Show There atfe 10000 Chinese shoemakers in I California I It is saul that palm trees once grew Where Denver now s ands I > 1 I There are 3S2 miles of streot railway in operation in Philadelphia Hot water cannot be raised to any considerable con-siderable height by suction Tho normal temperature of man is 9SYf degrees Fahrenheit that of a fish 11 degrees de-grees There Is a woman In Oregon who has I worked twenty years at stonecutting One of the Rothschilds in Weisb den is taxed on an income of 5 = 1000000 I Prussia has 505 subjects whose annual incomes are more than J30000 each On the prairies of the northwest the crow is looked upon as a bird of illomen The University of Leipsic Is attended by twenty English and American young women An old lady of StoniD ton Conn is said I to have slept 21000 consecutive nights in one house I The Georgia state pension list numbers 400 widows of Confederate soldiers aud I means an annual tax of 400000 In 1800 Philadelphia bad nearly 10000 I more population than New York The figures were 70223 and G04b9 Krupp the great guninaker is taxed on an income of 1500000 and stands at the top of his class of income taxpayers One woman jn overy sixty in London is a gin drinker and one in every twenty is a pauper while one in every thirteen is Illiterate Il-literate Of the twenty majorgenerals of the war of the rebellion credited to Ohio seven only I survive of the twentyseven brevet mojorgenerals twelve arb living A foreign watchmaker has patented a device by which an nbur or two before swatch s-watch runs down the word wind will appear at an opening in the dial The Vatican the ancient palaca of the Roman popes is one of the most magnificent magnifi-cent buildings in the world It was occupied occu-pied over one thousand years ago by the Emperor Charlemagne and no one knows who began the building of it I The tautawa a9inchlong lizard of New Zealand is said to be the most sluggish animal an-imal in the world He is usually found clinging to rocks and has been known to remain in the same spot for months How I he lives is a mj story |