Show I BITS OF INFORMATION I Though the tho industry lT is still in its infancy infancy in fancy the tbt mines of nf Indin gi give employment employ employ- m mont ment nt to persons Immigration into Canada from January Janu Janti- T nu ary to AU August 1008 declined 1 46 40 per Pcr percent percent cent compared with tho the same period last year Exhaustive Exhaustive- tests have havo proved have proved d the th n new w torpedo nets of ol th the n nav navy abI able to tn withstand with withstand stand the attacks of torpedoes fired at atthe atthe the tho hi highest speed yet et reached The pleasant cst month of the year tar at al and other places in in Switzerland Switzerland Switzer Switzer- land was October But tho the tourists had all nIl departed and the hotels were closed Rodin's Rodin bust of Whistler is iR almost ready The sculptor is to have hac 2500 for his work Th The bust has bas given ien th the utmost satisfaction in in Paris Parisi so so much so 50 that a replica i is to be subscribed for or New York Whistler was an American but he ho once on oath in iii a n court of justice justice jus- jus jus jus- tice declared that he lie was as born in St. St Petersburg A curious disease which has done donI much damage to tho the tea tta crops of northeast northeast north north- east ast India is known as red 8 red red rust An account of the species of al alga a fcpa epa which causes it is given i en b by C C. 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I Hutchinson in the memoirs mom mem of tho the a agricultural department of India It attacks the leaves lea and sterns stems of the tho tea ten plant formin forming yellow patches It is propagated by two kinds of spores one ono carries by water and the theother theother theother other by air Francis Galton Gaiton who is now noVo 86 cars eais eai's old studied surgery in the tho old old before chloroform was used and says pays of the tho Birmingham hospital The cries I of tho the poor follows fellows who were operated on were very cr characteristic in fact each class of operation seemed scorned to evoke some peculiar form of them All AU this was terrible but only at t first It Jt seemed after a while white as thou though h the bc cries crici were somehow disconnected d with nth the operation upon which the tho whole attention at nt became fixed At a luncheon given by the lord mayor of Manchester Dean Welldon on sat next to Tree Well Well Mr Tree what have havo you ou been doin doing today to to- day t daj he be asked I I went for a n lon long motor ride rido this mornin morning anti and lost a abet abet abet bet replied the famous actor In Indeed Indeed Indeed In- In deed said aid tho dean and may I ask what the tho bet was was was' II I I made mado a bet that we would pass PUIS through different differ lifter ent odors and anil wo we only Ah Aim replied Dr Yell Welldon don promptly you missed the tho odor of sanctity Mainly Mainly About People The Tho number of cremations in Great Britain in 1006 1906 was an increase of as compared with tho the previous year I In 1907 there were Tho number I of crematories is thirteen of which six bix I are arc in in municipal Cremation in Great I Britain is is almost wholly confined to per persons ocr ocr- sons of some sorno intellectual distinction Tho The average c citizen is st still held heM in tho the fetters of custom Many persons live Jive in in fear of being buried alive and mako make provision pro in their wills that a doctor shall divide a main artery arter or thrust a knife through the heart An interesting experiment has been made by a Mr Ir Simpson impson of Port Elizabeth Elizaboth Eliza Eliza- both beth Cape Colon Colon- in order to provo prove that there thero is is room for or a new hew in iu South Africa Mr 11 Simpson has become become be be- come como impressed w with tb tho the fact that paper mi might ht be cheaply manufactured from the tho aloe nIo and to support his theory theor- he lie has made a o largo large sheet of paper Ho lie liebat had bat no machine machinery and the paper pa per is somewhat loose grained grained- But it itis itis 1 is is strung strong and of sufficiently good quality quality ity to suggest that Mr lr Simpson is right ht in m his contention Women in the province of Shima on the sou southern thorn coast of Japan are aro tho the sterner sex cx The They do most of the field fieldwork fieldwork fieldwork work aud and are also employed as divers diver They enter the water at all seasons ex ox- durin during the coldest months of tho the winter Tho They remain under water sometimes sometimes some somo times for or more moro than a J. J minute and bring up shellfish and a 1 kind of seaweed seaweed sea sea- weed weed which they thoy place in in a small net carried b by each t diver ter er at tho the girdle irdle These women divers are arc extremely hard bard hardy but as theirs is a n trying lifo the tho constant exposure causes them to a ago o quickly Dr C C. C W. W Andrews of or the geological ecological ical department of the British museum has started ou on ona a n scientific expedition to Christmas island in the Indian ocean Ten Ien years ago aco the island was Sinco Since then it has been opened up owin owing to its it guano ano deposits and aud there thero are now a number of persons person there The rho object of or the present visit isit is to ascertain ascer ascer- I taut tam what effect the agency t of man has had on OD native fauna and flora flom It is believed belie for instance that tho the native nativo I rat which chieh was wnM found on the island has now been exterminated b by time the Introduction introduction intro Intro- of the tho common brown rat of ofEn En England A spirited controversy cT in New cw Zealand Zea Zea- land hand centers around an nn old stone anchor which has been deposited in the Wellington Wellington Wel Wel- lin lington ton museum It i is s alleged on theone tho the ono one hand band that it belonged to tho famous Maori Columbus Columbu ot of the South I seas cas who discovered New Zealand On On the tho other hand it i ig contended that it I could not ha have 0 been Kupes a b because ca it was tTa found at Paremata whereas landed at nt ba bay bay and must havo have left it on tho the shore when ho bo turned his canoes canoe upside down at There arc three mounds there which are arc supposed to have hae covered prEd tho the canoes with drifting earth and sand Among Amon th the tho Moons Maoris f. f tho place is is still Nga a a- a tho Canoes of THE TilE THE SAME THING Customer In book store storo Havo you Ou Dante Dante's Inferno Clerk Clerk- Clerk No No but I can gIve gt you ou hos Who bo In Ch Chicago ol Lit Life |