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Nearly one-third of the people in Chicag-o live in tenement houses. An English express eng-ine conïumes ten g-allons of water a raile. A nugget of tin 5,400 pounds has been found in Tasraania. In Russia it was once the common belief that beardless men were soulless. The army of Bolivia costs the people of that impoverished country 61,800,000 a year. A bridge over the Melo rapids in Bohemia is 636} feet above the surface of the water and 10,000 feet above the level of the sea. The very litest astronomicalworks catalogue bet ween 6,000 and 7,000 "doublé stars." When Herschei made his initial observations only four were known. The Eastern hemisphere, on which dweil ninety-two per cent of the population of the world, has 170,792 miles of railroad or forty-six per cent of all railroads. The practice of employing women as advertising sohcitors by the agencies and class poriodicals isgrowing, as the women have proved quite as capable as the men in this field. Sweden is the most Protestant country in the world. Out of a population of 6,000,000, but 2,000 are Roman Catholics. The remainder belong almost exclusively to the Lutheran church.