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The tifltlísh hHíiwüni has cdáfc 8féát i Öritain L11,000 a yeai' In the Ust 143 years. The domé 6Í the St. Paul'd ia about i as many (eet high as there are days la the year. ín proportlon to its slze, the horse has a smaller stomach than any other quadruped. Madison Square garden realized a profit of $10,000 laat year. In the precedlng year it lost $31,000. Iowa's population includes 132,347 Germans and 33,000 Irlsh immigrants, 119,889 negroes and 394 Indians. The croak of a male bullfrog Ís lower Ín tone and more powerful than the slight groanlng noise of the female. About 2,000 ñshlng nets of unlawful mesh have been seized at Grand Haven, Mlch., by the state game warden. Prance boasts of a navy of 408 ships of 200,000 tons and 621,000 power, and 80 others in process of construction. Among the four longest-lived trees are the olive and the yew - both evergreens. The maximum age of the former Is 2,000 years and of the latter 2.880. Someone has calculated that the poatmen of London walk, together, something like 48,360 miles per day, a distance equal to twice the circumference of the globe. The largest bronze casting ever made In America is the buffalo's head which hangs at the eastern entrance of the Union Pacific bridge, between Omaha and Coucil Bluffs. A New York statistician has, after careful study and inquiry, reached the conclusión that the consumption of wheat in this country Is a llttle less than four bushels per capita. When a Russian family moves from one house to another, it is customary to rake all the flre from the hearth of the old domicile and carry it in a closed pot to the new residence.