Show II BITS OF INFORMATION II I I IThe The houses of England EDgland if placed in a aline aline I line would reach i miles Conversation is a good tood form of ex ex- erciso for those afflicted with heart disease Of the In sorts Borts of birds found in Great Britain only 10 1 are res residents all aU the year rear around I fin find a 3 great many man moro more crimes Crimea traceable to gambling a and d bettin betting than thau to drinking drinkin said paid th the recorder cr at theOld tho the Old Od Bailey Dallo Lon London on Experiments aro are being made mado with now new machinery on the Chilean nitrate I It t nelds elds which aro are expected to decrease tho cost COt of production 50 per pcr cent I According to Dr Sven He Hedin in tho the Swedish explorer tho the famous Asiatic I river river rises from an ao i enormous glacier er in tho the northernmost a mountains I Tho aggregate production of anthracite I cite cito and bituminous coal in 1907 1007 fen i hut but little short of half a billion tons toua in exact fi figures tho the product was tons of 2000 pounds A Danish expedition has bas gone ouo to Greenland to put tho Eskimos who live li on tho the southwest coast in inthe inthe the tho way tray of earning a better living Ji It is hoped to open new branches of industry industry in in- i for them The electric furnace is capable of attaining at at- lathing a heat of degrees This I is a fearful temperature and wi will melt almost everything c solid known to man In comparison with this heat u a red red- hot iron bar would be called cold Dein Being unable to a agree reo on the name llamo of either Bryan of Taft for their four- four rear old son because the wife is a Republican Re TIc- publican and the husband husbaD a u Democrat I Mr r. r an and Mrs S. 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A Johnson of Polk City la Ia named tho boy lcy Jennings I I Howard John Johnson St. St St. Louis Globe- Globe Democrat Tho The port of Liverpool Li undoubtedly ly the tho best hest planned and best equipped of British ports and upon which t there thero has lias he been en an expenditure of has been carried out on a frontage al almost almost almost al al- most identical with Montreal harbor upon which only has been spent so 50 far Tho The pan American route from NewYork New York to Buenos Ayres is miles Prim I Fpm New L York to the tho southern bor border er of Mexico is miles an and these thet o points are arc now JOW ow connected by hy rail From tho time southern border horder of Mexico r xico to Buenos Bue Buc- Buenos nos Ayres is is miles and of this distance dis dis' tanco tance 2500 miles is of s over which trains aro are running whilo there is an additional addition a miles under actual contract construction This leaves a little more than miles for tho the fu Lu t ture ure In the production of soft eo coal l Bohemia Bo Bo- hernia hemia at present occupies the tho second place among tho countries and principalities of Europe Germany standing first The total output of Bohemia which a was 2386 tons in amounted amount amount- ed to tons in 1900 1000 or an in increase increase in crease of twenty fold Of hard eoa coal Bohemia furnished in n. n little over o third one of the tho whole pro production of Austria its output amounting to 4 38 tons of which 1 per cent was consumed in Bohemia itself Wo we have havo found that thin spots in our rub rubbers ers can bo be mended at homo home by applying ap ap- plying a cement mado made from 5 cents' cents worth of real rubber dissolved in chlo chIc Keep tho bottle containing tho the I cement tit tightly corked and apply with ith witha I a mucilage brush as quickly as po possible siLlo that it may not harden hardon Wo We use used rubber rub ber her darn for an au actual hole bolo Cut a n piece of rub rubber er the tIme right size fasten it with nith witha n a few fo- stitches over the hole hoJe and brush with the cement cement Both kinds of rubber may bo be obtained from u a dealer in dentists dentists' denS den en supplies Harpers Harper's Bazar The Japanese were acquainted with iron from very carl early cary times A sword t that at was lIse used by one of the ancestors of the present prescot emperor about SOO years years B. B C C. according to tho the ED Engineering Engineer Engineer- ineer- ineer ing iDt Magazine In azine is hi still sli in existence Later when the tIme great civil war broke out in tho the sixth century b and camo to occupy a prominent prominent nent place From this time on down downto to about years ago aco no noticeable progress ha has been made At the tho beI beginning beginning be be- I ginning of the seventeenth sc century all i branches of industry began to prosper Tho The demand for iron instruments in increased increased increased in in- creased and the scarcity of iron supply sup- sup ply py began bean to bo be felt A rood good man million men women anI and children ron the tho world over have havo watched with with- admiration and respect Buffalo Bill BiU galloping around on a magnificent mag white whito cl H er shooting with t a i 1 rifle loaded with shot cartridges the very ery souls out of glass 1358 balls thrown into the tho air air by Johnny Baker But Hut nobody was ever er k by m misdirected shot No windows were broken no holes boles were blo blown blon n through h the tho tent tut The gallant Colonel Cody Corly did id not miss more than I Iono b ball in io marvelous mar one ono fifty truly fifty truly a n. record l unsurpassed since firearms were I invented Sin Singularly ular enough h. h this record record rec ree- ord never varies to au any great creat extent I notwithstanding the tho increasing 3 in ago ao of ot I Buffalo Bill New cw York Press O Over er were given d by women to philanthropy in the last year vear Mrs Russell Sage Sace gave Jayo more than thaD any other one ono per person on with the sin single le exception ex cx of John D. D Rockefeller r While some seine of her gifts arc not largo large the they I mean much to sonic some young yount people She recently gave 2700 to to pay the rent reDL of the school building of th the Pascal institute I tate tute in New York City and iDd to cover the tho I expenses of free vacation classes for I young children To Sl Sag Harbor L. L I. I I she gave o a the fair ground to be 10 formed into a park especially for the children rell When tho citizens citizen proposed changing the tho name of the village to Sage Sao Harbor she declared that the tho old place should cling clint to its or original inal name New New York I Sun I The Tho discussion of on rainfall made first bv by Sir John Murray y yand and later by b Bruckner and Fritsch permits an estimation ion to be made of ot the thc mean rainfall on continents which is four found 11 to be about thirty inches a av v year vear ar The rainfall on the ocean is moro more difficult to measure but it has been estimated by hy and aDd Fritsche Frit taking tak tak- jn mug ing account of all aJl the known facts es estimates estimates es- es s- s tho the mean annual rainfall for forthe forthe forthe the entire surface of or the tho earth rth at about thirty six inches Making use 1180 of this number it is easy to calculate that the total rainfall raina amounts to I mil million i lion millions of metric tons a year yer 1272 thousand millions of tons a dt day dav I millions of tons an all hour millions tons a minute or lo 15 millions I tons a second Scientific Scientific American I The business of raising deer us UI a matter of profit may sound strange but i there are arc a 3 number of in in vanous van van- ous Otis parts of the tho country who get Jet luI lucrative lucrative lu- lu I returns from froni their herds said saidI I W. W G. G Adams of Washington D D. D C CA CA C. C I A A friend of mine Uline be began an raising deer deerin in the District of Columbia over oer thirty I years a ago o. o and has made money in their propagation For his bucks he be e getso gets 50 o each an and the tho docs does bring 75 Deer I will eat cat almost any emy kind of grain or orI I grass graI even preferring the rankest I weeds to tho the choicest hay bay They rhey should always have havo an abundant supply of clear running water About the greatest item ot of expense connected with the tho raising of deer is the cost of fencing The Tho fawns are usually born in the spring or early summer Does Doc as a rule ruc have but one fawn at first but subsequently twins are arc born horn andin and andin in rare cases triplets Baltimore 4 American |