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i if dill) um L'TBRBSTIHS: Only one man in 203 is over six feet in height. There is a doctor by the name of Miller in nearly every town in Missouri. A squad of policemen in Philadelphia new rush over their beats on bicycles. The United States leads the world in the number and extent of its libraries. All the corrapondence from the Vatimn concerning church matters is med on in Latin. Why should anybody thirst for a drink of milk 2 There are 16,000,000 cows in the United States. A thrifty woman in New York pawned her husband's set of teeth in order to raise money for the rent. Within the last six months 150 young women have taken up timber claims In the State of Washington. Turbotis supposed to be the most pro- lific fish. One of twenty-eight pounds’ weight contained 14,000,000 eggs. .-L 01' 500,000,000 passengers carried last year on American waters and from Ameri- can ports only sixtydive lives were lost. It has been estimated recently by a shoe - man that the people of the United States spend $450,000,000 annually for shoes. The smallest church in the world is at St. Lawrence, near Ventuor, Isle of Wight. It has a seating capacity of twelve persons. A Jersey cow owned in Greenville, Miss, gave birth to four calves the other day. Mother nature seems to share in the record- brcnking of this extraordinary year. The smallest tree that grows in Great Britain may be seen on the very top of Ben Lomoud. It is the dwarf willow, which, at maturity, reaches a height of only two inches. The magnitude of the Chautauqua move- ment is illustrated by the fact that the en- tering class, which is to pursue a three years’ course, contains the names of 15,000 students. It has been reckoned that if the whole ocean should be dried up, all water passing away in vapor, the amount of salt remaining would be enough to cover 5,000,000 square miles with a layer one mile thick. The ostrich is a hug stepper. When feeding, his step measures from 20 to 2'2 inches ; when walking. but not feeding, 26 inches, and when terrified, from 11!; to 14 feet, or at the rate of 25 miles an hour. W The Seven Wonders of Goren. Cores, like the world of the ancients, has its “ seven wonders.” Briefly stated, they are as follows : First, a hot mineral spring near Kins-Shautoo, the healing properties of which are believed by the people to be miraculous. No matter what disease may afllict the patient, a dip in the water proves efficacious. The second wonder is two springs, situated at a considerable distance from each other ; in fact they have the breadth of the entire peninsula. between them. They have two peculiarities : when one is full the other is always empty, and, notwithstanding the obvious fact that they are connected by a subterranean assage, one is bitter and the other pure on sweet. The third wonder is a cold wave caveâ€"a cavern from which a wintry wind erpetu~ ally blows. The force of the wind rom the cave is such that a strong man cannot stand before it. A forest that cannot be eradicated is the fourth wonder. No matter what injury is done to the roots of the trees, which are lar e pines, they will sprout up again direct- ly, ike the phoenix from her ashes. The filth is the most wonderful of all. It is the famous “ floating stone.” It stands, or seems to stand, in front of the palace erected in its honor. It is an irregular cube of great bulk. It appears to be resting on the ground, free ’ from supports on all sides ; but, strange to say, two men at opposite ends of a rope may pass it under the stone without encountering any obstacle whatever. The sixth wonder is the “ hot stone," which, from remote ages has lain glowing with heat on the top 0 a high hill. The seventh and last Corean wonder is a drop of the sweat of Buddha. For thirty paces around the temple in which it is enshrined, not a blade of grass will grow. There are no trees or flowers inside the square. Even the animals declin to profane a spot so holy. ‘ .â€"â€".â€"â€".â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" ' The Flag 011 S'nowdon. There cord of the number of times Snow- don has been climbed is lost, but one ascent has just been made which is certainly unique. It was accomplished by n. llagstall' which Sir Edward \Yatkin intends to raise on the to - most crest of the mountain, and there 7 the meteor flag of England. The staff was ’"mndo at Llanberis. It was forty-two feet long, and weighed a quarter of a ton. A gang of ten men were engaged to help it up the mountain, and started early in the morning of what promised to be a fine day. The ascent from the Llanberis side is the most easy, and the party jogged along pretty comfortably through the morning. But when the steepest shoulder of the bill was reached it began to look as if the first duty of the staff would be to hold out a flag of distress. They were not easily beaten, but at length wore obliged to give in, and tho llagstntl‘ was abandoned at considerable dis- tance from the cairn which marks the top- most hcight of Snowdon. Sir. Edward Wat- kin at Snowdon, as at Charing