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Show ODD MATTERS. Facts that Every Person la Not Cognl- sant Of. We are all cut out by the same pattern The only difference is in the trimming. A young couple, while. traveling on a train, near Jessup, Ga., suddenly decided to get married. A minister was found on thj train, wno performed the ceremony, while, the train was going at the rate of forty miles)' an hour. Long heads are usually associated wit'u the posession of great intellectual strength; and mental capacity. A German scientist, however, who saade examination of the" cranial capacity of 5000 soldiers, at Baden, is of the opinion that the size of the skull depends de-pends almost invariably on the proportion of the body. Tall men he fofrud to always have long skulls, or skulls of medfcum length, whereas the short, fat men, as a rule, had round, fiat heads. The Dismal swamp in Virginia, one of the largest of tbeswampy tracts in America, is also one of the most promising areas for reclamation. It contains fully 1500 square miles, and is at present of little value, except ex-cept for a supply of timber. It is an old sea bottom, and the western boundary o the swamp is a sea cliff and beach. Tha chief animal population of the higher classes consists of water birds and snakes. Of tho larger animals bear are abundant, and there is a peculiar and very ferocious species spe-cies of wild horned cattle. The fights of the bears are said to be very exciting. General Wong, commander of the Chinese troops in the neighborhood of Canton, hal the following menu served, without fatal re. suits, to the foreign consuls and other guests he recently entertained: BlrdJs-nesfc soup, pigeons' eggs, shark's fins, fried quail, 6tewed pigeons, mushrooms (stewed), meat cakes and chicken soup, roast chicken! (rolled), white fungus, boiled mutton aiu onions, chicken, walnuts and musliroaaiw roast mutton, dolphins mouths, sucking pi; and roast duck with garlic, cucumber d8 patties, crab apple tea and cakes, conger; with ducks' eggs and salt turnips, boiled rice and a variety of sweets. Marcus Mayer was one of the passenger, who sailed on the City ot Paris on Wednesday. Wednes-day. He goes to 6ee Mme. Patti and to mak contracts with foreign atars for their ap pearance in this country next season. Colonel Col-onel Henry Mapleson and his wife, Laura.. Schirmer Mapleson, also sailed. The object of Colonel Mapleson' s trip is to engage-foreign engage-foreign singers to appear in Fadette, the new comic opera whicn is to be produced in this country in September under Mr. Mayer's, management, Another passenger was Oscar Hammerstein, who goes to engage people for the season of grand opera at his new t Manhattan opera house next winter. |