Show BITS BITS BITS' OF INFORMATION N The first birdman's mop map has hu appeared In Paris Parts V Missouri rallied raised O worth orth of cottOn totton cot tot ton In mt 1310 V V nuI ba lU liss t th the e fewest physicians of an an- an civilized 1 c country Fish ot oil Jut produced by boiling and pre pressing sardines Public Public baths for dos dogs hare haxe been opened at Munich G Germany Garman V The total oil product t of the United States In 1310 1010 was 88 barrels On a a. third of an all acre re of land Ind II a Mis MIll Missouri lIo rl bo boy r raIsed rained In Iii one season allon a crop rop ot of street lIt eel p peas as 81 that sold fOld for tO The H of L Lyons In e. France Is III Isto Isto to have a 1 model hospital wIth Ith all the latest equipment and 1300 b beds ds for Cor the care cue of ot the sick Karl Earl Early next year par for fo the first time Manila Ma ra oils nila will ill be Included among th the of call of the North German Lloyd a bast lt I Asiatic o steamers The Island of O on cylon lon has hu nult IheI the I wholesale prou production of of tea and d Is III plantIng planting plant plant- ing rubber instead because the latter laller Is found to b bis be more profitable V During the th first six Ix ix of Ihl this year ear earth th the Brazilian government nt distributed six fix one ty-one tiu 1 of seed limon amone a farmers rl and and ana Institutions besides a number of ot books booss containing advice V The countess of has devised a II new M way v fr for lr r the tho delivery lver of letters toU to the U at her r house u parties U thi this thiu u Instead Int or of hiving having vrn all letters placed on on- the table as ra re usual t 4 t country houses she fOh he h has had large colored col col- ored ord elopes envelop made e nd labeled with the names of her guests Aviators are popularly popular supposed to be bemen bemen men omen o of Iron nerve and perfect ct physical con condition Tet Tot the time great grut was 91 rejected for flur military service on account of physical shortcomings and a a. special arrangement has had to 10 be made mad by hY which his services ser as all an aviator a might be utilized the French maneuver maneuvers Tn In north Japan Is s an enormous heathen temple the timbers rs o of which were hauled haule from the mountains mountain and put In place with th ropes ropeR made mado from the hair of th women of the province From these tresses which were wert brought forth by ly an ant edict t two ropes rones S were made one made one seventeen seventeen seven seven- h Jr teen inches l In iou and 1400 feet In length while the other was liS eleven Inches around and 2600 feet Ion long I At t Dublin a a. large fare crowd witnessed sed a ten-mile ten race on a grass track between Michael trotting mare Kathleen and I K Fagan the pedestrian Fagan Pagan re reI received ye re- e eighteen minutes n 8 allowance end and I covered d de three end miles one f furlong II nf In that time He was wu cau caught TOO yards from the tape laps and beaten by hy yar yards Js In London Dally Daily Mall Mail I V In the time Culebra cut at Panama th time the workmen were ere surprised to 10 come upon two crocodiles crocOdile the nr t to be found In Central America for many generations Each was about fifteen feet fut long an and each had seven lIeven full sets of teeth on the upper and lower lowel Jaws Such Suell dental equipment is supposed to Indicate an age reaching into man many centuries Roth noth arc are now how on Of timely their way ay to the national museum museum mu mu- seum at Washington During DurIn August the topographic enl iii- of the toe 1 States geological sur survey V ray vey made fleM surveys UT of or square mlles miles over miles over er four million acres acres Ill In various parts of the country ranging rang from swamps to high mountain areas The surveys comprise actual map mal making on the time ground round and the p putting on the map of every natural and artificial feature In Its exact relative position as 80 It actually I exists In the area sune survey auney At Strassburg I saw a a. general leave barracks the sentries stood at attention I then when he hue had Imad passed on they both bothI at time the e same e time mimicked I I his s gait I 3 I which was ep p peculiar Tar behind lila his ba baI back back- sentries mind you ou I 1 have also seen I street boys in Germany mock moel time the paI pa- pa I of troopers when an officer passed panned b by and the tIme troopers