Show I BITS OF INFORMATION I It i is said paid K King nJ Leopold of Rel Belgium um hardly has hils a true friend in in his kin kingdom dom a now no ow There are lITe a number of sphinxes hut but the lie largest and md mo most moat t famous is that of B Egypt pt There Thero have been coined worth of double angles 20 and 12 12 worth of en eagles les 10 without the tho motto anti and the coina coinage 1 i it iii continuing and will ill until the hilt hill restoring the motto becomes a 2 la law The number of stockholders of the New Xe York Central railroad is 1182 The total miI miliage is The mileage mile rails a age e of the Now Nw York Central itself i is miles The total earnings s of the cw York Central last year re r were 02 I and the operating expenses R 06 06 26 O J fl Mona ona Li Lia a I wa was 1 painted h by I Leonardo Leon Leon- ardo arilo da Yin Vinci and is now hun hung in the Lo Louvre Lou Paris It is a portrait of th the third thir wife ife married of Francesco del Gioconda whence called La da It Tt was painted in 1504 1500 the artist ar artist ar- ar 1st i having had it ito four years rears e rs in m hand Francis I. I paid gold ol crowns for it a few years later The king and queen of Gr Greece ece and several other members of the royal rOJal family fam fam- ily ils- are arc ex expected to attend the marriage of Prince Welhelm of Sweden to Grand Duchess Marie farie Pavona which is to take place at Selo Sebo on May 3 The grand duchess duches will Trill be dowered with on behalf of the i imperial fam fam- ily In addition she has bas a small private fortune Miss Lavinia La L L. L La Borde has just JURl been unanimously elected re-elected state li b by the le legislature of South Carolina Car olina ill Miss fiss ss La Ta Borde Bordo has occupied the place for several years ears and nail has g given p n satisfaction Recently t I ho however er there has hns been some somo talk of turning her out for no apparent rn reason on except that some people thought it about time a man got the salary Emperor William of or G Germany has lias had his Ins m first experience experience in tube f locono- locono tion Accompanied b by a numerous suite he made mado the journey along the entire length en th of the tho Berlin underground round railway rail rail- way wn for the purpose of inspecting the newly noI op opened nerl suburban extension and terminals At the last station the kaisor kai kai- sor SOl had the pleasure of admiring the interior in in- in t tenor decorations made of majolica til tiling tiling til- til ing from his hiR own factory at Amon Among tho the orders which he be distributed in honor of the trip was one for the motorman of the train iu in which he tray trav cled For the first time in of oC Illinois the Chicago cago Post says a Hussion Russion Rus Hus sion sjon Jew low has be been n chosen a a. presidential elector Julius Liebling who will represent sent scat tho Fifth congressional 1 district on the electoral ticket is the lie editor of tho the JeT Jewish Jenish Da Daily r Press s and has been a resident resi ron ron- dent ent of Chicago since ince 1836 He is is a member of the orthodox wing of Judaism Juda ism jam and his bis fearless attack upon tho the movement when wIlen it swept like liko w wildfire rc through the ranks of the orthodox Jews eight years ago ato nearl nearly caused his fin financial financial finan finan- cial ruin ruinS n I A new kink in addressing envelopes en I has been noticed recently by hy some somo of tho post office clerks clerk I Instead of tho the word H personal on these envelopes envelope t tin to in indicate that the letter Jetter is is intended only for the eye eyo of tho lie person addre addressed sed has been written himself In each case Else these letters had been sent from Eng Eng- land I In i some somo parts of Ireland the head of the household is is always referred to by b- tho the members of the family as himself and nd the influence influence- of that custom may may have o had its effect on the lie English writers ur or poss possibly bly the time writers were Irishmen Jn h living in En Now I eW York Sun The old sa saw about the prophet anahis anti and his native natho land Jand be to ma may applied an exceedingly merry and nd equally popular W widow dow says SAS tho the Trieste correspondent of a Berlin paper Lehar's 5 well oell known opera which was wu hissed at it Tam Attain and at Tr Trieste este by Montenegrins who took offense at th the misrepresentation of their people by the writer met with willi the time same annie treatment t at Sera 00 The Tho nearer larer she gets to her home time the less Jess 5 sympathy the mor merry woman seems to find n At Sera Sera- a riot took place in front of the tho theater and the police had bad to drive a away av the people who endeavored to drown the music by br sin singing ing Servian national na us- songs W W. T Lopp superintendent of school in in n the northern rl district strict of Alaska an and superintendent of the government government- rein reindeer reindeer deer ber herds s who recently calU caine out of the thear far ar northwest says ars that there are no now reindeer iu iii n his hiR territory The herds lerda bc began an with l 1280 SO animals taken takeno to o Alaska by the tho government from 1892 to o 1902 mostly in the revenue cutter Bear The herd herds along the coast const are thriving but in th tIme tho interior w whore where lerp the snows are arc deep aad wa tho the succulent rein I deer leer moss is not so 6 easily ilY found the animals ani mals nials arc not doing so sowell ell The government govern goorD ment owns own about deer the missions about and aud eight i ht Laplanders the I I same num number er rh The Eskimos own the re- re I of the I Unusual interest W was S taken by r sailor sailor- Ibor men and landlubbers iu in the tIme h huge Jo oceangoing oceangoing ocean ocean- going coin oil barge c ra of the Stan Standard ard Oil company compan when she he was in port She bho he heis is Doi now on ou her way to England ut and with t tons of oil oil her first consignment ment t tto to tho the old world The average n r per person on n 4 1 who 10 looks upon a r barge o as ns a 1 shabby 4 u ugly IJ- IJ and unattractive craft woul no he f surprised on boarding the tho 4 While she he has hul no machinery for propulsion I. I ion sion sho has six ix masts and nd a great t i 4 spread of canvas can to carry carr her to port ir If j jion I occasion demanded The sails however Ocr I lf I Iare r rare are arc used only to steady her two t-two Mao a when she is is i in i tow of the t steamer Iroquois which tak takes herband herb n r M and aud forth across the York Tribune A company that makes a a. busia preparing the speeches delivered delier by Jf lie ic men for publication finds It it conn ro 1 lent to U use the for forth of COP copy for th the tho printer ai aia a r result some ch choice tyro JS P i have havo appeared in print tt Here Herp r several several- I illustrations that nan man Ii D era se company has d MArk its Lout t L tout that well m vote rote catcher Mark Jt out of the cylinder well known goat catcher Aa A speaker who told how bow the tie tier pT r D I d W action had been validated J I Ithe would have ha been heen ast i hed to h W action adion wM WIlS 8 tion the presidents president's so de dear r to o III all an tude ut t Latin was turned out 11 gall all is ise Jf into t ree parts nd th re e didn nO indication as to 1 them |