Show BITS OF INFORMATION London has pas 1116 registered clubs chubs Canadas Canada's mileage of railways In operation operation operation opera opera- tion increased last year by 1138 miles mile The Southern Pacific railway of MexICO has now extended Its line to ninety-five ninety miles south of l The worlds world's largest Incubator is in Australla Aus Aus- where It Is used to hatch 1140 ducks' ducks eggs or hens hen's eggs at a time Notwithstanding the duty of 40 per cen cena cent centi centa i a barrel large quantities of apples fro from Oregon Washington and other states ar are consumed i In hl western Canada The Ottoman government has a company company company com com- pany of fourteen French engineers surveying surveying sur sur- a railroad which is to connect Sana with on the Red sea The largest type burglar proof safe ts s built to withstand the t gas cutting burners burners burn burn- ers used so effectually by many crooks crook and revolves when It is closed by means mean of an electric motor Between the whole press of Copenhagen and all the theatrical managers a curious contest has started because the managers manage want to compel the critics to write only favorable notices The contest began bega when the board of theatrical managers manager forbade the admission of one critic representing representing a special theatrical paper A report from Winstead Conn states state that while Ed Chaffee who runs a stage stag stagecoach stagecoach coach between Winsted and Sand 1 1st Mass 1 was driving In a blinding snowstorm snowstorm snowstorm snow snow- storm a fox Jumped on the seat beside him The exhausted animal dropped t to the bottom of the coach and after about abou ten minutes minutes' rest jumped out and Reynard threw two hounds whIch had been chasing him off ott the scent when he Jumped Into the coach Mrs Florence Kelley Kehley and Mrs J. J Borden Borden Borden Bor Bor- den Harriman of New York and Miss Mis Grace F. F Ward of Boston were the only women on the program as speakers a athe at atthe atthe the recent annual conference on child la labor labor la- la bor which was held In Boston There 1 Is no woman among the officers of the national national na na- na- na child labor committee only two on the board of fifteen trustees and only four tour the thirty-one thirty members o othe of the committee In addition to the trus trus- tees Soldiers have been used to provide art artifIciaL artificial arti- arti majorities In English elections In 1784 of If the guards were sent to vote as householders against Fox in the Westminster Westminster Westminster West West- minster election Upon that occasion th the device failed but it succeeded in an Irish election The patron of a large Irish borough finding that there was some un tin un- certainty as to the return of his nominee m marched cj iI in iq a 11 regiment of soldiers from their quart quarters rs at Loughrea and had them all elected freemen Their vote put the victory of his candidate beyond doubt Apropos of ot W. W H. H C. C Jones' Jones application of his theories of ot malaria and decadence of Rome R. R T. T Hewlett an Englishman suggests that malaria has played a part partin in the distribution of population In Eng Eng- land Parts of Norfolk he says were once much more populous than at present The same is true of ot the region in Kent about Romney marsh Both of these re regions regions regions re- re gions are infested with anopheles and aid were at one time extremely Has malaria been one lne of the factors causing the depopulation of these localities localities ties asks Mr Hewlett Miss Martha Berry head of ot a school for poor white bo boys s near Rome Ga has Just succeeded In raising the necessary necessary necessary essary to secure an equal sum from Mrs Russell Sage and Andrew Carnegie This school grew out of ot a little Sunday school that Miss Berry started in the mountains of Georgia about ten years ago The school now owns 1000 acres of land a large part of which is under cultivation and several good buildings It has pupils and fifteen teachers The will be used as an endowment fund At least two observers F. F B. B Loomis and J. J A. A Harris have within the last two years noted the curious fact tact that the prairie dog and burrowing owl sometimes imitate in a most realistic realistic realistic realis realis- tic way the rattle of the rattlesnake among whose dens they are often found When the owls are disturbed they utter this warning sound in such a manner that even experienced horses are startled and deceived by it Mr Harris suggests that this is intended as a measure of self protection Even young birds he says make the same sound when taken from the nests Nature Marrying for votes vo was a device of old time British election agents As the law before the reform act of 1832 widows widows widows wid wid- of freemen on marrying again made their second husbands freemen and therefore voters At election times widows widows widows wid wid- were consequently paid handsomely to go through a formal marriage with a bachelor who for a consideration tion similarly agreed to support Smith or Jones as the tha case might be The pair were married the man voted according to instructions and then he and his wife standing on either Elther side