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Show E!!?x,m?ennlte,jr- f course. It is R ? ?iWJ Pu' lten glass dlrect-..k" dlrect-..k" th body. o it is first eosted with a thin covering of so-called "liquid glass." U2-,U,Jlcate- Thl" u owed to tK. Hn?d.onn" . Ptctive coating. The body is then put in a mold and melted glass poured around It. A A proof shutters are the order In the nursery nur-sery at Roma ' . Only on, man In the city .of London outside the Tower possesses the password which enables him to answer the challenge of the entries at any time. Jt W x the Lord Mayor, and the password Is given to him by suthortty of the King. . In the course of my association with tobacco, about twenty-five years. I have known men all this time, every working cay to be inhaling tobacco dust or fumes produced In tbe process of manufacture. Uninterrupted good health Is the general rule of all persons engaged in tobacco proceedings of every kind, and generally of large consumera Writers in London Lancet. e Miss Laura Perkins of Belolt. Wis., has sent a cold chill down the spine of many a fellow-taxpayer in that city. While many are asking rebates for one cause or another, she has written the city clerk saying that she observes that the Assessors Asses-sors failed to tax her on a few hundred dollars she has in -the savings bank and that If an error la made she desires to I pay her full share of taxes. .ij Odds and Ends1 L There are 25.000 pores In the hands of a : man. - ,v Denmark exports z,600,000 pounds of , honey a year. e ' Motor car renting In New Tork is said I to be very profitable. I The averag birthrate for Europe shows that for every 100 girls 106 boys are born. ..-'" . . The largeest pontoon . bridge in the ' world is at Calcutta, and is a permanent - structure. . A Japanese bride gives her wedding . presents to her parents as a slight re-; re-; compenee for the trouble they have had in rearing her. - A marriage market is held annually near Moscow, and it is said that over one - thousand marriages are arranged there - eaeb year. Th quickest growing 'plant In the world Is the kudsu, a species of bean. It is said to have been known to grow islxty feet t ' In three months, ,.Pn5' sm Ba Den studying hawks. Of .tt?ThAof mar"h hawk which were examined, 46 per cent of the hawks had been feeding on mice, U per cent on other small mammals, U per cent on reptiles, frogs and Insects, and only a IfU. '.IxiUfe on poultry and small birds. We do not And that this bird Is so very destructive to quail and partridges part-ridges after all; and it is under this latter lat-ter supposition that most sportsmen shoot hawks when they find opportunity. Uncle Un-cle Sam concludes that the marsh hawk is a beneficial bird and that its presence and increase should be encouraged in every possible way.Field and Stream. The city of Glasgow. Scotland, owns a public library of 180,000-volumes and ia erecting a number of district libraries-conduct libraries-conduct seven model lodging-house one for women which shelter 2430 persons every night and pay 6 per cent profit; owns twenty-seven blocks ot buildings containing 100 shops and . IMS buildings, which shelter 9000 tople; public banks, Including Kosher banks for Jews, and also washhouses, in which hot water is furnished at a trifling price for family laundry work; gas and electric light and power works In whioh 8000 men are employed; em-ployed; the street railway system, which employs 3600 men and carries over 170,-000,000 170,-000,000 people annually. Furthermore, It owns nrao public markets, Including one for old elothee, a telephone system that pays 15 per cent on .the inveeted public capital; a labor bureau and. a home for Inebriates. Some of the names of towns upon which Tennessee . bases claims for prestige: Barefoot, Boots, Leap year. Chimney Top, Chuckaluck, Half Pone, Hanging Limb, Ipe. Marrowbone, Mouse Tail, Opossum. ?rch Corn, Peanut. Rip Shin, Sweet Lips, Tom Brown. U Bet. Yum Yum. Buuard Boost. Fits, Mashmead, Peeled Chestnut Shoo Fly, Skull Bone, Snall-lope. Snall-lope. Tiger Tall and Wahoo. Washington Washing-ton Times. -- e . . . . There Is money la handling bit of old string and rope, and there are several large dealers in these commodities in London. Lon-don. Thousands of dollar are made by buying and selling old Ashing nets alone; but this is a mere bagatelle to the cash that is turned over In handling of old cordage at the docks. When It ia stated that the cordage not Including th fitting of a large sailing vessel costs from $10,. 00ft to $16,000, and that this has to b constantly con-stantly renewed, it will be seen that an enormous trade must b carried oa in this particular department. .... Aa Italian nobleman, who also belongs to -the Austrian nobility, has for several N years been making bl living as a croes-. croes-. Ing sweeper la Vienna- . The woman tennis champion of New ' Zealand has but on hand and that is thleft one, but she can serve a ball that Is exceedingly difficult to return. . The first bomb outrage occurred on Christmas eve, 1SO0, when Baint-NaJant ' tried to kill Napoleon. . Mora than 1M people were Injured by the explosion. - A turner's workshop, with large motive wheel and dog trained to turn It, is advertised ad-vertised to b let In the city of-Uege, wher one-dog and two-dog tilted carts and wsgons are common. , Queen Elona of ItaJy ! a.id to believe In th Montenegrin superstition that It . is unlucky for a child to sleep in a room Into which any light penetrate and light- In order to preserve th features of I those . who have died it la proposed by a Russian to embalm corpse by casting around them a solid mass of glass. This would b perfectly transparent, and as no sir coId get in the features would be |