Show BITS OF INFORMATION Oblige of ot all the words In the English English Eng Eng- lish language is the one most frequently misspelled The word pageant originally signified the fixed or movable scaffold on which plays were presented The Indications are that at no distant date there will be more mors German students In Amerl America a. a than American students In Germany During the first nine months o of 1909 Tacoma shipped feet teet of ot lumber Portland Or during the tho some months shipped feet teet By means of ot a a. systematic warfare on the prairie does s ot of the southwestern part of the United States J. J W. W V. V Halmon has killed of ot these animals Hubert Latham recently took up a picture operator on a seven min ute trip In his aeroplane to an elevation of eighty feet teet from the tho ground The operator took pictures with the tho lens pointing downward The apparatus weighed pounds and Its Us operator Dr Emily II H. Jones Barker recently resigned as rC resident physician at Wellesley Welles- Welles ley lay college Dr Barker was appointed to this post In 1875 1876 and was the last of officer of- of firer In academic service whose appoIntment appointment appoint appoInt- ment meat dated back to the first year of ot the college For more than twenty years she served as superintendent of at Eliot college Following Is k a list of ot the wealthiest widows In the United States Mrs K i. II H. Harriman Mrs Russell Sage Mrs Hetty Green Mrs W. W B. B Leeds Mrs J. J II H. Smith Mrs G. G M M. Pullman Mrs C. C Vanderbilt Mrs M. M K Jesup Mrs W. W K Thaw Mrs Potter Palmer Mrs H. H II n. Rogers 5 Th The assessed valuation o of all Chicago real estate for r 1908 was f fo The combined b n wealth tl of those eleven widows is New New York Journal In half a century the United States de department department department de- de of ot agriculture has grown from froma troma a mere beginning to an Institution with over Congress supplies It with an annual Income for tor Its Us expenditure expendi expendi- ture In the neighborhood of ot while half halt as much more Is spent by b the states In their agricultural experiments colleges and n experiment t stations Of Us its sa ilon lf ses employee nearly e are scientists le s hundreds are administrative officers and thousands s are clerks and helpers There are a dozen bureaus ranging in expenditure expenditure expenditure expendi expendi- ture from to Electric baking ovens have long been available but their use has not spread very ery rapidly probably because of ot the cost or the difficulty of procuring the requisite current In the little Swiss town of ot Kerns where electric power Is cheap the electric baking oven has Just been established In a satisfactory manner In Ina Ina Ina a furnace less than eight feet teet long pounds of ot bread In loaves o of one and three pounds each can cn be baked at one onetime onetime onetime time and eight can be made in twelve hours The cost of ot the heating Is Isa isa a a. little more than one cent and three- three quarters a pound o of bread Wonders never cease Chicago women are really learning how to step off a street car properly and the of accidents is rapidly diminishing This is vouched for tor In an official leport report of ot cas casualties as as- as on traction lines In January says A resume o of the various causes shows that the people are becomIng becoming becom becom- ing lag educated to the many dangers through being careless concerning st street cars This Is especially true In relation relation relation rela rela- tion to women there being a decrease of 50 per cent in the number of ot women and children Injured during the last month as compared with the previous month Hours of work have been reduced In Inmany Inmany inmany many of ot the schools of ot Germany By Bythe Bythe Bythe the new arrangement forty-five forty minutes Is the maximum time for a subject thus allowing the treatment of six subjects In the I school chool day It Is ordered th that t the shortened hours at school be made up In home study and that as little school work as possible be done outside the school proper The child derives more benefit benefit bene bene- fit the educators think from Its Us play and from the study which It does voluntarily voluntarily voluntarily vol vol- vol- vol than It does from grinding Self Sel Imposed mental work Is of ot the greatest benefit to the school child and the at attainment attainment at- at of ot this Is possible only when the child has several hours dally daily o of absolute absolute absolute ab ab- ab- ab solute leisure The Introduction o of the articulated compound compound com om pound type has made it possible for the railroads to Increase greatly the effectiveness effectiveness effect effect- of ot existing locomotives which have become unequal to the work de demanded demanded demanded de- de says the Scientific American I IThe The Baldwin locomotive works have re recently recently recently re- re enlarged a consolidation engine I Ifor I Ifor for the Great Northern railway by ex extending ex- ex I tending the boiler shell sheli to I Include a su su- su g l and n feed water t heater and d placing beneath the extension a separate low pressure six coupled engine It Is estimated that the coal consumption a aton aton aton ton mile will be reduced by n nearly arly 50 60 per pel cent 10 per cent being clue due to superheating 15 per cent to feed water heating and 25 per cent to compounding compound compound- ing It was at a a. performance e of Sherlock I Holmes that a woman in the audience when Professor Moriarty snatches the detectives detective's unloaded pistol l as he turns his back a arose e and shrieked Ie ed Look Lookout Lookout no absorbed tl out Another wo woman was so in The Music Master asi ato alito to cry out a warning n th that the property Y coffee p potS pot mp Y was boiling over B Belasco's rainstorm m In S 5 Kitty Bellairs at the fall of the last curtain was so realistic that folk used to feel e d for r their a as t i c fe fed ml they prepared re tw go Up In a small Penns Pennsylvania town The D Dollar Dallar Mark played wherein a dispute arises as to the purchase o of a mine which was the subject of n negotiations earlier In the play someone got up and took the heros hero's end of the argument with a vociferous You lie He to the villain I Copenhagen Is a city of In In- In habitants During a weeks week's sta stay I have seen no seller of ot matches or bootlaces no gutter merchant no blind or other afflicted persons about the streets askIng asking asking ask ask- ing for tor alms not alms not one single sign of distress distress dis dis- tress due to poverty I have explored the artisans' artisans quarters by day and late at night Is not a a. single spot In Inthe inthe the whole of Copenhagen that could be compared even remotely to the slums In our large towns to There are arc no unemployed unemployed hanging about the street corners cor car ners acre no unkempt women standing g Idly at the doors no ragged and dirty children children children chil chil- dren playing In the gutter There are no dirty houses hOllSt'S with I dirty or broken broleen windows windows win win- dows mended with bits of paper and a ragged apron orNa torn d doing ln i duty for a curtain r London d Express Tha The contention of a writer In Health and Strength that with womans woman's progress toward equal rights her physical strength is also asserting Itself Itsel has caused much controversy In European Journals The average height 0 of England's girls says saysa a a. writer In Figaro was wee 5 feet teet 3 Inches In 1895 and today It Is 5 feet teet 5 Inches This would be pleasant news to me If It t wee not also a fact th that t the sterner sex Is growing shorter Marcel Prevost Pre Pre- vast discussing the subject believes that sports have made the women taller and says Be on your guard modern man Your position was never In greater danger danger danger dan dan- ger than now Check the retrogression or stop the advance of ot women while yet you are the larger and the stronger Another Another Another An An- other Inch and you will have become the weaker sex |