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Show 1 CRISP CONDENSATIONS. It has been calculated that there are bout 200,000 families Jiving in London an about 1 a week. Official figures show that there are cut every year in Aroostook county, Me., 100,000.000 feet of lumber. Two of the albums sent to the international inter-national exhibition of stamps at Vienna are insured for $12,000 and $15,000. There are twenty-seven states with over one million population each. At the previous census there were nineteen. A chair 120 years old is in use in an office in Spring City, Pa., and is said to be just as good as the dav it was bought. It is stated on good authority that the factories of England, France, Germany and Holland produce about 77,000,000 pins daily. The Italian clergy, unlike those of Trance, and for the most part of Eng-' land also, have never made any objection objec-tion to cremation. Germany sent to the United States in 1889 beet sugar to the value of $16,000,-000. $16,000,-000. Two years ago the amount was less than a million and a half. An Englishman has purchased a portion por-tion of Mount Olympus in order to prevent pre-vent its desecration by a firm which had begun to erect a hotel upon it. A new stenographic machine in use by the Italian parliament is capable of re- cording 250 words a minute, and can be readily manipulated by a blind person. I Says an eminent physician: So long ae men uncover their heads in theatres, halls, etc., just so long catarrh will be a national ailment and men suffer neuralgia neural-gia and bronchial affections. Blackening the nose and cheeks under the eyes has been found an effectual preventive pre-ventive of snow blindness or the injurious in-jurious effect of the glare from illumi- i nated snow to eyes unaccustomed to it. I Wembley park, about twenty minutes' ride from the center of London, has been selected as the site for the new tower which is to be built in imitation of the great work of the French architect Eiffel. I Strawberry farming pays in England. ' From a single strawberry farm at I Orpmston the proprietor got 500 tons of ; fruit, an amount which, at four cents a ' pound, represents a return over of more I than $45,000. |