Show II I BITS OF INFORMATION INFORMATION I II I It requires stenographers to do dothe tho the office business of New York City Tho The population of the tho territory now embraced in the German empire has hns doubled since 1538 1335 An elephants elephant's burden is from ISOO 1800 to 2 2300 OO pounds and ond that of a l horse from I to pounds Kobo is now the 1 first port in the Japanese empire it has a 3 population of not far from Tho The first En English lish regatta took place upon tho the Thames between London bridge and Millbank Juno June 23 li 1775 A two mile railroad bridge o has been recently completed across the tho Columbia Colum Comm bia river in in tho the state of or Washington A hen attains her best laying capacity capacity ca ca- ca pac t in in her third year Sh She will lavin lav lay layn in n an average a lifetime from irom to eggs I In tho the Yukon mining regions electric I lines for fOT cO convoying power up to a n. distance dis dis- tance tanco of sixty miles have o been in stalled Tho Church of England bishopric of Mackenzie river river in British North America is is is five times as largo large o as tho thoI I I United Kingdom The importation of cigarettes in Germany Gor- Gor many mama was lessened for n a short time timo only by the tho increase of tho duty from front 70 marks to marks mar Tho clock at St. St Chads Chad's Shrewsbury has a record pendulum its length being two twenty feet and tho wei weight bt of tho the ball baH oo pounds Russia still has nearly all her bel tea in inthe tho the form of tablets or bricks probably omu owing to the convenience convenience- of transportation transportation transportation tation in in early times I Last Lat year tho the universities of Europe Eu Eu- rope were attended by students Berlin was as in in the lead with next camo canto Paris with ith Buda with and Vienna with An old judge nudge of a New ew York court of record says 8 that if tho the law requiring an attorney of tho the courts to he be of good moral character was as strictly enforced about two ninety members of tho the 1 by out of each hundred would have bave to i go into some other business Sir Walter Hilyer has been appointed export a adviser to the Chinese govern govern- o ern ment mente Sir Walter Waltr was born horn in China of English parents and nud is a learned learned- lin guist Li Hung Chang Chane once said that ho lie and arid wrote Chinese as well as the most highly highl educated mandarin Waldorf Astor son of William Waldorf Wal dorf lorf Astor stor is a candidate for a seat in inthe inthe inthe the British house of commons to represent represent sent tho the ancient city of Plymouth from which camo the fo founders of f New Eng Eng- land The Tho young man is is a a. Conservative or as members of the party part are known knorn by its opponents a Tory Mrs rs Elizabeth Hayward of Salt Lake Lahe City who was re regularly elected and served etl as delegate delegato to tho the Democratic national convention Con in Denver is iR the mother of nine nino children and said sait to havo have ono of tho the L best t managed hou households households house house- c- c holds in that city Sho She is an ardent ad advocate of equal suffrage not because it broa broadens the views of the mo modern eru woman but because it gives them tho the po power por r to protect and improve o their homes Mrs W. W S S. Pen Peabody bod of Denver has been called Mother of f tho the Verdo National park This park contains the most interesting r remains of the cliff dwellers that have havo been discovered and Mrs Peabody is largely cly instrumental in its bein being made a 3 national park Before her marriage to Maj Mai W W. S. S Pc Peabody a retired arm army officer she she- lived in Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington where hero she hel held a place in in tho the bureau of ethnology The vendor vender of chick chickweed ec in Paris is a awell awell well ell known figure fiure The sellers arc aro numerous numerous nu nUt nu- nu and their cry is one ono of the tho most noteworthy of those that resound in tho the morning in the streets of tho the French capital According to tho the Bulletin des es Halles Hailes there are tre re about canaries in the tho capital an anti and the daily consumption tion fion of chIckweed is estimated at 2000 This sum looks large but it allows 2 cents for each rach hir bird A Paris contemporary contemporary content content- points out ont t that nt a goodly portion of land between anti and Ole is set ct aside for the cultivation of the weed The Musical Homo Home Ton Journal TOnI of London tolls a n story ston of Georgo George Grossmith nail and the tho income tax hc authorities Lon Long after his fathers father's death the commissioners by mistake sent the younger Grossmith a n notice assessing the income of the do- do ceased at Mr Ir Grossmith returned returned re rc- re- re turned the tho document to the tho proper quarter Juar ter with ith tho the following note written across it I HI am glad to loam learn m my air fa faT I thor ther is cloin doing so well in the tho next world I is a great reat deal more than then he be ever cor mado made in in this Kindly forward forn this no no- tico tice to his now address and remember mo mc affectionately to him An entirely new now design in the construction construction con con- of electric lamps has been recently recently re re- re brou brought bt out tho the no novel nol l feature of which is is the tho entire absence so far as the eye is concerned of all an wires One half of tho the transformer is fastened to the tho und under un un- un- un d der dr r side of a table whilo while the other half of the transformer is incorporated in inthe inthe the tho baso base of the lamp standard By proper transformer dc design it is possible I Ito to supply the tho lamps on the standard with electrical l energy when b both th parts of the tho transformer are aro placed one ono above e the tho other The anta ad advantages es of such an arrangement arrangement ar art ar- ar are arc that no holes bolcs need be he ma made e in the tho or coverings for the passage of wires wires' while whilo the lamp itself can bo ho removed horn from from the table when so desired de without disconnecting any ony wires ires I Dr Charles Perrier in nn an article I based on observations made in French I penal institutions says that criminals I aro are for the most part of medium um height Thie Thieves Thies s ho says nays ho found to be almost e exclusively of small stature and bears beggars beggars beg beg- gars ars nearly nearl alwa always s 's of medium or slightly slight slight- ly under nailer that height It is seldom ho that fulI says a developed de beggar bog beg gar nr nature can bo be found in a large e j I frame Murderers rs on the other hand his observations prove pro to be he above tho the cra a average o in iii size ize All the prisoners under un lID- un- un der flor punishment for arson and for counterfeiting coun coun- measured by him came under the tho head of of small Tb These c details tho the writer says whilo while they may mar establish establish lish certain facts fact as to French criminals may bo ho valueless s when applied to the thc underworld in other countries Persia's Persia s 's ancient city of Tabriz one of the tho scenes of recent violence in ill the shahs shah's dominions dominion can cnn hardly be he said to have havo ever en enjoyed joed a quiet life When I Turk and and Persian were ere not shaking the old walls with battering I rams the earthquake was nas having its inn inn- iD lug ing Tho The public buildings s bear traces of this sort of violence notably the I blue mosque mosque construct constructed construct construct- i I c ed of wonderfully d blue tiles I whilo the citadel gapes with its earth 1 quake riven sides Although the tho Anglo 1 n In Indian ian telegraph runs through the tho cit city it is not 3 as in the ancient days das when it Iwas i iwas was known as the tho glorious Tho new Russian railway has deprived I it b bf much of its importance and the leather merchants and silversmiths eke eko out put a precarious livelihood Ji b by cU engaging in a J little smuggling ing 1 |