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Show CRISP CONDENSATIONS. The United Kingdom imports every i year 13,000,000 tons of timber. A Philadelphia father recently paid 3,600 for a doll's house for Ms little girl. It costs the American nation $250,000 year to print The Congressional Record. The exports of toys from France have increased from $1,200,000 in 1867 to $14,-000,000 $14,-000,000 last year. A tree recently felled in Oregon wan 120 feet long, while the butt measured only one foot through. The total number of horses in Russia 1b over 21,000oi00, of which 15,000,000, or one for evey adult inhabitant, are fit for work. Codfish follow tie ice of an iceberg flown until they reach the water under it, which place affords them an excellent feeding ground. French scientist have analyzed a quart of water taken from a typhoid infected district and found 15,000,000 to 20,000,. 000 typhoid germs therein. There are 10,253 Americans living in France. Including all nationalities, foreign for-eign residents in France are in the pro-" portion of 87 men to 100 women. t Italy loses annually one seaman in every 480; France, one iu every 380; Germany, one in every 225; Norway and Sweden, one in every 270; and England, one in every 64. There are eighty-two national cemeteries ceme-teries in America, scattered through twenty-four states and three territories. The total number of soldiers interested I in these cemeteries is 320,381. I An English naval officer has invented ! a pneumatic line throwing gun, very lk'ht and portable, which fires a hollow suell bearing the cord to a wrecked vessel or into a burning building on dry land. The name "Johnny cake" is Paid to be derived from "journey cake," because emigrants journeying from New England Eng-land to the west were obliged to bake their Indian meal cakes iu the ashes of their camp fires. A new disinfectant has made its ap-! pearanee under the name of ThiocampU. j It is a combination of camphor with sul- ! phurous acid, containing over sixtv , limes its volume of sulphurous acid gas, which, on its exposure iu a warm roon I is gradually evolved |