Show II BITS OF INFORMATION I New V York City consumes pounds of butter each day dar Vessels move moo faster through deepwater deep water with ith the same amount of Po power cr Tho ThA tobacco industry of Franco is a government monopoly yielding a year In Austria and Franco the provision of rescue apparatus i in mines is made mado compulsory A great crent deal of the tho oriental tobacco trade is controlled by d British Amen c can n concern Hamburg has more firemen in proportion proportion tion to her size eizo than an any other city in inthe in inthe inthe the world Five Fhe hundred and fifty dollars has bal been paid for a n single specimen of the butterfly Now York City's water supply will como from a watershed of square miles when the Catskill system 13 is com com- New York City has twice as many telephones as ns London four times as many as Berlin Derlin and six sit times tines as ns man many manyas as Paris Adolph a Frankfort Germany I slaughter house employee has bas Killed the tho last twenty twenty- ho hogs s during durins seven years ears After eliminating tho emigrant increase in in- increase crease creaso to tho the population o of New Kew York lork city it is growing u annually by natural accretion The Comp Generale tique has established a I. I new month monthly regular steamship service ce from Havre Havro to Cuba and md New Orleans with an itinerary itinerary itin itin- varying according to season I Mrs George M. M Sivel- Sivel of Peoria Ill HI has just been licensed to command tho trio river rh-er steamer Cit City of Peoria She is is de do- described scribed as a thorough business woman and well Yell qualified for the post of steamboat steamboat steamboat steam steam- boat captain In the Lincoln school at it Santa Barbara Bar Bar- barn bara Cal the pupils are arc taught to bind all nil t the the 0 books that get out of ot repair to cane cano all chairs needing nc it and to mend any and everything e nt at homo home or in in school that needs mending ll According to the story told b bj- bj New Xe NewYork NewYork York retail tobacco dealers there thero are aro more cigars being beine smoked daily in inthe in inthe inthe the metropolis than thero wore were six months a ago o. o The They say that is is one ono of the signs of prosperity prosperity's s return Miss I ss Clara Martin of Toronto has bas just announced herself as a can candidate for tho the provincial pro le legislature at ut tho the coming coining election in cast east Toronto Besides bein being Canadas Canada's 5 first woman oman lawyer Miss iss Martin Martin Mar Mar- ar tin is the first woman Yoman member of the board of education of Toronto Turnips and radishes came originally from central Europe The rhe beet root and tho the b beet et which have hae been greatly improved improved im im- im proved by cultivation are RO considered as ns I the sane same species by br botanists The beet only onh the tho stock of oC which is eaten enten grows rows I wild in tho trio Mediterranean Persia and Babylonia Miss Ina Richmond has been appointed appointed ap appointed pointed manager r of tho the Magherafelt gas gasworks gasworks aB works in Dublin Ireland She is the tho first woman to hold the tho post Sho first entered the postal posta service service Later she sho studied gas caR manufacture and tion She is s said id to be one ono of the best equipped experts in in her line of or work in Ireland Softness and other unfavorable qualities qualities quail quail- ties tics of aluminum may be bo overcome o overcome it is isnow isnow isnow now claimed by bv alloying it with mag mag- ma An alloy of this his kind to which tho name of has hns been given ei is now mI in German Germany and its makers believe that its use m will shortly supersede that of pure puro num By a n. decree of tho the g government of oC Peru issued by President Pardo tho the time of oC the fifth seventy meridian west of Greenwich was on July 28 adopted n as the tho national standard time for the whole of Peru Tho The meridian is only a n afew afew nI I few minutes from that of Lima and runs almost exactly through tho the middle of the country All timepieces throughout through through- out Peru wi will coincide with those in the tho United States whore where eastern eastorn timo timp is kept Peru Pern is tho the first South American republic to adopt tho the world standard It is declared bv by the tho Voisin brothers of Paris that tho the Wright Fright aeroplane can never ne have hao any value for practical pur poses They remark th that tt the tho Wright aeroplane is the monocycle of aviation Anyone can work a tricycle within an hour One can cnn learn to ride rido a bicycle in a few hours But to ride rille a monocycle monocycle mono mono- cycle takes a lon long time timo and the native gifts of the acrobat So the tho Wrights Wrights' will never ne be nn any thing but a n abird bird bir for amateurs and ancl sportsmen sportsman I The Voisin brothers believe in their It on account of their it Ity A French statistician who has bias been searching records records' calculates that there thero is one oue newspaper published for even en every inhabitants of the till known world In Europe German Germany heads the J list st with I newspapers of which are Jre published published pub pub- Haherl daily Jv England comes next with I newspaper newspapers of which SO are dailies and then comes France Franco with 2819 2519 newspapers of wh which ch only one one- I fourth arc daily or published shed twice or thrice a week Italy ta comes fourth with ith 1400 papers and is followed ed by Austria Austrin- Hungary Spain Russia Greece Grecco and Switzerland the last h having in 1 news news- papers Altogether Europe has hns about newspapers A At Wang tWang Konc maco in the San Wui district there was n a certain god od in inthe inthe inthe the Tin Hau temple over which there was waa a hole in the roo roof exactly over o the head bead of this god od Ono One of the worshipers worshipers wor wor- noticed this and said baid to theother tho the other villagers that he had had a dream that as aR the tho cod gods god's a head was wag suffering bythe by hy the leaking of ot the water from the root rooi to an any moan man who would subscribe money to have o tho the temple thoroughly repaired tho god would promise prosperity and a good harvest A h big sum spun ot of money was ts therefore subscribed within a few ew days and anel a n huge illumination accompanied cd by bya byn y ya a n theatrical performance will take place in a lI few foW days to propitiate this god South China Chinn Post lC Pigeon feeding in iu Madison Square w will soon become as famous as at St. St Marks Mark's arks ark's in Venice if H things keep up at this rate observed a 1 New Yorker who was near Twenty-seventh Twenty street and Madison a trio tho other mornin morning when tho the pigeons that make their home homo in in tho the garden arden tower were ere being fed fell by byn bya by a n man from a nei neighboring sta stable le Afew A Afew few years jears ago there thero weren't erent enough pigeons hero here to bo ho noticed but now the they swarm around anybody who ho appears appears ap ape ap- ap pears with a measure of oats or a newspaper newspaper news new paper package of crumbs Tho The other mornin morning morning I r saw a n man mm practically covered cov cov- ered with pigeons which were eating I grain rain fr from m his shoulders the tho brim of his hat bat at an nail and out of both hands This I pigeon feeding is getting to be he one of the free Bi sights of the city New C York YorkI I Sun |