Fact And Fancy

A little over t wel ve percent oí milk is solid matter. Mrs. Margaret Ploster, ninety-three years oíd, of Schenectady, is a bicycle rider. There are .', 40G railvvar surgeons employed by the rallroads oí the United States and Canada. Many Chinese books are made oí wood, each page being cut írom a block, aíter the manner oí an engraving. Comer lots on Fleet street, Picadilly, and other desirable business locations in London are worth 8100,000 a íront foot. Ornhyatekha is the most distinguished memberof the Mohawk tri be. He Uves in Toronto, and is a practiciog physician. By order oí the archbishop oí Canterbury, British postmen are prohibited írom deliverlng mails at his residence on Sunday. Many oí the residents í Borne, Italy, have taken up bicycle ridintr and can be seen daily traversing the historio streets on their wheels. Several books of the second au 1 third ceaturies have leadeu leaves. One such, in the British museum, has siz leaden leaves, with hingej and a clasp. Many early books had no title j&ges, but ia the center of the first sage appeared a short paragraph setiing forth the character and contents of the work. An Italian ezporter of essence of emon says that one of his larg-est American customers sell the essence for lesa than h paya f or it. Turpeatine is the adulterant A Oerman text-book quotes the folLowlng waruing example of a mixed meUphor: "The modest violet of faith bloomi most brilliantly wliea th liamraer strokes of fate have evoked from it bright sparks on the anvil of the heart."