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 Rh impossibility of understanding what was passing in the mind of Admiral Tryon. He ordered the two divisions of his squadron to perform an impossible evolution. The ships were in two divisions, six cable-lengths apart, moving at eight miles an hour. Each division was ordered to turn inward, " the leaders together and the rest in succession," and to reverse their course. At the rate of speed ordered, and the distance separating them, it could not pos sibly be executed without collision.

There are eleven million Jews in the world to-day, of whom nearly one-half are in Russia.

The smallest book ever printed has just been issued by Messrs. Pairault, of Paris. It is the story of Perrault, little Hop-o'-My-Thurhb. This di minutive volume contains four engravings and is printed by means of movable type. It contains 80 pages of printed matter. The book is 38 millimeters (iy& in.) long by 28 millimeters (1 in.) wide. The thickness of this volume is 6 millimeters (% in.) and its weight is 5 grams (3 dwt.). The "dwarf book" of the Chicago Exhibition could be held on a stamp of the Columbian variety, but it is surpassed by this product of the French press. It is a complete book in every respect, the binding being perfect, the pages duly numbered, and the title-page appearing with all the formality of the most dignified volume. The pages can be read only by the use of a microscope, but then it is found that the proof reading has been excellently done. Several French dandies are carrying these volumes inside their watch covers. A copy presented to a French library has been duly entered in the catalogue and placed on the shelves. — Literary Digest. The trade of Hamburg is growing faster than that of any other of the great European ports. It has even outstripped that of Liverpool. Two things es pecially favor Hamburg. Back of her is the conti nent, making her wharves a point from which mer chandise may be economically distributed over a large and populous area. The other favorable factor is the magnificent enterprise of the people of Ham burg, who have spent in recent years $75,000,000 upon their docks. As the " London Mail " admiringly says, Hamburg deserves the prosperity she has achieved. It is stated on German authority, that the astound ing number of two million glass eyes are made every year in Germany and Switzerland, while one French house manufactures three hundred thousand of them annually.

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The largest house in the world is in Wieden, a suburb of Vienna. In this domicile there are four teen hundred rooms, divided into four hundred suites of from three to six rooms each, and they at present shelter 2,112 persons, who pay an annual rental of over one hundred thousand florins.

LITERARY NOTES. The complete novel in the June issue of Lippincott's, " Mere Folly," is of somewhat unusual length for the magazine. Its well-known author, Maria Louise Pool, has done nothing better, either in story - telling or character-drawing. W. Bert Foster tells the tale of "The Man who Hung On" to a dead western town and its newspaper. Henry Holcomb Bennett's article, "In Time of Peace," is of special interest just now. " Klondike and Climatic Reflections," by Felix L. Oswald, is another timely paper. Walter Cotgrave writes of " Gastronomic Germany," Lawrence Irwell of " Suicide in India," and George R. Frysinger of "Robins." Richard Malcolm Johnston expresses his dread of " Dogs and Railroad Conductors." "The Terrors of Author ship" are set forth by Elmer E. Benton.

The new feature in the June number of Scribner's Magazine is C. D. Gibson's pictorial record of "A New York Day — Morning." Anton Seidl is the subject of a brief and pertinent appreciation by H. E. Krehbiel, the musical critic; Boston's "Seaside Pleasure Grounds " are picturesquely de scribed by Sylvester Baxter; and a new writer of short stories. Miss Anne Douglas Sedgwick, con tributes a tale of artist life — " Miss Jones and the Masterpiece." Harper's Magazine for July contains the follow ing : " A Prince of Georgia," by Julian Ralph; a story of the love adventures of an American girl who meets a native prince while travelling in the Caucasus. "The People and Their Government," by Henry Loomis Nelson. " A Question of Courage," by Wil liam McLennan. " New Era in the Middle West," by C. M. Harger. " Sun-Down Leflare's Money." by Frederic Remington. " A Man and His Knife; Passages in the Life of James Bowie," by Martha McCulloch-Williams. "Notes on Journalism," by George W. Smalley. "A Colonial Dame," by Caro line Sherman Bansemer. " Eastern Siberia," by Stephen Bonsai. " The Ethics of Corrida," by Lucia Purdy. " New Words and Old," by Professor Brander Matthews. In addition to the three stories already mentioned, the number contains " The Petitioner," by Margaret Sutton Briscoe, and " The Story," by George Hibbard.