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Show MISSINC LINKS. Horses are so plentiful in Queensland that a well broken animal can be purchased for $5.00. The king clam of Penobscot Bay was taken at lslcsboro recently. It weighed eighteen ounces. It is stated that the Thomson-Houston Electric company has 1030 patents on its electrical apparatus. The Josephine, Oregon, caves have been explored for about ten miles, and they seem to run away into California. The Swiss have done the least fighting this century, and their only important outbreaks out-breaks have been more of a civil than a military character. There is a law which, if enforced, compels com-pels the delivery of all letters for girls under 18 and boys under .21 years of age to their parents or guardians. There is a house in Summerville, Ga., which has had since its erection three tenants ten-ants aud soon after its occupation by each was struck by lightning. The natives of Damascus call drunkenness drunken-ness "the English disease," and the name is au interesting commentary on the refining influences of civilization. Saturday is said to be the great day for conflagrations in London, and the fire department de-partment is called out more frequently in August and December than in any other month. It is now generally held by electricians that the principle of the aurora boreailis is the same as that shown by the Geissler tube, in which electricity is discharged through rarefied air. A bright New York boy has set himself up in the business of exercising fine bred dogs for rich men whose time is too much taken up with money making to properly look after their canine property. Fluids which do not adhere, or are not attracted at-tracted upward by the sides of a vessel, sink round the brim and rise in tbe center. Thus mercury in a glass forms a convex surface, while water forms a concave. In the summer of 1S89 4,039,000 lobster eggs were batched and the young lobsters planted around the head of Trinity bay, the eggs having been obtained from lobster packing establishments iu the vicinity. "Fatima," the baby hippopotamus of Central Cen-tral park, New York City, is astonishing zoologists zool-ogists by her rapid growth. Though only 1 year old, she is nearly as large as her papa, "Caliph," and her mamma, "Miss Murphy." In a discussion lately carried on as to the distance at which large objects on the earth's surface are visible, it was stated that the Himalaya mountains have appeared to view from the great distance of 224 miles. A lawsuit has been commenced in Marengo, Maren-go, Ind., between Edmund Waltz and El-wood El-wood Stout over the price of two eggs, bought at 17 cents a dozen. Two of the dozen were rotten, and Weltz demanded the return of the price. Electric welding is now applied to the work of manufacturing iron wheels. The process of welding the hub, spokes and tire of a wheel is accomplished in thirty seconds, which is very much less time than it took by the old process. A new form of saddle is being served out to the garde du corps experimentally by order or-der of the German emperor. There has been some talk in military circles lately of a new saddle, all the metal parts of which are made of aluminium. A few years ago the Baroness Bnrdett-Coutts Bnrdett-Coutts came into possession of au abbreviated abbrevi-ated edition of a pony which was only fourteen inches in height and was but eighteen eigh-teen inches in length counting from the eud of the nose straight across to the root of , the tail. |