Flotsam And Jetsam

The pain of a bce-sting is at once allayed by the applioation of the juice of the white poppy. The canned fruits of California are much admired in Bombay, ana outrank the best that go there from other countries. Amsterdam is interseclett by calíala, which divide the city into about ninety islands. Communication with them is had by about 300 bridges. American travelers in Europe during the three summer months, spend about f 100,000,000. This expense must be met by the-exportation of gold. John and Richard McGriff, of Geneva, 111., are a lively pair of twins, considering their age. They are in their ninety-first year, and never wore glasses. To encourage the prompt payment of taxes, the sheriff of Madison county, Ky., announces that people who ha e paid their taxes will be marrted by him without cost. Mr. Louis Ooulon, a lawyer of Montlacon, France, aas a beard eight feet long. He began shaving at the age of 12, and two years later his beard was a foot in length. Severe injuries to H. C. Armstrong, of Chippewa Fiills, Wis., resu!ted from a somnambulistic performance. Ha dreamed that he was swimming and dlved from his bed. A Brooklyn housekeeper compels her female eook, when on duty, to array herself in bloomers. She claims that this innovation makes her more actiye and tidy in the kitchen. The new Baltic canal has cost $40,000,000 and is fifty-nine miles' long. At night it will be lighted from end to end with electric light. A small electric lamp is oeing used instead of a bell in some telephone ex-changes in England. The cali for connection lights the lamp. Knowledge always desires increase; It is like fire, which must first be kináled by some external agent, but which