Show POINTED PARAGRAPHS The Importation of madder root is chiefly from Holland Iron horseshoes have been found dating dat-ing back to the year 481 Two young lambs will be consumed by a full grown eagle in a day Antwerp is the principal market of Belgium for paints and colors The catacombs of Paris contain the remains of about 3000 persons In Florida a wine is made from tomatoes to-matoes which is superior to orange wine All the flowers of the Arctic region are either white or yellow and there are 762 varieties No two kinds of birds fly alike The style of flighty depends upon the structure struc-ture and form of the feathers the tail and the wings The pearl fishing season in Ceylon only lasts 22 days and during that period pe-riod 11000000 oysters are brought to the surface by 50 divers This is an off year with the sea serpent ser-pent along the New England coast The competition of Spanish warships has driven him out of business Artificial less and arms were in use in Egypt as early as B C 700 They were made by the priests who were the physicians of that early time Macaroni is taken from a Greek derivation de-rivation which means the blessed dead in allusion to the ancient custom of eating it as feasts for the dead Letters dropped in a box In Paris are delivered in Berlin within an hour and a half and sometimes within 35 minutes min-utes They ars whisked through tubes by pneumatic power Russia is experimenting with giant search lights mounted in balloons and containing electric burners connected with dynamos upon the ground The largest of these yet reported is of 5000 candle power At a distance of 600 yards above the earth it will illuminate illumin-ate a circular area 500 yards in diameter diam-eter to the brightness of day Women are said to have incurred lead poisoning from merely biting off or passing through their mouths sewing thread of silk Silk thread Is soaked in acetate of lead to increase its weight and the danger is quite possible and apart from the danger the habit of bitIng bit-Ing off cotton or silk instead of using scissors Is not the most improving thing for the teeth |