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Show PENNED AND PILFERED. From 00,000 to 120,000 hairs grow in a human scalp. Canary birds 'iavc been known to live twenty-one years. In southern Europe 39,000 oranges have been picked from one tree. Two Italian savants believe they have discovered dis-covered the germs of lockjaw. Some of the South American tribes actually actu-ally eat tobacco, cut into small pieces. A monkey at the Paris circus has been trained to play agonizing music on the violin. Electricity, in its various forms of application, applica-tion, is said to give employment to 5,000,000 persons. An Ashboro (N. C.) man has among his deeds a laud grant to a member of his family from George III. To complete their growth, the nails of the left hand require eight to leu days more than those of the right. There are 80,000 barmaids in England, whose hours average fourteen daily, for a wage of ten shillings per week. There are about 700,000 houses in London which on cold days consume 40,000 tons of coai, emitting 480 tons of sulphur. Most of the men in the islands of southwestern south-western Japan lead lives of idleness and are cheerfully supported by the women. in the Samaritan hospital at Belfast, Ireland, Ire-land, chloroform has been given in over 3000 cases of operations without a single fatal result. In one of the great Paris hospitals, out of eighty-three patients who suffered from epilepsy sixty were found to be children of drunken parents. During the present year many of the patriotic pa-triotic women of Poland wear mourning to commemorate the centenary of the loss of roiauu s luuepenueuee as a na -n. One answer to an advertisement in the Deadwood Pioneer for a "girl for light house work" contained an inquiry as to whether "boats ran from the lighthouse to the city." The body of Gambetta is in Nice. His brain is in the museum of the Paris Anthropological An-thropological society. His heart has just been deposited beneath the monument erected to his memory at Ville d'Avray, where he died. The custom oi kissing hands as a mark of respect is said to be the most ancient and the most universal. From the remotest times, through the ages of Greece and Rome to the present day, it has existed. With the desire of giving her husband a true picture of herself a woman in Atchison, Kan., had her photograph taken as she appeared ap-peared at daily housework in her kitchen dress, with a baby ou one arm and a broom and a dn-tpan on the other. Between the ages of 20 and 40 prisoners die of consumption much more rapidly than people outside of confinement, but whether this is owing to the confinement or to the previous lives of the convicts is not clear. Few criminals of any kind live to be old men. A curious collection was found by the appraisers ap-praisers of the personal property of Mrs. Julia Swinford of Kentucky, who died recently. re-cently. She had been the possessor of ten pairs of shoes that had never been worn, tif. teen pairs of scissorg, scores of spools of thread, and 115 night caps, all of different styles and patterns. |