grinned broadly broad and the officer saw law but said naught Such eh militarism anti I. I Is ha unthinKable unthinkable un- un r tle sl tr thinKable in France London London n T Tele I graph Thousands of men In England earn their living during a II considerable poi Wl lion of the year Ear by their ability to t walk and work on tall stilts Most o of timm are employed ed in the hop fields o of Kent and other districts wh where re r the they have bae displaced displaced dis ills placed the high stepladders formerly In use During the pole pol stringing season eason the time stilt sUIt walkers I twelve feet from flom the time ground perform the tIme work with ease and without lots loss of time or motion A trained tm will do the work O of four or 6 01 He five men n working r g with stepladders Edward F. F Crokers Croker's statement statement before beroe beforetIme the tIme state factory Investigators that timed tho the reason there were so few fires In department de de- de- de stores was that department store workers were ere forbidden to carry matches matchel while In the tile store was borne out today by the managements of several se sev eral oral o of the the leading stores Never bring a a. match into tile the store is one or Of of first things a a. boy bov learns learn in this business said a a. man oman who had been in the business bustness bust busi ness man many years ears It Is III not a rule In any store so ISO far as liS I know It U Is simply slum sim ply b a 11 a custom When I first went to work under A. A T. T Stewart I 1 learned not notto notto notto to carry matches and I never have done doneso so to this day New day New York Post rost V I The Thep p of or a a. paint factory es- es ed at Tacoma offered an ingenious scheme to boosters Rod Red paint was I to tobe tobe tobe be given gratis goat or at a merely mereb nominal price to enthusiastic citizens of Tacoma who ho were to go about the tle country and inscribe Boost Tacoma Tacoma th the emporium of or the Earth and other appropriate appropriate appropriate ap ap- ap- ap legends on all aU available a and accessible spots the they could find For Foi a time the plan a mot met e with h hof of great success T especially in nth the hands landa a of the j Juvenile part of ot the time community until one fine fineday fineday day the tue amateur sign sl painters Inscribed Tacoma on the hides of a herd of cattIe cattle cattle cat cat- tle tIe belonging to a Spokane man who promptly brought action atIo causing ca a a. marked decline of feal teal in this direction Time The The Strand This Is th the way ay they do 60 it in Europe 5 soubrette whose stage name Is ha Ann Dickens was mi-as playing plan at the theatre III In Vienna last April At t the tIme the same time limp a comedian with the tIme prosaic name Muller Iu was as also Abo n R member of the company compan Muller and antI Dickens had several sev sev- eral Cral ral word ord bAttles after fter one of which the comedian was met at the time stage door dool b by a young oun officer who rho was wan a friend of the soubrette and soundly thrashed Ann was wan promptly discharged and boy boy- I totted rotted b by the Association o of Austrian Actors which has now accord according In t to j Its published l statement formally withdrawn withdrawn withdrawn with with- I drawn its Its Its' boycott bocott having ha been assured that JJ the h honorable r apology offered e to O the tho I ItIer comedian was wai satisfactory a and made d OC C further fur fur- tIer ther drastic measures unnecessary Time The o of Wisconsin has Just I established a course for or bile pI health of of of- Seers fers The TIle course cO Is open to those who hold lold a degree In medicine or I sanitary science and who ho desire to fit tot themselves for or public health work Th The course ex extends fOX fOX- tends OVer o one year ear and lea leads s to a R 01 JI I iloma In public health The work orl of Ithe he the course coune is devoted largely to the study studs of bacteriology and practical field work worl In n the use or of disinfectants the Inspection of slaughter houses schools school factories fl R I and ana I I but it also Includes physiology ogy z zoology Y meteorology h public bath administration and microcopy micro mIcro- copy ns nil far as It applies to the exam exam- i i I nation of foods and drugs drus The Time cours In meteorology IV ij h given for Cor the purpose of determining to what t extent weather conditions ons affect public health I |