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Show OUT OP THE VEST POCKET. An nmatcur photographer at Water-vllle. Water-vllle. Me., befara going to tbe retcuo of n friend who had loit hi balance and fallen Into a lake, took a nap bot ot him Siberia I an empire In lljelt. Thcro bavo ben discovered along Ita line ot road fifty-four bltumlnoua coal field, twenty gold, forty copper, and two tll-vcr tll-vcr ilciKwlt Tho wing of bird are not only to aid locomotion In the air, but alto on tho ground and water. One bird even haa clawa In tha "elbow" of It wluga to aid In climbing. It I eatlmated that there aro na fewer than 70.000,000 Kuropeana who wear wooden ahoee, llawttood la ordinarily ordi-narily employed for aabota, but willow la the beat material Thcro la a village In Rngland built upon an enonnoo boulder ot chalk. Thla boulder I half a mile long nnd mutt have been carried ooattward a dlttance ot tttent)-fle mile by tomo great Iceberg The humming of telegraph wire 1 not cauted by tho wind, for It It heard during perfect calm, It una hn conjectured con-jectured that change of temperature, whlrh lighten or looten the wire, probably produce the sound Thcro aro 1.8W mile nf railroad In tbe atato of Sao Paulo, Ilrnill, yet the line can not ute each olhcr'a track. Thlt I due to the fart that ttx different differ-ent gauge are In me, varying from Ave feel four Inches tn two feet Mot ot the monk at King William' Town, Cape Colony, are tradesmen, and do their own carpentering, brick-flaying, brick-flaying, blacktmltblng. etc. bealdr teaching acbool All the building they loccupy were erected by themtelvet. The regular army I made np ol IS I per rent ot farelgnera. whllo In the I 'navy U per cent of the petty ortlcera and 41 per cent of the aeamen are "tor- I elan born. Forty per cent ot thoae who went down with the Maine wsr , (t'tbia data I |