Show BITS D OF INTEREST army tr my ny has 90 mor mori women than men united states now has millionaires the A 1 ingle single plant of red popy produced produces 50 seeds the world now telegrams evory avry day there arc are in london 52 people over 75 years yeam old turkey now exports worth orth of ot opium a year italy makes eight millions a year out of 0 foreign visitors the Tib eleven million inhabitants of slam stara use only american flour the demand tor for american goods Is increasing throughout canada all the mormons do not live in utah there are 2 in germany every one ot of the large automobile factories Is far behind its orders ra are about telegraph offices now open in the whole world methodism has gained in new york city nearly 47 per cent since 1875 the youngest voun gest bride in berlin last year was sixteen the oldest seventy five tire since 1872 1000 1000 miles of railroads have been laid in the japanese empire berlin uses every year nearly halt a million tons of english and welsh 1031 an acre of sago saga palm will yield as much nourishment as acres ot of v beat one ot of the burroughs of london england has a motor street cleaning from a 20 year old mulberry tree pounds ot of leaves have been picked 13 a year stance france has four classes of road they ire respectively 50 60 40 32 33 and 23 25 fajt wide tle crusade against the he billboard nuisance Is making headway in buffalo N y tea pills are now sold they run 14 to the ounce and each makes a large cap cup of tea rosewood Is so called because it exhales the fragrance of roses when fehly cut new england makes nearly GO 60 per cent of the boots and shoes made in this country springfield mass lias lils just celebrated el bated her fiftieth anniversary as a municipality mrs ann elizabeth walsh of Brook brooklyn ln hae haef given nearly to t catholic charities nen nes br britain iraln conn was tho the first rity in the he nutmeg state to put wires under ground the new york board of health has a established a department for pasteur treatment tree free anew rall railway vay Is to be built from southern to western australia it will coit cost the newest schooner Is feet beet ionic long and has seven masts she Is being biily la in boston the brazilian coast city of bahia has about inhabitants who live la in 17 houses the golden tiara presented to vie pope from english roman catholics ill cost mrs ann elizabeth walsh of brooklyn has given nearly to Cat nolle charities baltimore holds tho the worlds record for negro population it has buek black inhabitants of 01 the people who nho ascended mount by rail last summer were british over 1000 bunches of grapes have appeared on a vine now growing near barea in the tyrol the united states received from germany during the nineteenth century SOT immigrants not a pound of or all the coal burned la in switzerland Is dug within the border borders of that country no interviews with count leo tolstoy or maxim gorki may now appear in the russian press to hundred and forty cine nine european missionary societies keep missionaries at work A two thirds majority of the cardinals conclave Is necessary for the election of a new pope prismatic lake in the yellowstone Astone national park is 1 the largest body of ot hot water in the world Ilor horses ses giraffes and ostriches havo the largest ees of land animals cuttlefish cuttle elsh of sa creatures what was nas probably the first public library in the united states was started iti fu charleston S C in 1749 the french government has asked two officials to investigate the benefits and detriments of the trust trusts the father of 11 santos dumont has hus an estate on aich laborers cul avate coffee plants the juneau skagway cable has not been used for two months owing to a break keak which cannot be located eight million bottles of are yearly consumed in paris this Is double the consumption of 1893 for purposes seven pounds of american Amerl cin flour are said to be lal equal to eight pounds of english the biggest average farm arm in the world Is in south australia where the squatter holds 78 acres the most expensive and roomiest room fest railway station in the world Is that of the peninsular railroad at bombay the number rumber of ants in a nest varies from to these figures are from a recent count of live nests there Is a mountain of salt near crona in spain which contains SOO 00 tons of almost puro pure rock salt modern inks only dato date from 1798 ut al 1 which date the rese researches archea of dr itla lewis I in the chemistry of ink began modern inks only date from 1700 at which date the rece researches arches of D lewis le in the chemistry of ink began the entire population of malaga island off oft the mouth of the new meadow alter maine Is suffering from measles akes time Is a fair which occurs every year in each of the groups of erg ESl 11 lh h towns which form the Potter Pott erlea fea mine mme the viennese lady swimmer Is training for another attempt to swim the english channel this surn summer mer A banker who Is a grand nephew of mendelssohn has ju just jut t paid the record acor of 4 4 tor for a violoncello lolon celto there are no less than different species of elsh inhabiting the waters lot 0 kni america erica north of the lathin isthmus lis of P linama anama the united states now own on nineteen battleship i and comes next to angland land in this respect ruesta russia has sixteen Deni narks agricultural capital la Is now 2140 for eacil this la Is more ore than double that in the united kingdom an eastern city boasts of a man who spent 65 for cigars and by br ilag ing the wrappers secured a 15 suit stilt of ot clothes sweden and denmark have no soldiers who cannot read and write in fraillas natlae army 70 per der cent of the men are illiterate the seventy thousand cochineal insects go to a single pound of dried cochineal worlds a crop of cochineal Is from to tons there are now only about sheep in australia australla drought has maced lie tle number by a quarter in the past few years lom told new york haa has hotels london over but new yorks hotels will u early nearly aa as people as greater number dou tle amount of merchandise transported by rail in the united states Is ble ie that 0 of 1 all elie other nations of the earth together 51 ahle in 1889 an australian stockman kangaroo hunting picked up an opal M 18 then australia has exported adorth of opals it ie Is array proposed at duluth minn ninn hat that the local branch of the salvation hall shall add street dealing cleaning to its i any other activities bece anapolle an apolla now holds the record in rapid hog killing hogs were antly ly turned into pork sausages etc within five hours connecticut pays vs a bounty of 1 for each fox killed within its borders bear mr the payments on this account amounted to 1272 15 callnon tr allf are forbidden by law lar in canada cheref therefore ore salmon costs cents s in canada but only one cent over the border tile oldest dest known Is that at zante one of the ionian aask oil hda lids been obtained from it for nearly year years la e a square dance represents presenta rp only half hatt a mile of walking or moving age waits wait takes dancers over oer three clu arters of a mile |