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Show jwh'lly through the water, its movements, and especially those of Its arms, counter-felting counter-felting closely the motions of a serpentine form. The t:nfl!)i Tongue. j It is computed that at tho opening of tho present century there wore about Sil, 000,000 people who spoke tho English tongue. The French speaking people at, that time numbered ahnnt 81,500,000, nnd tho Germans exceeded ao,OOO,0OO. The Russian tongue was spoken by nearly Ml, -000,000 and the Spanish by morn than SB,-000,000. SB,-000,000. Even the Italian had three-fourth as lai-pe a constituency as the English, anil the Portuguese three-eighths. Of the Id'.',- ; 000,000 people, or thereabout, who are ev j tluiatcd to have bean using these seven ' languages in the year 1R01 the Kngllsh ' speakers were less than I. 'I per cent., while the Spanish were 10, the Germans 18.4, the i Russians IH.H and the French ", n- Thin ! aggregate population has now grown tu 4o0,000,0u0, of which tho Kngllsh speaking people number close upon rift.ooo.oofl. From i:i per cent, wo have advanced to HI per ' cent. The French speech is now used by Ml,. 000,01X1 people, the Gorman bv about. 70,- 000,000, the Spanish by 4U.ouri.Oin, the Russian Rus-sian by .70,000,000, the Italian by about 30,000.0110 and the Portuguese by about 13,-000,000. 13,-000,000. The Knglish language is now Used by nearly twine as ninny people as any of the otliers, and this relative growth isal- , most sure to continue. English has taken as it own the North American continent, and nearly tho whole of Anstiulasia. North America alone will soon have 100,. OOO.OoOof Knglish shaking people, while there are 40,0 )0,1X10 in Great llritnin and Ireland. In South Africa and India alst the language is vastly extending. Weather Wisdom. Iwming, In his "Weather Wisdom," says: A dwp blue colored sky, even when seen through the clouds. Indicates fair weal her; a growing whiteness, an approaching storm. ' When the sky ill rainy weather is tinged with sea ?re,-li the rain will Increase; If f wit h d-x-p blue It will be showery. j A bright yellow sky at evening indicate , rain. ' A pale yellow sky at evening indicates wet weather. A neutral gray sky at evening Indicate fair weather. The same in the morning IndiraU wet weather. Haziness In the nir, which fade tlm sun's light and nmki-s the orb apxnr i whitish or ill defined, or If at night the mown and slars grow dim, indicate ritin will follow. THE CITKGSITY SHOP, ' ' Tlrtor ITuco's liln ot Hub Cuttlefish Cuttle-fish X'o Iiiser Fiction. In 1667 a very large cuttlefish, averaging about twenty feet In length in the body alone, was met with by a French war ve sel between .Madeira and Tenerlffc. Later on great squids were seen on the AmTioao coast, and chiefly in tbe north, whithsi possibly they may have been aurarVd by the prospect of suitable food in toe ci. Actual measurements of some of these big squids, which by the way also occur off the Irish coast now and then, give bodie ranging from ten to twenty feet in length exclusive of the anm, which, as regard tbe two long one at least, may I set down at thirty fuet lu length. So that the realization of tbe wxdogical pantasy of the "Toiler of the hc" ha come in a very decided fashion indeed in the shape of the Newfoundland giant cuttles, cut-tles, whose powers of attack may he regarded re-garded as fully equal to those credited to tbe bit devillish of the great French novelist. novel-ist. Furthermore. ,t may be suggested that a huge cuttlefish rushing acrr th surface of the sea, propelled backward by its jet of water, with iu bead and arms, leaving a long "wash" behind, may very aptly appear as a fit representative of the sea serpent itself. From various accounts given of the "great unknown" of the deep, it seams pretty certain that what seen was really a giant cattleilsa swimmis |