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Show CRISP CONDENSATIONS. The milk bill of London exceeds 50 -000 daily. The tongue of the giraffe is nearly a foot and a half long. The thickness of the human hair varies from the 250th to the 600th part of an inch. Blonde hair is the finest and red the coarsest. , An American firm bas the contract for the construction of the locomotives for the road running between Jaffa and Jerusalem, Palestine. Of the 4,200 species of flowers now cultivated in Europe only 10 per cent, give forth any odor. Therefore it cannot can-not be said that most flowers are fragrant. fra-grant. It is estimated that f 1,112,000 is in-vested in-vested in the Delaware river sturgeon fishery industry. The yearly catch is valued at flOO.000, and 2.0T3 men are employed. It has been computed that between 80,000,000 and 87,000,000 babies are born in the world each year. The rate of production is therefore about seventy per minnte, or rather one for every beat ot the clock, . |