Show THE WID WIDOW W SHEARS AND ALL SHE HEARS It Is now possible to Insure in Lond London London Lon Lon- d don n against the risk of smallpox breaking breaking break break- ing log out in tl the e contiguous houses the Idea being of course to protect the assured assured assured as as- against expense Incurred by temporary r removal moval The rate Is ts a minimum of 10 10 per cent for forthe forthe forthe the year the risk of co course extending over an indefinite number of people One broker who was in this business from the s start has been doing anything else ele for several days and many who at first laughed at the whole thing are now now coming into int the marke marked There Is isan an ancient custom under which the olives groves v g ov s around id Dan Damascus Damns Damas cus are g guarded ard d by official watchmen to prevent the trees being stripped by thieves But on a certain date the Gov Governor or or s some me magistrate te issues a proclamation warning warning all owners of olive olive tr trees es' es that they must pick their fruit for after a certain date It be be- becomes be becomes comes public property If a farmer has his crop only half gathered when that date arrives th the public will gather it for him Only one public official in the United States handles more money than the Comptroller of of New York Tork City and that that official is the Secretary of pf the Treasury The fhe government of Greater New York costs more every year than the combined expenses of the governments governments governments govern govern- ments of half a dozen States From the years year's beginning to the end the Comptroller Comptroller Comptroller Comp Comp- of the metropolis receives and disburses about six hundred million million- more than half a billion billion dollars The city of f Lorain 0 O. is to be the site of a steel tube plant The United States Steel corporation is behind the enterprise The City Coun- Coun gil of Lorain has agreed to appropriate for the purpose of widening a co- Black river and increasing harbor as far up a as present Lorain Lorain Lorain Lo Lo- Lo- Lo rain steel plant The new plant will It is said employ ploy men The works will vilt manufacture steel tubing only A Washington letter-carrier letter opened a letter box the- the theother other night stuck his hand In and then dashed madly down the street shouting A snake A him and stopped snake A A. policeman together they w went nt back to Investigate They looked Into into the box and saw that the supposed supposed snake coiled colled on top top of a bunch of letters was a fat string of sausages sausage A German Germai has just compiled complied a handy little book or of insults says the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Tribune ne The work worle contains two thousand five hundred Invectives which are classed under the headings of Insults for men Insults for wom women n Insults for either sex SEt insults for ch children chil l- l dren circa and collective Insults for syndicates syndicates syndi syndi- cates groups and corporations The publication of Andrew Carnegie's new book TIe The Empire of Business has been postponed to April The advance orders for the book have been SO go large that a a. second Impression of It ItIs ItIs itis Is already under way A gold plate v which Charles Bonaparte pawned ii In order to pay the tho traveling expenses o ot his hs son Napoleon to the military s school hool at Brienne has been placed In tie the town museum museu at Ajaccio A n nugget gf pure gold weighing sixty sixty- four ounces has been unearthed by a Chinese digger at Talbot Creek Georgetown Georgetown George George- town Queensland Corunna e. e expects to be visited shortly by the British channel fleet and a gal gala gali bull fight tight Is being organized In antic antici pation |