Show PICKINGS ft ru i auci R 0 pa tim THE people of great britain consume less tobacco per head than those of any other civilized country only twenty three ounces to the inhabitant tim THE german reichstag has voted to appropriate marks for the kaiser i wilhelm Wilh elra memorial the second installment of tho the fund has been ordered paid tue THE belgian government has decided to propose to the chamber of deputies to annex the congo free state to bellum belgium premier de burlet says the powers will not object baure raure is still reaching out for popularity in france lie ile has just paid a bill of for a quarter of 0 f a bottle of wine supplied to every soldier soll dier in the army with which to drink his health A to xing king ludwig 11 II of bavaria was erected some months ago go at burnau murnau but not paid for the committee in inelia charge char ge sent the bin bill for the deficit 1000 marks to the prince regent reg ent who paid it IT AT berne beme recently a husband and wife both russians took their degrees of doctor of philosophy at the same me time they were examined in adjoining rooms the professors going from one to the other lf L f a hungarian village recently a farmer tried to shoot his tenth wife and her father he explained that the previous nine wives had all consented to be divorced when he asked them but that this one had annoyed him by refusing owing to the injudicious advice of her father |