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Show Mammoth Remains. The digging up of mammoth remains in the heart of London seems incongruous, incongru-ous, yet this has just been done by the workmen on a sewer, who, at the depth of twenty-two feet from the surface, came upon remains of a mammoth and other prehistoric animals. Two large tusks were met with lying near together, to-gether, along with other bones belonging belong-ing to the same animal. A portion of one of these tusks was brought to the surface and it was found to measure at its thickest part nearly two feet in circumference. ffiOM HISTORY'S PAGES. The iirt river and harbr.r bill was passed in 1800, and it called for the ex-penditureof ex-penditureof $15,000. The expressions " Hallelujah" and ''Amen" are said to have been introduced intro-duced into Christian worship by St. Jerome Je-rome about A. D. 390. m.r-, fuuuuii i), run, msi ap- plied to Gen. Washington the phrase: "First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." Is England in 1851 about 6,000 houses had 50 windows of glass and upwards in each; about 275,000 had 10 windows and upwards, and 725,000 had seven windows win-dows or less than seven. The corner stone of the white house in Washington, D. C, was laid In 1792. The building was first occupied by President Adams in 1800. The white house was burned by the British in 1S14, and its restoration was completed in 1818. The first ship from England to Greenland Green-land was sent for the whale fishery by the Muscovy Company in 1604. In a voyage performed in ld:!0, eight men were left behind by accident, who suffered suf-fered incredible hardships till the lol-lowing lol-lowing year, when the company's ships brought them home. |