Show LITTLE ODDITIES elephants foot takes longer to cook than any other dish jt it must be baked for thirty six hours the largest birzi bird of prey in fit the world I 1 is the bearded vulture which measures from wing tip to win wing tip a as s much as nine or ten feet among nien men 51 percent are stronger in ill the right arm than in the left in thirty three cases the left arm la is the stronger in the rest the two arms arm s are arc equal on the farm of george W stuart 1 at newport me is a health healthy apple 1 tree which year after year bears fruit that has no core seeds or anything but skin and sol solid I 1 d f fault I 1 I 1 t beneath soap has been in use for years some time ago a soap boilers shop was discovered in rain pompeii poll having been buried beneath the rain of ashes that fell upon tile the city in the year 79 A D in some parts of england auctions are arc held beld with a minute sand glass the highest bid made between tile the time tile the glass is turned till the sand runs out wins vins the article that is under tile the ha hammer MIlLer A piece of leather with the assistance of the latest machines can be transformed into a I 1 pair of shoes r in thirty four minutes in which time it passes through the he hands of sixty three people ind and through fifteen machines no doubt the invent invention ioli of wireless telegraphy was foreshadower shadowed fore by a book of philosophy which appeared in this work mentions conlin communication between two persons at different points by means of a lodestone and a needle placed upon a metal dial the chinese at singapore to the number of have resolved to discontinue the practice of public an cester worship including feasts and public processions professions process ions and to devote the money thus saved estimated at a year to educational purposes about people live in the crater of an volcano in japan they baell contentedly in this pi hike town surrounded by a vertical wall eighty feet high rarely making a journey into the outer world and practically forming a little community by themselves philadelphia press |