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Show CRISP CONDENSATIONS. Cloves are the unopened buds of a tree, native of the Spice Islands. The aggregate capital stock of the cooperative co-operative societies in England amounts ; to $3,855,000,000. I Eighty women are employed in the I postoffice department at Washington, ; with salaries ranging from $730 to $1,000 a year. The students at the College for the Blind at Worcester, Mass., play cricket splendidly with a bail in which a bell is placed. Ten years ago there were 300,000 commercial com-mercial travelers in the United' States. The census this year will probably show 400,000. There is said to be a striking similarity between the sign language used by deaf mutes and that in vogue among the Indians In-dians of North and South America. Search for diamonds is being made by the French government at the penal colony of New Caledonia. Machinery to bore down 1,500 feet has been provided. pro-vided. The Portuguese nation is said to De one of the least instructed in Europe, the illiterate inhabitants being officially stated at 83 per cent, of the total population. popu-lation. The most densely populated square mile in the world is in the city of New York. It is inhabited by 270,000 people, j the larger part of whom are Italian, who speak only their native language. A "fossil forest" haa been discovered I in Scotland. Thirty or forty fossil trunks have already been laid bare, most of which are gray freestone. One of the trunks is at least two feet in diameter. The invention of smokeless powder has been followed by Jf the shape of a "smoke rocket," to be used to screen the advance of a body of tmoraL It has been tried with success- i The New York police have -J- new crusade. K any wayward atozen thwTaTiece of paper in the .Uet ho must look out for one of ttej nrtrto coated officials who have been detailed to suppress this practice. The French minister of war lately offered of-fered apSe for Uie swiftest bird in a Strrom Periguenx to Paris, S!0md Tere were 2,7415 entriee. the winner do-SXdance do-SXdance in 7 hours and 34 min- |