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Almost everything, first or last, sr#ms to bo thought of bv the fertile brains that are working out tho Panama Canal project to a successful issue. Ono of the latest i(oms is that several thousand pounds of grass seed haw been «>nt to the Zone, to bo used in growing a sod that will be tenacious enough to prevent tho washing away of tho soil on tho slopes of the canal. America bow has tho doubtful honour of consuming more beer—l,B;il,ooo,MO gallons in IHlO—than any other nation. We do not, however (says an American paper) drink as much beer per capita as is consumed in either G'rest Britain or Germany. Great Britain heads this list with 31! : gallons, Germany comes next with 20, gallons, while tho United Stales is credited with only 20 gallons per capita. Writing of "Asiatic Turkey under tha Constitution," a contributor to "Blackwood's Magazine," a resident of Turkey, says: "The past two years liavo not, in Asia, been years of promise unfulfilled. T will not say that they havo been a period of unbroken progress, but it cannot be denied that an effort has been made to solve age-long problems of _ government, and that, upon the whole, it has been mado on tho right lines." Robert Louis Stevenson, says the London "Chronicle," used to assert that the inspiration for some of his best work came through dreams, and instanced "Dr. Jckyll and Mr. Hyde" a.s a case in point. It will Ihi remembered that what Swinburne calls tho first poem in the language for "absolute melody and splendor," "Ktibla Khan," was part of a poem composed by Coleridge in a dream—tho rest of the poem being unfortunately forgotten before an opportunity caino to write it out.