Show BITS OF INFORMATION The art of manufacturing nails by machinery ma ma- chin chinery TV was as first practiced in li 1790 ilO The manufacture of 01 sugar from starch tarch was first begun at S St St. Petersburg Russia Runta In n the year ear 1811 Cloth is 15 now woven wo from a species of seaweed Its fibres may be spun into threads like c cotton Up to date the motor vehicles that have been registered by the London county council number more than Kangaroos are are great feeders f eders Within a given time one of them will eat as much muchas as half halt a dozen sheep would consume The most moat famous bridge in the world the he Bridge of Sighs at Venice so called because it led hed the way to a a. prison was built in A preliminary report gives the produce production production tion i of f primary I refined lead head in the United f States e In 1910 as short tons 0 or tons more than in 1903 1909 and nd the 1903 production was a record output tons ons O Of or the young oung women who ho attend Oberlin Ober- Ober lie lin college twenty six support themselves entirely And four fifty do Sl so In p put part rt Some tender render slight alight domestic service others others oth oth- ers era clerk in tn stores on Saturdays s and so 10 o on There are men in this world orld who ho will run miles in any weather to avoid talking to a woman who knows knos more more- than tiey tey do and knows s it and shows that she knows that she knows it by Henry Sydnor Harrison Harmon There are some publications which pride themselves on the peculiarity of their spelling The Revue des das Deux- Deux still clings to the orthography current at time of 01 Its foundation oa o over or overa r a century ago ago In It its II pages savants al alays always always al- al ways ays figure as savans avans and documents as Tho The Times too IDo Invariably invariably In- In variably spells thus and the Edinburgh Review insists on slipping a superfluous e Into Development London Condon Chronicle once sold a to tort rt Art et Critique for tor 5 S francs mon money dow down Nei Next t da day he ha returned to the editor and complained complained com corn that he bad been given ghen a bad badI I franc 5 piece The This editor instantly gave him lim a II fresh one and then discreetly de df demanded demanded de- de the bad coin com Monsieur sad ad Verlaine departing I 1 have passed it but butI I J assure assure you ou I had considerable difficulty difficult In n doing so soS soS' The The Last Days of Paul by F. 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A and Gustave ie e Rouge louge i I Canon William Hector Lyon Lon who on Thursday night at Sherborne had the distinction of ot being born In his own church The canon was as SI St years ears of age and for o forty years was the vicar Icar r of Sherborne Slier Sher rat i g borne abbey In the e lady chapel o of which he was born In 1827 1527 when the abbey y yas was vas used as a dwelling house Before Belore he ic- ic tired Ired he was as almost aimos totally bUlk but regularly conducted the abbe abbey sen service ce his wonderful memory rare rarely failing falling hm London Condon Express The Tho use use of ot meters on electric cirs c states Electrical Industries has now be become become become be- be come the rule rather than the exception and within the next year or two the n tem hess car will be almost a 8 curiosity Testimony to the tho value of 01 the watt hour meter 1 f continues tI aUt to accumulate I at a most gratifying rate for three out t Jf df e every ery four our cars are arc fitted with m meters on the watt hour principle The Tile long lone contre- contre versy ersy between the t two o types of 01 meters may mav therefore be regarded as practically settled by an overwhelming majority One of the finest finest- coast cout lights in the world orld for Its Us size has been e erected by bythe bythe the he Chinese Imperial maritime customs at t Chilian Chulian Rock about eighty miles north orth of 01 The work ork of Installation In- In has been going on for about two wo years ean and the light first came into operation on June 8 Some Id Idea of its power ower ma may be gained when hen it is stated that hat It can be he clearly observed at a R. distance distance dis- dis tance ance of miles Ollie The stIng apparatus w U group flashing of the first order showing three white lightning flashes ashes In quick succession every avery two to seconds The approximate power of the thc flash Is candles Recent regulations bearing on the question of marriage in the tho Italian arm army are worthy worth of brief mention officers whether active ward vard on Ice ce or 01 half pa pay will wIli not be allowed to marry till they have hao reached the age of ol 25 5 and have hava obtained the sanction unction of the he kin king The bride will no longer honger be requited to bring a specified dot but s she so e will Ill of course have ha to give gle satisfactory tory ory evidence e as to her social fItness ss for forthe forthe the he position of an officers officer's wife Ife It will willbe be je remembered that the dot aire taire was abolished s sonic some y years ago in inthe t the he French army by General 1 Andre e other h octal requirements of course coune remaining as s before The The Queen For women with h courage and a practical mp f Ir ical t turn of m mind t there la is e every chance In n New Kew Zealand not only of 01 a go good go d Itt 11 leg Ing ng but of or r real al happiness ss and hope hop Inthe in inthe the he future says sas a a. writer in the tile Wide ide World Women omen are 10 adaptable and h hren here re in n lies hies the solution i of the e problem They rhey h r ett tt must u b be r ready to turn their 1 hands n to anything that comes cornu to lied find no work ork bene beneath beneath be- be ne neath th them to work with all aU their might Above AbO all they must go 10 with an al open pen mind fund read ready to learn to appreciate and to understand They will find themselves es Ilmon among the tha most delightful people who will 1 open their r hearts a and their r homes to the girls tv from the old country n a and dm at all times Umes show that true and practical friendship which chol makes e ls New w Zealand nt cJ I what it Is one Is-one one of the happiest ap countries i In itt the world Worl D Degeneration of or education In Spain since the da days s 's wh when n the universitIes of f Salamanca t anti and Alcala sk k kept pace e bIL with Oxford and Cambridge Is s sketched by 8 5 t li L. Bensusan In itt Home Life Lilo in Spain Part tart of the trouble Is caused it seems seem by a a. II system stem of 01 direct and Indirect taxation taxation taxa taxa- tion put upon the already alread indigent student stu- stu tu tu- dent lit In the first place the U go e govern n. n m went elect nt levies a s tax b bv by directing that all nil official communications are to be written writ writ- ten on a stamped paper a it presses l very e nh harshly 3 upon the e poor stu atu- S 1 Ii t dent lo can only m make nh his a application ft at for examination or 01 for tor a deer de on hea- hea ily liy taxed paper Mariy a a. poor Spanish an student rUd who Ph has s 's scraped Jated together the money for his examination Is t. unable to toll ll secure cure th the degree he hii has hu earned because t he I U unable to pay for It It But th the students student's purse lIun Is again squeezed q zed bv by th the impecunious professor who ha hat th the l 1 lege e of enforcing his own 11 text books hOlles u upon n l ls a clause classes j and of writing a n tie new w t text book bouk If Ir he s et e every ear year earL L |