Show I BITS OF INFORMATION TIO I I ITh Th The present year rear promises to add 3 a population of 1 to New York City The remarkable development of plant life in the Arctic regions where the sun is weak is thought to be bo duo to atmospheric atmospheric atmos atmos- electricity Recent geologists have have- confirmed the statement nt of Louis A Agassi that the whole of X New W England Englan was once covered coy cov ered ere with an ice ico cop cap a a. mile thick The National Good Roads association W was S or organized by dele delegates ates from thirty- thirty ei eight ht states in national convention con at Chicago O November 21 1 1000 1900 By a new adaptation of tho the vacuum cleaning machine a horse hone c can n be cleaned in less Jess than one-fourth one the tho time that the ordinary curry comb and brush take I A movement is on foot to introduce trackless trolley lines Jines in Ireland The first probably wi will be from Donnybrook near Dublin to Bray a seaside resort By wireless telephony two French noval noval no no- 1 val I officers have succeeded in having haying conversation con son songs s and even whistling heard beard perfectly at a distance of ninety miles milos Since its introduction into the English protectorate of U Uganda anda in 1901 the sleeping sickness s has killed no fewer than out of a l total population of An automobile that swallows its own dust clust is described in Popular Mechanics Pipes suck up the dust from the rear wheels and draw it into a bo boy from which it is n again ain deposited on the roa roain road in granulated form The Bri British tish colonial office recen recently sent out an expert pert to report ou on the Kenia Reala Ke Ke- nia ala forest foret in tho East Africa He found the forest orest to be bo miles long loner by bt eight ei-bt broad and to comprise comprise com com- prise acres of timber valued at for the wood alone The Thc art craft institute of Chicago has started a operative co-operative farm near that city More Moro and more moro women are going oin into various kinds of farmin farming with considerable con con- success The women working I on the farm arc are self supporting while they are arc learning their trade Miss Charlotte Yonge built a school at Pett near Winchester England out I I of tho the proceeds of The Tho Heir Hair of Fed Fed- civile clyffe while tho the profits from another of her books The Thc Daisy Chain sufficed suf suf- deed to found and partially endow St. St Barnabas college Norfolk Island for foi forthe tho the Melanesian mission Following in some sonic ways ways tho the genera general lines Jines of the thc car dumpers in use on the lakes laJ an atus is to be bo built in Philadelphia for the Lehigh Lebich Navigation avi a. a tion company which will take hold of ofa a canal boat elevate ate it sixty feet in the theair theair theair air and empty its contents either on tho the wharf for conveyance to a stora storage e pile pilo or into the thc hold bold of another vessel A system of automatic signaling sig worked entirely bv by electricity is bein being installed on the Metropolitan j railway in I I London Lonrlon The system is said to be less loss cumbersome than the electro pneumatic one ono in use on the Tubes The new uw system provides for the tho brakes of the train being bein at once automatically applied ap op plied if a driver should pass a sl signal signa nal set at dan danger cr Walkin Walking one ono misty nj night ht J through h a street in a Scotch village villaco a minister fell into a deep hole There was no ladder by which be he could make matte his escape and he be began an to shout for help A laborer passing passin heard his cries an and lookin looking down asked him who he was Tho minister min mm ister told him whereupon the laborer remarked Weel Wed wed ye Vo kick up sic a noise You'll YouIl no no bo be needed afore an an this is only Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- day ni night ht Robert Louis Stevenson and Edmund Gosse v were re promenading in Edinburgh one afternoon when they met a stalwart stalwart stal stal- wart be beggar gar whom Gosse refused to aid Stevenson Sto however wavered and finally banded handed him a sixpence Theman Theman The Tho Thoman man pocketed tho the coin coins forbore to thank his big benefactor but fixing his eves on Gosse said in a loud voice And An what is tho the other little gentleman going to give o me mc In future said Stevenson Steven Steven- son as they strode coldly on I shall be the tho other little gentleman On account of the growing row n scarcity of wood the national conservation commission has undertaken to investigate gate ate the tho possibilities of sawdust InquIries Inquiries In In- bearing bearin upon tho the subject have bave been sent to five hundred bundred manufacturers manufacturers hirers of explosives pulp wood and aDd like products Closely related to this particular particular par par- in esti investigation are other inquiries dealing with the Iho utilization of waste lumber from sawmills and waste ma ma- I I from m mills Ils devoted to cooperage furniture box veneer and oth other r industries in in- In a certain part of Scotland according ac cc- eor cording int to Dean Ramsey the shepherds used to take tako their collies with them to church Tho The dogs behaved well wen during the sermon but began to be restless I during luring tho the last psalm and saluted tho the final blessin blessing with joyful barks In one church the con congregation resolved to stop this unseemly detail dota l so when a strange minister was about to pronounce pronounce pro pro- nonnce the blessing all remained seated seated seat scat ed instead of rising as he expected Ho He hesitated and paused till tm an old shop shop- herd berd cried Say Sav awa awa sir were we're a to cheat the dows There Thore is an experimental plant for forthe forthe forthe the cooling pre n of oranges In cars at Los Angeles Cal It consists of two thirty-inch thirty square insulated ducts leading lead leading ing n from an ammonia capable capa ble blo of supplying from sixteen to twenty tons of refrigeration in twenty four hours bours The cold air is for forced ed in either direction through tho the car and back to tho the by a motor fan In experiments ex ox- says Popular Mechanics the theair theair theair air was varied aried from 20 degrees ees F. F when first entering the cars to higher temper temper- I The air is is forced through tho the cars at different velocities and in vol I ume varying from to cubic feet a minute Street cars without platforms in the ordinary sense of the word are being boin- operated in Montreal The means of entrance and exit consist of side openings open openings ings ints somewhat to the rear of the center conter cen con ter while in in addition to this there is isa isa isa a small exit at the forward end of the car to the tho r rear ar of the tho motorman motorman's s 's box Tho The pas on ors enter the car h the central platform and aDd after alter depositing deposit deposit- ine ing their fares iu in the box move either front or back the interior of the tho car bein being divided by bV a partition The rear part of the car is designated for smokers The Tho doors are arc operated by the conductor through compressed air airI mechanism Tho The modern Iron theater curtain which is really a A. metallic wall by which a theater auditorium may be effectually separated from the thc stage in case of accident acci dent ent b by fire must be properly constructed constructed con con- says sas-s Le Tern Temps ps if ito benefits are to be r A descent at an unexpected moment would result in the loss of as many heads head as might mi-ht be bo in its way and a failure to move it at all might also cause trouble This latter Jatter feature was experienced at the seventy performance of Le Roi at at the thc Varieties The house was well weIl I filled francs having been taken in at the tho box office oHice when it was time timeto to begin the tho performance but the tho I metal curtain could coald not be bo rai raised ed Ono One of the bie bie- counterweights had been loosened and crashed to the stage e. e Repairs Repairs Re Ro- pairs could not be made and the audience au an- filed out receiving the price of tickets back at tho the door |