Cross, is Hc~ who-must-bc-obeyed. He had said the flag- stafl‘ must- be carried to the top of Snow- don before he made his next Saturday-to- Monduy visit- to the Chalet. The ten men who had brought the staff from Llanberis, and had failed to g) t it up to the cairn, were engaged for the jo . Volunteers were called for from Sir Edward’s farm. Six came for. ward, and mounting the bill they, after a desperate strug lc,succcedcd in landing the ll tatl' where 5w ten men could not ut it It as not yet been set up, and possi ly as the season isso far advanced, the comple- tion of the work may be delayed till next year. But the flag will certainly be there, and soon the electric light, which already, worked by water power, illumiucs at nom- inal cost chry room and corridor in the chalet. ‘ . Sarah Bernhardt. while out riding in Minneapolis met several young ladies on backboard: returning from a luncheon, and each unfsltened a rose that was a souvenir of the occasion and threw it at her. At the *pgrfornmnce that evening Sarah‘s corsago aqua was of roses. » M.“ SUICIDE NOT ALWAYS EASY. no thrice: ease of It. Auguste 'rallolr of Paris. In the last days of August, a man named Auguste Talloir, living in the Rue St. Jac~ ues, Paris, lost his wife, to whom he was ‘ evotedly attached. Although he was only 38 years old. a t despair and disgust with life laid helm him. He decided that he had had enough of living and that it was high time for him to put an end to it. But it seems that this thing of dying is not so easy as one might think. For in the course of his endeavors to put himself out of the world, Mr. Talloir established a record for futile attempts at suicide which will not soon be broken. After casting about for the best method both as to certainty and painlessness, Mr. Talloir decided upon strangulation. He got him a stout rope hied him to his apartment, and proceeded to hang himself. For a moment everything went well, and the things of this world fad- ed from his view. But just a moment too soon the rope broke. Mr. Tallior fell to the floor with a bang, and was resuscitated by his neighbor of the next apartment. Mr. Talloir was refuse in apologies andregrets, and his neig her left him, feeling sure that the suicide would try no more. But the next day Mr. Talloir was at i again. He had lost confidence in strangu lation. He determined to fall back on that old and well-established Parisian method, asphyxiation. He bought some charcoal, shut every door and window of his apart. ment, set the charcoal aburning, and lay down upon the bed where his wife had died. He had sunk into a slumber which might have had no wakening, when the same neighbor, who had an unpleasantly alert nose, smelled out the fumes, broke in the door, and once more brought Mr. Talloir to this evil world. Mr. ’l‘alloir thanked his neighbor even more profusely than before. It is not known by what means be persuaded this neighbor that he was sincere, but after staying with him twenty-four hours the neighbor left‘ him in a cheerful and hopeful frame of mind. But this jollity was mere deceit, for Mr. Talloir only waited twenty-four hours'before sticking a knife into himself twice. He lost consciousness and fell from the lounge where he was lying, to the floor. The neighbor, whose ears were strained to that sort of noises, was instantly in the apartment. Mr. Talloir was covered with blood, which was flowing from two wounds in the region of the heart. An ambulance was called and Mr. Talloir was soon in the hospital. The wounds turned out not fatal, and in something like a week troublesome Mr. Talloir was back in his old apartment, a trifle pale and a good deal thinner, but just as much alive as though he had not resolved to die. Two days afterward his neighbor was much incensed to hear groans as of one in intense pain coming from Mr. Talloir’s di- rection. He rushed in, and Mr. Talloir explained that he had just taken a dose of phosphorous, which was making him groan in spite of his desire to die quietly. The neighbor had in a doctor at once, and once more Mr. Tallior came around. He had suffered so intensely, and was so evidently disgusted with the refusal of death to have him at any cost that everybody felt that it was safe to leave him alone. It took him a few days to get strength to leave his bed, and then he Spent a few days in gaining strength to walk. On Sept.24. he went out and bought a compound of chloro- form and bichloride of mercury. He locked himself in his apartment and, stretching himself out, took this last and final road to death. They found him the next morning dead with an expression of great content upon his face. He had baffled his neighbor and had forced himself upon unwilling death. It is rarely that a person rescued from a first attempt at suicide, is not well content to await the action of natural causes. This man who wasa person of education and intelli- gence,seemed to have been perfectly sane. He evidently had the genuine fixed determina- tion to deny the will to live. â€"_..