirty days. An electric glue heater ras been put on the market which is said to melt glue in thirty minutes, and to keep it at a temperature of 150 degrees de-grees for several hours after the current cur-rent has been switched off. In the seven years, 1901 to 1908, China's postal service expanded remarkably. re-markably. The postal routes now cover 88,000 miles and the postof-flces postof-flces number 3,493, as against 176 in 1901, an increase of 3,317 in the seven years. Experiments and investigations made both iu Europe and in America Indicate that fully one-half of the deaths from consumption occur among people who are compelled to breathe dust in its various forms. The advance in stumpage dues on lumber cut on crown lands in Quebec province. Canada", for export is expected ex-pected to occur in September. 1910, and will, says our consul at Sher-brook, Sher-brook, practically prohibit the shipping ship-ping of wood pulp to the United States. |