| Show A BATCH OF ODDITIES iymposinm of Queer and Interesting Facts Few of us realize how much money is actually spent in matches In Sweden for example the Aspen forests have been so reduced through the manufacture that now that country has to import its lumber from Russia The banks of the Columbia near Uma tilla have for many years been rich in In dian curios and relics One woman there has a collection ot nearly 2000 pieces which possesses an enormous value A letter sent from Mauoh Chunk to Calcutta by way of Amsterdam and imme diately mailed back to Mauch Chunk by way of Hong Kong made the circuit of the globe in sixtyeight days I The largest specimen of leaf or fern gold ever seen was found the other day near Walla > Valla in Washington It is valued at 3300 for the gold alone but five times that amount could not purchase it A French beekeeper has experimented with his bees as carriers of dispatches One difficulty with the service is that those insects will not return over a distance of more than two or three miles Latriella mentions a flea which dragged a silver cannon of twentyfour times its own weight and showed no fear when the i ffired piece was charged with gunpowder and fired off Tho centennial of American olookmak Ing in to be celebrated in Terryvilie Conn in lS93 and the memory of Eli Terry who in the beginning of the industry founded the town that bears his name is to be honored hon-ored = Live otters are very rare in Connecticut Connecti-cut but a hunter saw two in the Williman tic river recently and shot one The skins are worth about 10 apiece Tho only mine of pure platinum in ex Istenco has been discovered in Oregon This mineral is usually found in conjuno tion with others The mother of a Kansas CityMo baby is sixteen years old its grandmother thirty three and its greatgrandmother is but fiftytwo years All reside in the same house After a brief and unaccountable illness a horse in Sherman Mich died The stomach was opened and in it was found a half bushel of sand The oldest man In the world is believed to be Michael Soils a halfbreed living i in Bogola in San Salvador It is certain that he is ISO years old The annual production of sawed lumber in the United States would load a train of cars 25000 miles long The Earl of Dudley holds the largest life insurance ever effected the amount be ing for 0000000 About 8500 women are employed in the British postofficeor one to every eight men employed MrsLe Fevetho vegetarian once lived three weeks on nothing but apples |
