| Show I BITS OF INFORMATION A TION II Hydraulic presses arc are used md in England for making seamless steel boat hulls bulls The hi bishop hop of London's evangelistic has started its outdoor campaign cam C n nail and will ill hold meetings s every ery Monday Mon Moo Monday day evening in Hyde park London the plan being cing to p extend the tho work if it proves successful ful in In this place The caissons for tho the foundation f work ork of tho Singer tower were sunk stink to bedrock bedrock bed heel rock through h nearly seventy feet of nf quick quicksand and tho p pillars incrusted in cement were in that adjusted to the tho fundamental rock over o sixty of them having ing thus been pl placed within thin three months mouths after tho the caissons were first firs sunk To a professors professor's lecture on morality his students listened with duo due submission submission sion aba and humility In the course of his lecture the tho excellent man mm said My Iy young friends tho the floors of hell hen nio are paved pa with champa champagne e automobiles and chorus girls lie ile was horrified to hear one of the tho students IH army in n a sepulchral tone Oh death leath is thy sting 1 Fifteen en thousand pictures are uc now on exhibition in iu tho the two great salons salon in in Paris represent about three acres of canvas can The Tho total length th of oC tho the pictures without their frames would be bo nearly ten miles Reckoning Beckoning one ono minute to look at every cery picture and without taking any rest by day or night it would tako talo ten days dars and ten hours bours to tosco see seo every cry picture in the two salons A mining journal published bed at nt Scranton Scranton ton has been calling attention to tho the curious fact that in coal mining communities communities there is a n marked marke deficiency in inthe tho the mortality from rom tuberculosis a as al compared com com- compared corn com pared with that of other localities This is a phenomenon that has also been observed oh ob sen served d in iu Great Britain and anel attention has been drawn to it b by B. B II H. fh According to Mr r. r Thwaite tho the effects not noted eel pH maj- maj bo ho due duo to tho the physiological of oC carbon monoxide for ho lie fin finds s that men engaged about bla blast t furnaces and gas gaa as producers are aro peculiarly freu from trouble Records for tho the amount of lumber Jumber sawed from ono one tree from one aero acre and from ten acres have havo been boon shattered by br the cut mado made fr from m a ten nero tract of oat land on tho the north horo boro of Puget el sound The log los scale shows that feet were obtained from trees in in a ten- ten acre tract or an average of 6 feet to the acre according to the tho Seattle Post The ThA re record ord acre aero of the ten yielded just feet ct as no compared with ith u a normal average Crage ot of feet to the acre On this particular br lar nero aero a single fir tree scaled led feet or less Jess ess than feet under the tho average 0 yield of an m entire aero acre of ground roun Down in Alabama said John D D. theres thoros a deputy marshal who docs does not let an any such trifles trifleR as extradition cx- cx tradition laws la stop him Term ferm of court was about to begin at one ono time and aDd a gentleman who was Wl out on bail bailas was as reported reported re re- re- re ported porte to bo be enjoying himself over in iu Georgia Deputy Jim went ent after him Next da day ho lie tele telegraphed tho the judge e I have havo persuaded him to come A few days das later ter he rode rodo into town on a mule leadin leading his prisoner tied up snugly nugh with witha a n. clothesline The Tho prisoner looked d as if it ithe he had seen hard bard service Why for heavens heaven's sake Jim Jini said laid the tho judge you ou did didn't t make him hint walk all the tho way Wl from Georgia did you No Xo sir said Mid Jim part of tho the way way I dru drug him and when we came to the Tallapoosa river ri ho bo swum swain In Southwest bay in tho the New Hebrides group there i is a I. I small wooded oo ed island of consi considerable height above tho the sea ea although only a 1 few hundred yards in circumference Tho The story of its acquisition acquisition ac nc ac- ac is a a. curious one ODe Southwest hay bay used to bo ho considered a good place for target practice by tho the British men war of-war on patrol duty there and aul this sma small II islet f was used as a tar target et PO so frequently fre rc that it seemed in iu danger danFor of being be he- inn ing gradually gradual shot away aIa The rhe ho chief who owned it protested 3 and wanted corn com The captain of a n of nina war who understood the tho natives cs l knew ne' ne that these thc claims would bo be a n. ceaseless source of blackmail unless the they were settled set set- tlc tIed once for all nil so 80 he bought tho the island for the British crown crown paying ten sticks of tobacco for it an and every everyone ono one was satisfied The rhe pia place co since then has been heen known a as Ton Stick island Lon London don Standard The Th reign of the tho knife and ana tho the stiletto stiletto sti sti- ti- ti letto which has hal been heen unquestioned in Italy for centuries says aJ's tho the Roman correspondent of a Berlin pap paper r. r is to lo lobe be he brought to an end For Of generations it has been the custom to carry a knife and anel those men in in the lower f walks who had bal no 00 knife carried carrie a n sharpened nail or tile fUel to be ho used on the sh slightest tion The wine wino is is hea heavy tho the blood of tho the people i. i is hot their pow power r of self self- control small Is it a wonder then that with the tho murderous instrument always always al 31 al- al ways a s 's at hand there should sho he bo PO so o many fatal encounters But the lawmakers lawmaker's have havo at last Int discovered that the morals of the whole nation have o been influenced I for the bad had bv In the vine knife custom und and laws Jaws will be passed S i similar to those now JIO in in force in ill some sonic parts of tho the United States State of America making it a I. I crime to carry a n deadly weapon |
