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Show . Odd Items from Kveryirhere. According to Sappy, the famous physiologist, physiolo-gist, the stomach contains 5,000,0oQ glands, which are constantly secreting gastric juice. The flume which conveys the water from the mountains to the reservoir at 8an Diego is thirty-Ate miles in length, aud composed almost wholly of redwood. The Central Loudon railway, England, is to run three workmen's trains daily, the fare being only two ceuts for six miles, the cheapest railway in the world. The dimensions of the famous floating dock in Per mil 'a, the largest in the world, are: Length over all, 381 feet; length between be-tween caissons, 330 feet; breadth overall, 123 feet 9 inch s: breadth inside walls. 84 feet; depth over all, 74 feet; total weight, 8,:!40 tons. This country was known 5:X) or 1000 years before Christopher the Navigator was 'born. Chinese Buddhist monks are known to have Settled in Mexico iu the fifth century of our era, and St. Brendan the irishman, visited some identified spot on our continent about 100 years later. The longest train ever hauled in this conn try by a single engine, has ju.-t been hauled on the Reading road. It contained :.'r0 empty freight csrs, and was about a mile and a quarter in length. The longest train previously recorded was on the Northern Central road, a mile and an eighth ia length, or 0113 feet. It is unlucky to try on your bridal dress before the bridal day; to see your fut'ire husband on the day of the marriage until the ceremony. Unttteky to marry out of j your own position that is, a la:ly to marry j a servant or vice versa; unequal marriages bring ungrateful children. To bring flowering flower-ing hawthorn into a house denotes a death a the family. |