Crisp Condensations

the suicides at Monte Cario reach an average of fifty yearly. A daily illustrated Graphic is the latest journalistic sensation for London. Italy has 4,800,000 trees, which produce 1,260,000,000 lemona per annum. A musical gas machine is an English invention. It produces tunes and airs. It is said that the population of Norway exhibits the highestknown percentage of light eyes. Large deposita of ice, believed to be relies of the glacial period in the Unitet States, have been discovered in Idaho. Cremation is coming more and more into vogue in Germany. At Gotha 100 bodies hare been cremated since Jan. 1. One of the latest novelties in Rome is the appearanceof hansom cabs, only the rider sits in front instead of at the back. The Garfield monument at Cleveland, that is to be dedicated next Memoria! day , cost $150,000, which was contributec by 600,000 people in nickles and pennies. There is to be an international exhibition of postage stamps held in Vienna next year in commemoration of the fiftieth aimiversary of their introduction. San Francisco has a Chinese physician, Li Po Tai, whose professional income is stated to be $6,000 per month. He has been established in that city for thirty years. Some doctors at the Pawnee agency recently tested the pulse of an Indian who had run a mile, and it had increased only one beat. Another ran upa hillside for 500 feet and down again, and the increase was two beats. A farmer near Hellertown, Pa., found recently on his place a curiously shaped earthen bowl, evidently the handiwork of the Indians. Still traceable on its surface is the representaron of a group of warriors engaged in a medicine dance. A new application of photography is the photographing of Newton's rings and other phenomena of difiFraction not capable of reproduction by the ordinary camera and lens. By using a thallium lamp it is made possible to measure the relative lengths of the light waves. The water lily is largely used in some parts of India as a food stuff. The fruit of one species that grows plentifully in the lakes of Cashmere is rich in starch, and has much the flavor of a chestnut. If the nuts are dried they will keep for a long time, and when ground ruay be made into cakes or porridge, or they may be soaked for some hours and then bolled.