Show I BITS OF Or INFORMATION I Good beet root yields an average crae of 12 per cent of sugar suar Of or nil nn the gold in tho ho possession ion of man mail 70 O per cent is in iu tho shape of coin I A statue of Liebig is iH to be erected in Darmstadt where ho was born bom in 1803 1503 British India has miles mile of telegraph tel c raph and cable wires which arc are worl worked ed at a 3 very cry good profit profil A c company has been beell formed in Europe Eu Fu rope for the tho purpose of erecting and operating op crating first class hotels in various cities cit ic ies ies and towns of Greece The Molteno 1 Cape Colon Colony farmers havo hit upon a novel no plan for dealing with locusts A farmer has imported some somo eagle kites for the purpose of scaring locusts from the time crops Sault St Ste. Ste Marie canal tra traffic c for the Sl season of 1007 reached a grand total of 58 17 H tons which shows a net increase increase in in- crea crease e of 1 12 per cent or tons a as compared with that of oC tho season on of 1900 1906 Maine faino and Missouri an and North Korth Dakota Dakota Da Da- Da kota are no soon to voto vote upon constitutional constitutional amendments amen lUent embodying the initiative initio ato at o and referendum for state matters and md Maine aine proposes to extend this s right to 10 municipal corporations An hero aero is square inches An inch of water on an nn acre is therefore cubic inches That amount at at cubic inches inch's to tho gallon gnon equals 2 2000 gallons or pounds or tons An inch of rain is in in Other words I rain falling at lt the rate of tons to I I I I I I tho the acre The Thc area of Maryland larand is square I miles 2 2330 2350 O square miles of which are arc water There are aro seven states in the tho union which have havo a 3 smaller area aren viz iz every New England n lan state except Maine faine and ancl New Jersey and Delaware The gross ross arco of none nono of these states equals the laud land area of Maryland For or tho the first decade of tho the twentieth century one olle of oC Canadas Canada's greatest ac acv accomplishments COI will be he the completion of tho the Dominions Dominion's second transcontinental railway Th The Grand Trunk has finished its pr prairie ir e section from Winnipeg to Ed- Ed mouton monton Prom From Edmonton to the coast m miles c through h tho the mountains three years toro moro will be bo needed The work is s exceedingly nl difficult and expensive e eTho Tho The wireless telephone is being steadily stead j fly ily pushed toward commercial practicability by the inventors in The work of the tho Fr French ch naval I lieutenants Colin 1 anc and Mercier and nud Mr r. Leo De Forest Fore of this cit city seems already to have havo opened tho the ether to wireless converse er e of an experimental nature over o distances of from 00 to GOO miles and Mr I r. r Poulsen of Copenhagen en has lias promised 1 a transAtlantic trans tram Atlantic wireless telephone soon soon New New York Globe A Florida judge ruled that mullet cro not fish but birds because they had gizzards The cust customs ms officials in in New York ruled that fro frogs s were fish and must pa pay duty as such A game ame harden warden war har- den llen in Maine Maino gained popularity b hy by declaring de de- de daring claring oysters were gaino gamo ant and so 60 acquired ac ac- jurisdiction And Ana now comes a 3 decision from tho the custom house that hn bagpipes pipes are toys and cannot bo be classed as musical instruments for purposes of ot taxation Florida Florida Times Unton In ISO the production of fermented liquors iu in the thc United States upon which taxes S were paid was IS barrels including 0 removed for export In 1906 1006 tho the production had increased to barrels i and in 1908 to barrels In 1599 1899 tho the United States internal revenue re tax was paid aid for consumption con on gallons of distilled distilled dis dis- tilled spirits other than Ulan fruit brandy In the nine nino years rears to 1908 1903 tho amount of distilled spirits withdrawn for ion tion had increased to gal gal- al Ions lons As figured out b by London Answers tho the annual cost of ruun running a battleship battleship battleship battle battle- ship of the tho class is OO of which goes oes to tho officers cers for salaries alaric and wages Ammunition Ammunition tion in time tImo of peace costs n year the expense of necessary target practice bein being very heavy fuel etc make mako up ip the balance Estimating Estimating Esti Esti- mating tho the or original in 1 cost of these ships at at and allowing a lifo life of twenty years tho the cost from the first draft plans plats to 10 the sale of the vessel essel as ns junk reaches a n total of four Twenty years arE is a timo time for fora a 3 s ship ip to bo ho o aia away from its homo home port but that is jg tho the record of a n whaling bark ark that has just docked in New Ne Bedford Tho vess vessel l left New Bedford in for a J. J voyage around Capo Cape Horn and since since- has been bren engaged most moat of the timo time in whaling in ill northern latitudes Tho ship brings news that tho whaling ships ship in the Atlantic are arc generally making making mak mak- in ing heavy bean catches this season The Wh whaling lUg hus business seems to have havo experienced ence a revival ro and with this New Bedord fled Bed ford ord i is developing new Dew importance which pre presents ent somo some lik likeness nels to its old timo time activities is is a 3 whalin whaling port Spring Spring field fied Union Baseball i is a 3 chronic complaint of bi Senator Crane When he lIe was ns governor o of Massachusetts ho took his entire stall staff out for n a drive drio and surprised them by having tho the carriages pull up at an m open field and announcing there thero was to tojo bo be jo a baseball Two game nines were chosen and the game began bean Pretty soon somebody came carne alon along the tho road What teams are f he asked of ono one of the drivers ers t Why Vh that man pitching pitchin is the th governor Jo of oC Massachusetts Massachusetts seth tho driver replied replie The one catching atch nJ is the lieutenant governor o The first baseman i is is a congressman the sec ace second ond and baseman is il is the tho iud judge o advocate gen Jon oral eral Say the interrupted passerby passerby passer passer- b by perhaps you would liko like to know who I am I am Napoleon apoleon Bonaparte Moses Zangwill whose death lentil in Jerusalem Jeru salem was reported a few lass Ins ago ngo was tho the father of or Israel Mark ark and I Louis Zangwill IT lie Ile 0 was t born horn in in Russia Russin I but hut when wIlen ho was 16 years S old went to England About ten tet years 3 ago 0 ho gave l 0 up his home in En England and went to Jerusalem he lie joined tho the colon colony of pious Jews J who devote their lives to prayer and tho the study stud of the ancient Jaw aWe His blO biographer says that during his whole l career iu in England ho at nt no notime timo time pos possessed means which l would have o been sufficient to satisfy the l requirements requirements require require- I ments of Iho tho pr present aliens Jet art As tho the father of ol I Israel Zan Zangwill wiJhe he lie w was s a n conspicuous con con- sp figure fig in ill tho the Jerusalem colony where Jacob 11 II tho New Kew York I banker hanker visited him f recently JIo lb died at nt tho the Cholm hospital a Moses rosc Zangwill bed will bo be founded by bj his sons pons |