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Show . SOMETHING NEW. A good sewing machine is supposed to do the work of twelve women. A suit has been hrought in Buffalo to recover re-cover ?5000 for alienating a boy's affections srom his father. Glynn county, Georgia, has a woman hermit her-mit who has only spoken to three persons in sixteen years. The material for an ax head has to be heated five times and pass through tho hands of forty workmen before it is in proper shape. In 1891. savs Stahl nnd Eite, Germany imported from Sweden and Norway 148,61 I tons of irou ore, of which tVi.iVS'.t tons went to Westphalia and 85,91 tons to upper Schleswig. The bones of Jumbo, Barnum's big elephant ele-phant that was killed a few years ago at St. Thonia. Canada, weighed even 2-40O pounds. The total weight of the body, bones and all, was six tons. Under the conviction that the plumage of canaries can be altered in color by varying the. food. Dr. Bcddoe thinks that the color of the human hair must eventually be iufiu-! iufiu-! enced by particular dtets. Lady Mary Somerset says some pleasant things of us who arc so fortunate as to be American women by birth or adoption. For one thing, -Ut: says women in America are better posted 00 current topics than men. There is a church in the town of Bergen, Norway, that is built entirely of paper. It can scat 3000 people in comfort, and has been rendered waterproof by a solution of quicklime, curdled milk and the white of eggs. A single seed of an Asiatic pemperion planted on Trevsy grounds, Berlin, propagated propa-gated a vine as large as a man's body, which in nine weeks grew to a total length of nearly 300 feet and ripened more than 800,000 seeds. |