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Show uminmm n i imi i , 9LBAX !D HERE AND THERE. Th!V -mtor ofthVtld, table nevofc nawiHos'falnh'sllfe A waklAakun to the topof Mont Wane will gala ip seconds In 24 hours. Qrea4r( New York consumes U88.00C ajuarU M milk a day, and tho people never seo a cow Russia has a 'argor proportion of bllml pepplfl than any other tountry. Twoout of every I.OOi of her people are Blghtless Ih SL Petersburg late hours aro tht rule. Tho principal streets are gcncrall) crowded-at one o'clock In the morning Many of.tho thenters do not open heron midnight. Argentina reaches Into tho equatorial hot Wt On tho north and through thi temperate zone ou tho south, havlns thus wide ranges of tompcralurc. Two thirds oj Its peoplo nearly are native. Italians to the number of nlmost half a million lead the foreigners. Six' months behind time, but still per severing, says the London Express GeorgeM. Schilling, of Pittsburg, whr Is walklnt? around tho world In Reu-r years fora l,000waser. hasnrrhed In Liverpool Ho left Now York In 18SI7 penniless and wearing a newspaper eult Dlack diamonds aro found chiefly In tho bed of the San Joso river. It wn thero the first of them was discovered It 1838 a stone or 10.000 carats, w hlch to day would bo worth an enormous sun of money, but which was thrown bach Into tho writer because tho finders, whe were digging for whlto diamonds, hai no l,dea of Its valuo In theo) th 're must l.o lunar tides e ths froat ia b. although they may L ,o small to Lo dcetctcd In bodies of na er so much more affected by winds anil by differences In barometric pressure This latter influence h so potent that in Lake Michigan it sometimes causes dls-..banccs dls-..banccs resembling tidal waxes, when tho surface of tho water la otherwise quite calm. |