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Show Odd Items I From Everywhere X eeeoe The Burmese have a superstition that people born on tho same day of the week may not marry. Every one's name contains a letter by which the birthday may be told R T. Lano of Muskegon, Mich, has the prize hard luck story. After being chased by a bull Into a tree tho tree Caught fire. He escaped with slight burns. The world's tallest man died recently recent-ly In Calumet. Mich. He was seven feet eight Inches tall and traveled for many years with a circus While excavating for the foundations for a new building Howard Croabj of Aurora, Me. found at a depth of five feet a doughnut In a perfect state of preservation. Patrick Uarkln. a civil service employe em-ploye of Chicago, recently said he feared being tried for Incompetency on tho ground that he Is too fat Ho Is a boiler washer and Is gradually getting so large that ho cannot get inside to do h'. work. The only known inland lighthouse Is In Arizona It is In tho desert nnd marks the only spring of water In a thirty-five mile radius. By the use of transfers a passenger may ride in the New York subways a distance of forty-six miles for one nickel. I: :;-. a prtk'e In i 1---t-! Lr.-ucht him a telegram which did not belong to him P C. Waldman of Sydney, Australia, Austra-lia, looked up the man whose name resembled re-sembled his. He found that It belonged belong-ed to his brothor, who had been given up as dead many years before, W M. Crawford, a railway conductor of Jackson. Ga., has a curiosity in a thirty dollar bill, which, was offered I .in for tare Tho bill was issued Nov. C, 1776. Hereafter Robert H.. Court of Chicago Chi-cago cannot go on State street, the city's main thoroughfare and busiest street, on pain of breaklne: a lifelong oath which he took In Municipal Judge Sabath s court. More than 12.000 butterflies, all carefully care-fully set. arranged and labeled, the collection col-lection of her late husband, have been presented to Leeds university by Mrs. A. H Clarke. Near the summit of one of the highest high-est ridges in Pike county, Penn., there II s growth of white huckleberries covering about an acre Tho only other oth-er known place where these grow la in Sussex county. N. J- The register of deeds of Blade county. coun-ty. N. C, refused a marriage license to ;,n applicant because he was 120 earn old and had been married six times. For the guidance of aviators a Prcnch ;ieri;il league wfll have the latitude and longltuds of towns painted on the tops of gasometers throughout tho country'. |