Show I BITS OF INFORMATION 1 Street noises nois's arc arc- regulated to a nicety J in in Berlin The Tho actual cost of tho the Suez canal was ilS l The Bank Dank of England employs about 1000 1001 p people England lia ling lias about 1 square miles of coal col fields Horseflesh commands a lower price in Arizona than titan rl Men fen en wi with th blue or sra gray eyes eves art aro almost al ni tl most invariably the best shots h t The Tho estimated cost of a n brid brid o over the Straits of Dover is Tho average age nc at nt death lath of or people who die 11 by accident nt is j years yar Medicines arc aro made almost absolutely tasteless according tu a n new German process Paris ha has a n church made mado out of paper treated 1 I no 0 as to re resist it the action fiction of the wea weather t lie r. r At the pr present ent rate of excavation Pompeii will net be lit entirely uncovered before for the he year 1970 1070 Next to the altar attar of roses rOles the m most t valuable perfume is is oil of ja jasmine which is quoted at a pound Su Sugar ar and salt alt will both hoth preserve meat because uso they thy nh absorb the moisture in in it and t so o prevent decomposition I American dentists in the thC leading dt cities eH of Europe have a n larger professional income income thau than their colleagues ollea uel who practice in tho the United States tates The ostrich farming fanning industry of oC southern California represents an au investment investment investment in in- vestment of t three quarters of a n million dollars and tho the annual output of feathers feath feath- ers is worth about A portrait of Mrs rs Julia Ward Ho Howe e painted by hr her granddaughter Caroline Minturn Hall or of New Y York rk is one ot or I the interesting features of the thc tiou tion now in progress at tho the Women's Municipal league of New York Durin During the tho year W r flOi 1907 new in in- s were were r reported in the tho south Muth compared with G G 11 in 1006 which was as tho the best beat record ever made The lending lenling states were Texas Oklahoma iD I and Virginia Tennessee North orth Caro Cam lina han Alabama and Arkansas from to each Prof Herbert P. P Roberts of tho the Kansas Kansas Kan Kan- S sas t State Agricultural college and experiment ex ex- ex I station will visit Europe during dur dur- It ing tig tho the coming summer lie He i is commissioned commis commis- stoned Honed from the Kansas experiment station station station sta sta- sta- sta tion to inspect t the thc wheat re region ion of central central cen cen- and southern Europe in iii search of oe superior sorts of hard hall heats for introduction introduction intro into Kansas Kausas According to a law passed b by the rig da the use of the tho metric system is made mado compulsory for all gov- gov o purposes not later than May 4 t 1910 the date of adoption prior to the limiting dato date to bo be fix fixed fixel d b bv by the kin king and two years cars after this adoption the tho I system is made compulsory in the tIle king kins- d dom om Duchess Philip of has lIas I contrived a bandage that is so 80 scientifically selen eden eden- constructed t thAt manufacturers have hac taken out patents covering the thc right to make it in foroi foreign n countries Tho The duchess is said to bo be the most popular popular lar of oC all the tho ro royal 3 1 ladies of or Germany and md much of her popularity is due ue to Eo her interest in the sick poor I A new brand of toper has been discovered discovered dis dis- covered in Philadelphia Philadelphia-he he drinks rinks catsup The R Record cord testifies to the tho fa fact t tI and quotes quotE a waiter on the subject lIe He I says jays I Ive c known men meD to come in inhere inhere inhere here anti and eat cat a ten ten cent cent grab and drink nearly Dearly half a pint of catsup between bites bite Its It's a n bad had habit antI and it makes a n abig abig nb b big bole hole in the Its It's much worse than thau liquor when hen that ha habit it gets a 1 hold holdon on OD you jou 0 Weve We've got ot all the thie fiends spot pot ted They have o sallow complexions and ancI andare andare are arc always 8 in had bad humor hunter and aud eat at very cry slow slowly As