Newsy Trifles

A single swallow, accordlng to anauthorlty, can devour 6,000 files in a day. The Danube flowa through countries Ín whtch flfty-two language.i and dlalects are spoken. The most wonderful vegetable In the world Is the truftle; lt has nelther root3, stem, leaves, flowers nor soeda. The Norwegians are supposed to have been the first who attempted tho perilous enterprlse oí killiag the whale. A stlck of timber 119 f eet long and 22 inches square, without a knot or blemish, has been cut in a mili at Hoquiam, Wash. Slnce March l the Spanlsh army In Cuba has lost 3,190 men from yellow fever. The loss from desertions also has been unusually heavy. Only seventy years have elapsed since the first railway in the world was flnished. During that period 400,000 miles have been constructed. The Bay of Funday has the highest tide in the world. It rlses a íoot every flve minutes, and somelioies attains a height of seventy feet. Reelfoot lake Is to be sold to the highest bidder. It conslsts of over 50,000 acres of water and bogs and is valuable property for flshing purposes. The state of Indiana furnlalied a great many tall men for the army. Out of 118,524 men whose descrlptions were taken at the time of enlisting 11,392 were six feet tall. Wentworth Varney of Palmyra, Me., has an old-fashioned alarm pendulum clock that his grandfather, Caleb Varney, the quaker, brought from England more than 150 years ago. A curious old law still prevails with regard to the plctures in the Louvre, Paris. No palntlng is permitted to adorn lts walls until the artist shall have been dead ten years.