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Show INTERESTING ITEMS. About one-third of the human raco lives on rico. Tho London Stock Exchange has GtOO members. St. Peter's, in Romo, will accommodate accom-modate 54,000 persons. The lungs of nn adult human being havo 175.000,000 cell3. Two million American mode cigar cttC8 ln boxoB and tins nnl sevoniy thousand pounds of tobacco in tins nnd plug wore. Imported into Bangkok Bang-kok las: year. Stealing electricity ln Colorado Is punishablo by a fine ot (50 and imprisonment im-prisonment for thirty days. An electric gluo heater ras been put on tho market which is said to melt gluo in thirty minutes, and to keep it at a tomperaturo of 150 de-groes de-groes for several hours nftor tho current cur-rent has been switched off. In tho sovon years, 1001 to 1908, China's postal aorvlco expanded ro-markably. ro-markably. The postal routos now oovor 88,000 miles and tho postof-flees postof-flees number 3,493, as against 17G ln 1901, an lncreaso ot 3,317 ln tho seven years. Experiments and Investigations made both in Europo and in America indicate that fully one-half of tho deaths from consumption occur among people who aro compelled to breathe dust in its various forms. Tho advance in stumpago dues on lumber cut on crown lands ln Quebec province, Canada, for export Is expected ex-pected to occur in Soptomber, 1910, and will, says our consul at Shor-orook, Shor-orook, practically prohibit tho shipping ship-ping ot wood pulp to tho United states. |