Show I BITS TS OF INFORMATION I Mlle Mile Monceaux has received tho the French Lifeboat society's highest honor bonor tho the Gabrielle le Ie Marie Mario arie prize The Tho presentation presentation pres pros took place in tho great hall ball of tho the in Paris at the last annual annual annu annu- al nl meeting nJ of the tho society Mile Mlle Monceaux Mon Mon- ceaux is only 10 la and received tho the award for the rescue of a little boy from drowning at Fighting j Bob Evans no DO lon longer er fi fighting but peaceful made mado the statement state state- ment meat soon Roon after his last leave from the tho fleet he be so BO successfully brou brought ht to its destination after tho the Ion long trip around South America that tho the straight shooting shooting shoot shoot- in ing made by the tho gunners under his command com corn mand had shattered all aU big biJ gun WIn records existent whether of the American British French German Japanese or any other navy A hu hugo huge o just installed in service service service ice on the Great Western railway of England is by far the tho lar largest est in in size sizo and weight ot of an any in that country Itis Itis It Itis is of the Pacific tn type e and is called The Tho Tho Great Bear I Unlike locomotives inthis in inthis inthis this country it is gaudily painted the tho body tender and wheels being green and the tho bumpers red Its name is IB is carried carried car car- car car- ried ned over tho the center driving wheels in in gilt letters The tender carries gallons Callons of water and six sir tons of coal The Tho fingers on the ri right ht hand of Kubelik are known to ho bo insured for 2000 and the tho total disablement of his hand would not net him A like liko sum covers dl digits whilo Hoffman the pianist carries on OD each of his bis fingers finers Patti until recently recent recent- I ly at least had on her and anti paid a staggering premium premium 12 for for each appearance Scrap Scrap Book While Whilo the Erio barge bare canal will cost about third one-third of the tho estimated es cs cost cost of the Panama canal the tho magnitude of tho the work exceeds that at Panama Tho The present Erie Eric canal is about miles long an and of this dis dig tanco tho the barge bargo canal follows tho the old route for only ony 24 per cent or ei eighty eighty- I four miles For tho the other othor odd miles tho the canal is laid out on what is practically cally eally another route following the rivers and lakes lake an old route of travel bywater by bywater bywater water which teas TOS 9 used by tho the pioneers who settled the tho western part of the state te Miss Lillian Smith captain of the Ladies Ladies Ladies' Ladies Ladies' La La- dies' dies Per Perseverance c Swimming club of Eu England land has just declared her intention intention intention I tion of trvin Irving to swim the tho En English lish channel luring during turin the present season Though she is is only IS 18 she has bas already I performed some Bome remarkable feats as a ai i swimmer She accompanied Jabez Jabe in ono one of his attempts to swim I the channel and remained in the water four ant and a a. half hours She is not the first woman to make the attempt Last year Annette Kellerman of Australia made d a valiant effort to reach Calais but failed Lecturing before tho the Association of Sur Surgeons cons of f Munich on II Narcotics I Prof Klein said sait that the process of I reducing the sensibilities of patients with a view to making operations painless painless painless pain pain- less was vas known and practiced in the middle ages Bishop of ira Cher wrote a 3 prescription for a pain destroyer in the twelfth century which contained opium morphine and ana A medical work printed in 1460 contains the first known treatise on inhalation and men now inject under the skin the sooth soothing D mixture which in 1460 was inhaled The women of Denmark are rejoicing over the granting of communal and municipal suffrage to them A delegation dele gation from the Danish National Suffrage Suf Sut- frage frago association waited upon the prime minister and the minister of the tho interior to present memorials thanking them for their efforts in behalf of their countrywomen At tho the public celebration celebration celebration tion both ministers delivered short speeches cOD congratulating tho the women on their victory Durin During the jubilee banquet banquet banquet ban ban- that night a telegram was sent Bent to the king who returned an answer expressing his good wishes for tho the results re ro- ro- ro suIts of the reform Among the older rank of San Franciscans Franciscans Franciscans Fran Fran- there is a citizen eminent in inthe inthe inthe the world of finance o and liberal enough in all large e ways who nevertheless ne is isa isn isa a n little near when it comes to tri tri- fles ties Recently ho camo came upon a crony loitering as if waiting for somebody near tho the entrance to a well known bar Hello Bob iob ob ho said Baid what are you doing here It was sas an opportunity Ion long desired and tho the gentleman addressed ad ad- dressed made mado the tho most of it Well John II he replied Im just waiting I around for somebody to como come alone alon and buy mo me a drink All All right was the reply Ill Ill I'll Ill I'll join you youl I It may be interesting to know that thata a Maine aine man Dlan suggested tho the now arrangement ar ar- ar- ar for the stars in tho the United States flag which will become effective on July 4 With the admission of Okla OkIa- homa it became necessary to place anew a now new star in tho the blue field of oi tho the flag This made necessary a rearrangement of the stars Charles CharlesA A. A Tallman U. U S. S N N. retired of Richmond made mado a six six- teen-inch teen fla flag in in which he mado made the tho arrangement ar an- and forwarded it to the state department as a suggestion The Tho state department nt referred tho the matter to tho the thona na navy department for that department ha has charge chargo of the flag A few days later Mr Tallman received a letter from tho the department informing him that his arrangement was the one which the tho department had had bad under consider consider- Since Sinco then it has been officially announced as the arrangement of the tho stars stars Journal p MISS J. l. l Clemens has como come to the conclusion that things thing's want a adjusting justin in this world Need eed I mention she Rhe writes that I refer to the tho glaring injustice in in- in-I in justice of if having ha to go about labeled Murk Mark 1 Twains wain's daughter when I am nm doin doing best to my pursue a musical career ca en- reer Father is of course a n genius genius- onius- onius and that is what makes me so 60 tired I have a mind to scour Europe for a secret secret se se- se- se cret hiding place she continues and and when I havo have found it to take to bed for say sa- a n couple of years years and arise arise n a ge- ge enius e e. e For Por tho the bed boa habit is is the recipe of fathers father's success While I have been tiring myself out in an endeavor to torise torise rise to tho the heights as anybody else's dau daughter ho hI has hns just lain W f tin n bed bel an and thought things thins and got ot out of bed bcd now and then to loaf around on a lecture tour or tramp lazily through Europe That's why I Im I'm m lookin looking for a really comfortable bet bed Genius is tho the art of f taking taking to to bed |