of a tombstone said Death us do part With this lit literal literal literal lit lit- eral fulfillment of the matrimonial vow they regarded their marriage dissolved At the last election In Bristol before 1832 women gave votes to men The fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Dr Ludwig was the occasion of many meetings at which the progress of Esperanto was the chief topic One speaker before a largo large audience In London London Lon Lon- don quoted Professor e Oswald a who w-ho I de declared de- de dared in 1906 1908 In a lecture d delivered II d at Breslau that there were at that time more than people who employed the e. Many have been beenu suggested but they have not Impressed Impressed impressed Im Im- im- im pressed the Esperanto students favorably favors favora bly lily and according to Dr Foerster tended tended tended tend tend- ed simply to confuse people and to to In Injure Injure injure In- In jure the foundation which has been firmly firmly firm firm- ly laid The which has been published for tor six years gives the names of a number of ot large business concerns of Germany whose annual annual annual an an- nual catalogues are now issued in the new language The estimated area of ot southern Nigeria is square miles that of ot northern Nigeria the hinterland of ot southern Nigeria Ni NI- geria Is estimated at and the native native native na na- na- na tive population of the two combined d at from to yet any ef effort effort effort ef- ef fort at t. t scientific agriculture or oJ mining is confronted by hy the labor question The wants of the natives are few and on account account ac ac- count of their e primitive r custom acquiring lr ca only personal s r property and that In n the form of cattle wives and children de depending depending de de- pending on the latter in old age for support sup sup- port they give little thought to laying aside money for use In time of ot illness and old age In the far Interior traders SIl says S 'S that the natives often otten refuse money in exchange for tor their products gathered where they have not but will re receive receive receive re- re tobacco spirits cotton goods etc use when is isn n I In they h some desire el parts s them of t tire for hinterland t immediate lt to tobacco tobacco to- to bacco Is an absolute nece necessity in trad- trad Ing v Not only Is the University almost al- al m most st as big as that of Edinburgh but It Is just as cosmopolitan In regard Ito to Its students They set set-ni to flock the they as they did In thE middle ages not only tm-nm tm nm all the parts divisions IO of of Europe the ewo world but tOday There from are e no enrolled In the album 5 Students r Jn f to Great Britain from the United St State from Egypt from from Germany from HuT from Russia Other gary represented are Bulgaria Greece Canad Mexico Panama Argentina Brazil and Japan In the case of the Turk Hungarians and these the 81 a sent by their own governments It only Paris we are told that Is Isso so Some of ot the provincial seats of have a good percentage of foreign st dents Twenty years ago Paris Parts her books only students compare with today London Globe H Your southern farmer has a s. little garden patch full of sticker weeds r rs weeds horse weeds dog weeds Jim son weeds smart weeds milk wee weer and every kind of weeds ever heard hearde and still he raises enough potatoes bean tomatoes cabbages onions sweet potE toes cucumbers watermelons musk me memis ons mis turnips and parsnips to feed h hi whole family all the visitors and all t tl preachers and politicians coming that country Say nothing of his apple peaches pears poultry honey milk and butter firewood provender ar arall arall arall all manner of canned goods put up up this t his Tiis wife and daughters New New York Pres Pru While on the subject of modern C co cotuma f tume in sculpture honorable mention nut mu surely be made of the statue of Sir Siney Sic Sicney Sicney ney erected In the beautiful park bearing bearing- his Ills name on tt U western slopes of Highgate hill It woul take the skilled pen of an expert o on th tt stat staff of the tailor and cutter to do fu ft justice to the sartorial beauties of tt tI- sculptors sculptor's art To the layman the out our outstanding standing features are a Trilby hat and anda a umbrella in one hand a key meant as a s symbol but rather suggest of ot prehistoric sanitary arrangements I 1 Ithe ithe the other and the body clothed In a froc froe roe coat and an overcoat The name of tt sculptor Is not visible on the and the will not divulge I 1 They are either ignorant or kindly Lor Lor Lor Lordon Lordon don Chronicle According to the doctrine of chance a boy who has no middle name is mor mot than twice as likely to become preside of the United States as one who has hasi middle name and the boy who has mor mol than three names has no chance at a al alOf alOf Of the twenty-six twenty men who have fills fille the office of president seventeen had tw t names each for each for Van Buren Is one namand nam and not two Since 1880 only two triple named presidents have be been n elected Stephen Stephn n Grover Cleveland and William Howard Taft and of these Mr Clevelan dropped his first name some time betor he ran for the chief Harpez Harper Weekly |