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Show Odds and Ends, j Ostrich farming In South Africa continues con-tinues a most profitable business. Lecturing at Berlin, Prof, von Hanse-" mann scouted the Idea that cancer Is on the Increase. ' The discovery has been made that good paper can be made from the bopa thrown out as refuse from the breweriea Wu Ting-fang, formerly Chinese Minister Min-ister to the United States, has been appointed ap-pointed a commissioner to The ilague peace tribunal. Lorenzo Alexis de Clalrmont, chief of staff to President Cabrera of Guatemala, was a ticket taker In Denver twelve months ago. No fewer than 1.086,670 copies of the scriptures were circulated In China last year, the actual sales being well over a million copies. The new Missouri river bridge of the Illinois Central at Omaha Is now In use. It la the longest drawbridge In the world, and cost 2,(M0,0U0. It Is expected that the expenses of Germany' Ger-many' colony In southwest Africa will reach over tTO.OOO.OOO before the present Insurrection In-surrection is put down. By Cape Horn the distance between New York and San Francisco Is about 14.800 miles. The Panama canal will reduce re-duce this to something less than 6000. Picture postcards are subjected to a stern censorship in some continental countries. In Kuesla those bearing the portrait of Tolstoy have been suppressed. A darning machine, one which will In ten minutes cover a hole that an Industrious Indus-trious woman could hardly fill in an hour, la a recently Invented piece of labor-saving apparatus. Prof. Molisch of Prague says that photographs pho-tographs can be taken by the light emit-ted emit-ted by raw potatoes and hard-boiled eggs, in which the phosphorescent germ have been artificially cultivated. For thirty-flve consecutive years Syl-vanus Syl-vanus W. Hall was postmaster of Marlon. Mass., and he's still at work in the office as assistant to his son-in-law, in whose favor he resigned on April 1, 1896. The Czar of Russia has private estates of more than 1,000,000 square miles of cultivated cul-tivated land and forests, hpsldes gold snd other mines In Siberia. The annual Income In-come has been estimated at about $12,000,-000. $12,000,-000. , At the last sheep sales in Sydney one two-and-a-quarter-year-old was aold for JJ00. Others brought respectively, $3750. $3660. $3275. $3150, $3125 and $2500. The value of these seven sheep thus reached $23,350. The American people spent tfs much money last year for gems and Jewelry as they spent for pianos and other musical instruments, and more than three times as much as they spent for sewing machines. ma-chines. New York Sun. Theodore P. Shonts, whom the President Presi-dent has placed at the head of the Panama Pana-ma Canal commission, is of Dutch descent, de-scent, but has a strain of French Huguenot Hugue-not in him. He is, therefore, of somewhat the same breed as the President. A new decoration, to be called the, "Militia Aurea," has been created by the Pope, to be awarded to persons distinguished, distin-guished, in letters, science or charitable works. There will be only 100 recipients, snd they will have the title of chevalier. "An aged Korean councilor of state, who is a strong reformer. Mr. Choi lk Yen, has been sitting outside the palace gate at Seoul for five daya." says a Japanese Jap-anese newspaper. "He proposes to sit there until the needed reforms are carried car-ried out." While the foundations for the Londonderry London-derry new municipal technical schools were being made recently a large number num-ber of human skeletons were unearthed. The place is near the Royal Bastion, where there was heavy fighting during the siege in 1(188. The Kaiser has decided that the Crown Prinee and Princess of the royal house are entitled to receive only the ordinary salute with the hand from the troops at Potsdam, and that in the future the officers offi-cers and soldiers need not, as heretofore, halt and stand at attention until a prince has passed. "When a Boston lawyer recently cross-examined cross-examined a witness, he asked if on "the night in qufatlon" the witness had not taken several drinks of whisky. "That's my bualness," the witness remarked, with indignation. "I know it is your business." the lawyer quickly replied, "but were you attending to it?" The BrltUh House of Lords, as a court of ultimate appeal, has decided that vagueners in the expression of a testator's testa-tor's desire that bequests should pssa to unspecified charities, or to charities to be selected by his trustees, makes a will invalid. in-valid. The charities of the city of Dundee, Dun-dee, Scotland, lose $500,000 by the decision. The grand Turk has taken an observation observa-tion of the Salvation Army, and does not approve of it. and forbids the faithful from giving sny attention to its evolutions evolu-tions or ministrations. Gen. Booth, field marsHal of the Salvation forces, recently visited Jerusalem, carrying a new and peaceful crusade thither, but no Turk would come near him. Haparanda. a little town in Sweden, has suddenly spruiag into renown through a rare act of thoughtfulness on the part of its womankind. Having learned from medical statistics that in winter colds, neuralgia, toothache and influenxa are much more prevalent among men than women, the women of the place decided to relieve the men of the necessity of doffing dof-fing their hats to them during the cold weather. It was announced that during ths winter the women would require only a military salute. |