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Show THINGS YOU OUGHT TO KNOW. M.rs than fl- Dillon sallons of pstrol.um are i.r.slurnl annual A National society for tho pressryatlon of wild tlower. ha. l-.ri organlfead. About fifty thourvin.l automobiles w.re In use in thi. country last rear A Una ruby SSlghtng one enrat I. worth M'. n sai(.hlro (TKs) ami n diamond I ICO it U OfflClally i.tlmatr.l that thrs are US.-7S0.000 US.-7S0.000 acres of ntitndlns timber In British I 'oluinbla. Huttsr ninklnK. formarl) onr of ttlS chief In-dtislrlrs In-dtislrlrs Of M"llar.i. Is brine r,ln1 on an extensive acale. Thr city of Mexico I. lo ha u Iw.OOOyOOQ UssialaUvs palace iorrrfoiiJinK to th- up- Ito! al WHKlilnstuii Anions' wistfrti peoples Hix Kngllsl. arc IhS .i.-utf-i 1. 4 .lr r. k r . an. I (in American. Ih. traatasi coffee drinkers. A si.JI.-atc or .Vin.-il.an c? ol lallst. ha. a. I control f th watcr-iitovsr right on tho 'hi.uUIui. sltlr of Niagara Kails. Korr.t llis ii, th- UnltSd Slato. ils.lro1. nn-nuaii nn-nuaii at least t5u.uon.0'j worth of limber, building, und other property. During th yeai UM dU rid. to IhS valus of y.i7.iiU wrir f hll.p,-.! from A nistrrduin. of which X!1.4aC.i worth wtr.- iKill.hfd Thr Oreal Tun of Beldelbersi Castlr, a Aorld-fuu.ouM win.- cask holds 2d.oon bottle. .r wine and hus bean nn.-. i three tim... SlXty-SOVSn n.llllon nln.- hundr.-.l flghty-nlns thoUMin.l nine hundred sr rn -1 hroe ni.aC-. not Including those .-nl m'i las.-.l wlrrs or under railroad ...nlrncts. were sent hy onr. telegraph company la.t ear tif th- population of th t'nlled States 24 3 per cent are of w holly or partial foreign pai -entag-e. of this .-lenient !M per cent reside In the Northern States. BwltSSrland has developed from one of the poorest to one of the richest nation, of the srord par capita, mo.t of her wealth being BSSned from the horde, of tourl.t. who xislt In an endles,. pi.MesMlon the glaciers and lak- factory girls In Kngland ore regular patron, of publlr- houses, girl, of U tr.-atlng their friend. ' tWO-penny Whisky mi'l trettlng drunk every Saturday night und on holidays aa a matter of luurm. The production of meat ready for aalo at the butcher shop Involves no lee than twenty- lle neparats In. lu. trie. ..! at work aft.. IhS ui.iu.ai i. km. . I. fj extenslvsly arc the by-produi by-produi t. utilised Whltakcr e.tlmates that the sensible atmoe-pliete atmoe-pliete of the .-xrtli extends to a height of -.ine forty inllrs or more At u distance of Verj few mil.-, fn.iii the earth's surface, however, how-ever, It nee. n e of I. mi gr.-ut u tenuity lo oup-port oup-port life At se level, ot nn elevation of one foot, an Object is visible at a distance ..f 1 31 mil. - Bt nn elev.itlon of ten feet, 4. LI mile-.. tv.;dv-fl tv.;dv-fl feet. 3 id ml Us . 100 feet, 13 il miles; lf0 feet. 33 41 miles, ul un elevation ol one mil''. 0.-10 milee The American t'ruiniber of Commerce In Paris, orgunlre-j fifteen years OK", has grown to be an ln"jirtKnt fnctor In trud- between the two countries, and recently ha. been able to exert rHclunt Influence to prevent Krench leslslatlon hostile to certain Ainerlcan pi-o-ducts The harolna of the ela.leal nursery rhyme. "Mary had a Little Umli.'' wa. a kfaaaa-chu.ett. kfaaaa-chu.ett. girl whose kindness t. the lamb, whl.-h had been dleowned by Its unnatural mother, wus made famous by the well-known -.-rse written b- Hnrprd student nauird Ro wis ton. The lumb finally met ah untimely death by the horns of an angry cow. In South America on the Igrutzu river has been discovered the grandest latarnet In tho worjd. situated In fin almost Inpenetrable forest for-est The precipice over Which the water falls Is 110 feet high- the camrnct I. 13. lit feet wide and It la estimated that 140.0O0.UOO tons of SAX ter :i.s. over It In one hour. Copyright, I'joj, bar J. E. R.-lgham. |