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Show time it hits j'rown from sixty people to t;.ft. The inhabitants are chielly de-vuU-d to ti-)hiuf,r. Tub alligator dues not attain his full length until lie is fifty years uf age. Wbn one year old his length is about twehe inches; at the aye of fifteen he hits jfrown to two feet. The cold is so intense in northern Siberia that the earth never thaws to a pre ater depth than live or six feet. Bodies buried at a greater depth remain re-main perpetually frozen. A RAiLUOAD between Coalzacoaleos and Salina Cruz, Mexico, which opens a new means of transportation between the lliilf of Mexico uud the Pacific coast, has. been completed recently. The pin machines of England, Holland Hol-land and Germany turn out an average of tt7.tXHi.lXX) pins for every work day of the year. At Birmingham one factory multcs 30,000,000 pins per day. INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS. A caiiload of matches was ignited by frict ion in transportation and burned the other day at Burgin, Ky. The consumption of wine in Nimes. France, averages a bottle a day for every man, woman and child in the city. The tensile strength of wrought iron rods varies as the square of the diameter. diam-eter. A 1-inch rod will support 7,000 Pounds and a 2-inch rod 23,000 pounds. The leaf of the cocoanut tree is nearly thirty feet long. A single leaf of the parasol magnolia of Ceylon affords af-fords shade for fifteen or twenty persons. per-sons. TiioMSOE. in Norway, has just celebrated cele-brated ils 1,000th anniversary. In that |
