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Show Oids and -Ends. J The Swiss military authorities are about to adopt khaki for soldiers' uniforms. China has a national biography, devoted de-voted entirely to women. It contains more than 24,000 names. The city of Paris has purchased the rooms which the painter Beranger occupied occu-pied from 1854 to his death in 1S57. He paid 130 a year for them. Lady Stanley wished a monolith to mark her husband's grave, and after a long earch the Art Memorial company of Norwood, Nor-wood, England, found one. More than 13.000.000 persons are enrolled In the Sunday-schools of the country. In public schools the enrollment la more than 16,000.000, or only 3,000.000 more. Miss Medora Cook, only daughter of the Rev. P. S. Henson of Tremont Temple Boston, has been elected profeesor of singing in the London Royal College of Music. Hamburg Is to have a school for training train-ing servants. It is not Intended to compare com-pare with existing schools which provide training in domestic science for girls of well-to-do families. Value and duty on a shipment of 1000 hogsheads of tobacco from Kentucky to Messsrs. Gallaher of Belfast amounted to $3,000,000, which constitutes, says Tobacco, Tobac-co, a record for tobacco imports) Into Ireland. Ire-land. The Vienna police are about to experiment experi-ment with a phonograph In taking a prisoner's pris-oner's answers to questions asked in the preliminary examination, so that when the actual trial takes place there will be no dispute as to what was said. Very discouraging accounts are reaching reach-ing Berlin of the difficulties encountered by the troops operating against the Here-ros. Here-ros. There I no forage for the horses, food for the men is very scarce and the ravages of typhoid fever continue. . The California grand lodge of Masons which Includes the subordinate lodges of Hawaii. Is planning to build In San Francisco Fran-cisco a tempi large enough to accommodate accommo-date all grand bodies of the craft within Its Jurisdiction. The present temple Is about forty years old. The common snail has lung, heart and a general circulation, and Is In every respect re-spect an air-breathing creature. This notwithstanding, not-withstanding, he can live on Indefinitely without Inhaling the least atom of air, that which is usually considered the essential es-sential to existence In all creatures supplied sup-plied with lungs. A machine is being perfected In a Birmingham Bir-mingham shop that Is to turn out from 90 000 to 100 000 finished wire nai'.s an hour. This Is said to be about three times as fast as any American machine can do "which." remarks the London Chronicle. "Is certainly reversing the usual order of things." - American Investigation has shown that yellow fever germa are diwemlnated by the mosoulto. and now the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Is about to send a second expedition to the Amazon to discover if possible the actual cause, of the disease. At Para, on the Amazon, the disease Is constantly present In a greater or less degree. A statistician has learned that the annual an-nual aggregation of the circulation of the papers of the world is estimated to b lS.oOO.OuO.onO conies. To grasp the Idea of this magnitude we may state that It would cover no fewer than 10.450 square miles of surface: that it Is printe-1 on 7S1.250 tors of paner: and. further, that If the number O2.000 OOO.Of) represented. Instead In-stead of rontes. seconds. It would take more than 333 years for them to elapse. The Australian eucalyptus tree is blng grown on a large scale In southern Europe Eu-rope and northern Africa because of ls tend-r.cy to drain swamps. This was for-merlv for-merlv supposed to be due to abundant exhalation ex-halation of watery vanor from Its leaves, and It has been shown that actually the transpiration of the eucalyptus is onlv one-half or one-third that of willows birches and other trees, and It Is therefore asssumed that the phenomenon In question ques-tion Is due simply to the rapid growth of the eucalyptus. Many have looked with awe upon suit cases and steamer trunks covered wlh labels of every slxe and color, and thought enviously of the advantages the traveled owners of such baggage had over the poor stay-at-homes. The baggage proclaimed that Its owners had been from Svdney to San Francisco, from Copenhagen to Colombo, Co-lombo, to say nothing of vlsit'ne hilf h capitals and health resorts of the continent. conti-nent. But the Iconoclast fas found shors where such baggage Is sold, all shattered and battered and labeled with a score of forweign towns, although It may never have traveled two miles from New York. |