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Show Helaiilllte Joltings. Kxtcaalon-dtak telephones nro constantly con-stantly growing In fuvur. They uva tho annoyance and tbo delay ot having to rlso und go to n general o.llc telephone. tele-phone. Aa tbo message comes ovor tbo general telephono lino, tho btuJntu man having tho cxtcnslon-dcik iit phouo can answer tho call or not as ho may aco flU Yukon telegraph lines cost about 1137.000. The distance from Lake lien-nttt lien-nttt to Dawson Is TIO miles. There were no hones engaged In carrying on tho work of construction, most of tho carrying being done by scows on tho river. Four hundred dollars was taken In for messages on tho first evening tho lines wore opened. ltecciitly the Philadelphia Heading road Installed n novel method ot ventilating ven-tilating several of tho smoking cars. It consists ot litres two-bladed vanes suspended from tho top of the ventilators ventila-tors nnd operated by n small motor ac tuated by wind created by tho motion of the train. Tho result Is a continuous continu-ous circulation of air, and tho smoke nnd bad nlr nro tnken out through the ventilators. The fans may bo disconnected dis-connected when desired There Is a llttlo Insect round In New Caledonia, called the "Insect which counts," nud which seems rnpublo ot counting to at least six. It Is found on tho lcnes ot tho bnnnna tree, and when the moment la favorable It may bo arcn tn turn around, with Ha htad na n center, describing rapid circles. At tint It executes six of them, not one moro nor one lees, then It reverses ths movement and makes tho same number In nn opposite direction, It itopi a moment nud brglna again, but makes only five thla time, always alternately In opposite directions. Another stn then double rotation In alternate ways, tho turns thla time being only four! and ao on. diminishing constantly la such a way to successively three, thtn two and nt laat one ilnglo turn, Attn theso gymnastic exercises, which sr at the same time mathematical, the in-sect in-sect remains absolutely motionless un. til It give Itself up again to Its complicated com-plicated calculations with an exactt-tudo exactt-tudo which many people might envy. |