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Show in England, 4 in Ireland ana 5 In Scot land. There exist at present 8,064 different languages spoken by the inhabitants ot our globe, whose religious conviction! are divided into 1,000 different creeds. In a library in Paris, the largest in the world, is a Chinese chart of the heavcm made about 600 years before Christ. Ir this chart 1,460 stars are found to be cor rectly inserted, as corroborated by the scientists of the present day. The appliance of hydraulic power to the manufacture of steel seamless boats is one of the latest things in England, These boats are thought to be in every particular superior to those made of wood and can be made at about the same cost A Belgian has lately invented a musi cat shirt on the cuffs of which frag' merits of a score are printed so that it the instrumentalist be a flutist, harpist or cornetist, he has his entire part under his eye, and need not carry any further music about with him. The title of "doctor" was first invented in the Twelfth century, and was first conferred on Irnerius. William Oorden io was the first person upon whom the title of doctor of medicine was bestowed; he received it from the college of Asti in 1329. The cost to England of the influenza epidemic is estimated at $10,000,000, about one-half of this amount having been paid by insurance companies and friendly societies, so-cieties, and the remainder representing loss of wages aud disorganization of business. bus-iness. A wealthy citizen of Osaka, Japan, who is the owner of a rich copper mine, has celebrated in a rather peculiar manner man-ner the two hundredth anniversary of the mine coming into the possession of hit- family. On that occasion each of ins m or more employes received as a memento of the occasion a swallow tail coat. THE GENTLER SEX. Miss Lillian M. Fletcher, of ITew Hampshire, has gono to Ilonolulu to bea teacher to the deaf, dumb and blind there. Mrs. Mary McKellar (nee Cameron has been appointed one of the general secretaries of the Clan Cameron societv Glasgow. Jean Ingelow lives in an old fashione stone house in Kensington in the summer sum-mer time; in the winter she goes to the south of France. She is nearly 60 years old, but is said to look much younger. 3rrs. Watford, the author of some charming novels, including "Cousins" and "Troublesome Daughters," is a very pretty woman. She lias merry eyes, a piquant little nose and a beautiful mouth and chin. Lady Howard do Walden has expressed her intention of endowing, at a cost of 10,000 or 12,000, a ward ut the West Kent hospital, at Maidstone. England, as a thank offering for her recent recovery from a serious illness. Zazel, "the human canon ball," ha been talking to a committee of parliament parlia-ment upon the subject of child acrobats, the committee having before it a bill for the protection of puch performers. She is said to have made a very good speech. Mrs. Campbell-Praed has lately finished a novel to be called "The Rival Princes. Prin-ces. " This lady is an Australian, since her father was a squatter in Queensland. Her maiden name was Rosa Murray- Prior, and she was born at Bromelton I ! Station, on the Logan river, in that easternmost province of the continent 4 CRISP CONDENSATIONS. Mora than 2,000 Italian workmen wera employed on the Forth bridge. In Glasgow there are 35,892 houses of one apartment, and 54,960 of two apartments. apart-ments. Chocolate is used in the interior of South America for a currency, as are cocoanuts and eggs. The English flag float over one-sixth of the population and one-eighth of the aurface of the habitable globe. A London genius has Invented a hot water apparatus to warm piano keys, so that dainty fingers may not be chilled. In the United Kingdom 28 criminals were sentenced to death durimr 1889. IS |