Show I I BI BITS OF INFORMATION 1 I England's birth rate rato is twenty eight t ht to tho the 1000 Tho The total trade trado of or the Philippine Islands Islands ands last year rear was t Imports exports In tho the sandy deserts of f Arabia Ambia whirling whirling whirl whirl whirl- excavate atc pits its in ing sometimes o let feet in depth and extending down to the tho harder stratum on which tho the great creat I bed rests Methodists at It Seattle will build a largo large 1 institutional church for the Tap Jap anew of that c city tv preferably installing ag HI pastor the Rev hey S S. S Yoshioki tho the preacher at vat the First Methodist church Churches of the Christian denomination tion throughout the country are arc making unusual efforts to liquidate liquidato all their in indebtedness indebtedness in- in in- in s before next year which will willbe willbe be the centennial of the church has hns become a r port ort of call caB for all the rc regular ular European steamship lines since the completion of the Uganda da railway which taps the heart of Central Contral Africa front from that port to Lako Lake Victoria Victorino Tho The Drago or Calve Cal doctrine is that lint private claims of foreigners n against American countries sha shall not be he collected collect collect- ed by force Tho The doctrine was enunciated enunciated b by eminent citizens of Argentina and Secretary Root proclaimed at one of the banquets given him at Buenos Bueno A Ayres res the adherence of this countr country to the I doctrine I. I Recently MM 1 and have 0 discovered disco two tribes not far from Topic Tepic a city of inhabitants n in u Mexico They are arc known as the Coras Conis and the and appear hitherto to have bavo been unknown to the outer world They have havo preserved their ancient ancient ancient an an- manners and customs as ns if Hernan Her Her- nan nando o Cortes and the tho Spaniards had never placed foot in the countr county country The Countess Marta Maria aria Von Linden Ph.D. Ph.D. Ph D. D of Bonn university who has been beenen en engaged aced for some sonic time timo in in re research earch and experimental work ork on the subject of the endurance of hunger bunger among butterflies Dutter i s is about to publish tho the result of her ef ef- I I forts Tho The countess has hns found that a butterfly can live for seventeen days without food losing during that period two thirds of its normal weight weicht The residents of Greenville w witnessed recently for the fir first t time timo ne negro ro women women at work in the streets For some sometime sometime time it has been felt that the women I I who have been convicted before the recorder recorder re re- re corder and who were therefore put on the tho gang an had become a source of trou ble be For that reason the they the were given en light ht work in the tho streets street such as cutting cutting cutting cut cut- ting grass Greenville S. S C. C News According to tho the Electrician the committee committee com com- appointed in connection with rebuilding re ro- ro- ro building of tho Russian navy has decided de do e. e to ut utilize the public contributions which have ha been subscribed for the purpose purpose pur pur- pose lose of rebuilding the warships in establishing establishing es es- es wireless telegraph stations at atei ei eighteen points on tho the Baltic coast lire line Orders it is t said aid have already been given for the equipments Admiral Lord Charles Beres Beresford ord has sat in parliament on several occasions At York one ono evening enin after having addressed addressed ad ad- dressed a political gathering a famous politician who had veered round on the home Lome rule question approached him hint and I said Admirable speech Beresford very vory very good oo indeed I J didn't think you could do it You dont don't look Jik like a statesman Perhaps not was the bluff sailors sailor's retort No Xo more do you ou look like a weather cather cock Beldman The Tho total cost of the buildings erected in tho the principal cities of tho the United States in DOi 1907 was a net decrease of from the figures gures of 1906 but an increase over those for foran any an any previous year Tho The unit cost of building however increased in the last year for there were some permits per per- mits issued in in 1907 1007 as against 4 in 1906 In the cities showing a decrease do de crease in building New Nen York takes the lead with a falling fairing off of or 2684 2654 per cent Dr Tames James F. F Rymer a native of Croydon will soon gain ain the distinction of bc being n the tho first fu fully qualified English Eng Eng- lish ish physician to carry carryon on professional work within the tho Arctic circle A few days a ago o Dr Rymer left Edmonton Alberta Aberta on a lonel lonely journey of 1800 miles along the Athabasca and Mackenzie Macken Macken- zie rivers His Hist destination is ia Fort Good Goo Hope which is about miles within the Arctic circle He does not propose to return to civilization for at nt least three years Dr R Rymers Rymer's mers patients patients pa pa- patients will bo be Indians and Eskimos Eskimos- London News It i i is not Dot generally general known that Stanley Stanley Stan Stan- Stan Stan-I ley 10 the famous explorer was a waif and that his ori original inal name namA was not not Stanley at all aU says tho the Delineator The fhe little boys boy's real name was John Rowlands Rowlan Ho was born horn near Denbigh Wales in in IS 10 When he ho was as three years old he was put in iu a poorhouse at St St. St Asaph It was ten years later I that he sailed away to America as a cabin boy In Now New Orleans a merchant I t bv Div the thc name of Henry Morton Stanley adopted adopted him and the little hUe boy was given en his is name The John r Rowlands was discarded from that day dar When t the e win windows broken by bv t two o suffragettes ettes at tho the prime ministers minister's official cial residence 10 Downing street London London London Lon Lon- don wore ware re it was w-as then found that the glass of the broken windows f had bad never er er been disturbed since sinco the house was built and was of the old oM crown style This is what is known as stone stono glass stono stone bein being used in its manufacture It was found quite impossible impossible sible to get any of this so 0 the two windo windows s will never again be he uniform with the rest of the windows and the suffragettes can claim that the they have loft left a 3 lasting mark upon the historic house in which dwells the man they most delight delich t to persecute An improved apparatus has been made b by Dr Fritz Lan Lang of Munich by hy which the inside of the stomach can be lie clearly photographed The camera is actually swallowed by tho the patient and when it t reaches his stomach the walls thereof can be bc illuminated illuminate by a small sOlan electric lamp attached to the apparatus At the bottom of the camera is wound a photo photographic firm twenty inches long lon and a quarter of an inch wide wido All AB tho the sur surgeon has to do is to pull puB a cord and aud thus run the film mm past tho the lens The Tho electric li light ht is then turned on and after after af af- af ter the sensitive film has been impressed with tho the image e the current is turned off and amI another section of the film is brou brought ht into play until tho the requisite number of pictures have been obtained If it is true that national adages give c an insight into the ideas of a people peo peo- pie pe says the tho Berlin Radical H women women must occupy a 3 strange pos position tion in Russin Rus Rus- sia sin One Ono of these thes old saws runs Low Love your wife as aB much as DS your mule and another tells tes the coo good man Shake your our wife as you OU would a fruit tree I That woman is not considered frail raj is shown bown by the ada adage e You Yon may safely beat beRt your wife ife with a broom handle for she is IS not ma made c of porcelain J Beating Beatin Beating Beat Beat- in ing must be cons considered a wholesome pastime to judge e from the saying sayin If If your wife deserves a 3 beating in the morning remind her of her faults by iD gi giving her another at noon In justification jus ins of this kind of attention tho the Russian says gays The more a man beats bents his wife the thc better his meals will be |