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Show SHORT ITEMS OF INTEREST Germany Is considering Imposing a gasoline tax. The thickness of the Ice sheet which evers the center of Greenland is unknown un-known Brooklyn's population now exceeds that of the borough ot Manhattan by C00.O00. Massachusetts was the first state to adopt a compulsory school attendance attend-ance law. ' Chemicals such as aspirin do not prolong the life of cut flowers. Minnesota plans to spend 12,000,-000 12,000,-000 In two years to eradicate bovine tuberculosis, . Gila monsters, of the lizard family, are more poisonous than many venomous snakes. Beetle trapping is a new sport Introduced In-troduced in Virginia to annihilate an Influx of Japanese beetles. |