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Show aK9'onArHicAL jottings; ' -Tho'Malay states produce aboutBevon.-' aboutBevon.-' te'nths of the world's supply of tin, Ilengal Is the most populous and pro-ducltvn pro-ducltvn province In aH Urltlsh India, ' Barlor grows wild lmtho monntalns of Hlniilaja, whero It. Is apparently Indigenous. In-digenous. ' Npar the Panama c. aal exists goldmines gold-mines abandoned by Spain centuries-ago. centuries-ago. They will soon be rvopened. Aden Is the only fortll.cd point bo-' ( tween Egypt and Bombay and Is regarded re-garded ai an witpout of the Indlnn empire. em-pire. Tho'pHhclpallty of Llchtonstcln, elt-yated elt-yated between Auatrln and Switzerland, Is tho only country In. Europe without an army. . Sea turtles are caught In very large nurabcrsVyn Ascenson Island. They each wglgh between 000 and 800 pounds and SO shillings. Is their average price. - TJjojioll of Siberia at tub closo of the surhin.or' Is found still frozen for 56' Inches beneath tho surface, and tl)e dead that have lain in their 'coffins for 150 'years have been taken up unchanged in the least. Ghoel, In Belgium, Is a town of fools Imbeciles aro ifcnt ther6 to an nsylum, hut, instead of being 'shut uf ami deprived de-prived pf the pleasures of liberty thej' arc allowed to enjoy thoiuselvcs like reasonable rea-sonable btlngs-- ' ' Itaumanla appears to be the roost Illiterate Il-literate Country In Europe Tho last census shows that in' a population of about 6,000,000 neatly 4,000,000 can nol-hfer nol-hfer read npr wrltennd that only a llf-tleover llf-tleover l,ooo,ono. hVo any education at Tlio .Drftlsh rnuseOm took Its start .frim, a''lcqueHt of Sir Hans Slocum, vli6 had collected a large number of workfttif art, speClnreus of natural history,- curiosjties, books ' and 'manuscripts, 'manu-scripts, , at n cost of nboutr 50,000. The collodion was -given td"the British Brit-ish government Id -.1753. ' ii , |