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Show , - STRAY BITS. Tits principal deutista ia AnstraUa have women assistants. It is estimated that every seal con-g-nues about ton puunds of lish daily. A newspaper writer declares that alligator alli-gator meat when properly cooked reaein-bits reaein-bits halilrat closely, i An nrtesiau well at Boise (?ity, Idaho, ! Ai-nda tip sulphurous water with a ieia-! ieia-! poratnre of 113 degs. j England imports a luilliou lobstert I auntialiy from Norway, representing a j money value of $ 1."0,00U. i The glass bead makers of Austria j Huiii;ary set 5 cents per 1,000. A quick ; workmau can make 5,000 t day. Venice has 110,000 inhabitants. Of these no lrss than 40,000 aro enrolled as miiphntsof relief that is to say, uearly one-fourth of tb population nro pa pels. It is believed, tbni tlie wealthy Ine chants of Victoria, D. C, are bacK:r i jhe sn;u;-'L,'li't' of opium. Tkerd are sev j ifnty opium refineries at worl: in ll. place. I There are twenty-three ancient widows ! iiov; drawing pensions from tho United Stales Kovernmedt because their bus- I j bauds were soldiers in the Hevoluti.iiiary j i war. Thrif of t hem :re lJ$ years old an J tne youngest Ti. i |