Show I BITS OF INFORMATION 11 Oats are saul said to bo be tho the best flesh building foed l for domestic animals A caterpillar each ench month cats cat food i wei weighing hin GOOD times it its own vii T ei weight ht Tho The largest cst wooden building in the world is tho the parliament building at Wel cl cJ Hn lington ton New Zealand Except for a n sma small area in Missouri ouri an and ami Kansas there are arc no hardwood trees w west t of the Mississippi A New York Broadway druggist estimates esti mates that the people of tho the city eit spend each year for patent medi medi- cines Constant exposure of mirrors to the thc I direct rays raS of tho the sun is apt to crystallize crystal crystal- lize tho the amalgam am and destroy the tho bril brio liau cy I s Now New Yorkers drink tea as we wen well as other othor oth oth- I er or things and it is cl estimated that one pound of the herb is consumed by each I inhabitant yearly Though New Xe York City has GOO school buildings of its pupils arc are attending attending attend attend- in ing ou on qu part time timo because there thoro is not sufficient accommodation for thorn thom grammar near Am Am- where Wordsworth was vas educated I cd ed and which was as founded in 1585 1555 by i Sandys Archbishop of York will shortly be Le closed I Of nIl nfl tho the hi bj high h rents paid paM in New cw NewYork NewYork I York City the highest arc paid by saloons sa fa a. a loons which arc taxed about double I what could be bo got from any other business busi bust bustness 1 ness for tho same premises New York City's growth is shown n by b- bythe bythe the increased demand on the tho water supply sup sup- I ply which has bas made it necessary to furnish furnish fur fur- nish more gallons each cach year for tho the last ten years New ew York City's growth and its closer doser attention to matters of public health will increase the tho expenses of the department of health for next year year in sal al- al aries This year the salary list is 1 1 I Stones which arc u used d by the lithographers litho lithe I all over the world in makin making I colored pictures arc are found in a L little disI district district dis dis- I triet not Dot more than four or 01 five miles long by two or three broad near Nuremberg Nuremberg berg in Germany Quarrying has baa gone on there for more than a century How to burn smoke avoid oi l l sparks and I eliminate combustible matter are requisites sites of railway locomotive locomotive- builders in Holland All AU railway locomotives before acceptance must be provided especially with a contrivance for burning smoke and preventing sparks em emission sion Miss Gertrude L. L Saw Sawyer er has accepted a call caU to the pastorate of the tho Free Bap Baptist Baptist churches at New Portland and East New ew Portland Me She was graduated last Juno from tho the Northfield Bible training and is said to have hao been tho the most eloquent member of her class Whether there is some somo occult reason for it or not is uncertain but it is a fact that nearly all aU of the clocks s in tho the hotels of New York City arc pers persistently kept a n little HUla fast The Tho avora average e of fastness fastness fast fast- ness nese in twelve h hotels within a half a amile amile mile of Herald Sq Square as o observed served was tour and one halt minutes Some Somo of tho ho information given by tho the newspapers nC with rc regard ard to the pecuniary rc resources of tho the duke of Abruzzi is in inthe tho the nature of fiction The Tho duke inherits a year from his is parents most of tho the money coming from his mother who was a great heiress He also has hns hasan hasan an allowance of a year from froni the tho Italian treasury Dr Mary Wolfe superintendent of tho the state to hospital at Norristown Pa has under her hel supervision more than ci eight ht hundred bundred patients Sho She is recognized as ono one of tho leading alienists of this country and was selected by the government govern meat ment a a. few years ago as ono of its representatives rep rep- a at tho international con gress ot alienists winch was wag at Antwerp Ono One hundred thousand gallons of water wa wa- wa ter tor sterilized by br electrically generated ozone are aro used daily by the tho Pittsburg homeopathic hospital Dry air is passe passed through h the and the ozone produced is mixed with the water by moans means of aspirators aspirator Three arc are use used for sterilizing water while two provide ozone use used for sterilizing instruments ments and bandages Tantalum is a n serious rival of the tho diamond diamond dia dia- mon mond a as ls T regards gards hardness In an attempt attempt attempt at at- tempt made recently to boro bore a hole 1 through h a n tantalum plate a diamond drill was used revolving times a minute After continuous drilling for seventy hours it WD was i found that a small dent about one hundredth of an inch deep had hud been made It was a doubtful question which substance had suffered tho time greater damage fe Mrs Irs Russell Sa Sage e who is one of the tho most generous and aud wise of public benefactors benefactors benefactors bene bene- factors is receiving n general thanks for buying an abandoned race track and converting it to a public playground round an and athletic field for children and young people of Sag Harbor L. 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I Mrs Irs Bussell Russell Russell Rus Bus sell Sa Sage c it is said predicts that New NewYork NewYork NewYork York women will win again ballot billot within tho the next six BIX years through a n great petition peti poti- tion from women taxpayers protesting against taxation without representation Bats Rats which have hae of late become a 1 great eat nuisance to the London tubes by attacking the co coverings rings of electric Cables cables ca Ca- bles havo been boon driven from their haunts by means of a virus which when eaten 1 by rats or mice caus causes s them to be overcome overcome over over- come with the tho desiro desire to cot got into the cuter air and to drink cold MId water It Itis Itis Itis is is a n curious and Interesting inter fact that tho the rats know whore where the tu tube e was nearest nearest near near- est cst to the surface as DS evidenced o b by y tho the great numbers which found their way to tho the top at the Trafalgar ar square station sta sta- sta tion Some experiments l by naturalists naturalist of Ea East t Prussia o havo shown hon the time possibility of tracing the mi migrations of birds and that such mi migrations rations may extend to distances dis dig hitherto unsuspected Many Ian birds bird captured two years cars ago ngo worn wera released re re- re- re leased after being tagged Oed with Ji light lightfoot ht foot rings hearing bearing rd numbers number anI and the dates Sonic Some of these marked birds have nave been ported re-ported from far away a alake lake Jake fowl with a n ring dated July Jul 2 20 G ha having been shot in Tunis while a stork tork with a rin ring dated July 5 u i l 1907 07 was killed far south of the equator counter near Ilor Fort lort Jame son Jarac-son on Rho Rhodesia esia That a stork would WOUt travel cl from north Germany to Se Africa was a revelation A. A R. R Horwood of the Leicester England England Eng Eng- land museum remarks that the colors of birds' birds e eggs 8 can in a Jar large c number of cases casu bo be traced to the necessity of ot protective pro re resemblance Whit c eggs s are usually laid laW b by birds nesting in holes in trees or in dark situations situation like owls woodpeckers and some pi pigeons eons Most I birds nesting o en cn or near the ground lay Jay I eggs of an olive olivo green reen or brown ground color Tho c eggs s of grouse ptarmigan I and so forth resemble tho the heather among which they aro laid Those of the ringed plover little tern torn and onel oystercatcher oyster opter oystercatcher catcher resemble Je the sand and shingle Je of the beach The lapwings lapwing's s 's eggs e s closely closely close close- ly Jr simulate bare baro soil or dried bents The YC chicks show similar protective colors |