Show I BITS OF INFORMATION TIO Australian mines employ men The average O height of the Laplander is less Jess than 1 five c feet It 11 is rl that a considerable portion portion portion por por- tion of or London's petrol motor omnibuses omni buses bUcS aro to be bc changed to an improved system m of or steam traction Miss n s Mary E. E Check Cheek of or Toboso 0 O. is S 'S the only wre regularly appointed woman rural mail carrier in the state She has served in this capacity for six years A physician upon opening tho the door of his consultation room asked Who has been heen waiting longest I I have spoke up the tho tailor II I I delivered your clothes three weeks a ago o Prescott Ontario has become an entering en cn terin port for American coal conI One Ono firm landed tons during tho the nn nav navigation period of last year A large o unloading and loading plant has bas been in in in- stalled Mrs J J. M. M Barrie Barric wife t of the author author au au- au thor is si said to be one of tho most expert motorists motorist in Great Britain She owns cars in in which she takes long tours with ith her husband but sho always manages manages man man- ages the car herself In tho Congo tho extravagance of or the average white man is astounding I Champagne is tho the invariable in order of tho the da day for men getting a l few hundred dollars a year and the official usually Jan lauds lands s in Antwerp after throe three years ears w wit with th enough money for a 3 spree when he must sin sign and go o back Worlds World's Worlds World's Work Wark The other day some tons of wastepaper waste paper was shipped out of this city to a n paper mill rain in Michigan to bo be ground into into in in- to pulp says the thc Washington ashington Star This stock represented tho the accumulations of ot four Card of canceled monc money orders totaling sheets and once representing rep representing resenting a of George Hayward ago age 91 01 who has just died ed at Needham Market lived H nearly all his life in tho the same house He lIe never nevel had bad a days day's holi holiday ay and never saw the sea Hayward was ns formerly in business business busi husi ness ness as a n butcher and ho he was in th thi 1 habit of or wearing an apron at church on Sundays beneath his frock coat Lou Lon Loudon Lou Lou- don Daily Dally Mail Tom rom Reed and Jerry Simpson the noted Populist con congressman were great friends Their good relationship came after this incident Say Sar Jorr Jerry said Reed one day why aro are you a n Populist l list st 1 u For lor the same reason said aid Simpson II that that you are a So Republican A majority of f the tho people of our respective respective re re- re ve districts are aro of our way of thinking Exports Exports of Chilean nitrate in the twelve months ended March 31 31 1903 IDOS were tons a against 11 tons for tho the preceding year rear Tho The production pro was 0 tons a gain ain of tons The worlds world's consumption of nitrate in 1907 08 was tons I a against tons in 1900 The Tho first three months of tho 1908 calendar year show a lar largo large o export increase Conditions in tho the gold producing industry in industry of South Africa have greatly chan changed cd especially in immense sn in saving in working expenses The total output of the sitt sixty companies working on the Rand in July was obtained at an acra average average av a av- av cra c cost of lis Dd a l ton The expense of the thc Robinson mine worked out at lb 11 d a ton compared with an average average aver er age for that mine just before the Boer Beer war of lid London Loudon London correspondence correspond correspond- ence New Now York Evening E Post A tale of an Australian native boy from a recent volume It A A boy accustomed to see Bee his master tho the owner owner owner own own- er of a station jump his horse over o the gate gato instead of stopping to open it tried trie to follow Tho The horse cantered up grandly seemed to gather ather himself for flir forthe forthe the jump ump and balked Tho bo boy shot out of the saddle and over o tho the gate ate As ho hop p picked himself up and ana shook the dust from his clothes he lie glared lared back at th thi tb horse say saying n I You blurry liar han The water in Lake Champlain durin during dur dur- durI I in jug ing tho the recent drought reached the tho lowest low hw w. cst est point recorded in local history rime nine feet below hi high h water mark Steamers were obliged ed to abandon many of their trips on account of the impossibility of making landings s at the tho docks Tho The Tho mountain brooks became almost df dry and the beds of some Borne of tho the largest rivers riv rh nv- nv ers erg were mere threads of ot water The drought and forest fires tires were ruinous to a agricultural interests New York Sun Walter Pater an old man at 50 SO bald baldas as n a coot an and grotesquely plain regard ed every woman much as did Dean Swift who t wrote II A A vcr very little wit is valued in a woman oman as wo we arc are pleased with few words spoken intelligibly b by a parrot You You dont don't approve of or marriage marriage mar marriage a friend once observed to Pa Pa- ter II No 0 ho replied Ie nor nor would anybody else if he avo ao the matter proper prop prop- er consideration Men en and women are always pulling different ways Women wont won't pull rull our way They aro are so O per per- verse One hundred and ten million cubic cubie feet of gas were lost by hy leakage c in London London Lon Lon- don last year and year and that by one company compan alone It did not escape in iii a rush and there was no explosion It just filtered away a little at a time Every time a ahen hen heavy van crossed t the hc road roid under which a main lay n n. breath of coal gas as forced its wa way through h an infinitesimal crevice into space and freedom un iJ enough h to fill balloons such as that of or Count Zeppelins Zeppelin's late lato airship had been Jo lost t. t An iu ingenious and amusing answer was recently given by a student in the natural natural natural nat nat- I ural philosophy class at Princeton uni uni- tl An instructor gave the question question ques ques- tion Define Defino transparent translucent and J J I I opaque cannot professor an answered the student precisely cly define defino those terms term hut but I can in indicate their moaning meaning in iu this way waye The Tho windows of ot this room were on once e transparent they I Itro are aro now translucent and if not nol cleaned i very verr soon the they will be opaque Lip Lippincotts Lippincotts Lip Lip- I S I Club women o of Chicago have been aroused over a recent case in tho the J municipal nn cipal ci- ci pal court where a n woman was fined 20 O for wearing jumpers Tho The woman was working as as a n hod bod carrier and explained ex ex- ex- ex pl to the judge that she put on the jumpers JJ because they hampered h her herless herless r less Jess than skirts Her explanation did not riot suffice for tIle tho court and now the tho club women have havo como come to her assist assistance ance anee They wish the jud judge o to explain in what respect tho the ear 1 wearing n of jumpers by a working woman is a n greater offense otTense to public morals than the pink ti tights on ona ona ona a ballet hallet girl Tho The island of Hokkaido i H is one of Japans Japan's most valuable properties Its mineral production largely ely coal increased in increased creased from in 1 to nearly near near- ly Ir in 1907 and this is with only a 3 very small sinai part of its mineral mineraI field exploited In order as named the tho leading minerals mineral arc nrc coal sulphur gold gola silver and manganese The coal is superior superior su su- su- su to that of other districts in Japan Many any ships from the Pacific coast of the United States call at tho port of for coal This is s the foundation for the great reat iron and steel industry now being Leins formed by br British and Japanese capitalists In four mines in iu this locality the underlying I ing coal is estimated at tons I |