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Show CRISP CONDENSATIONS. Tho value of a pack of hounds is revealed re-vealed by tho sale of one recognized as among the finest in England for 3,000 guineas. The Japanese government has sent two engineers to Berlin to study the telephone system, with a view of establishing a line in Japan. At the recent annual Prussian Festival of Orders 1,496 medals, crosses, stars and the like were given out. Court Preacher Stocker received the order of the Red Eagle of the third class. Amendicament more powerful than quinine in counteracting fevers is said to have been discovered in Mexico. It is a plant called the pombolano, the root of which contains a substance analogous'to quinine. A vegetable flannel is made in Germany Ger-many of fine leaves which are woven into undergarments and clothing of various kinds. One great advantage is no vermin ver-min will lodge in clothes made from the material. A Bible has just been rediscovered in the Vatican library which is in Hebrew. It is supposed to be the oldest in the world and is valued at $100,000. It is so weighty that it requires two men to lift it, tho binding being in heavy metal. The vast extent of the rabbit plague in Australia is indicated by the fact that the government of New South Wales estimates es-timates the expense of erecting rabbit proof wire fencing in the western and central cen-tral districts of the colony at $15,000,000. It is a well known fact that ladies seldom sel-dom trust their finest handkerchiefs to the tender mercies of u laundress. These pretty trifles are washtd at home and spread upon a window pane to dry. They peel off easily and look as fresh as if just from the shop. Some experiments made with a mixed fuel of coal and petroloum, on the Italian man of war Messnggiero, at Spezzia, are well worth attention. The Messaggiero, which never before surpassed fifteen knots an hour, reached almost seventeen with the new combustion. The engineers engi-neers complain that the immense heat generated injures the boilers, but that, of course, can be met. The time required for a journey around the earth by a man walking day iuul night, without resting, would be 428 days; an express train, forty days; sound, at a medium temperature, thirty-two thirty-two and a half hours; a cannon bah, twenty-one and three-quarter hours; light, a little more than one-tenth of a second; and electricity, passing over a copper wire, a little less than one-tenth of a second, |