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Show FACTS FROM DISTANT LANDS. I.v British India 2S.000.000 acres tiro cultlvnted by irrigation. Aurtiialia is tho laigest tea consuming con-suming country In propoitlou to Its populntiou. Nim: hundred und fifty submarine telegraph cables uro now In operation, most of them hi lhnoic; their total length Is over bD.OOO miles. The lowest tcmperatuio ever recorded re-corded nny whero was noted by Ooiochow, December .'to, 1871, nt Werchojansk, .Siberia - HI degiccs 1'uhr., or 113 dcgiecsof fiosl. A vast "hnnynii" troo covering between be-tween H nnd 7 ucrca has been discovered discov-ered on tho tiny Lord Ilnnu island, S00 miles from l'ort Macquniic, lu Australia. It Is surpassed lu size only by tho greatest nf those In India |
