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Show hTlt.W HITS. It requires annually .Vi.ihk) tons of binder twine to bind the grain crops of the country. A curious exhibition 10 be opened in Loudon w ill show a collection of bits, spurs and stirrups. Numerous luan-ealing sharks make surf bathing at Santa Barbara, Cal., rather risky pleasure. Antwerp is on the decline. Hamburg ami Rotterdam arc drawing oil it commerce com-merce by lower pott charges. rittsburg claims lo have more millionaires mil-lionaires in proportion to her population popula-tion than any other city in Iho world. A private dinner given at IMinou-ieo's. IMinou-ieo's. New York, recently, cost iii.ikhi. The Horn I decorations alone cost fcilMHi. Mosquitiies iu Sibeila have bills that pierce through the thickest clothing. Overcoats and vv inter gloves furnish no protection against them. Hussia is aiding Scrvia to equip IVM. (KltTmcD nml is furnishing them with rifle from the slate manufactory at Toiila. which causes much hostile criticism criti-cism by Austria. Sparrow heads arc legal t ler among Michigan youngsters in lots or ten. It takes one lot to buy a lishpole, and two will purchase a base ball, when they have been cashed In at the recorder's office. Tho trade of electrician, one of the very newest, begins lo be crowded. In Philadelphia there me .'01) graduates of a polytechnic institute on record as having offered to work as electricians for W cenls per day. The Catholic majority In the Bavarian diet has become possessed with the Idea that the dev elopement of art promotes irrcligiou. Yet Munich is one of the most famous centers of art collections in the world. A gi ll order has been issued bv llie(iermaii emperor that in future all civilians appearing at any court function func-tion where full dress is to be worn must be arrayed in kuee breeches, silk stockings stock-ings and shoes with buckles. The Uussian government intend sending Colonel Kavalcll' on n miioii to central Asia, with the object of inak- ing preliminary arrangements cornice-led cornice-led with the projected tour of the ear next year in the Iranscaspian province. Photographs of winter scenes show very well how rime or hoar frost grows" out Inward the direction from which the mist or fog which gives it birth ure driven, mid account for the pretty "feathering" sometimes seen in hour "frost. Lake Chelan. Wash., never freezes, although in latitude 4H degrees north. The reason given is that il. Is so deep, nml the warm water always rises from the bottom to supplant the cold, which goes down to warm itself. The Indians lish in the lake at all seasons and use salmon eggs fbr bait. The Austrian national hyniu has, it appears, become almost unrecognizable in the midst of the orchestral liligree work with which band masters have decorated it; so the order has gone forth that the hymn Is lo no nayeu 1 throughout 1 1 n pi re only as Haydn originally arranged it. '1 he rebuke Is well deserved, and it would be well if the hint thus given were taken in all quarters where liberties are taken with great popular melodies. Kstimale of the world's population: The Mongolians lead with about MM.-000 MM.-000 000, and Aryans, which comprise practically all the people of Kurope, four-lift hs of those of the American continent con-tinent and all of the civilized reideiits of Australia, coiiiu' next, wilh M.VOOO,-000. M.VOOO,-000. The negroes are put nt l.VMHMI.-000," l.VMHMI.-000," the Semitic people at If.'MMHUHM), the Malays and Po ynesians at y'l.iKH) -000 and the Indians of North ami Ninth America at l.VOOO.OOO. The late K. W. Y errington, the champion cham-pion wing shot of Connecticut, attributed attrib-uted lliosl of his skill to the fact that I iic never used liquor or tobacco in any form. He weighed yil3 pound., six feet t and one inch iu height, and had dark I - il.. -I...I mi I. C. Smith double ten '-gunge gun, thirteen inch barrels, and loaded l.isowu shells by hand, lb-always lb-always used the same load nt all kin'! of targets. There wa no doubt th it t Mr. Yerrington could slmol IJliOorevcn . .WlargelsTn siieeeMioli will) a" liltlej fatigue and make w-ores fully equal lo j any shooter in the United Staled. j l.ietllenalit von Hai by. of theTwelflli 1 Hinnr regiment. Germany, has taken, the most intcre-iing ride f late. Him was riding with the troops in the neig i- : borhood of Mersebiirg. when his hom- j took fright and iM.lted. All effort to ' restrain him being fruill'-ss. he gave him rein, aud wailed his (qqxiininity to j jump off. To bis di-inay the animal j swerved suddenly in the direction of a j plateau overhanging bn.a I epan : of water: a few moments and botk , lu.ix-and rider would U-over the edge. biialit tbih wa wen (or a moment, the alH-r of the officer f' H "I""1 head of the ft I. and lliev both came to the ground, the man safe In Knglaml iu l" m I here w.i-mie j known Ihicf lo every IMWI pcr-joi-. u I t7 i th" percentage had fallen I'.v I ix-arlv half, and there wa4 only one known thief to every t iill persons Th- lecree in the receiver of Molen goods is slill greater In there I was one te every AW p4 "!'1-' "' '"z there was one lo every 2VW. 1" ! there were l.SHVJ houses kepi by re reivers of stoleu eo.d; in He re were onlv 77H. The numlsr of sus-peeled sus-peeled public Ik.iiw. Uer shop", ami 'offee show has fallen within the name period ;rin 3. 11C to 7M. In 1 ifwrt a one jdicemao to -rj s. i tope; . in lifc7 " Iher aon js.Iicc-: js.Iicc-: nuii ! ev .-ry 7W p.ple. Mich are the latet satilic. |