Show CURIOUS CONESATONS Dried apricots are sent from Calfor nia to London Elephants are fond ot gin but will not touch champagne The average length of a whales jawbone jaw-bone Is seen feet As a rule a mans hair tUrns gray five years sooner than a womans I In South America there is a race Qf cats which docs not know how to mew I The smallest known insect a parasite of the lizard Is but oneninet th of an inch in length The last two descendants or Christopher Chris-topher Columbus are said tQ be occupants occu-pants of a poorhouse in Cadiz The heart beats ten stroke a minute less when one 1s lying down than when in an uprJght position The time required for Niagara to cut Its gorge has been variously estimated at from 7000 to 3 OOO years I Is said that an ordinary caterpillar Increases 10000 times in bulk 30 days from the time it is hatched According to careful estimates three hours of close study wears out the body more than a whole day of hard physical exertion Ginger is a tropical production of Mexico where it grows wild I has been cultivated from an early period in tropical Asia Queen Victoria who has of 1a1e taken to wearing spectacles in public has for many years regularly bathed her eyes morning and evening in weak tepid tea This oldfashioned remedy was in favorwih the Duchess of Kent There recently died in Hopolula Aswan As-wan who after Th Fong was the richest Chinaman HawaIi ever boated of He had been a resident of the island for 45 years and began his life there as a house Servant He was scrupulouslY hone and as many whites as Chinaen attended his funeral Within the last 20 years the French have annexed no fewer than 3OOO0 square miles or Africa They own Alberia Tunis the light soi of the Sahara Senegal the ivory coast the I western Soudan Dahome the French J Congo and a large tract on the Somali So-mali coast while In Abysinla they are making steady way |