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Show IN A LINE OR TWO. (Philadelphia Press.) A spider will eat twenty-seven times its own weight in one day. Russia has added 16,000 to its population popu-lation in a decade. Spain is having millions of nickel coins made in Germany. It is estimated that 20,000 tramps are wintering in Chicago. About 150 whales trfe captured annually. an-nually. Each whale averages 2,000 gallons gal-lons of oil. In proportion to its size, the horse has the smallest stomach of any quadruped. quad-ruped. ' The shoes worn when climbing the Alps have a steel sole, with eight points projecting. According to the latest computation there are 15,943 kinds of postage stamps in existence. |