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Show SaBaSaSaSaBaBaBBBBBSaaSaBaBSaSaSaBaSBBBBasaBaa' Odds and Ends. A Norwegian chemist predicts that the time will come when more alcohol will be made from sawdust than from potatoes. The strangest flag under which men ever fought Is that of the Macedonian insurgents. in-surgents. It Is red on one side and black on the other. In every seventy years the average man grows a beard twenty-five feet long, hair almost fifty feet long and nails twenty-three feet long. If the paupers In Great Britain were arranged in a procession, four abreast. It Is computed that the procession would be nearly 100 miles in length. By Cape Horn the distance between New York and San Francisco Is about 14.840 miles. The Panama canal will reduce re-duce this to something less than 5000. If a servant Tn Germany falls ill her mistress is not allowed to discharge her, but must pav 2s a day for her hospital expenses unUl she is jrerfectly well. London newspapers are discussing a plan suggested by Mrs. Close of counteracting counter-acting some of the evils of overcrowding by establishing a farm home in Canada for English pauper children. A flr tree was cut In Oregon recently which made nine sawlogs averaging fourteen four-teen feet In lensth. scaling 21.4S3 feet board measure. The product of this one tree will bring more than $1000. . Swiss steamboat companies, to avoid disputes as to the age of children, have established measurement rules. Under" two feet in height go free; children under four feet four and dogs pay half fare. The high and handsome tower of a Los Angeles church, which Is being nulled down. Is to be re-erected on a hill in the neighborhood of the city and used as an observatory by a local man of science. The worst insect-infested neighborhood in the world is the coast of Borneo. The streams of that region are, at certain seasons, unnavlgable because of the clouds of insects which fill the air and make life unbearable. A Japanese statistical pamphlet states that a Japanese may divorce his wife for talking too much. The latest annual figures fig-ures show that, with fewer than too.ooo Japanese marriages reported in the year, there were more than fr.t.Ou) divorces. Among the women who have joined the Berlin Society for th IYotootion of Birds are the Grand Puchess of Baden, the Princess llcinri.h of Prussia, th Princess Prin-cess Johanix Georg of Saxony, and many other members of tlif highest nobility. In 1900 Greater Berlin hid 2.5T2.00O Inhabitants, In-habitants, or as many as Hamburg, Munich. Mu-nich. Lelpsic. Dresden. Frankfort and Magdeburg had together. The December figures for 1904 indicate that the population popula-tion of Greater Berlin now Is over 2,83.-000. 2,83.-000. mm Women were admitted to the Italian universities of the middle ages and the. Renaissance. One of the moat distinguished distin-guished coeds of the sixteenth century was Olympla Morata of Ferrara. She was learned, wrote books and delivered lectures, lec-tures, but. more interesting still, she eloped with a divinity student and escaped es-caped with him to Germany. ... Probably one of the longest leases known was granted for a small piece of meadow land, some sixteen acres in extent. ex-tent. In Surrey, England. It is for the term of 20 years, and was granted on St. Michael's day, in 1651. at the singular rental of "a red rose when demanded." It Is not stipulated that the rose shall be . the product of this land, which Is fortu- ' nate. for no such rose grows anywhere; t 9 on the sixteen acres, -( |