Show BITS OF INFORMATION The he ab absinthe inthe c consumption of France Franceis is increasing Honduras In-Honduras even the meanest houses are aro built of mahogany Corn I b our greatest crop that of 1908 boing valued at Nine Nitie days' days sickness per annum is the aVera average e for t tho o human bein being The The highest track laying record on the Western Pacific railway is feet a day It has been estimated that rats in England Klaud d do damage to the extent of 7 annually The fi figures res of the London police courts show a very decided increase durin during recen recent years in serio serious crime The salmon output of Alaska equals the combined catch of British Columbia the United States proper and Japan Tho The greatest cotton crop in the United States of 1908 which on the farm was valued at Irvine King KinK of Grovetown Ga has a turkey gobbler sitting on on about five dozen c eggs s three dozen of which are guinea e eggs gs Cats are subject to a Ii form of influenza enza which is communicable to human beings and they can catch it from man just as readily Cigar boxes of glass lass are coming more and more into use They are cheaper than the wooden bOX boxes S and keep the ci cigars ars fresh a longer time Of 91 the ei eighty eight eight millions of population population lation of tho the United States third one speaking in round numbers are found in in the thirteen original states The Tho amount of blast furnace gas g-as power lost each year approximates 2 horsepower alth although this is being being- reduced by the tho installation of gas en engines ines to utilize the power Durin During the fall faU and winter season of 1908 1908 09 09 which ended March 21 persons perished by shipwreck and ei nine eighty vessels met with disaster off the New Now En England land and British North American coasts a Chinese physician who lived in in the third century gave ave his p patients a preparation of hemp whereby they were rendered insensible e during surgical surgical cal operations The Tho soporific effects pf mandrake are mentioned by Shake Shake- speare In 1839 Velpeau one of the tho greatest sur surgeons eons of his time wrote as follows The The escape from pain in s surgical r ical Operations Operations Op Op- Op- Op orations is a chimera which it is idle to follow o-follow up toda today Knife and pain paip in in sur surgery ery are two words which are are always alwa's inseparable in the minds of patients and this necessary association must must- be conceded There will shortly be opened in Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland Switz Switz- erland the Weiser viaduct on the route from Davos to Filisur It t is entirely constructed of stone at a hei height ht of 90 meters or 2921 2922 feet and has a central arch of 55 meters and six others each of f 20 meters the entire length of the brid bridge Dridge e being being- meters It is according accord accord- in ing ng to a Paris contemporary the most Beautiful bridge in the world The extension of prohibition h. throughout through through- out the United States has caused a largely increased demand for for soda indicated the demand demand denand de- de pop Dop as by great mand nand for bottles Two big biA factories at it the Alton Ill glass works have been seen working since last fall faB night and day manufacturing soda po pop bottles The prohibition wave has also caused a big increase in orders orders' for all kinds of lar large e bottles The institute of marine engineers eng in Lond LondOn jondOn n recently discussed the subject and H. H A. A Mavor Mayor of Glas Glasgow ow said sak that hat the prospect for electric propulsion for ships is very hopefuL Leading ship builders have been considering it t for or some time W. W P. P said that hat in the electric all Paragon method of in dri driving vessels the tho electric motors aro are c coupled uple dire direct t to the propellers a arid d drun run at equally high efficiency Y in either direction Since the tho steam turbine can run in only one direction the new method method meth- meth od d saves the expense of a reversible turbine urbine A minor drawback connected with the use of the electric flatiron has been found in the fact that the temperature varied considerably as it passed from one piece of f work to another containing contain contain- ing ng more or less moisture This has now been een overcome b by an automatic means of control by which the tho temperature is maintained at one point within a II frac frac- tion ion of a degree When the flatiron is isn in n use a large amount of current is permitted permitted permitted per per- to pass through the heating coils but whenever the heat rises rise unduly a switch witch automatically introduces the re- re istance necessary to cut down the current cur cur- rent ent In an article on bees andants by Gason Gaston Gas Gas- ton on Bouwer in the Revue the he writer contends that these insects carry arry carryon on conversation a among ong themselves them them- selves elves and that while this is done by means of their feelers they are not entirely entirely en- en irely dependent upon them A A whole colony says Mr Ir Bouwer in an anthous ant- ant house hous IOU or a beehive often responds instantaneously in- in tant to a signal si n l which may a. a I lave bave been given iven contact ji n is interesting to see an ant laborer for whom a burden is too heavy go o to a fellow ellow make mako a a. sl sign n or give ive a 0 certain touch ouch with his feeler and then see the second insect joint the first in lifting Jilting or r moving tho the object When youre you're in doubt about a aman's amans amans aman's amans aman's mans man's title said General Jared A A. Smith U. U S. S A. A than whom there is no better authority on the subject of tary ary courtesy try him with a title hi higher her than you think he be is entitled to If C you overshoot the mark ho he will invariably in in- variably correct you but no matter how tow often you miscall his rank by failing fail fail- in ing ng to extend to him the tho courtesy 0 ol of the he title which is his bis own he will never neverfail neverfail fail ail to answer thus offsetting your bad manners by his politeness Remember that hat its it's the height of bad had manners to call all your medical friends Doc or even Doctor unless you add aad the name to the he title Cleveland Leader Chief En Engineer neer Burgess of the Honduras Honduras Hon- Hon duras uras National railway giving advice to engineers working in the tropics says emphatically Dont get g-et lost He lie adds that a n m man n should no more thai of going oin into I a tropical tropics forest lorest l la a compass than of going goin alone tO tot i. i without one Without a n compass compass' has bas no way of getting stettin his direction IT ITa a few minutes he lie is turned round Th sun can only be seen if at all directly overhead There is no in mB mos g gon on the trees to serve for lor a guide Dis tant elevations or mountains s if U jan exist cannot be seen on Of the density of the forest Even On thi treeless llanos lIanos of South America where ere the mountains are too distant t be seen the compass is the only e can tell the direction of east at sunrise and sunset but in the J id l die of the day the sun is asla ash guide because it is almost directly overhead and often one m may y the tho sha shadow ow of his own hat Yon bat hat Youth i h Companion |