In a dusty corner of the Louvre a Paris antiquarian discovered Napoleon's bay mare--that he rode at Waterloo.

In Tasmania many houses have iron roofs. A radio amateur at Hobart discovered that they may be used as aerials.

Orange and black are the colors which, by order of the warden, convicts are painting the buildings of Sing Sing.

At Salisbury, Md., a baby girl was born with six toes on each foot-- rare, because they were all completely developed.

At Lahr, Baden, Germany, was completed a " king of casks," holding 36,250 gallons--10,000 gallons more than the famous Heidelberg tub. According to mathematicians it would hold enough beer to supply an average German family for 1,000 years.

At Compiegne, France, society people and actors took part in a "living" game of chess. The squares were fifteen feet on a side, and each piece consisted of one person and four attendants. Edouard Pape and Andre Muffang were the masters who contested the match.

A horse bought by a man of Paris, Ky., from a farmer of Jefferson City, Mo., disappeared from his new owner's farm. Two weeks later came a letter from Jefferson City saying that the horse had reappeared in its own stall, 500 miles away.