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Show STRAY BITS. Tho Kansas legislature has 1 13 farmers farm-ers and only three lawyers. A day of fog puts $?."i,000 extra into the pockets of tho London gas men. A hotel is to bo built on top of Pike's Teak 14,200 feet alwve tho sea level. It takes the tusks of 75.000 elephants a year to supply the world's piano keys, billiard balls and for kuives. One of the latest fancies of fashion has decreed carnage lamps in tho shapes of flowers. There is the lily lamp, the rose lamp, the violet lamp and so on, all very odd and very expensive. Austrian census takers discovered a score or more persons in the empire wh passed their hundredth birthday. The eldest was the widow of Peter Hanei. She has a certificate of birth dated Dec 21, 1770. In Szcgediii a man named Isak showed a birth certificate 103 years old. |