Show I BITS OF INFORMATION J III II I I The The- proportion of oC left handed people Is Isone Isone I one In six I Pure l r Is III from malt malti I i I boiled with hops and then n t fornicated fermented rm There ur are arc nf nearly sheep I Ih lb I Australia and andew New ew Zealand i and To fo prevent pre tho the theft of electric light tight I bulbs a socket Is la now made which locks with a D key hey eo so that removal is Impossible blo ble without the tho lw key Trade of oC the United States with its s American neighbors In fn 1907 1507 amounted to nearly n u a little litHe moro more than a a. third as ns much inch a l decode o ago ngo I Veterans of tho the Mexican war have ha not the tho homesteading privileges granted d l toe tile veterans of or other wars and of cour course o their children have e not these privileges For use uso on rural dell delivery routes route 1 a 0 letter let let- tor ter box hox has an electric attachment which gives gl the tho alarm In tho the house hOUM some pome ells tanco tono a away a when mall mail matter has boon leen deposited within b by the carrier It Il has been shown hown b by a 0 ro royal al tom com j mission that tho the present Insufficient consumption con- con i of or coal coni In Great Britain leads to a Q waste of M from to tons per annum Thirty per cent of or orthe the tue total British consumption of or coal might be c saved by employing the tho best l known means for Cor each cach purpose o Charles Roberts M. M r. r P. P In hl his boon on Thu Tho Time Limit nn anti and Of Option III on I brings out th the fact revealed by hy the homo lionie I office returns that of tho l Hi civil fJ parishes In rural districts In En England I and Wales thc there rp are arc moro than 30 per c cent nt In which there Is no license In Inthe tho the county of Lincolnshire Lincolnshire- 4 43 13 Per cent are no tC license parishes Progress I In the Revue ue de e efe fe M M. of points out that while one Inch equals I r. r centimeters the lie ratio 33 3 equals can cnn be bo used for nil all i l calculation It being less Ices than thE tho thoi i hundredth part of oC one cent below th thI the true value Conversions Cl can n bo be readily I made on the tho slide rule by using the tho proportion pro pro- I portion Inches centimeters 63 Increase In the tho price of grain and food foOt foodstuffs I stuns stuffs throughout India has hag become n a serious matter flatter on account of tho the poverty po I of if the masses and the tho low wn wages es paid for Cor labor accord according Ins to a 0 report made by I Consul General William B. B Michael to lo the tho bureau hureau of Ho says that food stuffs have ha a advanced 40 per cent during the tue last two years cars In India rents s from 50 SO to 60 per cent This years year's large catch of or all kinds of fish both hoth In fn th the tho Grand banks and alon along the Vova o Scotia coast has tended to tomake tomake tomake make tho the price of all fish products much low lower r than In former forr er 1 years according to toa toa toa a t port made maclo by Consul General Genera David P. P Wilbur of oC On account of or tho the difficulty In Ie getting men the number r of or vessels sailing from ports along alonS' the south shore of Nova O l Scotia has decreased InI in inthe the tho last few Cow years ear I American lake ship yards launched six fifty vessels e In iii 1907 1007 of oC which forty were bulk freighters three package fr freighters one passenger steamer r. r one I salvage steamer one lighter one small boat five tho tugs and four Cour scows s Only Onto one vessel ossel a tug was as built bunt In ChI Chicago ago says thA Scientific American but eight freight freight- I 1 ers and two package freighters were built hullt I In Detroit There ar are arc on the stocks for fori i IY tw twenty four nt our freighters a against aln t tort forty five at the beginning of oC I 11 1007 07 I A. A H. H I Kirkland superintendent of oC the gypsy PS moth campaign in n Massachusetts has determined by hy observation that the young of oC tho gypsy moth are not able to feed on the pine for Cor the first three weeks after hatching It follows therefore that plantations of white pine ma may mar be made without fear tear of or the depredations of or these Ins Insects provided all aU un undergrowth I II I and contiguous deciduous trees etc ote are cut away as any caterpillars hatched within territory thus protected would woul I S 6 starve r c Horticulture Tobacco Is one of oC the principal exports from tho the United States to Spain The Tho Spanish company compan which t has a monopoly on that countr country's c tobacco trade trado Is now now thinking of oC forming In fn conjunction with other tobacco purchasing countries a Q trust to lower the price of oC American to to- to bacco Should It fail fall it plans to purchase purchase pur pur- purI I chase Brazilian tobacco at al Hamburg and Bremen In order to replace little by little I the American product which it formerly purchased d In the tho United States s and f i iother iother other markets I |