Show CRISP CONDENSATIONS A Worlds fair has been talked of for 1897 in Berlin The increased cost of wood and ivory is said to have increased by onethird the cost of English pianos Hereafter Australia is to make the ammunition am-munition for her army which hitherto has all come from England Cotton seed which until quite recently recent-ly has been thought useless now makes 28000000 gallons of oil yearly Performances in Russian theatres are always begun by the singing of the national na-tional hymn by the entire audience It is said that Mexico boasts a lake which contains petroleum of a quality sufficiently good to serve tho natives asa as-a lighting oiL A sheetof paper made from the web of the white spider in Hone Komi China Is In the possession George WesT ol Ballston N Y It is as light as air and almost transparent There are now some 4200 species of flowers which are cultivated in Europe and it is a matter of some surprise as well as regret that only 420 exactly 10 per cent are odorous Savings banks are rapidly increasing in popularity in India On the 31st of I March 1889 they numbered 6237 an increase 85 from the previous year with a corresponding increase in deposits depos-its An electric plant vegetable plant if said to have been discovered in India which has the power of affecting the magnetic needle ata distance of twenty feet when the weather is favorable In rainy weather it has no electric influence whatever At Cole Donana on the Guadalquivir in Spain a party of ten guns in fourteen days shot 15 stags 3 wild pigs 3 foxes 247 wild geese 713 wild ducks 402 snipe 161 partridges 86 rabbits 7 hares E quail 15 woodcock and 5 bittern total 1654 head The American Museum of Natural History His-tory in Central park New York has an egg valued at 5300 It is a little over afoot a-foot in length its holding capacity being two gallons and in round numbers it equals 150 hens eggs It is from Madagascar Mada-gascar and is a relic of an extinct monster mon-ster bird The most powerful electric light in existence ex-istence has recently been put into operation opera-tion in a light house at Houstholm on tho dangerous coast of Jutland It is of 2000000 candle power mounted on a tower about 200 feet high and can be seen at a distance of thirtyfive miles even in rainy weather |