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Show 4 I.ll-rKll AND CONDENSE 11. A paper in Canton estimates that 75,-000 75,-000 people die in China every year by tire and flood, An Allegheny woman has given birth to twins weighing together only one aud a quarter pounds. About iJO.000 plants and 12.000 shrubs aro to be set out at the stations along the Old Colony Kailroad The government pays annually to the railroads the sum of nearly $ 10,000,-000 10,000,-000 for carrying tho mails. An English journal discusses tho nos- sibility ot distinguishing "high and lowborn low-born blood'' by the aid of the microscope, micros-cope, L. K, Moorehead, of San Francisco, has received an informer's fee of $3,000 for his assistance in the seizure of smuggled smug-gled opium a year ago . Beers is the name of the Austrian sculptor who has succeeded in discovering discov-ering a process for molding marble j fluid precisely as Ironze is molded. The experiment of a ladies' choir, the members of which were arrayed in violet vio-let surplices and trencher-caps, at Melbourne Mel-bourne pro-cathedral, has proved a disastrous dis-astrous failure. . Captain Shaw, chief of the London fire brigade, has published statistics of fires in theaters throughout the world in 180. He says that fifteen theater were destroyed, nineteeen persons killed, ninety-one badly wounded, and goes on to prove by figures that by cu-S cu-S ringa theater a person improves his ''chances of an untimely end. |