Show BITS OF INFORMATION It Is said by anatomists that people hear better with their mouths open Chicory used to mix with coffee is the oldest known adulterant of food In some cheap restaurants the coffee corree Is often half halt chicory The trees which are used in the government got gov work of of- reforestation are grown at eight government nurseries in the western forest reserves Since 1883 the sea has washed away acres of the British isles but it has also added The land gained however however how how- ever is at present useless In Switzerland education is both free and compulsory and such ample facilities facilities ties are provided for all classes that Illiteracy Is almost unknown The steamer duck of South America loses its power of flight as it matures The reason is that its wings do not grow as the rest of ot its body develops There are killed annually in the coal coalmines coalmines coalmines mines of the United States three times as many men per thousand as in the coal coalmines coalmines coalmines mines of most European countries A French writer predicts that In the course of years very few persons persons will live in the cities Cities will be used only for business purposes An Austrian fire department is trying out a fire engine that though drawn by horses is o OI operated b by electricity taken from any convenient source through a cable carried by the engine So many counterfeit nickels are dropped In the fare boxes of a New ew York street railway company that the lead realized when they are melted down makes an a er i mm c c self or enter ter the employ of another within with with- in a certain distance radius and within a certain time limit after leaving his em em- London seems to have possessed a roller skating rink over three-quarters three of a century ago for in 1823 mention can be found of the Invention of or a skate for rendering the amusement Independent of frost which was being practically exhibited exhibited exhibited ex ex- ex- ex at the old tennis court In Windmill Windmill Windmill Wind Wind- mill street Benjamin Franklin observed the Londoners Londoners Londoner's Londoners Londoner's Lon Lon- doners doner's habit of ot wasting daylight more more than a century and a half halt ago In walkIng walkIng walk- walk Ing through the Strand and Fleet street street at 7 1 o'clock one summer morning rooming he noticed noticed no no- there was not one shop open though It had been daylight and and- the sun sunup sunup sunup up about three hours the inhabitants of London choosing voluntarily to live much by candle light and sleep by sunshine and yet et often complain a little absurdly of the duty on candles and the high price of or tallow almon Salmon require little or no food tood in fresh freshwater freshwater freshwater water and while they will take most of the things swimming against the current and swallow or nibble at them thero still they always spit or drop them thero out of or their mouths seemingly only making play at eating One Ona thing more Any differences in sea trout come not from being of or different dif dif dif- ferent ferenZ breeds for breeds for all sea trout are of the i rl k l 1 same class c only look different because a s of the water they frequent or the food tood they eat And the same thing applies to brown trout So there are only two breeds of or trout New ew New York Press Nobody Is going to poke out a good goodeye goodeye goodeye eye Just for tor the sake of at getting a glass eye said the city salesman but I know a man roan who makes money rooney on his glass eye He goes to Europe three times a year on business While there he does a little trading in Jewels as a side line ItIs It Itis Itis is on the homeward trip that he turns his glass glas eye to good account In the cavity back of or It he carried two or three small but valuable diamonds Half lIal the duty saved is his commission on these stones alone The customs inspectors have never got on to him Naturally they cant can't go around Jabbing their fingers into peoples people's peoples people's peo peo- ples pIes eyes New e New York Sun One of ot the most popular spots in Central Central Central Cen Cen- park is Dr Tanners Tanner's well near the West first Eighty-first street entrance A few years ago the newspapers were full of ot the exploits of Dr Tanner who said he could do without food for forty days While he took no nourishment for that length of time It was said that he allowed himself all the water he wanted and that he got it each ach day from the spring that comes out of a rock near first Eighty-first street and Eighth avenue The park authorities afterward scooped out a basin to collect the water and provided cups Lots of persons who remember Dr Tanner Tanner Tanner Tan Tan- ner ascribe wonderful properties to this water and they go there every morning morningto to to- New ew New York Sun Australia's last drought lasted seven seven years and there never has been one like I it since Australia was settled At the I beginning of this dry spell there were twenty million sheep In Queensland and I when the rains came only seven million were left the the dry spell ending In 1902 and today there are as many sheep as ever eyer In these seven seasons the flocks have trebled themselves Fortunes have been made since those years of disaster at a single run and an Irrigating lesson has been learned that will minimize their terror terror terror ter ter- ter- ter It if they should come corne again In the Interior of Queensland the yearly average of rainfall sinks to below ten inches rivers are scarce creeks are few tew and In summer dry up to a chain of water holes boles New New York Press There are English people who no doubt fear whenever they hear any noise in the early morning that if they open the window instead of or hearing the rattle of the milkman's can they would hear the rattle of the spurs of a German hussar said Chancelor Lloyd Llod George Ina in ina ina a campaign speech tho the other day This groundless panic fear may roay be paralleled by an Incident of the siege e of ot Paris At Atthe Atthe Atthe the great sortie toward Champigny a regIment regiment regiment reg reg- of mobiles marching along a road broke Its ranks and began to stampede stampede stampede stam stam- pede at a fearsome sound Whereupon the colonel rose in his stirrups and shouted in a voice of thunder hunder Calm yourselves my children Its It's only the soup kettles which had been collected in a huge heap and came down with a most ot r infernal n f clatter Yan |