for a tip that that's s 's 8 out of the question on The Valhalla Walhalla at nf which contain the thA statues of many men who have contributed to th the greatness of or orthe the German people will Icee receive o an addition next July Juh in the thc form orm of a Bismarck memorial In his order to the minister directing the addition the prince regent of Bavaria says that the step would have haye been taken sooner hut but foy foj the rule which precludes such I recognition until ten years af after er the death dath of tho the great on one The fhe Bismarck memorial will be he unveiled on tho thic tenth anniversary ersan of his hiB death George If II 11 bonnier r the author of The Letters of a Self Made Merchant to His Son tion i is a friend to the tue hi high h hewn flown I Discussing iscu in social n veneer at a I debate dehate in iii Philadelphia Mr 11 said that in the thc education of or girls the practical did not receive sufficient prominence A C A young oun friend frien of mine anine said aid the shrewd humorist t got ot married last lust month mouth He lie said aid to me tho other day When h n I married Mamie amie J I I thought ht sho shio ho f was wa an au an angel cI Hut Bul he r added I J soon found out my DJ- mistake c. c f I Oi Disappointed I asked fn Disappoint 1 e cd ed Nit It he lie cried I I found fouti sho was rS a 8 ai i good cook I Morris K Jell up tried trie to ci tell about an old oll farmer who hail had been Leon famed as a o miser miler all Ill over ocr Connecticut The Tue farmers farmer's farm farm- farmers ers er's cousin died and IDd the old man own at attended attended I tended tho the r rending ing of the w will wi l. l In one om of the later uter codicils a certain eight acre I field ld was tf left Ift him As the bequest wai read out the thc farmer fai sat up ill in his 1 s c chair his hands and aud smiled delight delightedly hl- hl edly about the room But the lawyer rca reading on made malIC known rn that th the tue gray rl I mare marc then grazing in said field was ns b be bo bequeathed 1 to a nephew w. At t this the farmer clacked his lips ups in rage anti anu I piped d excitedly Then she she's s 's my mi grass Bem s 's er- er Speaking of or Sarah per per- as Eleonore EIf ODOre in The fhe our Cour Courtesan of Corinth the Paris Pans corre correspondent of a e Berlin paper says And Aim ud I Ithe the wig who win who will lle describe it 1 I yc c know that it was made e in ill Jon London on bY 11 bYthe M the tho tuna man who has haJ no superior in th thin business busine We Yo know also that t to 1 lariS ans insisted ou th the maker coming coining with his handiwork in in order that he lie because she he m might adjust it properly f says S the best wi wig when improperly improper placed ll cei is only onh a wig while artistic fl na- na makes make it part of the fl who wears wars it lIe He came canie and I I idOl it-idOl 1 COO OO marks for If it l it-l shall hall shall we s b believe his trouble But it was worth it t to the thc I actress an and to 10 the tue audience for or Jt it gi C a Ci It the appearance of of being t a i t woman of 30 30 she sho 15 is rC really IU a n Jitt little c f I older aIrIer J I Frank Ruch the keeper of tho the buffalo herd in tho the national forest of Qt Ima j I ma mat ma is credited with ith this thiis Once ODIO a I Kansas fanner fermor met ou on tho the hot hut road a hom homesteader teader pushing on n c th c ch Whar r Iv lv toward the Cherokee o strip 1 I Iyo yo bound said paid the thc farmer cr 1 1004 acres teres o 0 free land in tile strip t ip W. W I S tI 4 Arid the man vanished Jn in tI I reply A 1 ID mont Db I sunshine hinc g glitter of and uD dustY us Y I and the thc same or two went by ou on I J JI road the Kansas Kanus farmer Eft ret t l 11 I trader deader returning D Hello w U it what ye C loot Jone with them l 1 v Wet i iThe ill lisk ii i I The l proudly toward h hi his tad mule t less s 's 5 f fi WaIl WAI Ink i them mules I J he be said wid i ci eighty acres acre of ot in m. m tin 1 ft fc is isI I What hat yc ye e do with t c r ol Vf nW W I Pont on t immo si IM ik but the feller flIer was vas a S i t si sirun I run in iii tb tie the other d eighty b tats artl p 9 b without his Ilis It if j JI |