Show I BITS OF INFORMATION I ISlo I Stockings kiD S made from human hair are arc worn rOm by Chinese f fishermen li as tho the best t pro preventive of wet feet foet Th They arc drawn over o or ordinary inar cotton stockings being too rough for foi putting near tho thu skin kin The Thc fir fust t automobile n lulo its appearance ap p- p in iu Shanghai Shanghai- in iu 1002 fIO and wagan was wag an American car After iter six years thoro are arc hut but cars cais there and anT and onty five of them are aro owned by b natives cs Coti Con Consular sular and 2111 Tra Trade o Reports According to Science the Berlin Academy Acad em emy of oC Sciences has r received ed 11 rt legacy of marks mark about ahot being heing tho entire iro fortune fortuno of a millionaire million million- aire aim named Samson a Berlin banker who recently di diet died l childless at Brussels The copper bath in which Murat wa va slain b by Charlotte Charlotto Corday Corda u s for or sale in Pui Paris It was sold once to a n museum for GOn hut but it it- itis is 19 for sale alo a again ain It Itis Itis Itis is described describer as an nn old tub II shaped like liko a wooden shoo shoe and ana scarred from ancient I Iu u usage South Russia has hag among its valuable minerals rock salt coal coprolites kaolin sands for g glass glass a s making makin and I ether other purposes manganese and iron ores tho the latter being easily cathy first t in in importance im ira ira- I II I free reo of phosphorus and with I I little sulphur The number of physicians practicing I in Paris is 13 placed at nt t 2500 but hut only about one eno half of or th these c make more moro t than 1600 a year Dentists do soU some somewhat what better etter a a fashionable one can ean easily earn t while iJo in some cases this fj figure greatly is-greatly is exceeded According to statistics ti t recently issued by the executive committee of the Grape Growers Growers' a association for the fir first t time timp California's alifornia's s 's wine production production production tion was greater than that of Germany Germany Ger Gr many last t yr year var ar California pro produced OOOO gallons of wine while bile Germany Germany Ger Gel many produced only gallons In Tn 1907 tho amount of gold mined in inthe inthe the thc Philippines was 1510 ounces canes nail and up to 10 June of that year 1604 I lode loile claims anti and placer claims claim had been filed Silver is as ns vet practically a negligible quantity 83 ounces hc being n mined in l 1907 1007 Oi All the iron inin yet vet pro pro- produced pro produced comes from one furnace I short tons last year eal and tho the methods are very ery crude Tho The bureau of science Manila lan has published a n bulletin by hy Warren D D. Smith chief of the division of geology and mines mine and members of that j on oil the mineral of the islands and their product in 1907 It is believed d that a sure sine profitable and steady y raining rain min ing industry mR may in timo bo be built huilt up in inthA inthe the thA col colOny n but but this report Eho shows s 's that little littlemore more than a has bas yet been made The Vanderbilt fortune once tho the gr greatest financial po power cr in the United States probably amounts at the present pres pres- I cut ent moment to not far from OO OO Of thi William Kissam Vander- Vander bilt hilt who controls the ma maj ty rity ty of tho the fam family l properties holds in ho n neighborhood neighborhood neigh neigh- i h. of whilo twelve or fifteen descendants of the commodore commo commo- dore doro share haro among th themselves tho the remaining re reo re- re e McClure's McClures s g Magazina Magazine Mag Mag- azine azina for November The Bo are a group of three thre small volcanic islands in the southern part of Berin Bering sea and thirty seven n miles roBes northwest of the i island land of oi Una- Una laska aska One Oae of these islands Castle CastleRock CastleRock Rock Bock has bas been known since sinco 1796 Fire island has been known since 1883 while whilo tho the third one one Perry island rose ros from the sea a about bout the time of the San Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco earthquake in 1906 According to toa toa toa a letter to Science this island has i now DOW ow sunk into the sea The Tho American navy nary no now leans leads the world in in accuracy of shooting six years ago it was behind tho the navy of every first fust cla class s pOY power r. r Six years ago the standard for firing heavy hean turret guns which runs which arc are now a battleships battleship's sole t weapon of consequence in batt battle was battle Was was once in fire fio minutes the f a average of hits on the target no now in use would not bo ho once an hour At present these guns fire an average e of one ono and a half balf shots a minute initiate they hit the target once a minute November McClure s Consul General T. T St St. John Gaffney of Dresden states that the tho exportation of Gorman picture post cards has recently recently re re- re diminished considerably Tho The foreign n demand is however st still ll great reat amounting to about since the bc beginning of the year to July 1 Compared with tho previous year this sho shows s a a 1 diminution of The Tho United States is said to be Germanys Germany's best st customer followed b bv by England A Asia sia ia and Au Australia nr are nl also o good pa pa- Irons trous of ot this form forni of art alt in industry l try Considerable anxiety has been fell felt in 1111 Paris since the telephone system was ts I burned out put as fiS to the danger lan ei from fire firo i ito to the invaluable in collections at the I LOll l Oddly enough one ono of the chief I dangers como comes from th the tho flat oe occupied j in HI th the Louvre Lou building h by the tIme curator I M. M M. M HV lives 3 underneath under under- neath th the galley gallery where thoro are arc pic r pictures tures turcs by hy Murillo Velasquez quez and Holbein His kitchen is ig immediately I underneath th the finest specimens of tho tl I Flemish Spanish German awl and English I schools of painting I Fires Firc havo have cost u us mis as is many as s 1 human lives in one years year's time tillie and I cur loss of property is is almost almo t as tipI tip fir I palling n The production of gold od in the I entire nUro world something like would not recoup us for our losses by fire and the incidental expenses accompanying them in the same sanie period I of time Hmo the value alue of all the tho coal min mined in this country in a a. years year's t time mC would just cover er th the cost ost t to us of our fires i iI the value aluc of our lumber r production is I a tr trifle fe more November Me- Me Me 1 I Cluro s B I ILa La Lady h- h Wilfrid Laurier wife of the thc j I premier of Canada reported in a recent speech to club women that quito quite a anum number num b ber br r of women had bad recently gained recognition rec ref I in the hi higher institutions of learning in Canada Among mong the women wom worn en lecturers lect who were J giving ID special satisfaction by hy their college work she mentioned one one woman lecturer of MeGill Mr- Mr 1 r Gill 11 university and several cral in the Royal Victoria Idona college for women Also I o sh she she- saul said that Canada bad special Ta reason to tobo ho bo of h her hor r women farmers During During Dur Dur- ing the last t vent car more immure than l t women worn wom om en fn made marle a l success 8 as farmers in in th the Dominion Dorni n io n nA A prisoner in his O own II palace pilar fearing fearing fear fear- ar ing treachery sail and assassination every moment President Cabrera of Guatemala Guate main mala who during tho the last few months has hap twice e escaped tho the bombs of his enemies ear ene I Imie mies mie is today toda as closely Jo ly guarded at the I capital a as aA a n monarch of continental Eu Eu- Tope rope C Cabrera abrera even fears rs poisoning It is said 1 about Guatemala City lity that no rio longer trusting the servants servant about the balace balce he be no now hns has his mother PT prepare pro pre pare his bis food for him Even EEn then betakes he be takes tb the thA utmost r There will bo ho hOl a mighty might political upheaval nl in iii Guatemala soon on without a i doubt And nd when Cabrera goes oes out the future I is a 1 matter r of conjecture I |