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Show COMMON KNOWLEDGE. Thirty -one states have adopted the Australian Aus-tralian ballot system. In Kansas they call members of the people's peo-ple's party "populists." Poor people are supplied with spectacles free of charge by a boston society. There are 4(5.000 oil wells in the United States, aud t'koir daily output Is 130,000 barrels. Last week at Tarboro, X. C, two men, aged 75 and K! years, were arrested for stealing steal-ing a hog. The soil of Hay ti is ' very fertile. Corn is easily grown and three crops can be raised annnallv. i The totel value of matches made yearly throughout the world represents a value of tl85,lNJO,000. Indiana has more Germans than any other state. They constitute 55 per cent of the population. Of 200,000 women working at 100 different trades in New York City 127,000 support their husbands. In 100 years $500 worth of pennies would be worth $250, so quickly does copper money wear away. A Connecticut scientist calculates that there are 43,530,000 mosquito larvae to an acre of swamp land. An ancient copper mine, which was first worked 11S3 years ago, ia about to be reopened re-opened in Mushashi, Japan. It is stated that 40,000,000 of Queen Victoria's Vic-toria's subjects in India never know what it is to get enough to eat. |