____._â€"-â€" How Long a Person Can Remain Under “’atcr. - The length of time a person can remain under water depends upon how the feat is accomplished whether as a swimmer, or as a professional diver. In the first way 4 minutes 50 seconds is the longest period any swimmer has succeeded in remaining under water. This was accomplished by the cele- brated swimmer, J. B. J ohnstou, at Black- pool, on the day succeeding the August Bank Holiday of 1882. Johnson has fre- quently, at various places in this country and in the United States, remained under water for over four minutes. Mr. T. Fin- hey, a "champion swimmer ” of Oldham, y stayed under water in a tank, at the Can- ; terbury Music Hall, 4 minutes 292; seconds in 1886. The longest case recorded, with any claim to authenticity, of a person sur- viving after being a long time under water, is one in which a woman is stated to have recovered after a submersion of 20 minutes. In the records of the Royal Humane Soci- ety only two cases of recovery after 5 min~ utes’ submersion are recorded. A boy re- covered aftcr a submersion of from 5 to 10 minutes. Another is reported of a girl, aged two years, after ten minutes' sub- mersion. These facts lead to the conclusion ’ that in drowning, life is very rapidly de- stroyed, that the time within which a person may be resuscitated is subject to variation, but that after 5 minutes’ complete submer. sion, there can be little hope of recovery. In a diving dress, if the water is not of very l rent depth. divers can remain under water or several hours without harm. The usual spell of work for the Thames divers under water is four hours. The length of time a diver can remain under water depends on the do th of water and the personal phys- ique o the diver, who must be of sound constitution and muscular build to remain under water for hours together. One hun- dred and fifty feet is usually considered the . limit for safe work. Nature nus Provided A remed ' for every ache and pain, and Science t trough ceaseless activity and ex- periment is constantly wrestiug the secrets of her domain. A new and wonderful dis- covery has recently been made by means of which tens of thousands will be frced of pain. Nerviline, or nerve pain cure, repre- sents in very concentrated form the most potent pain relieving substitutes known to medical science. and strange to say, it is composed of substances solely vegetable in origin. l’olson's Nerviline for toothache, neuralgia, cramps, &c., always safe and of- fieient. I .â€"____~â€"___________â€"â€"__ A Cocoon-t Festival. Hindoos of all classescelebrated the Coca- nut Festival on An t ‘20, when thousands of cocoanuts. with owers and sugarcaudy, were thrown into the sea at Chowpattv, the Kennedy Sea Face, and at Modykbana. to bespeak the favor of the sea-god towards those who during the ensuing year,intended to embark upon commercial ente rises and trust themselves and their to his mercy. The festival is known among the natives as the Shravani or Karel Pumima festival, which is considered to mark the beginnin of the end of the monsoon. The date of t e festival varies, but it generally occurs towards the end of the month of August. Early in the morning of the day the Hindoos and their families, you and old, dress themselves in their best e othes and pass the day in the interchange of social amenities. In the afternoon, the children and adults deck themselves with ornaments, and in the company of the elder members of the families, with cocoanuts and flowers in their hands, take their way towards the sea at Back Bay or Mody Bay. The densest crowds of the native ]population are seen swarming all over the splanade, converg- ing from difierent parts of the city, to wit- ness the fair held in honor of the day. This fair is a curious-enough sight in its way, many of its attractions being common at an ordinary native fair. The shops and booths erected in long lines along the verge of the Cruickshank road for the sale of trinkets and sweetmeats, English and native, attract a large amount of profitable business. Rings of people are formed here and there to witness the feats of wrestlers andfeucers, or the antics of cunning wagheries, or to listen to the tales of the prowess of Rama or the amours of Krishna, which are recited by wandering minstrels with accompaniment of their uncouth instruments. ‘ â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"oâ€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" The man at the head of the house can mar the pleasure of the household, but he can- not make it ; that must rest with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege. Watching the Kenr‘Glass. As a miscr counts his gold, night and day, So I count the minutes told in the glass: My eye is rlim, my hair is thin and gray, And I know I’m growing old as they pass. When we approach “ the acre and yellow leaf ” of our days, we are prone to look back regretfully. A clear conscience and sound health will lighten our gloomy reflections. Health is the greatest blessingâ€"Dr. Piercc’s Golden Medical Discovery the greatest medicine. 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