| Show 11 i Ready to Remember Remember Il Of or British h birds' birds eggs a complete set et Is worth about 00 OO poun pounds ls About people arc are on the sea either as l passengers or seamen every day In the year ear Tho The ol oldest le t tortoise In the Iun London lon Zoo Zou has hal seen summers lIe He huto has hu to be Ce fed l by hy hand build with cabbages cB During the past twelve months snow-bound snow travelers havo have been saved from death heath by the faithful hounds of St St. Bernard Plate layers are arc more lI liable blo to accident accI accident ac ac- ac- ac cI than any other railway work work- men On an average one gets hurt ever every thirty five hours houra In the United l Kingdom About 2000 vessels of ot all kinds dIsappear disappear disappear dis dIs- dis- dis appear In the tho sea ever every year carrying down human beings and In involving In- In a n. loss 1088 of ot about I pounds In property No Xo one has yet been able to construct con con- a vessel which can resist relst the tho force of or freezing water Twenty- Twenty pound steel shells have havo been rent as I If It they were glass A celebrated aeronaut asserts that II the ninth day of or the moon Is tho most I rainy rain of ot the whole twenty eight and d T.- T. j 1 i 1 o'clock in the afternoon the rain rain- cst est hour of the day la Herat in is tho the city which has been most often destroyed six Fifty times limes have havo Its walls was been lai laid In ruins and seven fifty times have they been built I Few ladles ladies arc aware that they Cal somo forty orty or Jl fifty miles of hair hai hairon hairon r on their heads the tho haired fair ry ma marven y have ha to dress seventy miles mile o of or f threads of gol gold ever every morning Painting the Forth Bridge is no lI Ugh ligh ht t undertaking So vast ast is Us its structure e that it takes fifty tons of oC paint to t o eo et give It one coat coat and the he area dealt deal t with Is something like c acres Sheet Iron can now be rolled roiled so s o thin that It takes lr sheets to tomake t o make a single inch In thickness LI Ligh ht ot oe t shines as clearly through one of or these thes e sheets as through ordinary tissue pa pa- per pcr The kings king's s 's footmen wear wigs wiS which h have eight rows of or curls whereas hs s those of the Prince of or Wales arc are a allowe al allowed al- al lowed lowe l seven rows and those of or th the e Lord Lorl Mayor layol of or London are arc given I cn si six ex x 0 only In the na j navigation season of oC 1905 th the e three locks at the Uie Sault Ste Ste. Marie Mari e passed an average of oC seven eighty vessels ves yes ads sels a n da day This record has hns never bee been beon n approached b by any other ship canal i ithe In Inthe Inthe n the world worM Few Ic wild animals are are heft In Jn NenZ New Ne J Z Zealand Thov lm nt takes good ca cae care e of oC th the lie remnant and seeks e ks to lo a add d new varieties Among recent Importations importations importations are chamois from flom the thc AU Austrian Alps which ought to flourish in the mountains of New ew Zealand In describing the Chinese caval cavalry a correspondent asserts that horses horse s in finer con condition do not exist In any army in the thc world He says that th the e Chinese is a born hor horseman who has nothing to learn from Europe or America in the tho handling of horses though he is Ignorant of or veterinary science I |
