Show I BITS OF INFORMATION TWill II Only 5 eveir metals metal were known In th thay the th days ay of ot Colum Columbus us There nrc now nov unon un- un on 3 In tHc UKO Th government o nt of or makes IP special rial cial Inducement e t to lm f farmers who ho will re reclaim re- re claim waste lands and mal make o use iso of or them American Hour flour Is welcomed In the Netherlands Neth Neth- erlands Orlanda because use of or It Its peculiar value alue for lor making in conn connection wl h tho homo hom milled mille oft nt wheat heat noun Hours with t which It Jt J i la Mended h hy tho bakers Gin can J i IK still HUll used as ns a A. medium um of ex- ex change i In some sonic parts pInts of tho the NIJ Niger r countr country country coun coun- tr try In ii Africa hut thu government discourages dis dis- It Owing to tim tho extreme conservatism ron con In th these e districts tho ho task Is 13 difficult 1 Tho The department of or agriculture an and commerce COIn COIn- merce meree In Ja Japan n Is being prevailed upon to grant a a. sparrow destroying subsidy ld as S in t some pome parts of or this thin district thA tho English English Eng Eng- lish sparrow Is 18 bOC a 0 pest having devoured tho ho Lice crop A of ot of variety verses YeRes Improved quality ha have ve reached the Municipal Suffrage league ague of or Chicago in fri the IuD prize contest contest con con- test offered for tho best beat battle battlo hymn hymi to bo be used III In Urn tho women's cause A feature rca fea ture turo of ot tile the offering is a preponderance of or women writers FIre In a Chicago barn has hM ruined mined a n collection collection col cal lection of or negatives of or ne newsboys I with which tho thu owner had won several gold me medals The rhe owner had spent many years ears gathering the newsboy negatives the types t-pes being those thoo of ot nc newsboys of or al almost al- al J most ocr every overy countr country in tho the world I Prominent actors and musicians In Berlin Berlin Ber Ber- lin un have been een engaged for the lie shadow theater which will soon noon be o opened it In that hat elt city It Jt will be bo conducted according to the prospectus that has been beon be n printed as th the tue In Munich and anda a a. similar of ot amusement in Paris At a meeting of ot tho the Sparrow Sparrow Sparrow Spar Spar- row club It was stated that during this y year ar 1915 old birds 2807 2801 young birds anc and 1 CJ eggs S had been destroyed a a. total of ot The local farmers pay a voluntary rule rate based on acreage from which payments pay pay- ments monts a arc made mado for tor birds bird and eggs de do- do London London Standard Ion Long before women's newspapers were started and fashion plates plaes In their modern modern mod nod ern cry form were thought ht of or women derived their knowledge e of or tho the fashions from dolls dressed ed In modern costumes which were sent from ono country to another more fp especially from Paris th n as no now tI the c leading center of or the mode In a 1 paper read before the Society ol ot Naval Architects and Marine Engineers Henry Penton states th that t tho oldest Iron ship In th the ho world worl Is the tho United States Michigan the tho material for lor who whose a al construction l was wa dragged ra e. e across o th the I mountains from Pittsburg to Lake Erie sixty six years rear ago Th The announcement that tho the Japanese arc are about to open the th railway which they thc have hac built in Formosa Is tho the latest evidence evi cI dence of the tho good work which the they arc RIO doing oln In the thc Island which was wa acquired in 1593 at tho the close of or the war with China At the time of ot tho the transfer two sixty miles of the road line was completed It IL now covers rovers a 11 total of ot miles and Japin has built tim the additional miles at nearly nearh less than tho the estimates Dante 1 is held responsible for tho the ex- ex painting the thc to town n red In bin Divine COOled Comedy Danto led b by Virgil comes come to lo the cavernous depths of or the tue place ilace place swept IJ by a R. ml mighty ht wind where those aro are confined who have been lIeen tho the thor r fC y of or their passions Two faces arise from rom the the mist the faces of or Francesca and Paola faola Who a are ae e ye e cries crieR Dante In alarm and Francesca replies sadly Vvo Wo are ire those tholo who ho have painted d the world red with our sins Massachusetts Massachusetts' state board of health has lIas tas issued a bulletin on oil cold storage poultry poul- poul tr try ry In which this advice Is Js given to housekeepers house house- keepers In fn order to avoid obtaining water waterlogged 1 and refrozen fowls rowls the consumer consumer con con- sumer should demand tho the frozen bird bh and thaw haw It himself If It thawed quickly b by Immersion in u a bucket of or hot water it Inti nay may be eaten eaton with impunity and with relIsh rel- rel Ish sh the same sarno day da- daIt it In Is purchased or or If it hung overnight at room temperature It may be ready for use uso tho the da day following Farrants Farrant's liquor for tho the preservation of ot vegetable or organisms consists of ot thirty thirty- lIve Ive parts pl of or distilled water in which while boiling 01 part of or white arsenic Is IF din dis solved cd The cooled fluid i Is mixed with an equal oqual part by weight of ot glycerine and nd In I is dissolved the same quantity by weight of or gum m arabic arable In this fluid the tho most ost delicate plant or organizations are arc pro- pro served admirably and in Iii addition It Is not liable to evaporation which In hot countries is of or great grent value It Is Js poisonous of or course When hen tho Essex county board boar of or super super- last year r passed a resolution In lug ng a bount bounty or ot 25 cents on hedgehogs s killed In the tho county there thoro wore were some who claimed that there thero not many of or these heso timber and produce destroying animals animals animals ani ani- mals In the count county Tho committee on bounties rt reports that hedgehogs hat had been killed In tho the various towns At 2 23 25 cents each o this brings the total amount paid ald in bounties on the these o animals alono alone up to 90 5 and this amount will III ihl undoubtedly un un- be Increased a little by claims that hat will Ill be presented at tho the December N. N Y Observer Some particulars aro are given In the BritIsh British Brit- Brit Ish sh Medical Journal of ot a proposal to pro- pro ride Ida an nn ocean sanitarium for tor tuberculosis The rho s l suggestion is to fit up a sailing ship of about 2000 tons for not Dot fewer than fifty patients each ach to be provided with a lar large c cund und and well ventilated l cabin The Tho deck would bo be u used od for what Is s common commonly called th the veranda cranda treatment The Intention of ot the promoters Is Js that the ship shall eh all cruise cruls Inthe in inho ho tho neighborhood of ot the Canaries hero heroIt It t will have the advantage of ot the trade winds and of or an equable ul climate while bIle a aport port ort will not be far distant In case ease of or bad ad weather In Jn tho the singular experience reported ported to toa toa a Paris medical society hy by Drs Die aul and a n. man and his wife were taken with within a a. few tew hours ot of f each other and the disease ran an art al almost almost al- al most roost identical course e in each case Their Illness begun began on a da day In Juno June following one ne op which they cold water from rom a a. well One could not have havo taken the he disease ase from the other as M is II usual in I family epidemics and common unfavorable surroundings could hard hardly I have ha had a simultaneous effect That pneumonia Borms gorins from the tho well water Inoculated tho the patients seemed to be the only conclusion |