Show I BITS OF INFORMATION I George Washington was 19 six feet two Inches in height Ho weighed about COO 00 pounds I A new motor motol boat Is prop propelled lIed by an nn aerial screw Under favorable conditions high speed peed Is attained U The city of Warsaw Russia sh r shares In Inthe inthe the tie profits of Its first electric street car cu carline carne lIne ne recently put Into operation The United States In 1907 1901 produced barrels of petroleum an In- In of barrels over 1906 A patent has been grant granted d a 3 Chicago man on an electric piano that produces music from bells Instead of ot wires During each month for the tho la last t two years ears cars about Russian Immigrants have lavo entered tho the port of or Now York It Is 13 estimated b by coal dealers dealer that the theoal I coal oal consumption of Now New cw York City In the next six months will be 73 tons Franco stands alarmed b by an Increase or of f something like 10 per por cent In four tour years In the cost of or food tood clothing and other necessary supplies Milk lIIk Is 1 13 percent por per cent higher meat 27 21 per cent cheese 16 per cent oil 2 25 per cent Tho The price of rico rice has doubled Rents Hents follow tho upward upward upward up up- ward trend New Dew ow York Yori World There Is 19 lamentation In Verona for tor tho the of ot the have be been on consumEd consumed con- con umed from rooftree to cellarage by Ore lire and tho the occupation of or the guides who vho conducted conducted conducted con con- ducted people thither and the cicerone who solemnly showed them Juliet's Jullet's balcony bal bal- cony ony Is Irrevocably gone along with the building of or romantic and reverend reveren tion Philadelphia Ledger The Rev Re Gertrude Gertrudo von on pastor of ot tho the Freo Free Christian church of or Leicester England has accepted a call to the tho pastorate pastorate pas- pas orate of or the Unitarian church of or Streator III 11 She Is the first woman preacher appointed appointed ap ap- ap pointed to any church In England Miss von ron who Is 3 32 years ears old was born bornn In n Prussia She spent four tour years ears at Edinburg Edin- Edin burg university and three years at nt Oxford Ox- Ox ford ord and was ordained In 1904 1301 Tho preliminary ary report of ot the tho census bureau on cotton consumption In the United States for the year ending August 31 1 1908 1903 recent recently Issued showed that during durIng dur- dur Ing ng the period covered the thc mills of the tho south consumed bales against bales In 7 1906 or a l falling ore oft of or only bales 64 per cent whereas In n the tho samo al northern establishments establishments establish establish- ments exhibited a decline of ot bales 99 per cent Ernest P P. Bicknell who has served as ns superintendent of ot the Chicago bureau of or charities since 1896 1596 went to Washington D. D C. C tho the other day to assume his new duties as national director of or the American American Ameri Ameri- can Red Cross This great philanthropic agency has been reorganized Into departments over which Mr Bicknell will Mil have o executive supervision They are arc the departments of war relief foreign relief relict and domestic relief relict Professor tho the head of the tallan Italian expedition In Egypt Is Js making headway In hl his Investigations allons of or the ne- ne of ot zinc Some Egyptians are areat areat areat at work and a n great eat number of ot funeral funera objects objects sue ale being constantly brought to toIght light Ight besides many Inscriptions which are of great Interest In connection with the early Egyptian history history- in each place the explorers have round an nn y of or tho the defunct carved In wood I The total estimate for tor tho the New Now York department of or public charities for tor 1900 as ns I submitted by Commissioner Robert Hobert W W. Hebberd Is an nn Increase over I Ithe the tho appropriation for 1905 1903 of i IS S. S Tho The chief Increases are for salaries of or at attendants attendants attendants at- at and other employees In the big hospitals maintained by the city Wages have been so low that the city has hat hall great difficulty In maintain an efficient force Charities Charities s and the tho Commons Every national campaign gives occasion to men of or original Ideas to Invent somo catchy device which because of the tho In Interest interest In- In terest engendered by the national fight will bo be sold by tho the thousand Ono of th the tho most Ingenious things put on the market marke this year ear Is a n sma small tablet like Uke a 3 medicine pellet which when dissolved In a finger bowl resolves Use Itself Into a picture of or Tart Taft or Br Bryan an as the case may be Already thousands of ot these these- tablets have been sol solto sola to New York hotels and restaurants Lakawanna Is the highest priced railroad railroad rail rall- road stock In the world The par value alue o oIts or of orIts Its shares Is 50 50 and tho price ranges be between between between be- be tween and A small a tion-a a hundred or a few hundred shares hares loss or gain of or from 10 to to 10 1 points The road Is owned b by the Rockefellers Rockefellers Rocke Rock fellers tellers and Asters and their thel associates and Is operated with the same samo foresight that has always distinguished Standard Oil ou Its mileage Is small It its dividends are arc enormous Its capital stockIs stock Is only New 26 26 New ew York Press Back In the twenties when tho the transportation transportation trans trans- of or goods was ons almost entirely by wagon a Dr Buck who for many years year afterward was wall tho the military storekeeper a at Washington was In charge chargo of or military stores en route to army posts In the tho southwest In cast east Tennessee much difficulty dif dlf was experienced by reason of tho the thorough rou rough h roads Dr Buck overhauled o the outfit and abandoning the tho wagon bodies long boards cro sot directly on the axles or hung huns below and the stores wore loaded In such a manner that there were no further further fur fur- ther d delays from breakdowns and th the stores stores safely reached their destinations Hence enco the buckboard Curious reasons for tor the depression cpr lon sf In inthe tho the English pottery trade were given at nt Stoke recently In tho the course of or the te arbitration arbitration arbitration arbi arbi- proceedings on the demand of th the potters for tor an Increase of wages Judge Ridgway a prominent manufacturer de declared declared declared de- de that In many London hotels the head employees who ho were cre often otten Germans gave s preference to Germany when whon they ordered their ware I I also attribute tho the decline In the dinner ware trade to tho the change In the habits of ot ute life In London continued Mr lr Ridgway Large numbers of ot Londoners now live In flats fiats and dine In restaurants and consequently the they rEquire re require require rE quire no dinner services In their homes Sixty miles of or tho the Chicago o. o St SL Paul Milwaukee railroad from Taft Tart Mont to SL S1 Joe Ida has hae cost This was at tho the rate of a mile which was the tho heaviest amount ever paid by any railroad railroad company In the world for tor tho the construction of or a line of or similar 11 length In this piece of or road there are thirty five tunnels the longest t being more than feet reet through solid rock The company ex ex- ex I th five years rs after aCter tho the completion com- com pl l of tho the road which l ly now being rushed through h Idaho and Washington to the ho sound the traffic will bo so o lar large fJ It will be necessary an to double track tho the lineIn linein line lino linon In n order to handle handlo tho the volume of or bu business ln ss The Tho lino llnA will bisect the Palouse and part partI of or tho the Big Dig Bend wheat heat bolts belt which sent moro more than 40 bushels of or grain grahl to market mulct In 19 19 |