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Show FACTS OF REAL INTEREST. M The largest wrought-Iron pillar Is at H Delhi, In India. It Is 60 feet high, and M weighs 17 tons. H In tho reign ot Queen Elizabeth the' H ordinary expense ot the British navy H was only $30,000 a year. B Bamboo pens still retain their hold H in India where they have been In use H for moro than 1,000 years. B Tho house ot Capet has the longest, HBl unbroken succession In tho male Un HBl from Hugh Capet, King of France In IHJ 987, to Louts Philippe's abdication In IMBJ J In times of scarcity the South Afrl- Pl can natives sometimes rob the ants' rcaH nests, and as many as Ave bushels ot Kaaaal grain havo been taken from a single (jHll Experiments now show that durlsg cVWaal profound sleep a noise not sufficient to fll awaken tho slcoper produces a peroept- Hk9fl lbte rise In the temperature ot the VA1 brain. IvShI Bacteria multiply rapidly, and they raaal do It In a curlouB way. A single one 'uH breaks Itself In two, theu each halt flaB grows until It bocomes as large as the IkH original. ?JMB Few peoplo aro aware ot tbo lm- tj.B mense weight which a diver carries alaae! with him under tho water. The dlv- HHfl ing boots alone some-times weigh 100 jHJ pounds each. HBb Frederick the Groat composed the' HBb "Murclie Real," the national anthem of H Spain, and Pedro I. of Brazil the HBfl "Hjtnno Constitutional," the national H air ot Portugal. H A crusado against American chewing H gum has sot In In Ixiudon, the health i H authorltlts Issuing a w&rnlng against i saaaalall Its use, and declaring that It Is mors- H dangerous than the Ice cram soldi from the penny-carts. |