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Show ' CRISP CONDENSATIONS. The first piano was invented as far back as 1716. , The population of the world doubles Itself in 260 years. An Atchison (Kan.) woman makes all the butter by shaking the cream in a glass jar. At Eureka, Cal., one of the miners has a pet sheep that follows him all through the mine. It is a matter of tradition in Japan that fruit grows upon the bamboo when there is to be a famine in that country. In Washtenaw county,. Mich., there is a spring which has the peculiar prop erty of petrifying everything over which its water flows. The Corean alphabet is phonetic, and so simple that any one can learn to read in a day. Nearly all the women in Corea can read. ' Apples ten and twelve inches in circumference cir-cumference are raised in Southern Florida. They are said to be of a fine flavor and juicy. The income derived by French people who rear fowls, according to official returns, re-turns, is 337,100,000 francs, of which 153.500,000 francs represent the value of the flesh and 183,600,000 francs that of the eggs. There are 530 authorized guides in the Alps; 104 of them have taken a regular course of instruction in their profession and have received diplomas; 85 of them are between 60 and 70 years of age, and 6 are over 70. The latest addition to the world of newspapers is entirely in Latin, advertisements adver-tisements and all, and its object is to prove that Latin should again become what it was in . the Middle Ages the universal language. - About twenty years ago the Japanese author, Kioyte Bakin, completed a novel npon which he had been at work for thirty-eight years. It comprises 106 volumes, and is said to illustrate all classes of Japanese society and life. The kali mujah, or death, plant, of Java, has flowers which continually give off a perfume so powerful as to overcome, over-come, if inhaled for any length of time, a full grown man, and which kills all forms of insect life that come under its influence. |