Show BITS OF INFORMATION Originally made merely for ornamentation tion electric light shades now are designed designed designed de de- de- de signed along purely scientific lines to diffuse diffuse dif dif- dlf- dlf fuse tuse or er reflect the light with the greatest greatest greatest great great- est economy According to the United States geological cal survey men have been killed In our coal mines In the last seventeen years and nearly have been seriously seriously seri sert- Injured Seventeen species of shark some o of them twenty twenty five five feet In length Inhabit the far eastern seas while the basking shark of the Indian ocean frequently frequenCy attains attains attains at at- a length of fifty feet The rapid growth of mahogany Is shown In southern Nigeria where the site of a town destroyed sixty years ago has been covered with a forest containing mahogany mahogany mahogany ma ma- trees some of which are aie more than ten feet In diameter The Turkish government has prohibited the Importation of wines and beers containing containing con con- taming more than a certain proportion of alcohol lc and the importation p ta manufacture manufacture u r 31 tl ture and c consumption u of beverages a containing con con- taming alcohol not made from grapes or grape products S Ground has been broken for the great library building at the University of Chicago Chi cago which Is to serve as a memorial to the late President William Rainey Har Har- per The contract price Is and the building Is 13 to be completed by the summer of 1911 The structure will be berls by 00 90 feet fronting on the midway plaisance c Vienna is to have leave another novel International international International Inter Inter- InterI I national exposition to follow the hunt ex exhibition exhibition ex- ex for which arrangements have al already already already al- al ready been completed At the meeting of the Austrian Bee Culture association re recently re- re held in Vienna delegates representing representing I associations were present all aU j of whom voted In favor of Dr Mucks Muck's j proposition to take steps toward holding j jan an international exposition In 1911 HIll Chiang Kang-hu Kang an official In Pekin I has originated the National Disgrace society society so so- soI I clety which is designed to keep the Chinese people In mind of their national disgrace with a view to lo awakening and stimulating their desire to reform It is Intended to build a tower In which will willbe be exhibited relics or pictures of events and Incidents which have brought China l to her present t critical position It The railway commission of Canada af after atter at- at ter a hearing has decided not to recommend recommend recommend mend the running of freight trains without without with with- out brakemen on the tops of the bo box cars There was a demand that such uch a recommendation recommendation recommendation be tie m made made- In order older to make make- practicable the building of overhead bridges at a lower elevation and thus in some cases reduce the cost of putting In such bridges where needed for iCor or the abolition abo abe of level crossings The rapid elimination of the sailing vessel is shown by statistics recently given by a German paper In the twenty years between n 1888 and 1908 the percentage percent percent- age of sailing vessels has declined In the merchant marine of Great Britain from to of Germany from to of the United States from to 09 In the merchant marine matine of France however however how how- ever little change has occurred the re respective respective respective re- re percentage being and The pious wish lately expressed by Senator Jeff Davis that Mr l Rockefeller might be burnt eternally with his own oil recalls a petition presented to the United States congress In the early da days s 's of the Standard Oil company compan The petitioners prayer that a stop might be put to the Irreverent and Irreligious proceedIngs proceedings proceed proceed- ings of the trust In drawing such enormous enor enor- quantities of petroleum from the earth and thus checking the designs of the Almighty who had stored It there therewith therewith therewith with a view to the eventual destruction of the world An Interesting scene sa says s 's Harpers Harper's Weekly was recently witnessed on a skating lake near a western city White I spots resembling air all bubbles were noticed noticed no no- on the Ice and one of the skaters bored a hole into such a bubble and applied applied ap ap- ap- ap plied a match to it whereupon a a. flame burst out at the surface Further experiments experiments expert expert- ments showed that when a a. small smaIl hole hOle- was bored down to the bubble a long long- thin jet of flame could be obtained c which would last for a considerable time The bubbles were due to accumulations of marsh gas How many people who go to a music hall ball for an houi hours hour's s entertainment ever think of the clown as a father or the dancer as a mother I wondered writes a correspondent from London to toa to-a a Fr paper until I went to the school which Is conducted In connection with one of the music halls in this city I saw a class of sixteen little ones Including the fat boy from one of the shows re receiving re- re relying Instruction from a teacher who is employed for fot that purpose by the music music music mu mu- sic hall ball managers It would be well for the children If other places had similar Institutions because they receive the tho benefit only four weeks weeks that that t is tho the longest long long- est eat term which a pei performer former can secure an en engagement gement In a London variety house Many a fashion among French dandles dandies was set by tho the late Due Duc de father of Anna Goulds Gould's s present husband a Among n ru other h fashions was that of scoring a single eyeglass with a a very wide black ribbon a ribbon a practice followed for many years ears b by Parisians who wished to look smart In one respect however his most moat faithful admirers refused to follow the duke This was when he took to carrying carrying carrying car car- an umbrella on horseback He first indulged in this his eccentricity at a race meeting When a shower came down and the leader of fashion was seen to be holdIng holdIng holding hold- hold Ing an umbrella over o himself and his horse lorse the sensation was wa-s Immense No Noone Noone Noone one ventured to Imitate him hine however and ultimately he abandoned ned the 5 tice While making a long expedition through the northern Canadian wilderness wilderness wilder wilder- ness Inspector PElletier saw many strange sights Probably the most picturesque picturesque pic pie part of the Journey was the passa passage e across Artillery lake to the Height of Land Inspector Pelletier has this to say on the the event event Aided by the sails wo we were ere making good time UmE but were delayed by large numbers of deer 11 crossing at various points We Ve must have lave seen between and The hills on n both shores were covered with them and at a dozen or more mOle places where the lake was from a half to one mile mlle wide solid columns of deer four or I five ive abreast were swimming across and andeo eo so closely that we did ld not like to venture through them thew for fear of g getting Into some |