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Day
17
Month
December
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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The salmón pack In Brltish Columbla this year exceeds 600,000 cases. A Spanish büllfighter's fee for a ípecial performance is about $3,000. A foot of newly fallen snow changes lnto an inch of water when melted. London Crystal Palace Saturday concerts have entered upon the forty-first year of their existence. Fifty-nine fish-hooks, all baited, have been found inside of a codflsh caught off Flamborough Head. Montana produced 21,530,013 pounds of wool this year, and leads all other states ss a. wool grower. Water is so scarce at Broomtown, Ala., and vicinity that farmers have to haul it a distance of three and four miles. Thé ore in the Kansas "gold mines" at Russell, Kan., taken from a depth of 100 feet, Is said to pan out $109 to the ton. Every house in Sardis, Ga., about 100, is owned and occupied by colored people, and they are all Missionary Baptists. In Melbourne a woman gets two pence half-penny for making a shirt, while a Chinaman gets flve pence for washing it. In the village of Southport, Conn., is preserved a piece of cedar post which Oeneral Washington helped to set in the gro:ind at Farrington. The biggest poultry -ranch in the world is to be located near San Francisco. It is expected to yield 90,003 broile,rs and 2,000,000 eggs a year. Millions of men in India live, marry and rear apparently happy children upon an income which, even when the wife works, is rarely above 50 cents a ■week. From Scotland the reports of crops aio for the most part of one uniform type. The crops have been magnificent, but they were ruined by the continuous rains. There is a tribe in central África among whom speakers in public debates are required to stand on one leg while speaking and to speak only as long as they -rein so stand.

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