Show I I I i I I I BITS OF INFORMATION I Depo Deposits In th the postal savings sa banks of Japan lapati now exceed 0 already receives os 1000 ruble cable 1111 messages a n. da day from Japan The doubling of the cables s Is probable John Burns Is said to have the best working library of an any member of the English house of oC parliament Ink for rubber stamps stamp Is made of aniline ant ani line dyo dye mixed with glycerine The Tho dyes cs can be lie obtained at druggists druggists' shops Belgium Is la now Importing yearly yearl about worth orth of automobiles motorcycles motorcycles motor motor- cycles an and bicycles These Imports have haV quadrupled i In four our years yeats In the tho last Jast eight cht years ears the three great iron countries have ha produced tons torts of pig pIs Iron Iroll of or which over o half hate has come out of the United States In the Slavonic Sla section of or tho the New r-ew York public library there arc are volumes and anda a very ery largo large proportion of the tho Russian readers select books on social and governmental gov So subjects Here are some Borne Interesting given i en b bj the New York Herald for users ot sa gas meters met In three months out of oC meters t tested sted after complaint w wore ro correct 1820 1320 were fast and anti wore were ale slow w. w There are now not far from miles of railroad under block signal operation nearly miles of oC which have ha been added within a year al' al and antl a half All Au of or orthis this mileage is distributed among eighty eighty- four different systems Emigration to Canada from the United States In January Januar and February Increased 61 per cent while foreign emigrants q ar arrIving arriving at- at riving at Cana Canadian lan ports decreased 36 per cent Over O 1000 American settlers reached Saskatchewan on March farch IS 19 Mrs Kate Douglas Wiggin has baa Just sailed on her annual spring spring- visit to En Eng Eng- land She has been nominated as an honorary hon lion orao steward stoward of oC the anniversary dinner of oC th the thA Royal Literary Fund In London May 21 Lord Tennyson Is the pr president of the society Rudyard Rudard Kipling who Ill wll aHI preside o at nt tho the dinner has asked Mrs WIggin to respond to a toast An Eskimo will devour greedily twenty pounds of moat meat a da day A Russian RUf Tartar will eat In twenty tour hours fort forty pounds Captain Cochrane mentions a 0 Tartar who consumed In that time the hind quarters of a large Jarge ox twenty pounds of fat and a n proportionate quantIty quantity quan quan- of or melted butter for drink Three e of or his tribe tribe the the thInk think nothing of or polishing ort oft a reindeer at a a. meal New New NewYork York Press Pre President Fouse Foune of ot the Fidelity Mutual Life LICe Insurance company compan calls attention In his annual address to tho vast extent of the life JIe Insurance business In this country country country coun coun- try by comparing It with the tho banking b business lne The national and state private and savings banks banke and trust companies have an aggregate capital and surplus of ot and deposits of oC three Ninety Insurance companies have admitted assets of over o 3 an anti l Insurance Cc m ln force I amounting amount ti ug to 1 There la Is a n. po possibility the tho Episcopal II church will soon have throe brothers i as members of the The Th- TIt lit H Rev v Dr William Pareto Paret bishop of Maryland because of advancing year ears and un falling failing strength ha has asked hl his diocese to elect a a coadjutor find and lies has JIHad d 1 it special conven tion to c. choose e the priest to IJ bo be to tu th the tho episcopate SeVeral clergymen have been bett mentioned for fol the honor among them heln being the tite Rev Re Dr Arthur B II 13 Kinsolving Kin Kin- l solving teeter of St. St Pauls Paul's church Bat Bal who IH It said to stand a good chance chalice of ot election On One of DI Dr Kin Kin- brothers bruthers Is bishop of Texas Fexas and another Is the head of the diocese of or southern Brazil J If Dr James Curtis Hepburn of Orange N. N J attends commencement at Princeton Prince Prince- ton On this June he lie will celebrate the soy soy- onty sixth anniversary of his Ills graduation from college He received his diploma In 1832 was graduated In me medicine at the University of Pennsylvania In and Is III oldest alumnus Ito recently passed his hla third ninety birthday Of the 1287 men graduated from Cram Princeton tini- tini vet vet-sity between the years yean 1532 and the twenty oldest classes represented by surviving alumni only are arc still sun living The Tue classes of oC 1833 1836 1837 and iSiS 1838 have no survivors Of these graduates graduates ates only el eight ht are arc classed In the tho records as business ss men In a n. recent trial a San Son Francisco Judge made arithmetic a n test of mental sound sound- ne ness But If this test had hall been applied d to certain great groat men they thoy would have been declared Imbeciles Dean Denn Stanley tot for forone or one would woul have u been set down as aM hopeless hope less had he lie been jud Judged ed by his Incapacity to do a sum In simple addition or multi multi- Had Keble writer of famous hymns depended upon hl his arithmetic Oxford Ox Ox- ford forti would not long have known him Wh When n bursar he ho found to his lila horror that certain aCCOUnts came out nearl nearly to the bad In vain lid did the learned and pious men of the tue college go over the figures rig fig ures tires with him litre Not until an expert was summoned was It Il discovered ered that I Keble e h in 40 casting up tip a a. column had added tho the date of or the year t to tho the Uio colleges college's debts I I know where In cah lies concealed said a n New t-ew York lawyer This Thit vast sum Hum lies concealed In the tho In Inside In- In side vest cst pocket of U lh the Q automo- automo tH of or New York state sLate Each Kach ach man carries carrlos s of or It In one crl crisp p note read ready to be bo paid out In a line tine IT he ho should be arrested for or speeding Fines though dont don't appear to stop speeding he con con- Perhaps the tue rich automobilist re regards them much as the wo wood woot thief tiller did Tho thief was wan arrested arstell Th Tho magistrate said to hint him You at ats ar b brought roue lit up Lip on the tho charge of stealing W woo woo-i. VJ This charge has s been proved a against you But you ou aro old and poor and you jou OU shall Khali be lot let lotoff off ott this time Only dont don't do It 3 again retorted tho the thief Let Lt us WI not hll hays ha an any false sentimentality hete I steal my wood I pay my line and theres there's an nit end of It It It Is Je not often otten said Gen Cen P. P o D. D Grant at a dinner In New York that a man can perform at tho the same Bame time a swindle and nn an act of oC patriotism Yet this happened hap during the war A New York sharper then conducted a swindle at which even Washington would woul have smiled mJ d approvingly approving It was VolS at the time when we stood 1 In th the greatest need of soldiers This man Inserted In itt the papers I everywhere c an advertisement that read reada a nf as f follows Notice Notice For For one dollar I will give I e nn any person perron positive Information he may avoid the conscription cons Replies Herll came camo at the rate of oC a da day I an and dollars ars accompanied them Then an dUI duis took th the Ild advertiser er to court where aher th the entire transaction was patriotIcally patriotically patriot patriot- 1 1111 declared to r t be l legal gal The answer that had been sint nt out by the sharper I was |