Worth Knowing

There are said to be 6,003 pieces in the modern high-grade locomolivc The world's consumption of champagne amounts to about 21,000,000 quart bottles a year. Dnder the headlines "Living Questions," a St. Louis paper proceeds to discuss the city inprgue for half a column. In London the natural increase of the population, from excess of births over lis alone, is about 4,000 a month. Most European nations average for the male 5 foet 6 inches, but the AusLrians, Spanlab and Portuguese just fall short of this standard. Unterrifled small boys in Portland, Mc, a few days ago stole the grave markers from the cemetery for use in making bounds for hockey playing. The cult known as Christian Science, founded in Boston in 1S66 by Dr. Mary Baker Eddy, now has 200 incorporatetl ihurches in the United States. Last month was the most prosperous .n the history of the Brooklyn postofílce. The sales from stampa, stamped invelopes, etc, amounted to $y9,5G8.39.