Show I I I r BITS OF INFORMATION TIO-J TIO I Loaded Q wagons ons cros crossed ed the Adriatic ca Kea on UIA Ico ice from the tho mainland to toY Y Venice Venico In 1234 The Danube rl fr wa was frozen en to the tho bottom In 1236 and remained so o frozen for a long time A cable cablA t la Is to be laid between Gt Germany and Brazil with a 0 branch to tho the G German German Ger Ger- r- r man West Vest African colon colony During the tho last ten years yearn then has bas en bf-en a a. gr at gr at expansion In the tho value of or ortho tho foreign trade of Brazil An eraS average of employers of ot tho street car cor companies of ot Now ow York City are aro Injured b by accidents uc ach i-ach month month- San Francisco i In IR contemplating a a. municipal muni muni- cipal water plant It Is lis proposed to drain dr the Sierra mountain mountains for the purpose at ata f P. P cost of about B By a n. European an process JoI flour Is compressed compressed com corn pressed Into blocks block for preservation The treatment kills nil all form of larval life arid and prevents pre ravages of or Insects There Thero were r 2 1300 moro more pupils In th thy public schools school of New York City last week eek than there thoro wore durin during tho the corresponding corre corro- week of a a. year r ar ago I Ease In mone money Is 13 not world t wide Id In I Australia thero Is a tendency ncy I toward stringency ncy and little mone money i In Iii available a for or fresh Investment C Canon non Fleming handed over the whole holo of or tho the money ho cd for tho the copyright copy copy- right of ot c certain sermons to the British h hI hospital for Incurable and the Gordon Gonion I boys boys' home Socialism has hM found many new adherents I and Is making rapid growth In S Swo- Swo den Tho The labor conditions generally have havo I been en such as to bring discontent to m many ny who had previously been apparently sat- sat A new method of oC protecting safes says Popular Mechanics Is la to arm them with witha a srena grenade o which t explodes when tho the safe gate Is la blown open and fills tho the air with deadly fumes so 0 that tha t burglars burg rs can not proceed with their work 01 Ol Shaw caught an electric eel In Pinecreek Pine Pino creek last creek last Saturday which ho he placed In his mt meat at house for safe keeping Unfortunately a a. keg of ot blo blasting powder f had hall been left lerl thero and shock from the eel set et It off ofT blowing out the whole end of the tho building 01 Ol has tho sympathy of ot all his neighbors neighbors Mount Mount Morris Ill In Inex In- In dex ex It Is said sold that Emperor William lUlam of or Germany has always alwa's been careful that tho the cradle of ot the tho should bo be used for tor each Infant nt member of or hi his family In succession This cradle I la ii over o two centuries old and Is of curiously carved black oak It Is supposed to protect protect protect pro pro- tho the bab baby who sleeps In It from fron convulsions convulsions convulsions con con- and other childish ailments Italy has a remarkable superstition ItIs It ItIs Itis Is believed that lire dire ml misfortune will be befall befall he- he fall tho the present monarch If the tho chamber r I of the dead king king- bo Interfered with till at at- least two generations h have o p passed Us U's I Therefore tho the room of or the lato late King Kins Humbert at tho the Quirinal Is shut no ono one except members of ot the royal family ra be beIng being being be- be ing permitted to enter It Thus It will re remain remain re- re main silent and unused like the apartment apart apart- ment of or King Victor Emmanuel King Humberts Humbert's father rather which Is Just as It was as wasat asat at ot the time of ot l his s de death th about thirty years cars ago Carmen Sylva hD has just contributed to toan toan an Italian Journal an article In which under tho the title of ot The Tho Reign of or Women Women Women Wo Wo- men she sho declares the advanced views urged In certain quarters concerning wo women women wo- wo I men to be ho Utopian and renounces her connection with tho the movement without wo 1 regret The queen of ot declares that she aha has written In praise of ot the I wedding bells and sung In honor of or modest modest modest mod mod- est faces and tho the jo Joys s of or the tho blushing bride of or Innocent loves and of or the tho aspirations as ae- of or Goethe's Marguerite To tho those so who do not accept these views of ot women Carmen Sylva declares that she ho prefers til the pre present ent Institutions with t a a. thUS thousand n years cars b behind them with all their archaic faults Throughout the history o of the naps Haps burg burb family of or emperors ravens ravon have hav continually appeared to Its members as heralds of woe wor At the tho moment nt when whon Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria bean began be be- gan an at his troubled reign a a. number of or ravens vens how flow over the town It ItIs Itla la Is told also that when tho the ill III fated Archduke Archduke Archduke Arch Arch- i duke Maxmillion was about to leave Eu- Eu Europe ropo rope for hl his fatal Imperial career Coup In Mexico Mex Mex- ico leo a raven persisted In following him and his wife as t they th strolled in n. n garden Sarden and that on the afternoon before tho the Empress Elizabeth was wag assassinated at Geneva Genova a a. raven swooped do down upon her herIn herIn herin In tho the woods above Territet and knocked a a. p peach ach out of ot her band hand Attention has haa recent recently b been cn directed to the number of or trees treE's In Glasgow which oro ore In a d slate their sickly condition condition condi condi- tion being attributed to smoke A A. correspondent correspondent corre corro- mentions a n singular coincidence In regard to five fie trees which a John Pattison Pat- Pat tison tIon planted In In tho the center of or his garden garlea sarden gar sar- den lea In Kel on the birth of or liEs his I tWo rIve sane eons Two of or the sons died early In Inthe inthe the nineteenth century but threes three lived till tUl after atter 1551 when thero were pre only three of or the trees standing On the nl night ht that his son Matthew died one of ot the tho s fell tell and on the night of Frederick and Johns John's death deat some years b between tw one of the tha trees tree fell tell c certainly as tho the writer remarks a singular r coincidence Glasgow Herald f I This century Is witnessing a J r revival vl 11 of or I I I I neglected languages es A writer says say than nine nino almost There re an are anno no fewer forgotten tongues which since the be beginning beginning ho- ho ginning of the nineteenth century have retaken places politically and In literatim among th tin the languages of ot modem modern mod moo Greek lieu Rou em ern Europe Europ Th nine are arc manian Bulgarian Servian Magyar IaSar Czech Finnish and Flemish This list does docs not include Gaelic which Is now experiencing resuscitation In some part of Ireland at the hands of the Gaelic It league ague nor Polish which achieved ed a political po and litera literary revival roI in Galicia The nine languages first named ore lire no now used iSel b by O of people a people a fact tact which does not suggest much likelihood of or tho the approach ap up- preach of a a. universal ersal language At one arm army post whore where a number o of O recruits were temporarily stationed stationed- an anold anold old sergeant was ordered to ascertain C to what religious sect each cach man belonged and to see that ho Joined tho the party part told off ofT for that particular form of ot worship Some of tho the men had no liking for church and declared themselves to b be atheists But tho the sergeant was a a. Scotsman and a aJuan anan nan Juan of ot exp experience t Ah eel t said he be then ye C hat hao no need to 10 kapo kape hol holy the theS I Sabbath S the stables ha line hio na nn boon been I cland oot lately And nd h he ordered d the the-in I to clean u out tho the stables st. This occupied practically the tho whole day and tho the men lost their usual US Sunday Sunda afternoons afternoon le leave l e Next Sunday a 0 bro broad smile crept over oer the thc face of or the sergeant ergeant when he lie heard hE-anI that tho the atheists had Joined the church of or England |