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Show J Odds and Ends, j It Is twenty years, says the London Post, since Germany began to build up a colonial empire, and the net result Is that, after spending some fifteen or twenty All-lions All-lions sterling, she has acquired more than a million square miles of territory, with a SDarsely scattered German population ot between five and six thousand souls-men. women and6 children.- Of . roDulatlon. a th rd are officials or soi-d?ePrs soi-d?ePrs Mil tarlsm is rampant evr where, with the result that the white settler avoids German colonies as he would a plague. New York City unconsciously Provides an odd thermometer for loungers In Madison Madi-son square? This is the geyser-action foSntam. which send, up every five seconds or so. In the summer its spray reaches a height of fifteen or twenty feet, and on the hottest days the bench warmers who sit about it can almost al-most Imagine themselves cool. As tne weather gets coUler the spurt becomes more and more subdued. After a frosty night it Is scarcely more than an occasional occa-sional heaving mound In the center -of th pool. As the variation Is given three to four Inches for each degree, an old stager in the park with a keen eye can Judge the temperature from it with remarkable accuracy, ac-curacy, seldom erring more than two degrees de-grees from the official mark. |