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Show Odds andEnds. ( In thS spider's web ' luUB0US beads that catch the victims. In France a cheese seller la as familiar a, eight on city streets as a banana man la In Chicago. -v ' . " Agriculturists ef Catnus. Tucatan. are cultivating cotton with good This year the cotton plantations will be enlarged. Chief rabbi of Padua, Italy. Prof. Eude LoIH. one of the ornaments of the Italian rabbinate. Is dead. The deceased was born at Oors, Austria, in 1826. The French Government haa abolished the cantinleres, who were a feature every regiment They were women who supplied the soldiers with brandy. see The Rev. Hudson Taylor says that opium in. China "IS doing more harm in a week thaa the united effort of sll Christian missionaries are doing good tn a year." Married eight years, a Oirman nid Drew, has seven sot, all of whom he has pledged to the German army. Xhe Kaiser has written him a letter strongl commending his patriotism. The highest tide in the world Is in i the Bay of Fundy. The tide there sometimes some-times rises to the height of seventy-one feet, and the Increase is occasionall as much as a foot every five minutes. . The French army administration la organising or-ganising an extensive automobile train Service, to be used as convoys. The trains are built after the designs of Col. Renra a well-known writer on military topics. When the electrification of the railways rail-ways which run underground in London ts completed the traveler will be able to traverse sixty miles underground by electric elec-tric traction without running twice over the same piece of track. The number of women pliya-iclsinsj l steadily Increasing In Ruisia. According to a recent report there are ?r'y 400 women studying medicine st Russian universities, the largest numbers being at St. Petersburg and Moscow. A new banking system, which enables persons to make deposits of & cents and upward, interest being allowed when the amount lodged reaches . was dopt.ed by the National Bank of Ireland recently. The bank haa several branches In London. Serpent worship still survives In India and a snake shrine Is said to be aj much an attraction in a house on the Malabar coast as a garden In the case of a country home In the United States. Serpents are, however, most unobtrusive, and unless one walks noiselessly snd barefooted in the dark, as Hindoos do, snakebite Is an improbable contingency. Housewives In Florida scrub tn1'"00,! with oranges. In almost any town In tne orange-growing districts women may oe seen using the fruit exactly as soap is used. They cut the oranges in halve, ana rub the flat, exposed pulp on the noor. The acid in the oranges does the cleansing, cleans-ing, and does It well, for the boards are as white as snow after the application. Some lltards are able to walk on their hind legs, of which the most emar.k?' example is the frilled lixard of Australia, a powerful form, which attains a length of about three- fet Should danger threaten, threat-en, it scuttles off on its hind limbs with considerable speed for as far as thirty or fortv. feet in a half crouching attitude, with the fore limbs hanging down and the remarkable frill folded up. "At the last March election. ' said ex-Gov. ex-Gov. Woodbury of Vermont put or 240 towna in Vermont, sixty voted for license and 180 against it. thus showing "overwhelming "over-whelming sentiment in opposition to the rum trade. I think that It can be said In fairness to the law. that there hss been' a better observance of It In a good many places under the license system than under the old prohibitory law. In some towns, notably Rutland, where the first vote authorised the saloons, at the second election the people reversed the earlier verdict because of the demoralization demoraliza-tion that ensued." Are we about to witness a slump In "Strads" snd other old violins? A letter received In Rome. from Bucharest, states that an Italian artlat named Antonio An-tonio Bonardl. long resident there, has found a method of greatly Improving the qualltv of tone In vloline. This result is secured by a certain modification of the shape, especially at the narrow part rendering ren-dering the Instrument at the same time more elegant In form. It Is stated that at a recent musical conversazione given by the Queen of Roumania. the Bonardl Instrument, although made ot ne wooti. was tried against an old Guadagnln with triumphant results. London Globe. What Is declared to be the largest and heaviest cold-rolled steel band saw ever made has Juat been turned out at the Dtsston works, Tacony. It Is twenty feet long, fifteen Inches wide. .134 inch thick and weighs 1474 pounds. By repeated rolling roll-ing the thickness of the band was reduced from .270 to .184 inch. The saw is perfectly per-fectly straight and ts a marvel for uniformity uni-formity of thickness. Bands up to fifty feet long and fourteen inches wide are-regularly are-regularly made at the Tacony plant but It is eaid that never before has a band at such length and weight been cold-rolled St anV ahop In the world.-Phtladelphia Record. |