Show I P BITS OF INFORMATION I Germany sends 29 feathers a year to England lor tor millinery pur pur- pur- pur poses Among flowers the chrysanthemum i Is said paid to live o 1 0 tho timo longest after being heing cut Ever Every father of seven or more children chil chil- dren is is practically exempt from taxation taxation taxa taxa- tion in jn France There are l children in Tins Rims cia sia ia between t tbs tha bA ages age of 6 and 14 receiving receiving re re- re in cei ab absolutely no education Tho rhe match monopoly produced a ne net revenue of last year Jear to to to- bacco hacco monopoly Freeze Quick is the name of the the Democratic candidate for in in Columbia Philadelphia Record The total income of the London liar bai i. i is IK put at poun pounds s sterling a year vear As there are about 2100 2510 practicing members the tho average l income is is JIG pound pounds Germans Germans- Germanys Germany's s 's colonies are aIE five fin times as big as 18 herself those of Franco Fianco eighteen times and Great seven ninety en c ceng times g bigger cr than than herself Tn In Texas fexas the slate imposes a tax lax o oHO of HO 50 0 per cent on tho the gross proceeds of the salo of firearms None Mime une arc are therefore for sale They fliey aro are rented for fifty years n at the regular e sale lc price Owin Owing ing to the spreading by rats of trichinosis is among swine swine rH tho the German Gennan imperial chancellor has i issued a receipt for nl the extermination of the time rat in any district where trichinosis occurs I Saxony Saxon is ig the most densely en populated of tho the German states havin having had burl at the time of the time last census a population population tion lion of a square quare kilometer Tho average R for tho the whole empire is 11 a square kilometer Last Las year Brazil Bra need needed tl over 20 OO- OO jute bags bats to hold time the years year's ear s coffee production Each bag hag costs the ship sui pers a trifle ilk over o IS cents The business bustness bustness bust bust- ness of makin making coffee bags thus thiu amounted last year to nearly nearl 1000 The Tho value alue of agricultural machines a and 11 implements annually imported b by Siberia amounts to about rubles The imported import a ar lr- articles ar- ar tides aro are chiefly supplied b by German and amid American r manufacturers being far superior to lo those made in Russia Valparaiso is only about miles from New Now York but bilt jt it requires from seventy sc to eighty days to get tet a reply to a business letter and aud u to get an or order r filled and delivered el elere ere generally takes from front five to tl six six months when it should be accomplished in one-half one the tho time tiDle as is tho ease case from om Europe I Gladstone a Jamaican nc negro ro was assistant as as- I to a district district physician in the 1110 canal zone and h rather poor in his hi Latin t the e bottles had ha been numbered for Jus his benefit Ono One day dav a aa a Spanish laborer la la- borer horer came in for mc medicine and tho the doctor tol told his worthy orthy assistant to give ive him two tt p pills out of number six ix After Alter Af At- ter he had llad gone the doctor octor asked Gladstone di did you give the man a adose dose ilose of Xo No G 6 61 Oh HOb no sab sah do doctor doe doc tor six ix was was' finished so o I just give i c him ono one pill out omit of or and one ono out of two two Thc The Argonaut mm t. t After the recent di discovery coHn of or a new neT rubber plant in in China Cochin comes th the discovery in Brazil of a new family i group roup o ot a plant which promises to become become heI be he- I come a valuable source of If rubber the demand of which for many purposes s 's is is constantly increasing A A. report of the time royal al botanical garden amid aud museum mucum at Berlin mentions tho the results result of experiments ments with j three new mici species of Mamhot Main Mam- hot trees which were discovered isco on a trip through the time forests of the province of tho Babia rubber s syndicate Two of these arc are considered the tho bo rubber plants of the future futuro for tor dry and little fertile regions region Dr Ma la