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Show A specimen of n herd of the smallest sheep lu the world they nrc only nine. teen inches high nt the withers Is now to be seen at the Natural History Museum nt South Kensington, Eng. An odd advertisement in n German newspaper, In which n tempting offer Is made In Hicsc words: "Anybody who can prove that my tnplocn l damaging to health will nt once re-echo re-echo three packages gratis." It Is calculated that In London alone nbout four thousand persons regulnrly mako a living by begging; thnt th nveragc Income for each nmounts to $7.50 n week, or together over $1,500,-000 $1,500,-000 a year. A British explorer recently returned from Abyssinia reports the discovery of n region hitherto unknown to white men. Among the tributaries of the Blue Nile ho found a mining popu-lntlon popu-lntlon washing gold. He says thou-sands thou-sands of nntlvcs nro nt this work and gold la plentiful. A French lawyer whose spoit Is br'-loonlng br'-loonlng thinks it n mild, safe nnd comparatively Inexpensive diversion. He has made sixty nscci.ts without Injury to himself. A well-made bnl-loon bnl-loon will Inst ten ycnrs-longcr than nn automobile and will cost only four hundred to one thousand dollars, fl There Is n rallwny over the Egyptian desert which runs for forty-five miles In n straight line, but this Is beaten by one In Australia. Tho rallwny from Nyngan to Bourkc, In New South Wales, runs over u plain qulto level for I'JII miles, In n tnathcinati-cally tnathcinati-cally straight line. There Is hardly un embankment, not one curve and only (line very slight elevations'. The Chinese do not take to borse racing, but they have wildly exciting sports of their own on which to waget and lose the'r cash. There are tin cricket tights at Hong Kong, for In- stance. Many thousands of people fl Journey from Canton to Hong Kong HB to see this sport. The crickets them-selves them-selves are valued by their owners nt enormous prices, n victorious sect fetching sometimes hundreds of dob H |
