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Show j ODD ITEMS FROM j I EVERYWHERE l IX Chicago there is to be built the worlds largest and most curious garage It will be built entirely underground, will fill the space under thirteen city block? and will accommodate accommo-date 2.000 cars daily. It will cost Jl.-250.000. Jl.-250.000. A German has Invented a device for lighting gas buoys by wireless The receiving apparatus Is sensitive only to the proper impulses. At a wedding In Lynn, Mass., tho bride woro a gown m.id seventy -five ! years ago for a wedding which never took place. The St. Louis park department took a census of the trees In tho city and found that there were 18,186 of them. ! The municipal nurseries have grown I In the last two years more than 66,000 trees and shrubs, valued at more than $12,721. A turtle caught recently at Cutty-hunk Cutty-hunk Island, Mass., tipped the scales at sixty-flvo pounds. Certain of the Chicago theaters will have posted In the lobbies certificates stattng that the circulation of mr In tho auditorium Is good and that tho atmosphere Is up to the standard. A boarding house In Roslsn. X Y. Is called Cupid Hall for tho reason that tho boarders usually get married after a short stay there A vaudeville contract has been signed sign-ed for tho year 1926 whereby the third generation of a line of famous comedians come-dians will appear In a sketch with tho socond generation of another vaudo-Vffls vaudo-Vffls family. At present the hoy g four ; years old and the girl four and a half. In China the men are adopting tho use of American made garters hut fhy wear them on tho outsido of their trou-j trou-j sera j James Murphy, an employee of a Chicago packing company, was roped and branded hv his fellow employeos j Just before his marriage. Two huntfn d j COWboyS escorted the Wedding party to tho church dressed In their chaps and I apurs and riding their ponies. |