namara a member of the British parliament tells tell of a school teacher who was endeavoring to convoy convey the time idea dea of pity to tho members of his s class illustrated it by bv a little lie said a aman aman tory story Now supposing he n man working on the riverbank suddenly fell Jell in in lie IIo could not swim an and would wo be bo in in danger er of dro dronin drowning nin Picture time the bO boys 5 and girls r The nian mans man's s 's sudden fall h his cry cry for help His lEis wife kuo knowing know know- mug inS his peril and hearing l his screams rushed immediately to the time hank bank Why h does be she rush to lime fhe he bank After ir i pause use a small voice piped forth Please sir to dra draw his Imis in insurance rance mone money William illiam of tb the t. vania state college discussed in Jarr Harrisburg Harris Harris- s. s burg t ti-me ti e eighty three k kinds of breakfast breakfast break break- fast foo foods s that he lie recently tested fur for tho government go Most fost 0 of them were very good aid t-aid Pro Proc Prof Frear Krear The Time taste tato test tent in rno most t ca eases cases s 's was plea pleasure ure rather than work To make work out of it would woul be he to act Jik like a little hi buy ut I kno know in in 1 Bellefonte This little WOe hey tor boys boy's s smother I mother w went nl nt to a reception leaving the baby in ma Jimmy Jimmy's a care With an injured in in- in uri Jo look k Jimmy said aid on her Mamma Manin I wish you von wouldn't ms t kf me mc mind nd baby aga again again n. n Ire Ife was so had bad that I had t to eat cat two mince pies anti and half tho the fruit cake to amuse him a domestic t c life ife is singularly happy in iii spite pite of the fact that hi Inc I does docs not share sharo his views concern concern- I mag ng religion and fo sociology The Thc countess coun coun- tJ teas tess S is is sixteen years younger Ih than n her JICE j husband and although Ithon t the mother or of thirteen children is jf still beautiful sad and nj 4 charming She it is hi highly tco tec- tec limi ma hc self herself cl written three I n novels J At t tone one Due time timo she hail had great difficulty difficult in in preventing preventing pre pre- venting th tho giving n war all an anlis lii his lis property He ite t i wished hell to all his lilly mt goods to the tho poor J-he J hl he says ays It was T T T-I I alone who non who prevented pro pre what a struggle le 1 I II d vented it it it- Heavens l. I haitI lad But God Gol be e praised I l. l From that t In lay dav to this thil J I J and I J alone m manage na o the t counts count's s 's eer H is is s done Iono 1 by me is il is in iii III my mimy own hands A sentence Noha probably in iii this recently Iy by oj a I Im I countr country was m magistrate ra t e in iii Mn Mass Two t l 0 hail had h been con con- ui of f I 12 years year rioted of or throwing stones stone to ut- ut and time the vent nl o of of ur properly Pt deal with wilh such Just how hot hotto to f offenders was a puzzle for time uio I J J I c court ur for a while awhile but I e eI li Lh the judge e hit u OJ the happy id idI ids I turning the fua is irA I penalty He lie ordered a police tours K KI nr to ta take e the Joun youngster m Uck ack to m I A I 1 where t they lid had been f t make them spend a 3 half bait bets bear n is ia t v ving ing stones as 35 fast u am t them tin no The serial ob t ii II der to the letter and ibm yoK yost enough of stone It one D' D to the reli rest of of- their lives An Aim ingenious thrice c bY b depth of a swift river rint abo a sk in Ontario was W ascertained w is win c in the tilt Engineering and MID to n en R Rings P Pings It was too in ings s f front roni a boat boit JO so Mr HUM Him I Ia f fa a U transit on tine bank and ried ned a Ii strong tron wire with a 1 I weIght at the end to the orr l lu luThe The wire was ira drawn draa laal J ii weight eight was gradually J the b bottom of or the tie rn rim r A At sW a sight alot the win ft f Wb t 1 transit it to the point poiD into the water an- an st dropped c of the str bs h t. submerged er ld wire Md sij iii ill of th JED length the water r l teiO I t L. 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