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Show , I Whales from 300 to 400 years old nro lf sometimes met with. The age Is nscer-talned nscer-talned by the size and number of lay-c.'s lay-c.'s of the whalebone, which Increase A celebrated aeronaut asserts, after a , H patient Investigation, that the ninth H day of the mouu Is the most rnlny of iH the whole twenty-eight, and 4 o'clock iH In the afternoon the rainiest hour of , ,H the H Swiss steamboat companies, to avoid LbbI disputes as to hc age of children, have H established measurement rules. Un- H der two feet In height go free; children H under rout feet four Inches and dogs Many curious Instances of old laws H may still be found In England. Iu 'H Chester the man who falls to raise his H hat when u funeral Is passing becomes H liable by Aii 61d law to bo takcu before .s H maglstrutcjind Imprisoned. H A new 'record In Dervish whirling la lJ believed to have been estnbllshed nt H Mndlsou Gardens, New York, by the performance of Mario lluyrooty, from B Beirut, who kept herself awhlrl spin- "LLI nlng llko n human top fpr thirty-two H This Is from A tombstone-.ln nn Eng-llsh Eng-llsh churchyard. It robs death of Its sting nnd the grave of Its victory. "Sa- J cred to the memory of Nnthaniel God- B bold, Esq., Inventor nnd Proprietor of HHH that excellent medicine The Vegetable ' BVJ Dalsam, for the Cure of Consumptions' BBVJ nnd Asthmas." BBVJ At. the hospice of the Great St. Ber- nard a dog who hnd spent his life, it ' BB not in nursing, at least in succoring BVJ the sick, died "on duty." This wns "Parry," one of tlie oldest nnd, most BVJ useful of tbe noble canlue band which HBVJ seeks out the lost traveler on the Alps. .'Barry"..fanifj was world-wide, nnd HBVJ letters oflsympntliy have been received BBVJ by the Prior from nil countries, . |