There is a newspaper published in Pekin over 1,000 years old. More than 900 of its editors have been beheaded. While 5 per cent, of all Europeans are trained soldiers, there is only one soldier to every 100 people in America. The postal revenues of Great Brit ain, Germany, and of the United States all vary between £11,000,000 and £12,000,000. More than 2,000 people earn a living in Paris by fortune-telling, and their total yearly earnings are esti mated at £400,000. The first railway at the Cape was opened in 1860, between Capetown and Wellington. It was 58 miles long, and cost half a million sterling. Western-super-Mare has a tide of 27ft, Dover 14ft, and the Bay of Fundy, in Canada, 66ft. The London Fire Brigade use 17,000,000 gallons of water a year, against 32,000,000 in New York. Excessive tea-drinking is said to cause decay of the teeth. There are at the present time over 3,000 persons living at large in Great; Britain who are wanted by the police. It is said that the peasant of the south of France spends on food for a family of five an average of 2d per day. Inoculation has lowered fatal cases in cholera from 10 to 2 per cent. One hundred and two thousand Europeans farm 1,300,000 acres in Algiers. A racehorse travelling full speed clears 20ft. at a stride, an ostrich 30ft. Cancer kills but 67 under 20 for every 8,000 between the ages of 70 and 100. A farmer reckons there should be a ton of straw to every fifty bushels of grain. Dutch cows average 801bs of butter and 1801 b of cheese in a year, Can adin 2801 b of cheese, and Parma 3001 b.
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