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Bvery American warship has an outfit of over 150 flags. It is elaimed that a citizen of Eldorado, Kan., originated the word "Popocrat." The loss of life caused by the bombardment of the palace of Zanzibar is put at 500. A whortleberry patch in Kiamath county, Oregon, covers an area of sixty equares miles. Dr. Pouchet says that some forms of bacteria will survive an ordeal of 400 degrees of heat. The huge guns of modern navies can only be flred a'oout seventy-five times. This sufflces to wear them out. The elephant is the chief beast of burden in Siam and Afghanistan. An "elephant-load" is estimated at two tone. The little daughter of W. F. Andrew of Belair, Md., swallowed a needie some months ago. It has recently come out of her hip. It is a queer thing that some men can not consider themselves truly religious without making other people uncomfortable. - Truth. Expert hydrographers say that in itë deepest parts the ocean's waters are so dense that a sunken iron-clad would never reach the bottom. It is elaimed that during the last twenty-five years but one person for every 3,500,000 carried by the railroads of Denmark has been killed. Argón has at last been combined with water by Prof. Villard of the Paris Ecoles Normale. It required a pressure of 200 atmospheres to do so. Tyers, the English amateur swimming champion, has been suspended for the rest of the season on account of the bad language he used in a recent water polo match. A story is being told in London of a well-known A frican millionaire who at one time resided in Pall Mali. On nis visiting cards was printed: "Mr. , Pall Mali, opposite Marlborough House!"