Show I BITS OF INFORMATION O-i O I IThe The machine c exports of Japan have hao increased in quantity five times in ono one year 1 S An aluminum alcohol lamp with a cup for heating water Wlter or boiling an eg egg tho the whole to be carried d on ou a handle like a candlestick is something n new w for 1 kitchen or aid room The United States in 1007 produced short tons of talc and ana soapstone soap soap- stone worth an au increase over oer the preceding year of per pcr percent percent cent in in qU quantity and 7 j per cent cont in value Lava from irom tho volcano 01 no of or Savall Savail in inho tho ho Samoan islands which has been in in constant eruption for over 01 three years has bas formed a river er e eight ht miles wide wido flowing int into the ocean Under tho the name of DoScotch a Do Scotch chemist ha has invented a wash for stone that he claims will preserve it its surface from the effects of mo moisture for foran foran foran an indefinite length th of timo time A telephone system will b be completed ted in the near future in the French African African can colonies which will permit of communication com corn with the most distant posts in the interior of the tho dark continent The lar largest est static tatie electric machine over built is s owned by a 3 New ew York York physician Twenty inch forty glass discs revolve o a against twe twenty ty others to produce sparks thirty inches long by three fourths of an inch h in diameter In England in 1007 there were enacted enacted en en- acted by bJ parliament laws contained in pages CS of printed matter In the same year in a 3 single American stat stats state New Kew York York there were ware enacted sopa sepa separate rate Jaws occupying 2500 pa pages es A recent Parisian caricature shows a a. a boarded bearded Turk in a 3 turban upon the roof of his house looking through a afield afield afield field lass Allah is be he glass just ex ex- ex claims Now that my nei neighbors neighbors' wives go o about with faces uncovered I Isee Isee Isee I see that they are quite as homely as my own A train of cars a half mile long is nothing President Underwood of the Erie has an engine engino that weighs pounds the largest and most powerful locomotive in the world This monster and monstrosity with sixteen driving wheels hauls a freight train of cars two miles lcD long Every monthly magazine carries carrie as many as two continued stories in it When a man takes six it means that his I wife is carrying twelve e continued stories in her head hea in addition to doing I the cooking cookin and trying to find out how much the new ha hat bat t cost Mst worn b by the tho woman next door Oil Oil City Derrick Alaska is also ideal practice ground for the signal al corps and the Ta Tacoma oma Ledger Leder hears that wireless messages are arenow arenow arenow now speeding daily back and forth bet be between between be be- t tween een Nome Gibbon Fairbanks Fairbank Eagle and Circle Circle- The howling winter storms that have wrecked telegraph poles an and wires in tho the past are aro now set at de do- fiance The Brentford En Eng ma magistrate Montague Sharpe in n a case caso in in which a aboy aboy aboy boy admitted that ho he had slept in a shed and played pirates said that it would be a good idea if thero there was a slot machine outside the court where fathers could get their wayward wa sons ons automatically for a penny The young I pirate was taken to a cell cen and by his bis father Paris surgeons are using in some cases nails for tor forthe the cure of simple frac- frac turo For fracture of tho the shin bone or of the thigh bone bohe a nail of nickel nicke aluminum or magnesium preferably magnesium preferably aluminum aluminum is is used and is driven in to hold tho the two pit es of bone together much ranch like two pieces of wood It is believed belie that the nailing of broken ends is the quickest way to repair a fracture It does away with the tho old system under which a patient had to lie lio in bed for three weeks with his bis foot attached to a pound fifty weight ht People walking in a wood in tho the Wishaw district near Glasgow after dark were startled the other ni ni night ht by what they took to be an nn apparition in inthe inthe inthe the Wood On makin making investigation thoy they found the trunk of ot an ash tree treo in inan inan inan an upright upright position position giving in i forth a n light liht resembling phosphor phosphorescence sconce e but more brilliant Those who have hae visited the spot st insist that the tre tree s 's light is more of an sc nt brightness sufficient for the reading of print in its vicinity Largo Large crowds were attracted at to the place to witness the spectacle while whilo young p people securer secured chips of the tree and wore them thom on their clothes in in the dark Tho The making of laws is fast becoming onee once of the larger industries of the United States In La an article in the November No vember Atlantic we find the interesting statement that our legislatures 8 most or ot of which have hae biennial lIe sessions pass PMS every every ev ev- ery cry two years some separate laws In 1907 1007 for or example there wore pass passed d by con congress and state stat lc legislatures leg acts an and 1576 In England for lor the whole United Kingdom in in the tho same Mme period there were enacted public acts or general laws and the whole time of parliament parliament par par- was devoted for practically eighteen months in irl those two years years rs to the work of criticising debat debating n and passing pasing them There Thoro have bave been in the last Jast t ten n years vears vears- vears said aid a n dealer in women's t finery nery I more more than 2000 different styles of corsets in the market and weare wo we are nrc till still tSIU changing from month to tom I m month endeavoring to improve t the e shape shap of the thc female form I 1 guess uess this is iF no news to tho the sex sox A corset costs coats from froni 2 t to 33 33 But tho the female shape is about the sarno same A woman oman wears a n a corset to accentuate her hips and hold holdup uj up her clothes A man mafi wears suspend suspend- ers If it would improve e mere mero man to accentuate his hips he be would wear corsets corsets cor cor- sets too Perhaps our female friends friend would be bo surprised ed to know how many men do w wear mar ir corsets ow New York Press Charles Oharles M. M Schwab's right hand man manis manis manis is is Oliver Wren In this particular instance instance in in- in- in I stance H right band man man applies aptly to Mr r. r Wren whoso whose functions arc are considerably considerably con con- wider than those of tho the c a aver average ago age secretary in that he is in authority to pass decision upon mp important matters as well as handle the routine of the of of- fice Mr r. r Wren practically shares with Mr Ir Schwab Sr a considerable part of his bis executive duties lutie Mr r. r Wren accompanies accompanies nies nies him as secretary secretary adviser ad and companion com corn panion in most of his movements and andis is 15 responsible for th the carrying out of plans that arc formulated d durin during tb the coun coure e of the day For or this purpose be he has his lus assistants in the tha various offices of of- who do the work connected with the interests with which they are arc id identified en System Hans Knudsen a Danish Banish engineer has in ent invented d an apparatus for typewriting typewriting type type- writing messages by wireless t raphy By his device a me a e tapped out on a form of typewriter at one place is transmitted to Lo another form of typewriter er at a place many miles away and is written dirc directly on the paper As each cach key on the transmitter typeWriter typewriter type typo writer is prese pressed pressel down a little pin corresponding corresponding cor cor- responding with that particular key comes comes into cont contact ct with a a. traveling tra metal tal band and ando so o starts an electric wave wa from tho antennae of ot the wireless apparatus This wave is caught by the antennae of the distant station is if communicated com cern d by them to the receiving machine machino ma ma- chino chine and is 18 recorded on paper as a aletter aletter aletter letter of the alphabet It is claimed that tho the same invention can be made madeI to se set type by means of the tho linotype I machines |