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Show J Odds andEnds. A ton of turUes was used to make the soup of the Lord Mayor's banquet at which Lord Lansdowne spoke recently. "Watch and pray" was the note left In a house In Ramsey, Isle of Man, by some burglars who had robbed It while the tenant ten-ant was at church. . . In his book on the Congo, Edmund' Morel Mo-rel estimates that In four years the Belgian Bel-gian Soldiers and officials have plundered the natives to the extent of $30,000,000. ... The Italian Government has Just placed before the Legislature a project foe the taking over by the State of nearly an the railroads of the country. This would Involve In-volve an outlay of $200,000,000. ... According to documents found In the archives ar-chives of Genoa, the discovery of America by Columbus cost a little over $7000. The fleet of Columbus was worth about $3000. His salary was $200 a year. ' ... Count su Eulenberg. the Kaiser's principal princi-pal chamberlain, has Just . received his seventy-fifth decoration, jvhlch Is a record even for Germany. Count von Buelow can wear only about forty stars and Crosses. - r v,. : - An English court has decided that a person has no right te place good In front of his premises, although they. may be on his own private property. If they are likely to be dangerous to those who use the street. ... The running speed of the electric street cars on lines owned by London must not exceed ten miles, except for a short distance dis-tance near Clapham Common, and Is limited lim-ited to eight, six and four miles at other places. ... This Is the time .when the Frenchman enjoys his snail most. The snail has Just emerged from Its winter haunts to eat the young shoots of the vine leaves. So the French gratify appetite and revenge at the same time. ... In Milan, Italy, letters are now collected from the street pillar boxes by an electric traveling postofflce over a Journey of fifteen fif-teen miles; sorting and stamping are done during the run from one box to another, an-other, and at the end of each circuit the letters are handed over for immediate delivery. de-livery. ... The Dutch Railway Minister recently Introduced In-troduced the twenty-four-hour railway watch, on which day and night time Is Indicated, In-dicated, as from 1 to 24 o'clock. The public, pub-lic, however, did not much take to this Innovation, and It Is said that the railroad rail-road employees prefer their usual timepiece. time-piece. ... In a public toilet room soap, reeking with preceding contamination. Is used In entire Ignorance of the fact that a break In the cuticle will allow Infection to be Introduced In-troduced into the circulation as direct and positive aa vaccination. In two Eastern Statea bills are pending In the State Legislatures Leg-islatures seeking to make It a misdemeanor misdemea-nor to expose toilet soap In publio toilets, where It may be handled by different persons. per-sons. I |