Show I I I BITS OF INFORMATION TION I Tho horn of ot a rhinoceros is not joined to tho the bone bon of the head but grows rows on the skin like a wart Inside of twelve years ears New cw York promises t to be the largest city on the e earth It is now owing growing more than six times ns as fast as London A clay tablet has bas been found in Crete which seems Jo to prove conclusively that the tho art of printing from movable types was known in a crudo crude way 4 jOO 00 years n ago o. o According to n a German scientist the center of the earth is a core of iron or r similar material nearly miles mile in Diameter separated from tho the outer ston stony crust 1000 miles thick b by a lay 11 er or of some plastic material To overcome o the tho objection on the tho part of some women to hi high h heeled shoes because be cause of their danger to weak ankles s a 3 Virginia ir inia woman has devised a T shaped d piece of metal to bo be inserted in the tho heel of n a shoe antI and extending on either side lido of the foot to support it The worlds world's record for a baby globe globetrotter lobe trotter is held heM b by Kathryn Kathln L A. A G. G Morgan lor an who ho though only S 8 years old has traveled tra miles or more more than cloven times around tho the globe globo g lobo She is tho the daughter of Mr and Mrs rs George Georgo E E. Morgan formerly of Chicago whose business interests have o taken him into all parts of the world The Labor party started in with votes totes for a presidential ticket and then de degenerated into the Socialist Labor party part with in 1592 in 1990 1896 in 1900 1000 and 2 in 1904 Thero There is little sign of life in it now but the Socialists have o sprung up to absorb or displace it The latter started in 1900 1000 as the Social Social Democratic Democratic party part with with Debs as its candidate and polled 12 votes which it increased increased with tho the same candidate as plain H So Socialist Socialist Socialist So So- to 40 in 1904 1004 It H is said that Lord Rosebery possess possess- possesses es the costliest collection of snuff boxes in the world worM Many of them arc are solid gold and some ome are arc set with brilliants A curiously inlaid enamel snuff box was wasat wasat wasat at one time timo the tho pro property pert of Napoleon Bonaparte a small black box studded with three diamonds belonged to the eminent em em- inept statesman Pitt while another plainly inlaid with fino lino gold old was used used by Fox Althou Although b the collection only comprises two twenty two boxes altogether its estimated value is Acting on tho the advice of a pr prisoner foner for whom ho was appearing in Dublin a barrister challen challenged ed four or five fire jurymen jurymen jury jury- jurymen men on tho the ground pound that th they y were prejudiced prejudiced pre pre- against his client When at last ast tho the swearing of tho the jury was completed completed com com- the prisoner leaned over tho the dock and whispered to his advocate ocate Tho The ju jurys jury's s 's al all right now now Oi Of think but Oi Of want to challenge tho the judge c. c Oivo been convicted under him three already and maybe hos ho's beginning to have hn a prejudice agin nin me London K News hews With six forty nations as members a permanent home bome in Rome nome and an annual endowment of above 0 the international international inter inter- national institute of a agriculture is about to embark on its practical career In November delegates from all aU these nations na na- nations will meet at nt the tho first session session of the general enera assembly of the institute and a aplan aplan aplan plan of work ork will bo be agreed l reed upon Its first great reat effort will bo be to collect statistics statistics sta sta- of the worlds world's crops of agricultural tural staples with the object of studying study fag ing the worlds world's 6 markets by means of trustworthy information An incident which happened when Admiral Ad miral Evans was in command of the Indiana in 1896 is told b by Arm Army and Navy Y Life An old timer in tho crew cron mast ed with et was at the tho charged getting getting get get- ting tins food out of a mess chest outside of meal hours Tho The chest beon belonged cd to a amess amess amess mess which was in the hands bands of an in inefficient inefficient in in- efficient caterer and anti it was believed that tho the mess members were pretty hungry hungry hun bun gr gry nearly all the tho time This is tho the defense de de- made by tho the old bluejacket I Captain I didn't take no food out of that chest I looked in in that chest captain cap cap- I tam tain taint and so help me I met a n cockroach coming out of that chest with mth tears in his eyes Nathan Straus of this city who began began be be- gan n his campaign n to savo 0 human lifo life sixteen years ago when bo ho declared that it would woula be 4 criminal ne neglect lect to feed young children on an milk which has not been sterilized has converted con thousands thou sands of hostile physicians and incredulous incredulous lous laymen to his view that pasteurization pasteurization would go JO far toward preventing the tho spread of tuberculosis In n the thc infants infants' infants infants' infants infants' in in- in- in hospital on Randalls Randall's s 's island pasteurization pasteurization pas pas- in 1907 1001 reduced tho the death rato rate from 4 per cent to 19 1980 SO per percent percent percent cent and in tho the neighborhood of Heidelberg Heidelberg Heidel Heidel- berg Germany where pasteurization was taken up durin during the last summer under the tho direction of Mr Straus results results re reo were equally impressive Now Now York Sun Tho The causes of or decay in building stones are arc various and depend on the physical structure of tho the stone its composition and tho nature of tho the surrounding at at- arI I Tho most destructive a agent ent to which the stone is exposed is ain j-ain rain rainor or a moist atmosphere and also in a minor de degree decree ce wind frost and smoke The air of lar largo o towns is usually with various deleterious acids charged these acids aro are dissolved ed by tho the rain which penetrates the stone in a greater reater or less dc degree rel according to its ih physical I structure and combines with tho constituents constituents con con- of the stone causing it to do- do that contrivance that will ca cay so nn any check the admission of water t will ho bo most likely to succeed in in arresting de de- de cay Building Building Worl World When it is learned that over one half of the tho foreign merchandise consumed in I Mexico is supplied by the United States and aud that tho total value of the imports import from this country for tho too fis fiscal al year ending June 30 IDOS 1905 was a gold old it will be understood bow how strong stron are aro t the tho 10 ties of commerce between the two republics The United States transacts transacts tran tran- I with Mexico moro more than three times tho amount of trade trado that either Great Britain or Germany docs does and o fi fold I tho business that is reported by Franco Franca And if wo we add to together r tho the imports I into Mexico from all aJI Euro and tho the United Kin Kingdom dom there is still shown a balance in favor of tho United States of nearly The annually The Mining World I A correspondent of tho the 1 00 writing from Vladivostok says I A gentleman passing the tho summer in found while walking t along alonga a n river a pearl shell with a pearl inside I I Ho He explored the river and after searching search search- searching I ing inc all day found ninety four pearl shells hells of which ei eighty ht contained pearls The analysis showed that the tho pearl was I very valuable The Th finder endeavored to interest Vladivostok capitalists in ill inthe the matter but they paid little attention attention atten I tion to his proposition to explore the river which abounds in pearl shells He lie liethen then found American capitalists who were ere glad Iad to supply him with t tho nee nee- necessary I essary capital to cX explore loro and exploit tho business and md the they aro are now operating operating in ing under tho the Russian name namo of the finder Consular Reports I |