Show I I I I I I I I I I I I I i I I BITS OF INFORMATION II The per capital circulation of or the United States is exceeded by only one other country of importance importance France Tho The Alice Freeman Palmer chimes were dedicated dedicate at the University Uni of Chicago during the recent comm commencement commencement commence commence- nce ment week Mrs Ir Palmer was yas the tho first dean of women for that university uni After granting women the tho n- n tary suffrage c Norway has hag gone gono a step further and voted to give all women employed in the postal service the same pay py as s men Norwegian women have havo struggled for this point for several y years ears Just before Queen Alexandra left England on her recent continental trip she received a letter from Martha Massey Massey Mas- Mas as 80 sey a servant girl Jirl who was lying ill in n St. St Luke Lukes Luke's s 's hospital London The girl wrote that sho she was dying yin of con consumption ump ump- tion Hon and the doctors had only given her ller hera a n few weeks to live and above all nil things she wanted to see tho the queen before before before be be- fore she died Alexan Alexandra ra was so touched by the letter than she sho went to see her herand herand and took a present of or fruit and flowers to her The exceedingly difficult country over which Austrian railroads are arc constructed construct construct- e ed ed necessarily making the cost of operating operating oper oper- steam locomotives excessive has caused the railway Y officials to study the question of electrical traction ItI It Itis Itis is now proposed to electrify 2000 miles of trun trunk line system Th The Arlberg tunnel tim tun 1 nd nol nel which serves a large traffic and is 15 seven miles long will bo be the first section see sec tion considered While the government has not definite definitely decided on any one ODe system for all aU the lines tho the three three phase phase I will it is s said id be adopted for tho the Anberg Arlberg Arl An- berg Lerg section At the quarterly sale of or ivory ory in London on April Apri 30 a total of eighty eighty- five and one one half half tons of ivory orr was offered for sale salet comprising twenty- twenty seven tons Zanzibar Bomba Bombay Mozambique bique and Siam Siani i seven even and one-fourth one tons Abyssinian two thirty-two and three- three fourth tons ton Egyptian seven and ono one half tons West Coast African one half ton Lisbon ten and antI one fourth tons I land carriage In In addition there thore were offered for sale one fourth ton I seahorse teeth one-half one ton boars boars' tusks three fo ton rhinoceros horns I I and seven and one-fourth one tons waste ivory Miss Estelle Reel superintendent of I Indian instruction wa was at the head of the tho Indian exhibit at tho the convention of the National onal E Educational association which recently closed at Cleveland Sho She has unbounded confidence in the bencI benefits bene benc- I I fits of education on tho the Indian youth of the present day lay She assorts that the graduates graduate of the Indian ludian schools at I Carl Carlisle de Hampton and aud Mt It Pleasant do o make practical use uso of tho the knowledge e gained in these institutions Indian girls take naturally to tog sewing and ana cookIng cooking cooking cook cook- ing according to Miss Reel Keel and she sho states that many man manof of tho the girl CirI graduates are arc now en engaged agea in domestic c service According to an observing coin collector collector col col- col lector Jector superstitious persons who believe in the thirteen hoo hoodoo oo should have havo nothing to do with a quarter dollar for the unlucky thirteen is much in evidence evi evi- deuce dence on the coins eoin of that tion He has noted that on tho the face of tho the coin there thero arc are thirteen stars tars and if it happens to bear tho the date 1903 1003 those figures total thirteen On tho the reverse re side there thero are arc thirteen stars above aboe the tho ca eagle l thirteen letters Jetters in the thc words E B 1 I 1 I Unum which appear on the scroll hold in the eagles eagle's beak thirteen horizontal bars on th tim shield thirteen arrowheads held in om Oili claw whilo while the branch held in tho the other claw has just thirteen leaves and anel the letters of the time name quarter dollar at the tho bottom bot Lot tom counts up thirteen Of all the industries in the world the manufacture of Cantu lace laco by br the peasants peas peas- peasants ants following this pursuit in Milan Italy is tho the most primitive considering tho the great demand for these rare are fabrics fab lab and the number of peasants employed em cm in their manufacture Ca Canti Cantim tu laces aro are not the tho product of factories but are made in the homes of the peas peas- ants It is estimated from statistics gathered during the last year car L by those familiar with the tho industry that no less Jess I than women and children arc are em- em in the thc summer months in thema the tin ma manufacture of Cantu Cantim lace It is a life study among them and efforts have hwe been made the world over to imitate the tho accomplishment of these peasants hilt but butto to no avail as the knack of the tIme art arl seems to bo Le born in them and work their fingers with amazing rap I. I it ity and skill Technical Technical World Maga Maga- zinc zine Ch Chicago ca o recently launched a fireboat which the time city proud proudly I believes to be bethe the most date up-to-date craft of its kind in in the world SIlo She is tho the first floating fire fighter to bo be propelled bv by electricity lY and is to be bo equipped with ith turbine pumps capable of throwing gallons gal gal- al Ions lons a minute The nozzles and standpipes standpipes stand stand- pipes will be ranged about the tIme center of or the craft fourteen feet feeL from tho the deck This is is to prevent tIme the handicap experienced on tho the old boats Loats where tho the hose hoso connections are on tho the forecastle and near the stern hard to use when fighting a blaze close to i L dock ock Another innovation is is the tho use of spuds spud or 01 long Jong legs le running down to the bottom of the river such as can be he seen at anytime any time on a dredge By their use th the boat can be La moored in the middle of tho the river flyer while her entire crew creT gives attention to drowning out a blaze on onshore shore |