Show S CRISP CONDENSATIONS The population of Berlin has now reached million and a half The lace trade of France gives employment em-ployment to nearly 200000 persons Santa Cruz Ca1 reports a 13months old baby that can swim like a duck Dr Talmages new tabernacle will cost 150000 and will seat 5000 persons The average life of an ocean cable a at present constructed is twelve years The tabatiere which the czar gave Bismarck during the Berlin visit cost 0000 The chorolistha is the last London dance from choros a dance and olis thanein t glide A Keokuk youth ate eightythree bananas at one sitting recently on a bet with a fruit dealer Persons in Switzerland in the habit ot I handling bank notes printed i green are said to suffer from irritant poisoning The largest collection of c in in the world is in Vienna They are placed in the public cabinet of antiquities and number over 125000 LIndustrie Parisienne says that in some French laundries boiled potatoes are preferred to soap for the cleansing of soiled linen The most ancient statue yet discovered in Greece ha been found at Tripolitza It represents a god seated and resembles resem-bles antique Egyptian sculpture The Society for Prevention of Cruelty I to Animals in Switzerland has resolved to banish cats from the republic on the ground that they are killing off the birds Maxwell Sommerville of Philadelphia has just purchased a beautiful antique cameo of Jupiter giochus preserved from the first century It is said to have cost more than 50000 80000 At Plant City Fla there has been found what seems to be a half orange with a smooth skin and a half lemon with a rough skin the latter being a lit tic larger growing together a one fruit During 1889 slightly over a hundred million dollars worth of gold has been dug from the earth on the four continents conti-nents the largest quantity came from Australia California and South Africa Africa is looking up Since 1882 eightytwo miles of streets have been built paved and drained in Rome at a cost of 30000000 and 3000 houses erected in large modern blocks where old quarters formerly stood and five Tiber new bridges thrown across the |