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Show Iteeent Antsretln Discoveries. Bumming up tin' results of the recent work, It bns been discovered that Victoria Vic-toria Land extends fur toward the South l'ole. and Is one of the large Islands Isl-ands of tho world; a new land bos been discovered near Wilkes Land, a supposititious suppo-sititious land tins been wiped out, and tho magnetic and meteorological investigations, inves-tigations, for which nil tho expeditions wero splendidly equipped, promise largely to enrich these sciences. It might bo wished that the purely geographical geo-graphical results might have been greater, but much has been achieved. Tho field, In all Its aspects, is far more dlHleult tlinn tho Arctic regions, nnd on the whole, tho iiinoiint of achievement achieve-ment repotted in it short npneo of time i hns seldom heen exceeded in any field ! of polnr work. Cyrus 0. Adams, In : Uevlew of Uc views. , Il'Sh lieols sro to be banMied. se-eordlcg se-eordlcg to tho word from I'urls. Once In I while fnhlon ruts her common-sensible common-sensible foot forw ard. In riiKl.ind nlono the volume of cooperative co-operative business has grown !n the last forty y,..lr, ,orc than forty times ss test ns her manufactures, nnd lilO tlme as fust ns the population. Ttie esteemed St. Louis 1'nat-Ws-pntfb laments the fuel thnt there nre no Hniburgcr cheese factories In Missouri, Mis-souri, H,.r i, rkn which nil the conventional attempts at offering con-doUtce con-doUtce utterly fall. Ii the twenty jeurs between and I'.ss) Sluikcpcure's Othello" was performed l!is) times In tierniany. "lllnilet" was given 171 times, "The Timing of tbe shrew" H'ail times and "iloaieo sad Juliet" loin times. Tbe latest addition to the (ieriunn lnncimgo Is tho word "knuspercheii." meaning a little thing Hint can he nib-blot nib-blot This Is the word that has Just tnkni the prize offered by somo ier-nias ier-nias (Mm minimi society for tho best translation of the noun "cake." Tbe burning ot Japanese will be greatly facilitated by tho abandonment abandon-ment ot their peculiar way of writing ant printing their language. Ten years ago the universities Inaugurated the reform; ncut year the use of F.nropeBii public schools, and this will soon lead tothclr general use. from the roturnsenuipllod by Lloyd's Kegister ot Shipping It uppenr that, excluding warships, there wero 4-" vessels ot l.tttS.tKA) totis gross under coDitructlon In the United Kingdoms! the dose of the quarter ended June 30, IOCS. Tbe return shows an Increase In the tonnage under construction of about M.OUU tons as compared with the figures for Inst quarter, but a decrease of (bout afO.OoO tons as compared with the total reached lu September, 1'JOl, which is tbe highest on record. The honor of having sscemted to the hl!icst point ot the enrtb on which tun has ever stood has been won by Miss Annie 8. l'cck, formerly professor ot Latin at Smith Collcgo and well known as a mountain climber. She has succeeded In reaching the summit of Vomit Sorutn, In Hollvia, which is exceeded ex-ceeded In height only by the great un-tttnined un-tttnined peaks of the Himalayas. The height of Sorata Is generally estimated at from 21,000 to US.OUO feet. Home scientists believe It Is even higher thnu tbe Hltnslya peaks, which are estimated esti-mated at r.V" fi'ct. This time It Is a Itusslan who has found out that be Is belr to an estate ot ei'.OUO.OUO rubles, which bss been deposited In s I-ondon bank 150 years. Americans, It appears, are not to monopolize mo-nopolize oil big Inheritances of this kind, though such a prodigious number of them first and Inst have beld out bonds of beckoning to credulous compatriots com-patriots with no money ever shown except ex-cept tbe advance fees pnld to tbe lawyers. law-yers. Demetrius Doroshonko, Musco-tlte Musco-tlte day laborer, of Kharkov, may have hotter luck, but It will not show good business judgment If bo sets up an automobile au-tomobile on the strength ot bis prospects. Tbe Oklnhomnns claim to bare the lnrgest furin In tho Southwest. It Is tbe 101 ranch In the Tones reservation, and la so big tliut It Is necessary to plant several varieties of wheat In It ono of which ripens several days lotor than the other, lu order that all of them may be harvested at their prime. On this farm the w heat fields are ot 1000 seres each, tho cattle pastures ore or 1000 to 1M0 acres each and pasture 0OO0 bead annually, the corn rows sre one and halt miles long, requiring DOO mules and 300 men to bundle the crop, and It takes thirty aelf-blnders three weeks to cut the wheat crop and a dozen or moro steam threshers forty days to thrush It. There are 00,000 acres lu the ranch. Andrec's futo should discourage the polar balloouatlc, at least for s generation genera-tion or two, but a bedridden Indiana enthusiast Is ready to renew tbe trial as aoon as tho doctors will allow blm to be up and around agntn. Medical opluluu favors the theory thut be mny die Instead, lu which case bis will might provide that bis relics should be committed to tho airship already built for blm and sojit northward on wings of the first strong wind that blows to that quarter. An old Moroccan Sultan carried In a litter at tho head of bis army, once won a bnttlo after he wus dead, and It may be the shining postmortem post-mortem achlevrmciit of tho Indiana Invalid In-valid to hitch his aerial hearse to the North role, nu exploit to stagger the smartest llvo Hon.sler going, to say uothlng ot any of the dead onus. . 1 |