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Show TAKEN ON TRUST. A lurch in her carriage drove the badly adjusted bat pin into the head of a womif i in Edinburgh lately with fatal effect. A child three years old has actually been carried off by an eagle nearTrencsin, Hungary, in sight of the father and mother. A Maryland railroad not long ago carried car-ried a female passenger a half mile out ot her way, and has lately had to pay $3,500 for so doing. The discovery of an enormous underground under-ground reservoir of water in the midst of the Sahara desert will undoubtedly develop devel-op trade and travel throughout that region. re-gion. The expedition sent out by the Vienna academy of science to explore the Mediterranean Medit-erranean found its greatest depth to be something over 2)4 miles, between Molla and Cerigo. . , Explorations have shown that there are large portions of the Sahara which are really capable of cultivation and after a time it will doubtless be as completely effaced ef-faced from the map as has been the Great American desert. During the month of January Tika Bal- . deo Singh, the rajkumar or heir to the throne of the native state of Poonch, bagged nina panthers, one hundred hun-dred and twenty-three boars, seventeen ducks and twenty -four partridges. At Hamburg they are eating the flesh of the reindeer, which is imported. It is tender and toothsome and costs but thirteen cents a pound. The demand exceeds the supply, and there are going to be regular supplies of reindeer beef sent from the arctic lones. Mr. Moody, preaching in Roxbury, Mass., last week on the excuses men make for not caring for their souls, said that since going to Boston to labor he had heard of a woman who had declined to attend at-tend one of his meetings because she bad to remain at home and care for her pun dog. |