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Show mesa chest, which is 123 years old, is made of pine, heavily ribbed with iron, and is cloned by an old time pondoroua lock. Tho Young Women's Christian Association, Asso-ciation, founded in London in 1807, now has 143 branches, with a member hip of 17.0(H). There arc forty institutes, evening homes and boarding houses where young women from the country can bo lodged and cared for at small charge, i CI..-. -j .JtiNCiATIONS. ' ' I Thero are about 123,000 Jews in the j Ilnssiaii army. England has 45,000 women who earn s. livelihood as printers. An orange ltietisuring a foot in circumference circum-ference has tieen found iu Starke, Fla. j Woodchucks have the same greeting ; as etits, but louder and more emphatic. I It is a fact established upon tho an- i ! thnrity of travelers in different parts of ' i the world that stammering is almost ! unknown among savage tribes. j ' The atmosphere of London is said to be p-adtully lieconiing moro and nioro . harmful to plunt life, and it is nttrib- i tited in a largo measure to tho thick i fogs. ! Iu 1801 it will bo a thousand years fcinee Hungary was established us an independent in-dependent government There is a movement among the Hungarians to celebrate that anniversary with great jiomp. A monster grapevine at Athens, Oa., which covers moro than a quarter of an aero, has been known to produce enough of grapes in a single year to make 100 gallons of wine. It was planted about thirty-two years ago. The Fr nch minister of wt.r lately offered of-fered a prize for tho s.v.-iftet bird in a flight from Pcrigueitx to Paris, !!10 Miles. There were 2, 7 id entries, and the winner did the distance, iu seven hours und thirty-four minutes. Among tho measures devised by the ministry of tho interior of Russia to prevent pre-vent destructive fires in villages and small towns is a law making it, compulsory compul-sory for every house owner to have two rows of trees planted around his house. A resident of Richmond, Va., has come into possession of a revolutionary relio , in tho shape of (Jen. D.uiicl Morgan's |