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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1641, 7 January 1913, Page 6

The largest steam-shovel' in the world is being used in America in stripping ceil. It weighs 300 tons, being iiearly twico the size oi' the steam-shovels used hy the G>:ivernment in the excavation of the Panama Canal. - Ten cars ore" required to tiansporttlio shovel from Marion, Ohio, wicro lti was built; at a cost; of JE8750. .It will uiove 2500 squaro yard 3 of material a day. ■ .v.''.■■■ ■ '•;; •■' ' '■■ But one specimen of venomous bird is known to tho student' of ornithological oddities—the Rpir, N'Doob, or "Bird.of Death," a feathered'paradox 'of .New Guinea. Persons bitten by the creature are seized by maddening, pains, which vapidly extend to cyery part of the body. Loss of sight, convulsions, lockjaw are symptoms which follow in rapid succession. . .. .• V'r. v Ivory dust for jelly, is sold in London nfcd. per pound.' Ivory dust is tho. waste which results-from the manufacture'of ivory. into various articles, and a workshop will accumulate., from live to six pounds a week. Tho.proportions aro one pound of du6t to a quort of water, toiled eight or ten hours. The product is a clear jelly,'whioh is'strained and flavoured to taste, or;diluted for soup; ■■ > Tho* old. horses imported into Belgium from England last year wore valued at £b 1.55. per bond. A Paris publisher litis declined to bring out a translation of a nbvol by tho famous Japanese novelist, Kiohg To Bakin, on tho ground that, cs it contains 3,000,000 words, it would be rather too long for tho average novel reader. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is. Gd. ■""nr Chronic' Chest Complaints.*