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Show . j ODDS A'D ENDS. The ralrc of the oysters consumed in London yearly is about $.',0JJ,00 A summer s. hool for female students is to ,Ve :.i&bl.uiiid in thci.jicl tivr. The polato was carried fn m Virginia to Ireland in 1C10 by Sir Walter Ualcigu. The emperor of Austria i learning short-hh'id. short-hh'id. Since his con's tragic dj.ith he fttdl time pass with insupportable slowness. The material for an ax head has to be heated live times and pas through the hands of forty workmen before it is in proper shape. Two 1 dies only have obtained the degree of rafts. Do.. namely, the princess of Wales and M ss Annie Patterson of Dublin. A merchant of Yazoo City, Miss., lias a young lurlle with tiro dist.net heads and necks. Ii is covered by one shell aud has only oue set of legs. Seals sleep upon land; they also do so llon;ing upon H eir backs in tlie sea. This habit they mostly iuduigd in when the weather is tine and the sea calm. In Burmah it is rather a suspicious thing to give money to a eliaritabU" object. It is supposed to mean tnat the ilonor has been very wicked and desires to make amends. It is not uncommon in Northumberland for a farmer to allw any of bis iaborers who v i-h for it the keep of a cow as part payment pay-ment of wages, greatly to the benefit of their families. In France fortunes arc counted not in dollars dol-lars but in francs, anl the French have invented in-vented a new word to descrlb men like the late Mr. Astor, whom they call not a millionaire million-aire but a milliondaire. Prof. Switt of Rochester thinks that the latest arrived comet has b -c;i G, 003,009 years in getting here. In view of such figures as these is it not time to call in jokes (timed1 at the movements of the district messenger hny'f The collection of fabrics in the Drexcl institute in-stitute promises to bc: o ne one of Urn finest in the country and of lhe high -st importance import-ance to students. The series of Indian oriuts is remarkable, and the Chinese cm-"broideries cm-"broideries comprise several uotabio specimens. speci-mens. It is said that some of the Venetians those who have never been to the mainland have never seen a tnfe in all their lives. A showman once brought one to a fair aud called it a monster, and the fac' : . bauds paid 15 cents each to sje the marvel. The Chinese are ahead of the world in the preparation of roast pork for the table. After it comes out of the oven it is hung in the smoke i f various aromatic herbs, which gives it a de,.ciou3 flavor and robs it of the porky taste which is offensive to some palates. pal-ates. In England second-hand clothes arc called "ieft-Off clothes." This announcement v as recently seen in a P ecadilly Shop window: ".Mr. and Mrs. Brown have lef;-off clothes of every description and invite your cartful inspection at a shilling a head." Sir William Muir, the historian says: 'Tn the vear 04-1 Othman, third caliph of Bagdad, commenced an oration with, 'L naceustomed as T am to public speaking.' OthraM did net live in vain. For 1200 yeais or more his haopy phrase has been a boon to bad speakers." From the twelfth to the fifteenth century small mirrors, carried in the pocket or attached at-tached to the girdle, were regarded as indispensable in-dispensable adjuncts to ladies' toilets. The pocket mirror was a circular plaque of polished pol-ished metal lived in a shallow box and covered cov-ered with a lid. The Jerusalem & JaTa railroad will not enter the former city, but will have its terminus about three-quarters of a mile outside the city limits. It is expected that a town will grow up around the terminus, which may be called Jrusalemvillc or Je-rusalemhurst. Je-rusalemhurst. There is row playing in Prr s a Russian horn band, each horn being capable of producing pro-ducing a single note only. So perfect is the training that the baud produces the effect of one equipped with ordinary instruments, instru-ments, and even running scales with the rapidity and precision of a violin. When the Romans manumitted a slave his head was adorned with a small red cloth cap. As soon as this was done he was known as a libertinus, or frecdman, and his name was registered among others of the city's "tribes." In the year 230, when Saturninus invaded the capital, he hoisted a enp On the point of his spear to indicate that all slaves who rallied around this standard stan-dard should he free. This was the origin of the liberty cap, still used in art as a symbol. |