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Show TIMELY TOPICS. Almost any change makes temporary turmoil. tur-moil. It always takes more or less time to get the hang of the school house. An electrician says carbon is so good a conductor of electricity that, in the form of coke, it is used to make an earth connection for lightning rods. This is a railroad country. There are nearly a round million of freight cars in use on American railroads, which have 27,000 passenger cars in service. Every country lias its aerial peculiarities. J ava is said to be the region of the globe where it thunders oftenest, having thunder storms on ninety-seven days of the year. Ts the stone age to return again? A shoemaker shoe-maker in Berlin has invented an artificial j sole of stone for use in shoes. It is elastic and easy on the feet, and is calculated to last for years. In bis own country Johnnie does not take cold drinks. In China all wines are drunk hot. The thrifty Chinaman believes that heated wine intoxicates more expeditiously than cold wine. The French can keep clean with less water than any other people. The dishwater in which the plates and dishes are washed in Paris i- only changed aud renewed once in every twelve months. The Germans believe in the modern means of transportation. Germany's railroads have a trackage of 21,843 miles, 5000 miles more than exist in Great Britain and Ireland, the cariy home of the railway. Perhaps there is no use in being liberal with the wicked. One of the ameer's latest acts is to order that funeral expenses he eat down, because of a verse of the Koran which condemns prodigals to the lower world. In the old metaphysical lauds they have some modern ideas which seem very good. Railway schools for children of railway employees em-ployees are maintained by the railway companies com-panies of Iudia at a very small expense to the pupils. This country makes more or less shoddy stuff, but it docs make some superior articles. arti-cles. The steel used by the United States navy is recommended by the American Society So-ciety of Engineers as the best known in praciral science. This country has ample space and does thing, on a large scale." Tiie greitest tish-way tish-way in the wor.il is in the course of construction con-struction on the Potomac at the Great Falls. When it is completed it will carrv fish over a vertical fall ol seventy-two feet. A London correspondent writes that the Lancashire county nsvlum at Prestwich, with 2300 patients, and Colney Hatch, in Middlesex, six miles north from London, with accommodation for 250 patients, are he largest lunatic asylums in England. Civilization is an old product, but as yet it has not made a complete success in the ways of peace. These are the times of civilization civil-ization and peace, and yet it is figured that during the last thirty-three years fully 2,-500,0 2,-500,0 Kl men have lost their lives in war. Of making Bibles there is no end and of late the object has been to produce a rata-itture rata-itture that should at the s tine time be legible. A Bible recently issued from the Oxford university press is only inches in length, 2 inches wide and ;8 of an inch in thickness. The pathetic "Song of the Shirt" is as applicable ap-plicable to these times as it was when Hood lived. The London women who make shirts are no better off now than they were when Hood wrote his '-Song of the Shirt" for them. They are paid four cents for each shirt they make, and they average six in seventeen hours. Texas is large and rude. The Schenectady Evening Star says that a letter was received in the postotlice of that town bearing a Texas postmark and addressed as follows in German: ".Mr. Rev. G. W. Drees. Servant of God, Learned Man of Scripture, Preacher over the Sheep, Bucks and Mother-Lambs of the Congregation of God." |