Show INFORMATION N BITS OF Egypt needs needs' American windmills s for its Irrigation enterprises Russians pocketed last year from exports of butter The value of bathrooms Is I. receiving ing cx- cx x- x tended recognition In Mediterranean countries In France the persons parsons who are e m- m ri ri PI in the h cultivation n of the vine vino number It Jt has bul been en estimated that the eye of ofa n It fly can discern an an object one mil of ot an Inch In diameter More alone than one halt of the tho worlds world's miles 8 of at railroads are In North America Amer Amer- ica ira and more than third one-third In Iii Europe The production of ot ber beer In Russia has increased In the tho la last t decade nearly four times a lI as rapidly as the consumption Aerial propellers driven by engines are being In France as asman means man of ot propulsion l for r canal boats With only three thren horses hone to every persons Switzerland has the smallest e equine population of any country Pennsylvania's record breaking oat coat production last YI year r was wall nearly neatly one one ruin of ot nil all the coal mined In the world in intha that tha t period To this late day dRY wolves do a. a vast ast amount of damage In Russia The loss lossIn lossin In domestic animals amounts to every year ear S According to a It French investigator the chance chanco of mistake In Identification b by I means of ot finger prints Is about one In seventeen enteen l n. n 1 Potatoes and rice are cheaper In London London London Lon Lon- don now than they were In 1900 1500 but almost al almost at- at most every other article of ot diet now costs S a great more morer than then Fifteen years ago Moscow started a a. city pawnshop Since then it be has hu lent more than on nearly nearl articles articles arti anti cles nice left In p wn S Norwalk In liv Connecticut derived Its name from the Indian custom of ot measurIng measuring ing tog distance The land purchased from which to stand extended extended ex ex- them on the city was I tended sea northward ono one days day's walk S SAn An ancient mariner and ind nd fisherman says ays he hewell well elt renumbers when the dried skin of the dogfish Va used for paper and good J sharp cutting stuff It was too Tho The old ld salt further sars there are ar many sorts of or imitation dried c cod d on the market manket mar man ket keto and that the tail tall of ot a young dogfish is fine fried New fried New York Press Although the United States has the smallest foreign going merchant marine in the world it possesses the most perfectly perfectly per per- equipped and elaborate lighthouse service to be found on any coast line During the last half naif century this service has cost and Its maintenance calls for the appropriation of ot about 7 1 annually Front Royal Roal Is the name o of a a. town in Warren county Virginia At first It boro bore the title Royal Ro al Oak of at an im immense Immense Immense Im- Im mense tree upon its commons commons- One day the colonel of militia became confused contused while drilling his troops and gave his regiment regiment reg reg- the queer command Front the Royal Such Suc is the origin of the modern name given In a bulletin of ot the geological cal survey S Wh When n parents have an only child It seems to get as much attention as six or 01 eight children in a large family Some statistics show that out of ot a a. hundred only children seven eighty-seven were nervous ner ncr vou and eighteen of at them had severe nervous trouble the girls IrIs suffering worse than the boys bos And then the statisticians say the only child hll 1 lacks self reliance Is precocious vain and unsociable is often of ten extremely timid being afraid of ot dark darkrooms darkrooms darkrooms rooms and of sleeping alone An elderly lad lady herself herselt an artist and anda a a. great lover of ot children set the fashion the legs could retain retain their their hold of a di dron She would watch the peasants that came to Munich from the provinces on Sundays Sunda-s and copy the costumes as aswell aswell we well as the faces aces o of the children The lifelike figures attracted the attention of the tho empress of Germany three years ago anti and she e made Christmas h S presents of the theto them ch un g 1 to the children e of the royal household e Factories now all 1111 over the world eagerly await awat new models of ot peasant life and dress from the tho ot M Munich Last week eek a native servant ant brought me mea a a. beetle which he was as carrying by Its feelers while the-beetle the was carrying carrying carrying carry carry- ing a a. stone atone weighing nearl nearly half halt a a. pound but how Jiow ow the the feelers could stand the the- strain the bee beetle was was c carried In this fashion for about forty arty yards ards and how the legs could retain their hold of a a. heavy stone which they could not en encompass encompass en- en compass I cannot conceive The length of the b beetle was two and one one fourth inches its feelers three inches and It weighed one and one-fourth one ounces only while the stone weighed six arid and three tm fourths ounces measured Inches and was seven inches in circumference Bengal News Few odors are more unpleasant than that of stale tobacco smoke the smoke the trail o of ofa ofa a cigar for some reason being worse than the stuffy sturry odor Of dt a pipe Ordinary ventilation ven yen fails falls t to cleanse the curtains and other drapery of the den Place a a. large basin tr tor ir small arnall tub In the center of the room and fill the receptacle with ith water Put a a. few handfuls of straw In the Water water water wa wa- ter leaving the straw partly in the water water wa wa- ter ten and partly out Close the room up tightly If It this is done over night the room will be sweet and the air all odorless by morning The straw water appears to absorb the the- impurities of the air According to the Railway Gazette the Russian government has recently been In Investigating in- in very closely the the working of tim thE steam ferry between Germany and Sweden and the St. St Petersburg papers are speculating on what is the ultimate purpose It is known that the Russian board of ot trade proposes to extend the tile state railway from from- Royal Into the In Interior tn- tn tenor so 50 as to bring the Siberian trains direct to that port and it is generally assumEd assumed as as- that the government proposes to develop a big transit traffic via the SwedISh Swedish Swed Swed- ish state railways RYs to Denmark and England England Eng Eng- land land- The Gazette also states that Russia Rus Rus- sia ala Intends to follow the example of ot other states respecting the electrification of railways Australian scientists headed by Dr Douglas Mawson are preparing for tor a south polar expedition the purpose of which is mainly to e explore the long n stretch t e of p coast known Ii as V. V Wilkes likes land lying l between between be be- tween Cape Adare and Kaiser Wilhelm II H. land Several parties will wll willbe willbe be landed at various points The graduates graduates graduates ates of the Universities of Australia and New Zealand and evet every member ot of the theland theland land parties will wlM De be e a specialist i in some shi sS' sS h branch ar of Vec science e A visit to the south magnetic pole is part of or the program From a a. geographical point of view of-view law s-law this I undertaking appears app ars likely to yield the most interesting results of any of ot tho the antI antarctic antarctic ant ant- arctic expeditions now projected or in the tho I field Louis Carre in England has invented a process for the artificial production of wood from straw or dried grass It is proposed prop to use the wood only In the manufacture of matches for which purIt purpose pur- pur pose it is said to be cheaper than natural wood The straw Is passed through thi-ough crushing rolls and then through cylindrical cal eal cutters which divide It Into Into- strips Afterward supplied with 1 an adhesive Ih the strips on top and bottom with I layers myers of paper are passed between other rolls toils and through linked m molds in th the tho form of a chain a where tt they ar are subjected i i to pressure I s r and 1 i heat from which i they issue In the form of ot round splints which I are tHe then them cut Into tho proper propel length for matches Scientific American |