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Show INFORMATION. Last year 5300 nntivo Chrlstiunc were dd-ed dd-ed to tho church in Japan. In 1899 tho nuinbfr of automobiles in Franco wes 1072; in 1905 it was 21.524. A man consumes in his thrco-scoro yeara and ten 80 tons of liquid and solid food. During tho last ten yenrs tho single product pro-duct of nisal llbro hns yioldod in Yucatan tho enormous sum of 297,000,000 Mczicuu silrer dollars. In the town of KliuRonborc, Gormany, taxes aro unknown, nnd tills yonr $50 wan paid to overy citizen from the profits of the municipal brick works. Tho discovery In Ooylon of thoria, the raru earth used in tho manufacture of incandescent in-candescent ga3 mantols, will dopriTO Germany Ger-many of tho monopoly of its supply. Chrysanthemum umoking is tho latest thin? In England. Cigarettes mado of chrysanthemum chrysan-themum leaves and carcarilla bark havo been found to eiva rolicf in cases of epilepsy, and one doctor rocommends them as u substitute for tobacco. Changes in temperature ltava n remarkable effect on tho movement of water which in percolating through gravel or other soil. It is calculated that a rise from 50 degrees to CO degrees Increases tho rato of flow 1C per cent. People marrol at tho mechanism of the human body, with 218 bonos and 00 arteries. But man is simple in this respect compared with tho carp. That romarkablc fish moves no fowor than 4338 bones and muscles every ' timo it breathes. It has -1320 veins, to say 1 nothing of its 99 muscles. ! Comparatively few pooplo know that ring- : ing a boll ruins it. That is, a bell has n ! dellnito longth of life, and after so many blows will break. A SCO-pound bell, struck blows of 178 foot pounds of forco, broko after 11,000 blows. A 4000-pound bell broko after 18,000 blows of 350-foot pounds force. Flaming arc lights havo now becomo nn established feature of downtown Chicago streets. Thoy aro new, comparatively, for duck commercial purposes, but their principles has long been known. 'The. flaming urcs thus far shown in this country produce u light yellow, rod or vivid wbito light, according to tho carbonH used. |