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Show SHORTS The Eiffel tower, In Paris, la 1,000 feet high. There are no railroads in tbe kingdom king-dom of Afghanistan. A salmon has been timed to swim ten yards In a second. u Tbe estimated population of China in 1923 was 830,000,000. The tongues of some moths and butterflies but-terflies are as long as their bodies. A papyrus more than thirty-three centuries old mentions the camel as a beast of burden. P. J. McCarthy of St Louis, Mo, lifted a weight of 0,370 pounds by using bis arms, legs and back on September Sep-tember 17, 1803. It is estimated that there are 1,304,. 300 persons. bearing the family name of Smith In the United States. The "Johnsons," with 1,024.200. run second. There are two distinct species ot camel in the Old world. One is the one-bumped camel, the Arabian, and ; the other Is tbe two-humped camel, the Bactrlan. ' |