Show BITS OF INFO INFORMATION MATION Champagne has hu slightly tl more than 13 IZ per cent of alcohol Wireless ss ve weather ther reports are ent sent daily from rom Gibraltar to London Th The telephone telephone- Is now used for railroad purposes on miles of line The banana and the potato are lirE almost Identical d in chemical composition The impediment of stammering a is s ab o- o lufe ni A os unknown t among n uncivilized e races The ghen given name Thomas occurs on an average of thirty-nine thirty times In every ever everone one thousand Chocolate originated in Mexico and was Vas first forst Introduced into Europe by bJ the Spaniards in 1520 In the forest of lara spiders are arc are found whose hose webs can not be broken but re requIre require require re- re quire to be cut with a knIfe I Seaweeds are not nourished from the soil soli like other weeds but feed upon m tIl ma- ma i- i that abounds In all sea water For the convenience of travelers tra tea tell compressed in blocks IlIs like chewing tobacco to- to bacco sacco Is furnished by an English firm Bridges built of wires Ires twisted d Into cables so common In tn our day were vere un unknown unknown unknown un- un known prior prior- to the tile year jear E 1860 when wilen the they we were e Invented ln by ono one Richard rd l lee ee The common council u of New York in 1697 o ordered Jn the city I to be lighted at 1 night b by lanterns suspended from poles that projected from every seventh house To this lat late day wolves wolves' olve do a aast vat vast amount of damage In Russia The loss of the people in domestic animals through th the depredations of wolves amounts to every year rear In the South American forests is b found the tile most beautifully colored of all vultures viii- viii ul tures and It is the true kIn King over the black vultures and turkey buzzards His HIs' plumage Is of a delicate cream with bl black ick quills and the head is brilliantly colored with red and orange Several years ears ago ago the American consuls in China cautioned young men and women In the St Stats es ag t. t going there therewith therewith with the hope of securing clerical or org stenographic g fg c employment n Inquiries inquiries are again being r received f as to S such openings I and I It if i Is well to repe repeat t the caution Capt John with Ith the tile four muted masted schooner Transit arrived at Seattie Seattle Seattle Seat Seat- tle tie from the arctic with nes news that the I Kubak river hitherto believed to be a small arctic stream Is a mighty river navigable for fa at least Ie-ast miles from froni its mouth Seattle Seattle Times The nut locally in the tle Straits Settlements as the sink sink- I is to man manUfacture loll siami- siami lar to lard Is edible Th ar two crops crop a l year Jear one one large one Th large crop rop Is now finished and a pew crop will come coals In from tro March larch to June 1912 At t Paris Hill Hili is a little old office bUIldIng building building build bUIld- ing of tiny dimensions n nt net t more than fifteen fit fit- teen ten feet square where four governors o othe of the state of Maine have studied law la and some of them practiced These four I executives were A. 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P Pan Parris Is Hannihal Hanni Hanni- hal tal al Hamlin Israel hue Washburn ashburn soC and Sidney I Perham Kennebec Me re Journal Fully miles of roads on island are now novo open to the tile public arid aid can be 1 used ed by automobiles automobile The provincial government emment at a cost of nearly O has built a a. trunk road seventy seventy five fi mUM miles long and amid fourteen feet wide from Victoria to Alberni als also a scenic sut sixty mile drive rhe along Iong the peninsula Horse Hore bre breeding in Belgium especially in h heavy aJ draft horses increased consid The Tile business continues profitable profitable profitable profit profit- able the best stock commanding high higl prices There were ere horses exported export export- ed from BelgIum in 1910 an increase o of head over the previous pre year yeA The exportation of Bel Belgian ian horses for breeding breeding breed breed- ing purposes of the United Plates i in increased increased in- in aIg creased u 1 in value ih f from In to In 1910 A fakir has be been n In Danville Dan se d days Js He lie is telling tile the colored population Lion tion that hat the proper propel way aJ to cure tiem Is to tG boll a A. piece of brass kettle k ettlein in vinegar and drink the concentrated prep prep- Mr lr William Silliman h has s been swamp swamped d with colored citizens seeking to purchase parts arts of or brass bru kettles The fakir told them that no kind of bras brass except a piece from an old brass bras kettle would do Dan llIe Danville I Ky NY Advocate Collectors gather articles more 01 om less interesting but probably few w go In for SuC such bulk bulky objects as those chosen b by a distinguished Old doors doan are th the thet object of his desire deslie HI His doors com come from old houses house castles castlE's and abbeys of historical Interest Some time ago ao hI he ob ob- ob- ob tamed at considerable cost a door through which during the tile Fr French re revolution oll Marts Marie Antoinette Charlotte Corda Danton tanton and passed on their way a to the guillotine The Honolulu Bulletin anoum s that the Home Horns Industry League of or Hawaii 1 i Is starting starlin a movement emp In aid of or the merchant marine by Inducing shippers rs to divide ld l Ide their trans shipping shipping ship ship- ping anion amon amons American bottoms and othel wise Ise foster the patronage of vessels I n fl mg trig the American flag The Time journal also c tails lI attention to the tue quire in the Philippines foi for r. r direct steamship line between n Manila and the United United- States tate with Honolulu s as s the h half lf way aJ point Russian papers sport report that at the factor factory factory fac fac- tor tory known a as Jan Aerial keril Navigation there ha has just Jutt been UlI completed a itry In Int Interesting interesting In- In t tn type e of monoplane th the Invention Inen tion of a I peasant named Ch chott funds for the work having lt been en furnished d by bJ bythe bythe the millionaire koff of Samaria The Th new which has been worked out In detail b by an P P. V y koff I Is II said xo to pl possess automa automatic tic st et stability bil- bil ity both boll len lengthwise and crosswise and I is hi equipped with a an art n Atom Astor motor of fifty The use Ue of ot esparto gias is gradually diminishing I In years gone bv by J. J it wa was nJ pe used for paper making before I it was s supplanted supplanted sup sup- planted by wood IOd Another service Is hi performed per pei- formed wa was as all a tobacco pipe cleaner According to a 1 consular leport i the tIle district district dis- dis of gullas in Spain shipped only I 11 1100 tI OS I tons ions in 1910 n as against tons In 1505 Th The price now b being paid Is so cl that hat It has baa ceased to be remunerative remu remu- e to collect tollet the crops crop in districts t which are ar distant from a shipping place Thousands of tons are being I left ft to wither on omi the lulls hills II where this useful use 11 raw materIel material for i apt apt- making grows growl london Standard I I It can be stated Mated with perfect truth that a lump of sugar may Y be be- turned t into I diamonds diamond Not 1 ull 11 the substance of or the sugar of course III enter Into the coin coin- I position of or the gem gain but nl lIly th Ill carbon that it contains Suai Suai- consists of cat cat- hou hOIl united with o tn and arid hydrogen The carbon rhon i- i in lIn n n tie e d l' d and andIn andin In certain experiment for fr the production of diamonds this sugar carbon his has been 1 The so produced were wrE of course e very try small mall and destItute of or ial Ill l but still they ai RI arc u al 1 diamonds and 1111 the chemical result pd athie 0 be bl no Or ater I I Iv If it they v ia ad He Uita as tn toe l t Koli-t- ii n. n in 01 II |