Show II BITS OF INFORMATION TIO-J TIO I II I The United States produced lon long ton tor tons 8 of oC Iron ore valued at 66 1 17 7 at the mines last year ear Plans Plan for the new nev Grand Central station eta sta tion In New cw York have been beca completed It will VIII cost about The Tho railroads of oC the United States used barr barrels ls of or oil for fuel tuel In 1 1907 07 an increase of or barrels over 1 1306 06 The Tho addition of three o drops drop of mercury to each ounce of oC common solder I will make a solder fusing at a n low temperature for tor uniting soft metals While ten of oC the six forty states have hav forest reserves only three states Now New ow I York P Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have ha over acres In eta state to forest lands Henry of Is the latest recruit to the list hat of royal roal authors She ha has Just finished a a. history of 01 the tho Isle Isla of oC Wight of which she I Is the tho captain and governor Tho The book Is to be sold old for tor tho the benefit of or the Island leland Charles Da Dawson VEon of or ton Fremington Devon England who celebrated his ninety sec ond birthday a recently neither reads nor writes and has hns never s seen cn the sea a nor travel traveled d In a railway r l train He has hae worked on tho the same farm tarm for forty s seven forty veu years year tho tim violinist ha had on one peculiarity peculiar ity lb-he lb he never wrote a n letter Ills His autographs autographs auto auto- graphs arc are very scarce as he carried on his correspondence almost entirely by t telegraph The Tho prince de SS Is also alleged to have o the same habit h even his love letters being sent ent by wire There Thero has died In the workhouse at Dorchester En England a woman oman named Harriett Hammett a native of or Tolpuddle who ho was admitted to tho the workhouse In ISH 1511 As h her r a are ago at death was ns 6 6 63 she ehe must have donned workhouse garb when 6 5 years old Th The only homo home she ever re remembered ro ro- was tho the house What I Is 11 believed to be bf the record potato potato po po- po- po tato tate train ever handled In fri the east cast was ns pulled Into Northern Maine Junction last Saturday R. The Tho train was wa made matle up of or sev sey enty five cars of or potatoes picked up at different points on tho the Bangor or Aroos- Aroos tock The Tue train contained bushels bushel worth orth from 2800 to Me Journal Th The rava ravages es of or consumption trachoma and other diseases ase of a like nature are areso areso areso so great reat among amon the natives of Alaska that In a f few rew w decades the rates of oC that section will be extinct Statistics from froma troma a t typical settlement of oC the natives show chow hv a greater mortality than that of any other primitive primitivo raco race that has hns come In contact contact con con- con tact with Saxon Anglo-Saxon civilization Alfred Takeda Sato Satow a Japanese nobleman nobleman noble noble- man who bought a farm near La Salle three years ears ago and mastered the art of oC farming now does his work b by proxy b by renting enting out hl his farm In small email tracts to his countrymen Last spring ho he rented acres near Berthoud renting re to to- Japanese and recently secured a farm tarm of ot otLO WO LO acres from his neighbor C C. 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H Welch and will wUl sublet this also Denver Donver Denver lican itcan I Franco France ha has always been a great eat producer producer pro pro- ducer of or poultry and eggs but lately millions millions mil mu- lions of or eggs s have nave bc been cn Imported from I other countries especially for consumption In Paris Of the these Importations by far tar th the tho lar largest est proportion com comes s from Russia In 1907 about pounds of or Russian eaten In Paris Hun Austria eggs gs were gary ar In the same year furnished only about pounds and other countries 11 less 8 Among these theM E Egypt Ept pt contributed 50 pounds pound According to the European maritime papers pa pa- pers pore It is probable that the German navigation navi navi- gation gatlon companies will distribute this year year only a small mall dividend dl It If they distribute bear ute one at nt all This was expected on account o of the diminution In tho the number of or emigrants emigrants emigrants emi emi- grants which has hu continued during the year ear and tho the decrease In the freight I. I transported Tho The tl figures ures for Cor emigrants rants for tor America through Hamburg and Bremen will bo be lower this year than In 1907 K of ot Vlen has produced what ho and others reg regard rd as 39 virtually conclusive conclusive sive evidence o that fo to tes es are arc a descended from ancestors whose bodies were clothed with horny scales like those thos of or the pangolins pan pan- golins or scaly anteaters This evince evidence Is based upon the examination of or the skins of or young oun foxes and depends not only upon the arrangement of tho the hairs hairR but upon the fact that the skin Itself exhibits a R structure such uch as would bo shown by that of oC a pangolin after the tho removal remo of oC the scales scale A German Germ J geographer named I Kaiser lIer who has returned from his second visit to British East st Africa is much Impre Impressed sed with tho the effect o of the Uganda railroad upon tho the n natives along tho the line He lIe says f-ays he ho scarcely recognized thorn thom as 88 the same beings ho he met there thero eleven years ears ago o At that time he would not have dared dart risk his life lito In tn the highlands but bit last winter he wandered over them there for or seven se weeks with halt half a a. dozen men mento mento mento to carry his luggage undisturbed by fears Cears of violence The department of or publicity of or the Alas Alas- Yukon ka-Yukon exposition which will be held at Seattle ne next t year eAr has sent out a circular cir dr I cular which states that tho the exposition will willbe willbe be dry No intoxicating beverages will bo be sold on tho grounds and this action has lisa been taken despite the tact fact that tho I sale of oC he beer r and liquors Is known to have been a great source of revenue re at former I I ex expositions o The management tikes takes pains to make It known that even tho the B Bay y Streak which will take the place of or tho the midway and anel will vilI contain a mile of or amusement amuse annise- ment mont reports and catch penny schemes will be as dr dry as any other part of tho the show A new phase of or the gambling Instinct Is In iii Inoue oue among till tho lower classes A tells B that ho he will III break a nut with Ith fo so many thumps and if tr B n takes s up the the- bet and A succeeds d B II must hV give a nut or six cia pl pies s. s If H A falls tails ho he gives the nut to B. B If H B n thinks that he can break brcak the nut with a aless aless aless less number of or thumps ho tells A BO so and It Is then for A A. to accept the bet or to bid bida a lower number Another form torm of oC betting Is to put three nuts In a a. row and to break breakall all aU those with one stroke of or a knife Small boys boe bet b by tossing the nut into the alland air all and letting Jetting It fall all to earth Of Ot course there Is 19 alwn always s 's the usual ring of oC spectators I tors and among these gentlemen a lot Jot lotof lotof of or lively betting goes on Madras Madras Mall lall |