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Show I . Oiiz end End: I i Single eyeglasee are prohltlttd in the German army. a There are lUM boy a and X9' gtrle In the industrial schools of Great Britain, at preeent, ' - . BqUvU and Slam 'are the only civilised or aejni-clvlllaed powera without a national na-tional debt. r The' average Ufa of horsee in the Brit-Uh Brit-Uh cavalry U Ave yeare. The army dra!t horses last half as long again. . . e - . In Lapiand the crime which Is punished most severely, next to murder, is the marrying of a girl against the express wish of her parents. i - 1 . . e ; ' The experience gained ui the use of pressed peat aa locomotive fuel In Bavaria, Bava-ria, Austria, Sweden and Rueela U Stated to be very satisfactory. x e The FUlan fossil coral la the best building build-ing atone in the world. Soft aa cheese when first cu it hardena in the air to the conalatancy of granite. , e The .240.000 worth of Oregon fruit raised in 1904 was distributed as follower Apples, $886,000; prunes. $310,000; Pre, $190,000; peachet, $175,000; small fruits, $710,000. C e " V The famous diamond, "Star of South Africa," Af-rica," belonged originally to a witch doctor. doc-tor. A farmer named Nleuwkerk traded a wagon and several oxen for it, and sold It for $66,000. . . .-a.ee-- Wlthln a few days there will be a wireless wire-less communication Una between the i ar-allon ar-allon Islands, which are thirty mllea off the entrance to San Franclaco bay, ana the navy yard at Mare Island. , . John F." Boyd and hla wife have given to the city of San Rafael one of the beauty spots around Sao Francisco bay, finely, laid out grounds' of twenty acres, with a large and handsome building, la memory of their dead -ones. , " ......-- Several targe" new hotela are helng built In Rome. The natlvea complain that the city la being modernised and Anglicised. Angli-cised. Several bars, with barmaids, have recently -bene opened, and the Cafe de Roma now has a grill room. . A price has 1een put on the head of the American eagle In Tehama county, California. Cali-fornia. The board of supervisors offers a reward of $1 for the head of each of the great Wrda, on the petition of the sheepmen, sheep-men, who nave lost many lambs by eagles. e - The Agricultural department haa rented twenty acres near Yuba City, Cal. and the University of California will experiment there with all klnda of wheat barley, oats and rye. Two other experimental stations will be established north and aouth. . The International Seamen's Union of America, In annual convention In Ban Francisco, sent telegrams to the Secretary Secre-tary of the Navy. Secretary of War, Secretary Sec-retary of the Treasury and Secretary of Labor and Commerce opposing the contemplated con-templated employment of coolies on naval na-val colliers and other vessels of the Gov-eminent, Gov-eminent, as a violation - of the Chinese exclusion lsws - |