Show I I BITS OF INFORMATION Ii Tho The Nitsui Trading company of or docs does a a. business with Europe Australia America and Asia In London more fires s occur on Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day ilay than on fm any other da lay day of tho the week wc-k and morn moro In August anI and December than thanin in iii any other months month After Arter twenty five years of or operation of the Postal Savings bank of India tho the depositors de ik number O anI cud and th the deposits deposIts depos lIepos- its ts amount to 1 2 Merchants In South America complain that manufacturers In the United States aro 10 too often Inclined to unload un undesirable desirable goods on them There Thero arc are now over oyer words In the English language acknowledged b by the beet best authorities or Of about more mere than In the tine German French Spanish and Italian lan languages ua cs combined d. d I Among the tho latest horticultural products exhibited d In En England 1 Is Iq a rose roe so dark asto as asto asto I to b be almost black Many gardeners are Ire caser eagerly trying to get et a blue rose roso success in this line IIno means a fortune There Therea Is a n a difference between tho the fire lire departments of or London and of ew cw York City The London department costs 10 cents a year Clr for each cach Inhabitant while the department of New York costs Sli for tor each XO Now 1 Yorker I IThe The Tho amount of or whalebone taken annually annually an an- does dOls not now much exceed I pounds Tim Tho largest part of or this Is taken n by hy th tha whalers sailing out of ports on tIne tho Pacific coast A few yr-ars yr aero ao tho the amount taken was as much as pounds annually Tho The average resistance of or the human bOd body from the feet teet to tho tine hands when tho the soles of or the tho shoes are saturated with water and tho the hands are wet Is about ohms and rna may be represented approximately approximately ap ap- ap- ap proximately by tho resistance of or a copper wire about two one fourth of ot an inch In diameter and feet In length A doctor spending a rare rara and what som dull night at his own fireside received the tine following message from three fellow telIo practitioners Please Plea so step over overto to tho the club and Join us at a 3 rubber of whist Jane Jan dear he said to his wife I am called awa away again It appears to be a difficult case there case there are three other doctors doctors doc doe tors on the spot already Dr Ida Kahn a n. Chinese woman oman ph- ph who took her degree c reo several cral years ago aJO from tho the University o of Michigan has returned to this country countr to take a postgraduate postgraduate post post- graduate course courso in Johns Hopkins Miss Kahn Is a a. missionary for the Methodist Episcopal church and opened tho the city of oC Z to missionaries after it had been forbidden f n ground for some eom time She Sho a accomplished this by curing the wife of or Taco the viceroy John W. W Gat Gates s looms up rath rather r larger huger across tho the water ater than he ho does at home This from a London ne' ne newspaper Our Washington correspondent telegraphs that John W. W Gates Gate the sporting millionaire i Is constructing a golf golt course that Is to cost cod His racecourse c will cost three o times Umes as 03 much and his automobile track Oft fifty yards wide thirty four miles lon long and constructed entirely of con concrete will mean moan an expenditure o of the Zulu chief ehler has burst a blood vessel says 88 a telegram from Martz- Martz burg bun and It Is said to be bo only a on that his father did not do th the tho same thing when ho he was wall enjoying British hospitality In ill London after his capture capture- lie He and his stable suite were housed In one of the artistic artistic artistic ar ar- ar- ar mansions of Melbury avenue near Holland house and his favorite breakfast was a n. basin of oatmeal porridge and a pint of or whisky which he preferred d to milk Otherwise he was fairly quick In his hiI I assimilation of tho the manners and customs o of ot civilization London taxicab drivers havo have suffered considerable losses recently through tho the mischievous ous pranks of street arabs arab The young youn mischief makers pull down the red Hag o of tho the taximeter cab when tho the driver Is not looking the register starts working work work- ing and within a few fow seconds 16 IG cents Is registered l against ag tho the driver Some of ot the chauffeurs declare that cabmen are arc responsible re- re In many cases for tor the mischief The Tho cabmen fear that the taxicab drivers will eventually e take aay ay all their patronage pat pat- Ono One taxicab driver had 15 re reg regIstered reg- reg against him In one day by a boy lowering and raising the red flag nag It has Just been announced that the tho presbytery of Chicago will establish and maintain a school for tor training women as deaconesses The first school of this I kind to be established by the tIne Presbyterian I church In America was opened about a n year a ago o b by the presbytery o of Philadel Philadel- phia It does docs not now app appear ar that tho tine women who ho are arc trained In these institutions institutions institutions aro are to be regularly ordained as are arc tho tine deaconesses In the tho Lutheran the tho Protestant Episcopal and tho the Methodist Episcopal church although tho the leaders of or orthe the movement mo say there Is no reason why h th the they should not be set pet et apart for tor tho work work- In the Presbyterian churches of ot Scotland deaconesses have ha been officially recognized for man many years If It we e were all constituted like Hamlet and could handlo handle a skull as philosophically philosophical philosophical- ly l- las as he hc writes A A Sentimentalist In a Hamburg paper we could visit tho the Mozart Mo Mo- Io- Io museum at Salzburg enjoy th the sights lIghts it offers and leave there without finding an any n fault Unfortunately however wo we are aro not so fO cold and therefore th pro pro- test which I make Among tho the Mozart souvenirs which are arc pointed out to tho visitor In tho the same line lIno with the old piano letters manuscript music portraits por per traits etc Is the tho skull of or the tho great master mas mae ter It matters little whether the skull Is realI really that of or the thc c or one us od d for show purposes The Tho fact act remains that In the Mozart town n In Salzburg there seems to bo no one who can make tho elt city fathers believe that the exhibition demonstrates a lack tack of or reverence which shocks man many people popie That China Is Ic progressing is If demonstrated demonstrated demon demon- b by the tho following from the North China II D Dally Daily News News- Tine The ministry of Justice Justko justice Jus jus- tice tko has Issued an injunction to the vice vice- Toys rov and governors of or different provinces plO i asking them to instruct their dl U- U I I. I 10 discontinue tho the uso use I torture in court proceedings proceeding It Is furth further I I stat stated d that If IC an any official should be found dl disobeying the order tIe lie Is to be cashiered and punished It might not be out of or place to mention In this connection that magistrates magistrates magis magl- and Jailers frequently resort to modes of punishment and torture entirely unauthorized and unrecognized b by law Ian Magistrates unlawfully torture the prisoner prisoner pris pris- oner onel for fOl the sake ako of eliciting a confession of or guilt or Information concerning his accomplices accomplices ac ac- ac- ac end and jailers Illegally ally torture him for the purpose of extorting mone money Tho The kinds of torture used are not fc few and the torment caused Is 15 often orten dreadfully excruciating elating elating- and revolting beyond description |