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Show suits of his investigations into the migrations mi-grations of whales. These creatures hang about the coast of Norway and Finland until the spring is well advanced, ad-vanced, and then go away on their travels. Some go to the Azores, others to Bermuda and the Antilles, and they cover these enormous distances In an incredibly short time. Some of them bring back harpoons which bear the names of ships and other evidences of where these migrants have been for their summer holidays. Most people had supposed that the disposal of Garibaldi's body had been finally settled twenty years ago. This, however, as appears from a letter written writ-ten by Ms eldest surviving son to the President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, is not the case. The writer points out that, contrary to their own wishes. Garibaldi's direction for the cremation of his body was, owing to the opposition of powerful public men, not carried out. The son asks if this setting set-ting aside of Garibaldi's dir?ctions Is to continue. Should the answer be in the affirmative, the Legislature is requested request-ed to assume the responsibility and to have the body removed from Caprera to the continent. London Globe. j Odds and Ends, j The French Government i stowed the decoration Palmes Acade-oh Acade-oh Ml. Frances j?hvMtoaOt Washington. D. C. But one other Amer-an Amer-an woman has been honored in this way. . , , Down in one of the southern Kansas towns the other day the Pcher funeral made a sad mess of "when he attempted to read an obituary of the dead woman. She was born In Tstrad-gyulas. Tstrad-gyulas. Glamorganshire. Wales.-Kan-sas City Journal. The peninsula of Arabia has an area of some 1,200.000 square miles, with a Population estimated at from 6.000.000 to 10.000,000. The Turkish province of Yemen Is most populous, and Is highly fertile. Aden commands a total export and Import trade ofsome $30,000,000. Military critics claim that the sword as a part of the field equipment of officers offi-cers of the Infantry is doomed. Its use-lessness use-lessness in this connection has been realized for many years, and a proposition propo-sition that It be done away with Is understood un-derstood to have he approval of the authorities of the United States War department."""" Some of the farmers near Santa Rosa, Cal., are experimenting with tea grow-Ini grow-Ini and their efforts seem to be meet- is no reason why tea should not be grown In some sections of this country, though the earlier South Carolina experiment ex-periment is not known to be making great headway. ... It is said that there are in London about 2000 charitable Institutions and organisations to advance the cause of progressive and advanced civilization. The number includes large and small institutions, affording more or less relief re-lief to the afflicted and those in distress. dis-tress. They are supported almost entirely en-tirely by personal contributions. ... Swedish doctors never send bills to their patients. Each patient pays what he deems just or is able to give. The rich pay the physician liberally, whether wheth-er they have need of his services or not. If he has been once retained by them. The poor,- if they possibly can, pay him a small sum, and the very poor pay him nothing. Tet he attends the poor as faithfully as he does the rich. ... This winter semester there are at the several German universities 39.718 matriculated students, against 39.C81 during the last summer semester, and 39,718 last winter. At the beginning of the nineties there were In round numbers num-bers 29,000 students, and in the winter of 18.94-95. 28.105; the third 10.000 was not reached until the winter of 1897-98, when the number was 31.110, since which time there has been a steady increase. in-crease. The largest number this winter Is at Berlin. 7771. 7 Prof. Ooldlob has been telling the |