Show BITS OF INFORMATION A greatly increased consumption of ol peanuts In Germany Is reported The total area under cotton in Indic amounts to nearly acres Chile ChUe is supposed to come from tile the word which In the I-he ancient language ol of ot Peru meant snow The corner comer of Wall and Water streets New York was walt the ther theone one one- public r place for foi forthe the selling of ot slaves slaves' back in 1731 The northwest corner Is Is- the site A young officer r who who- was drilling the th awkward awkward- squad delivered himself himself- of ot thIs command Now my men listen to me I say Halt put the foot that's on the ground beside the thc theone one that's inthe in to Inthe the air and remain motionless The study of ot animal behavior which isnow is isnow Isnow now now- being so vigorously pursued in America by our out great field naturalists win wilL provide perhaps the most likely channel along which which- the thEl main mainstream stream ol ot advance will be be- made mada toward the fuller comprehension of t the mysteries oC ot mental men men- tat tal life L L Lancet e It Is Is- said of the author authol of ot a a. recent volume of biography that his hla verdict on the great of ot his chosen period is much like that ot of the ther New Hampshire parson at the th highly approved funeral of ot a a. parishioner parishioner parishioner par par- Brethren we must agree that our dece deceased seit sed friend was mean in some things things but but let us in Christian charity allow that he he- was meaner in others It i lit is possible that the worlds world's future supply of paper pulp will be derived from the bamboo forests of the tropics instead of ot bel being from the forests of th the temperate zones Successful experiments have have- been made in Japan pointing in that direction A company has s obtained at III perpetual lease of acres cres of bamboo bam barn 1 boo oo forest In Formosa enough to provId provide pro pro- vide vId tons a a. month Among the patients In a certain hospital hos hos- pital of Harrisburg b t there e was a recently e n g i ni one disposed 0 to take e a dark r view e of his chances for or recovery Cheer up old man admonished the youthful medico attached to the ward wherein the patient lay Uy Your Tour symptoms are Identical with those those- of ot my my own case se four tour years ago Iwas I Iwas was Just as sick all at you yuu are Look at atthe the me now The patient ran his eyes over the stalwart frame What doctor did did you have he he finally asked feebly In all of the United States an American Amen Ameri can cart woman forfeits her rights as an American citizen when she she- marries marries- a citizen of another country and this though she continues to live live- In the United States and to to- carry on her occupation Just as as' before A noted example of or this Is Harriet Stanton Blatch Elizabeth Cady Stanton's brilliant daughter By her marriage to an Englishman she has forfeited her American citizenship hough though she has lived and worked In IIi the United States constantly since her mar mar- Privilege Is a word that has both broadened and narrowed In English use Its original Latin meaning was a law In favor commonly of or ol against r rs him bins l an J Nowadays individual i i privilege privilege more 7 liege Is 18 never used as ae meaning anything to the disadvantage of a e. man or class On the other otheO hand the the- wo word is loosely used in all aU sorts of ot ways The old Gloucester shire woman In Sir Mountstuart Grant Duffs Duff's diary being assured that Solomon really regally had seven hundreds wives ex ex- claimed Lor mum What privileges them them- early Christians hadl Interesting remains of Viking rule be believed believed believed be- be to be the first of their kind in Brittany have Just been discovered at Port Maria Manta on the southern Breton coast It is an ancient Viking b burial uc a i ship such as were re set afire acre in the days of old and sent adrift with a Norse chieftains chieftain's dead body on board Excavations rations of ot a a. tumulus known as at disclosed the remains of ot a halt half burned sloop thirty six feet long long- and eight feet teet wide containing bows arrows battle battle- axes bucklers and swords and anti gold sold and bronze ornaments a al of or which were badly bad bad- ly damaged by fire Charles Charlet Reades Reade's literary work was wa-a Sir Robert bert Anderson remarks a a. rare combination com corn of genius and plodding d I A brass t scuttle which stood by the tha fireplace I held the illustrated and other papers which reached him week by wee week From these he culled anything that took his fancy tanCY a nd the cuttings were thrown into a a. companion com corn panion scuttle to be d a fr ard ln Inserted d din in books and duly Indexed Materials Materials Mate Mate- rials tale scrap for tor lila his novels and plays were were- thus Supplied or suggested suggested- The accuracy accuracy- of ot othis his bis descriptions of events and places was phenomenal Westminster Westminster Gazette At a a. recent cent meeting at Lille of ot the French association of Science M M. Dor Dor- veau tra traded ed the history of what is 18 perhaps per per- the oldest known adulteration of ot haps hapa the tho adulteration of ot coffee cottee with rd of ot the gifted In Inventor Inventor inventor In- In chicory ry The name of this mixture Is unknown but after a long lone discussion the date of the In Invention Invention inVention In- In baa lIas' been fixed at 1690 when the Dutch practiced It U. It does not nol seem likely that William III IU brought It to En Eng Enc but Prussia adopted c chicory In 1768 1763 arid and l' l J the tha French French- 1 who did not f use i It till i 1171 have since then been more active tan ian an any other people In to spreading the Adulteration London London Globe The new Issue of the London directory provides some curiosities in names See Se- Se l Bach is a a- horse dealer Robert Robe Bruce and and- John Bunyan are ar green cere cers John Milton Is Is- Isa a chandler and Jar James g gro Boswell a mason William Shake Shakespeare eare is the name of ot a a- a barrister barrister- a a a- tailor and a van builder There is a Crusoe and andaI a Gulliver e Julius Caesar Caesar Ig alchemist e Li- Li LIvy 1 keeps p Homer e ig a lighter man Pindar Pinda an electrical an-electrical engineer Ma Maya Mars retails retana beet beer and Venus Venus- not ina Prop sugar candles candle Francis Bacon Isa ta Is an a architect and n Bayard Bayard- a dairyman eB ii I And d what could be better t for nato name of a saddler than Whippy New Whippy New York Sun Grippe was a first t described lb J ir In t n I 11 1173 since when there have been e mor o than on one hundred epidemics It first a ap pea Ted In the United States in iii 1677 and went all over th the western hemisphere The last epidemic started In I May a 1889 and reached i the th united States In itt the middle of December Its rate rat of ol m spread IB is exactly y as rapid as travel a. a Since 1889 there ha have b been g grippe p epi In most American cities cities' eVery y winter winter Just as there there- are many marty mile mild cases cases' of during during- deadly e epi pi l- l deml demies s of ot cholera so there are ara- arar r many n cases of ot bad colds in the head or PIPIne PIP Ine me false alse Influenza when true grippe grippe- is about New about New York Press The Th gre great t literary l losses losses- in England t to be placed to the account of ot 1909 were those of ot Meredith and John Davidson the poet of or Fleet street So So- dally chilly the losses losses- a 0 of the year h have hav ve b been those of the aged Lord Lel L the duchess learned S Lord of Marlborough r u of t Ht the n tOy Lily er duchess ot of Manchester and Montague Montagut Guest The political world orld has lost Lon Lor Ripon Lord Tweedmouth Lord Monks Monks- well and Sir A A. M M. Torrance in Its th the r business world two very rich rich- men died died- Sir Donald Currie whom every every- everyone one one- knew and Charles Morrison a. a a man man- whom whom- fe tew knew Journalism has lost Frederick Frederick- Greenwood wood and tradition has lost Pon Pony Moore |