Show BITS OF INFORMATION Sunlight is said to check influenza epi epi- epi- epi Th The Austrian war office has ordered two wo large dirigible ballo balloons ms for tor the army Every German army corps passels s six lt balloons for observation and signaling purposes There are electric lI lights in tho streets of ot the ancient city of Damascus Russia Is the largest producer produce r of barey bar bar- Icy ley ey Germany is second and the united States a close third Am American plows and cultivators are turnIng up the soil soli in more than seventy se countries and colonies As a general rule roots extend on each side of a tree to a a. dl distance tance equal to the tho height of the tree Itself The theory of ot gravitation wa advanced by Kepler in 1617 seventy years ears before Newton ewton announced his discovery An average orange tree produces OOOO oranges and an average lemon tree I lemons emons Illuminated signs are a feature of ot some of the subway cars In New York The I sign tells the name of the next stop More alore than acres of land have been reclaimed from front the sea by lIol- lIol I j land and since the sixteenth century Three million dollars will be sp spent nt In building a subway for electric cars under I the harbor at Sidney New South Wales Canton China Is the coldest place on the globe for tor Its latitude the one place In n the tropics where snow now occasionally I falls alls Italy each pach year ear uses 1860 tons of orange blossoms and nd 1000 tons of roses in iii inthe the manufacture of ot perfumery I Instructions in baby minding arc are given to the students of ot the London garden garden garden gar gar- den schools Babies are borrowed for tor the tho purpose In Prussia recently a burglar was convicted convicted con con- vl on the evidence of ot teeth marks inan inan In Inan an apple which he had bitten while engaged engaged engaged en en- In his thievery A Belgian pigeon trainer has been ex experImenting experimenting ex- ex with swallows In the of homing pigeons and says sas they have havethe havethe havethe the advantage of great speed Experiments are being made with aerial torpedoes in Germany The torpedoes are driven by electric motors and it Is ls hoped to control them by wireless The busiest spot In the world Is said to be bo In the vicinity of ot Mansion House London where thirty seven vehicles pass every minute during the day Nearly a year ear the city engineer reports is received from selling waste wastepaper wastepaper wastepaper paper collected In London and last year ear was derived from th the salo of tins found In the city's refuse refuse- At a recent convention of ot waiter alter girls in Munich It was resolved that efforts should be made to emancipate themselves from the fee system by Insisting on minimum minimum mini mini- mum wages In hotels and taverns of 75 10 cents to 1 a day Sir Joseph Jospph Dalton Hooker celebrated his second ninety-second birthday on June 30 Ills His scientific career began seventy years ago when he ho went out as surgeon and naturalist with Sir James Ross Ross' antarctic tic expedition The production of ot mica in this country for the last year was valued at a a. little littlemore littlemore littlemore more than a quarter of ofa a million dollars Nearly early all of this Is used in the electrical Industry as mica Is one of the best in insulating In In- materials known The volcanic Islands known as the Dog Islands of the Aleutian archipelago ago Alaska have been ordered set apart and reserved for the use of ot the department department department depart depart- ment of agriculture as aa a preserve and breeding ground for native birds Moonlight most intense sometimes causes sore eyes in Cuba and the natives natives natives na na- na- na tives navigate and perambulate with umbrella umbrella um urn- brella and This very obstinate obstinate nate affection Is cured by washing thecel the eyes cies with moonlight fallen dew so the Inimitable Frank Steinhart former consul consul consul con con- sul general to Cuba said No so strange a Joke and cure after all all for such dews dew have been found to be radioactive and ana electric New l New York Press During excavations con conducted near Willendorf mendorf on the Danube by the pie pie- historical section of the tho Austrian natural natural natural nat nat- ural history museum a a. chalk figurine eleven centimeter high has been discovered discovered dis Cia covered in a a. stratum containing Instruments Instruments ments and weapons characteristic of ot th the stone atone age Tho The figurine shows traces tracei of ot having been painted and represents a female figure with remarkable precision of artistic execution West Indian birds need to be cone conserved con con- served e according O I to Sir Harry JJ Johnston te tOG who writes write rl in the Geographies Geographical r Journal Birds rO form a very prominent element J still md In n Cuban ba and Jamaican g landscapes though unless strict meas mess measures measures ures urea be taken by the respective e governments govern govern- ments the trade in feathers and the rush ot of Ignorant slaughter loving tourists will soon eradicate this beautiful element In Antillean ute life The boisterous loud voice of the drunkard drunkard drunk drunk- ard usually comes come not from froni a desire to to bo bl loud and domineering as DS seems but from a very different and simple I cAuse The nerve of hearing bearing Is quickly affected b by alcohol so the poor hap chap I shouting only to hear himself ta tak tal for tor he lie Is sll slightly drunken deaf Deat Des Dead drunk n Is not only more euphonious euphonious bu buIs buis Wo t Is a truer description J c than ne blind drunk New New York Press Miss amiss Elizabeth of Milwaukee kee r recently gave the Young vom Women n Christian association of ot that ity 1000 Only a short time before she gave a 10 pine organ to the Milwaukee r and 1 several fe t years ar ago f II slid she added in t o othe the beauty of her home city ity y by havinga statue of George Washington ton erected I Ia ii iia In Ina a public square squar Miss Is IRla iO f thorough business woman with n knowledge of ot th the law to manage her larg lari property successfully 3 r |