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Show ITEMS OF INTERES Codfish are becoming scarce. Most sheep die before they are a year old. A toy with which the great Napoleon played when u child was recently sold for J'JUO. An ostrich ten feet high has just arrived ar-rived at Sierra Leone, West Africa, from Central Africa. It will soon bo on its way to Liverpool. A ye AB ag-o there were only SO penplo in the mining' settlement of Cripple Creek, Col. Now it is a thriving town of 10,000 inhabitants. Of JEsop, the "fabulist," it is written that he was a person of extremely luxurious lux-urious tastes, and that he onee had served at a banquet a dish of singing birds at an expense of ?4,()()0. It is estimated that into the crater of Mauna Loa, the greatest voleuno in the world, located on the inland of Hawaii, the whole of New York city, below Central 1'ark, with all its hi? buildings. I could be dropped and still the nut.sS would not fill up Hie hole. |