Show I BI BITS OF F INFORMATION I IA A self chalking chalk lino is s tho tiro latest latest lat lat- est ad addition to tote the tho carpenters carpenter's kit hit A butter churn holding only onh one quart of cream is now ma made o for domestic domes lomes- tic lic use Ot Over or or tons of rabbit meat meal wore received in London from irom Australia lust last year The newest t for forge e docs does awa away with tho the usual bellows bein fitted w with th a compressed com com- compressed pressed air tank K New w York City's police department has recovered a about bOll t in stolen property during tho last year earIn ear In Jamaica Tamai tuberculosis is disease o is extremely extremely ex ex- un uncommon amon among tho the whites When It il it occurs iu in ll negroes they quickly succumb to it The light of day ha has hag not been heen shed on tho ho ori original draft of th the tho declaration of ind independence in five years and therA i ino is no likelihood of its being placed on vi view ow until HJ 1028 1928 S. S Prof Geor George e E E. Palmer of or Harvard Hanani university in a re recent ent lecture said in yi iii substance sub The scientific world swung to Darwinism an and then swung back tho the religious world swung over to the scientific position and is swinging back One of the effects of the German old a ago o. o pension scheme i is rather peculiar pe pe- culiar The he pension is forfeited if tho the workman d does s not ot work forty eight ht or nine forty-nine weeks we out of tho the two fifty on an average e and this provision has been a deterrent to strikes In order to have live livo spokes newly sawed timber must bo ho well rach racked d and la laid tl in the open air nir one ono year to the tho inch to season The average average aver avor a age e automobile spoke requires s n t two two- o- o inch piece picco of timber that means two years ears of idle lumber and after niter working working work work- In ing out and finishing the spokes ready for the thc wheel tho they thoy should lie from front two to six weeks before using Affection for children is an Indian characteristic sy saws says Dr Charles S. S Mood of Idaho I have Moody never no seen an Indian mother or father punish a achild achild achild child nor have I ever eyer seen an Indian child chillI cr cry An Au In Indian ian child never sobs when hurt Just an extra snap of the bri bright ht black eyes and a slight frown is all to indicate to the observer that the little fellow is suffering I have havo I never heard even en an Indian Baby cry Somo Some tests havo have been made mado on the Northern railway of France to determine determine determine deter deter- mine tho the econom economy of using ugin ono one powerful powerful power power- ful cn engine inc instead of two smaller ones The tests extended over six months' months time and covered ered over miles Both trains were of the tho same wei weight ht tons The cost for fuel oil maintenance maintenance maintenance main main- and wa wages eR for the tho six months was for tho the ono and 1041 lOU for forthe forthe I the two engines or n a saving of The first cost was for tho the single single sin sin- gle en engine inc and and for lor tho the two to engines Frank B B. Raynor Kaynor a life savor saver at atone atone atone one of the New York stations can havo have an any office in the tho gift of l resident President I Roosevelt that he can fill and without bother bothering n his liis head with civil il service either He lIe Ie has a letter from President Roosevelt to that effect which he would not change e for tho the best job in Washington Wash ash in ington ton He lie values it almost as highly as tho the gold old medal awarded to him by bv I congress for braver bravery Raynor won h his s i and the presidents president's admiration by I sayin saving two lives h from the schooner I Cromwell ell which was wrecked off Bellport Bellport Bellport Bell- Bell port in 1904 Rat catchers and inventors from all parts of London ore are eagerly competing for a prize of 10 guineas and the emblazoned em cm- blazoned diploma which the Society for forthe tho the Destruction Destruct on of Vermin offers This society of which Sir James Crichton Crichton- Browne is the tho president seeks to exterminate exterminate exterminate ex ex- terminate tho the rat tribe as well as mice house lies flies ies and other lively nuisances At present rat skins are not commercially commercially commer commer- profitable and the society hopes to discover some good use for them The theory is that once people find a profit may be ma made e out of dead lead rats more efforts will bo be made to catch them John Ruskin proposed old a ago o pensions pensions pen pen- more moro than fi fifty tJ years years' ago In his lectures at Manchester in 1857 on The Tho Tho Political Econom Economy of Art ho pleaded for pensions to soldiers sol of the sword and three years later ho developed developed de tho the plea in his Unto This Last Tho The essays republished republish cd un under er that title ori originally inay appeared in tho Cornhill Magazine then edited by bv Thackeray The Tho he novelist no was a friend of Ruskin and not a timorous person but so loud was the outcry at the appearance ap ape I of such disreputable heresies ics in so 80 respectable a magazine that Thackeray was constrained to stop Buskins Buskin's Ruskin's Rus Bus kins kin's papers Tests of reinforced concrete bar barges es and pontoons have been conducted by bytho bY bYtho y tho Italian government o since 1897 1891 and ana the tho results have havo been BO so gratifying that several more moro of these stran strange O constructions constructions con con- havo have been ordered Ono One of tho the first bar barges built for several years accommodated the tho house of a celebrated ed rowin rowing club while another has bas been used in a ti variety a of harbor work having having hav hav- in ing been towed from irom port to port there thero was occasion to mako make uso use of it and in both instances the service service service ser ser- vice was all that mi might ht be asked Ono One of these is is of tons burden Five other crafts of concrete are now no under construction The wood chemistry section of the tho forestry bureau has haa been giving some somo attention to the subject of tho the production production production tion of turpentine from yellow Jellow pine waste It is stated that for the recovery recovery reco ery of turpentine turrentine from waste wood the st steam nm distillation process is far superior to destructive distillation making amore amore a amore more uniform crude turpentine and usually a hi higher her gra grade o refined pro product Tho The wastage from the yellow pine pinc cut each year would yield as much turpentine turpentine turpen turpen- tine as the entire present annual output output output out out- put in this country with a value of At the present resent rate of cutting the tho supply of lon long Jong leaf yelloWpine yellow yellowpine yellowpine pine in iu the south will bo ho practically exhausted in twenty years but tho the methods of exploitation now in m use convert convert con con- vert only about half the tree treo into market market mar mar- ket product Whon When Emperor William of Germany was in Vienna recently he visited visite the Capuchin church to la lay a wreath on ou tho the tomb of tho the Empress Elizabeth This church is not anI only the Hapsburg family sepulcher but is said to be also probably tho the most striking burial place in the whole world Over Oer and above tho the more moro than a hundred coffins those of emperors and empresses draped in black velvet and gold old while the lesser rest under red rell and silver trappings there thoro is an nn array of crystal vases each containing the heart of a Hapsburg Ever er since tho the thirteenth century it has been the custom of the tho royal house for its dead to have th the heart remove removed and tn separately enshrined in a n little crystal casket while another another an an- other custom requires the s to tolie tolie tolie lie actually in wood which however may have havo an outer metal covering I |