Show POIND PARAGRAPHS The Texas jeanut crop Is expected to be worth 4000OC0 th year The very finest brand of Havana cigars fetches 1500 a thousand in Paris Washing is done In Japan by getting into in-to a boat anti letting the garments to be washed drag after the boat by a long string I geottlsh hfrnatlc doctor thinks that hi cycle ricing may be a cure for inaanty lie has tried it with good results or sense of his ratiente I The recent state conyention of the New I York Prohlbiuonists was floticeable for I the fact that the platform adopted does not endorse woman suffrage Holland hajust established compulsory sertIce for all Dutch citizens in the army The only persons exempted are priests ministers and divinity students Tue broadheaded horses are the clever I eat In the British household cavalry the horses with broad foreheads learn their drill more rapdy than the others The Japanese are curiously alike physically physi-cally Recent measurements taken of nit I Infantry regiment allowed no vaiaton cx cept two Incises in htght or 2s pounds in weight The fasting feats of the sect of Jams in India Is far ahead of all rivals Fasts of from 30to 10 days arovery common and once a year they are said iS abstain from food for 75 days The Belgian government has ordained that in the interest of newsgathcring all newspapers in that county are entitled hereatter to a free pass ever all the railways rail-ways in the country Siams royaI family having brought hi cycles with It from Europe every noble of Siam is trying to ride a wheel Great improvements in the roads of the country coun-try are looked for in Consequence Duke Adolf Friedrich of Meckenburg Schwerin an uncle of the grand duke who won an army steeplechase recently is the first prince of a reigning house to ride in a horse race iii Gerinanr The Japanese are proud of the first large ocean steamer they have built It was constructed sit Nagass1i is 462 feet long of 6000 tons and a speeti of 14 miles It has been named the Hitnchi3laru |