| Show I BITS OF INFORMATION I IThe I The report of a cannon has been heard miles The Tho average depth of English coal coalmines coalmines coalmines mines is feet Blankets were first made in En England land landin in iu 1805 by Thomas Blanket Burma is 1 making money out of peanut peanut peanut pea pea- nut growing Tho The peanut acreage increased increased increased in in- creased from acres to acres in in 1907 Vatch Watch glass Ilass crystals are mado made by hand and in consequence of tho the lower prices paid for labor in Germany Gormany the I American manufacturers cannot com com- pete peto Twenty T years ears ago alO a n German taught the Japanese how bow to make shell buttons Now Japan is exporting shell buttons to Germany France and other countries Japan pan is making makin an attempt at locomotive locomotive locomotive loco loco- motive construction As an experiment t five e engines are being built at the Hyogo Hj Hy- ogo 00 railway works One is completed and ad in use g giving gin in satisfaction The Tho most active years of railway construction in the thc United States in 1882 1332 when miles were added to the tho operated railroads and in 1857 1357 when the increase was 1967 1 India is buying bung many moro more American windmills as the result of ot wider and I Imore more persistent canvassing cnn for orders An Illinois manufacturer is shipping a carload forty mills mills' to Bomba Bombay for uso use on ou the west coast of India In spite of the fact that tho University University University sity o or of Moscow 1 does not admit admi women omen admit students it is to have ha tho the firs first woman I professor ever appointed in Russia pro Pr is is tho the woman She is a graduate of Zurich and is looked upon as an authority in pathology Vernon Stiles the tho American tenor has hos been engaged for a period of six years ears to sing leading tenor roles at the royal roal opera in Vienna After three years under tho the terms torms of the contract Mr Ir Stiles is free to return to America for five the months each year to sin sing at atthe atthe the tho Metropolitan opera house New Now York Pekin is la Im building a large largo factory to tomake tomake tomake make window glass which is largely used in in China and forms one ono of its principal imports import from foreign countries coun coun- tries The capital is Chinese the true machinery machinery machinery ma ma- chinery British and Germans will manage manage man man- age tho the factory The glass works yorks at province pro of Shantung are arc a I success I Mme lime Jeanno Jeanne Marni farni has hns just won won tho the prize given b bv by tho des ties Gens do Lettres of France This is the first time that it has hns been een awarded award award- ed to a woman It was gi given on n for tho the general excellence of Mme Mine Marni's Marnis s work Among the noted recipients of the prize have havo been beon Guy do and Camillo Lemonnier Efforts are being made in London to further the emigration of British women to South Africa It is declared that tho the only immigrants desired at present in South Africa are aro women Of tho who wont went there thero from the United United United Unit Unit- ed Kingdom in the tho last twelve months month montha a large majority wore were teachers all an of w whom hont form found ready engagements at tho the cn capo cape po Tho rho fact that Alfred AUred of Worcester Mass has succeeded in in growing potatoes and tomatoes on tho the samo vino may bo be looked upon as an argument ar ir- in favor of his bis pronunciation theor theory by tho man who recently wrote rote If it is is correct to pronounce the a a ain ain in tomato as it is in 4 Marge large ar c why should not tho the a in in potato bo pronounced as asit asit asit it is in barge Miss Florence Kollock Crooker recently recently re TC cent celebrated the thirty second an an- of her service as a minister of the church and the tho fourth anniversary of her pastorate of St. St Pauls Paul's church Jamaica Plain Bos Bos- ton She is the wife of the Rev Rov Dr J J. J II Crooker Mrs Crooker studied theology at St. St Lawrence university bein being being be be- in ing graduated in 1876 1376 and beginning her hor church work immediately She Sho has haR held pastorates in Englewood a suburb of Chicago and in Pasadena Calfo Cal CM To fo Mrs Ida B. B Richardson of New Orleans has hns been awarded tho the Pica Picayune line une loving lo cup by a committee of oft tho o Progressive union as the citizen who is thought to havo have dono most for the public pub lie lic sere service ico and welfare during the last year Mrs Ira Richardson Richardson's a latest good work is the tho medical college building erected in memory of her husband the I late Dr To Tobias G. G Richardson and do do- do noted to the medical department of tho the Tulane university Mrs Irs Richardson is the tho second woman to receive the Picayune une uno cup Miss l Sophie B B. B Wright having been the first An Au improved ed apparatus has been made by Dr Fritz Lan Lang of Munich i by which the inside of tho stomach can be clearly clearl photographed The Tho camera is is actually swallowed by the tho patient and when it reaches his stomach tho walls thereof can bo be illuminated by a small electric lamp attached to tho the apparatus At the bottom of the camera is wound a photographic film film- twenty inches long tong and a quarter of an inch wide All tho surgeon has to do is to pull a cord and thus nm nun the film past tho the lens Tho The electric elec eloc trie light is then turned on on and after tho the sensitive film has been impressed with the image the current is turned off and another section of the film is brought into play until the required I. I number of pictures s havo have been obtained New New York Tribune I Chicago has a nov novel l organization in inthe inthe the tho Bartenders and Saloonkeepers Saloonkeepers' Total Total To To- I tal A Abstinence society which is now said to havo have 2000 members Many Mans sa sa- I loon keepers in the tho n windy city it is I reported are arc bound by an tn n agreement I not to employ men who drink While Now York grog sellers have ha no such society society so so- and no such agreement so far as tho public has ever or heard all the better better better bet bet- ter class of drinking places strictly enforce enforce enforce en en- enI I force rules against employees drinking drinkin while on duty and there thero arc are scores o or I bartenders in this city who never drink drinka a drop of the liquids they dispose The J i head drink mixer in a downtown cafe cafe cafe- an expert on liquors of all kinds kinds has has been in the business for twenty five years and does not know the taste of his bis own Now wares Now York Tribune Probably no owner ever had such Buch a persistent run of bad baa luck as King Edward Edward Ed Ed- I ward in the early irly years ears of his racing career At his first modest appearance on a race course thirty-seven thirty years ears ago o. his horse borse Champion had tho the misfortune misfortune misfortune mis mis- fortune to fall earl early in the race and although ho bo made a game effort to recover recover re re- I cover lost ground he could finish only rO 1 second Six years later later later-at at his hi'S second appearance at appearance at the Newmarket July meeting his horse Alep was had badly beaten by Lord A Avowal owal and it was not until 1880 1530 that Leonidas Lconidas II ridden by Capt Wentworth Hope Hope- Jo Johnstone instone scored his first victory in the Aldershot cup Six years moro more elapsed making makin fifteen years in in all from his racing racing rac rac- racing ing debut according to the Dundee Advertiser Advertiser Ad Ad- I before tho the royal roval colors were I carried to victory for the first timo time in flat lint racin racing when amid a scene of great treat I I enthusiasm Counterpane ridden by Archer won a maiden plato plate at Sandown |
