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Show SCISSORED SCIENCE. The mean height of land above sea level is 2,250 feet. Evebt square mile of the sea contains con-tains 120,000,000 fish of various kinds. The planet Neptune has the longest year, consisting of more than 60,000 of our days. The blood of dogs fatignied by long racing, when injected into other dogs, makes them exhibit all symptoms of fatigue. A Swiss savant has the credit of reducing re-ducing milk to a dry powder, so. that, by the addition of water, it at once assumes as-sumes its natural properties. Investigations of rain drops lead to the conclusion that some of the large drops must be more or less hollow, as they fail when striking to wet the whole surface inclosed within the drop. The nebula in Orion is a fine telescopic telescop-ic object now. The great black space in this nebula is known among unpoetic star-gazers as the coal-hole. Nq star has ever been seen in this hole in the universe. : |