Show HJ THE ODD COENER looms BOMB 8 STRANGE QUEER AND CURIOUS PHASES OF LIFE queerest race bce I 1 ever saw SW M barlum feats or of memory lat garbs lin in new yorka ulta bl an 0 9 plant SAW the newt race today to day out at the coun county ty I fair I 1 the riders all were I 1 I 1 tiny tota 1 the racers in H i t were ram aar 1 I 1 av saw a little winsome J maid with yellow hair hold fast act and ride around a ring upon a big brown bea another one laughed loud in glee and raced around the track aad she ahe was seated fearlessly upon a lions back and one rode on a tiger fierce another on a deer while others rode on prancing steeds without a sign of fear and aad round and round the track they thet rode all at a rapid pace and aad no one beat tho all tried hard to win the funny race at last the racers came to rest t the music ceased to sound aud d all the little tots went home and left the merry go round william reed danroy remarkable peats of memory morton a celebrated irishman could repeat from memory any discourse he had once listened to whilst schenk w who ho invented one of the nie arts of ory cry could repeat three hundred abai ara connected words and over two hundred sentences all in the same order in which he had heard them it is I 1 said eaid of florentine Maglia becchi that he could not only remember the entire contents of any book he had read but he could give at once the number of the page upon which any quotation occurred this marvel if t I 1 his age could also describe in minute detail every place he had once visited some minds have a wonderful capacity for imbibing languages perhaps the most extraordinary of these the world has ever seen was the case of 0 i Mezzo fanti this genius was the son of a carpenter but in early youth was adopted by a priest who had him educated for the priesthood before the tha completion of his university caret career had completely mastered the latin greek hebrew arabic spanish french german and swedish lan ian duag in 1841 guido gorres wrote that Mezzo fanti fantl could read and write orty forty different languages and it is ia stated that so BO well acquainted was he with all dialects and iams isms that he could detect the precise part of the I 1 country to which a man belonged his hie I 1 proficiency may be further understood 1 when it is said that he was at different times taken to be a portuguese and an englishman by inhabitants of these res respective countries before hla his death cardinal Mezzo fanti fand was aca acq acquainted fainted with between seventy and eighty differ nt ant languages mourning garb rented in new york a man carries on a te very ra profitable business by renting mourning clothes he was until lately a dealer in old clothes and was dismayed dimm ayed lt it the amount of competition everybody seemed to him to be dealing in that commodity A friend short of gash cash whose father died borrowed a mourning outfit from him one day paying a small sum tor for the loan this brans transaction action suggested to the deal dealer er the tal idea of hiring out mourning dress areas J ae aa r business he tried it and soon found ills his peculiar trade well patronized ha began to read death notices in th thi newspapers and to send his agents to tb ewt those whom he considered bete clot in extra good circumstances seven igenta now act for him being raid paid in commission each has a regular circuit of streets marked out for his can raa A bird consuming plant the corpse plant Is the name of a ra r inar kable carnivorous specimen ahalt STOWS in the colony of natal it attains to a considerable size and it if principal feature is a bell shaped throat something lom tom ething like the flower of an arum lily but much larger and deeper and opening into a hollow stem it is almost black and covered with a thick glutinous secretion its principal char tet is its loathsome odor strongly resembling that of decaying carrion MIS attracts carrion feeding birds to it and once they alight on it they are an lost their claws become ent entangles anciel in n the secretion the bell shaped month tolda up and they are literally owed feathers and all and digested 4 A by y juices secreted in the throat of the 9 baat anc T 1 ba long lone life it has been found that the more keight a man has the 1 ker h la Is okely fikely to uve live provided he takes care of limpf investigation by a statistician statistics of at mortuary records has resulted la aft knowledge this same e inquiry disclosed Us Lis closed the tact fact that women are more ore akely to UV live e to be 50 60 years of ago age d than men but after that age Is reamed rea Aed the man Is 11 likely kely to uye live longer than am vaman the number of arriagia arri agea la in countries un tries where records we are kept shows the proportion to be alto weddings to every AM 1000 I 1 41 who are an bar bora la ji tw t sla S S adf m X P 3 11 4 W I 1 1 1 7 t z I 1 I 1 1911 19 11 altug 11 1 1 00 N M C aw 41 1 R VM R I 1 W 1 Z axi r are generally or of c Z cuck the spring ring more robust constitution than those who come into the world at other times births and deaths art are in the year much more frequent by night than by day the number of men throughout ghoul the civilized world who are capa capable ble ol at bearing arms according to the ghys phys physical I 1 rules fixed by the different governments for their soldiers Is one fourth of the total population pop ula tion |