Show Cream Skimmed From Exchanges change Kansas City merchants lose a year rc to shoplifters Tho The poultry ration of New ew York City amounts to pounds a 1 day Missouri has hal dwellings inhabited inhabit Inhabit- ed by families containing 5 persons There aro are dramas and twenty ono melodramas based on tho life lito of or Joan of Arc Groat Grat owns miles autos of or ocean cables and Germany miles There aro are automobiles In the United States exclusive o l of commercial trucks About fifty Jety workmen men aro arc permanently employed in l keeping St. St Pauls Paul's cathedral catheral In repair Tho The American demand for pearls ii IK Ix greater than tho the supply and tho the prices a arm aro ru soaring Tho The United States mall mail carries yearly yearl moro more than three hundred million letters lettera free of or charge Tho wages wag of or tho chauffeurs of the United States total more than llian those of school teachers recoverable lawIn lawin law lawIn Gambling Gamblin debts arc by h- In France Spain Venezuela an and In somo some cases caJes in Germany Gormany At the tho railway stations in Russia books hooks are arc kept wherein passengers may enter any complaint they wish to make malec Tho The largest opal in tho the world weighing seventeen ounces is worth and belongs to tho the emperor of or Austria Tho The king of or Fn England has hai officially confirmed confirmed con con- firmed tho the report that ho he never nover travels on Sunda Sunday unless it is absolutely sary Tho municipal authorities or of Berlin BerHn have havo forbidden men to smoke while drivIng driving ing automo automobiles ruling that mon many accidents accidents acci acci- dents have havo been boen duo to the tho practice V. Yo M. M Crawford a railway conductor of or Jackson Ga has a curiosity in a n. O bill which was vas offered him for Cor fare The Tho bill was issued November No 2 2 1776 1716 Last year ear 1237 seamen and passengers passengers I gers sers on British vessels lost host their theil live lives at sea This total the largest since ISH Includes include the seamen and 25 passengers passengers gers sers who perished In the thc Titanic In an endeavor to Increase tho tim rico rice pro- pro n 0 of the Philippines the In Insular ular government fertile but thinly thinly thinly thin thin- ly inhabited vall valleys 5 with natives taken from Crom less fertile but more marc densely populated populated localities The Tho British governments government's ol old age pen pen- slon scheme Is producing some sonic remarkable remark- remark ablo able figures for Cor tho the statistics of or 1912 show that women were In receipt of old age pensions as compared with only men In most parts of or India protection against malaria producing mosquitoes which bite almost entirely at night Isan is isan isan an absolute necessity especially as the use of or screens to keep all 8 such ch Insects lu- lu sects ou of or houses Is almost unknown London's London proposed postal tubo tube is to be benine benine nine feet teet in diameter and six and a half haU miles long It Is ia to be fitted for two tracks each ench two feet Ceet wide carrying steel trucks operated b by motor The rhe line proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed will bo constructed throughout In Inthe Inthe inthe the London cia clay Mrs Louise Waterman Carpenter a descendant of or Ro pr Williams and tho Iho oldest living member of oC tho Daugh Daugh- tern tera of the tIC American Revolution celebrated cele ceic- her hOI ono one hundred and seventh sc birthday recently in Mass Masi s J She Sho received many gifts and me messages me Tho rho editor or of the thA Seventh Column in the University tells tella of a professor pro pro- fessor lessor In iii the tho who called up tho time meat meal marl market et tho other oilier duy day and said sold Send a n dollars dollar's worth of at that moat meat out to my hO if It there thero Is 18 no ono one at homo Just poke noko It through tho keyhole Kan Kamm Kan Kansas sas City Star I That unique paper tho the walloW Hog Kentuckian is credited with this item Hem Ono One of or tho the benches s is ml missing from tho the Do Dos Dok- t Hill church This is time the third I timing thing that has 1119 como come up missing from there in tho the last month including tho the I hell bell and it Is believed beHoved somebody Is fl fixing fix fix- ing to open u up a a anew new church somewhere Atlanta Constitution Since tho Indians of or the grass lands of or Argentina were su subdued In iii ISiS 1878 the systematic 55 reclamation of the land has hila b been en stupendous Somo Some of or the large ranches carry as many us LiS fifty thousand head of oC cattle and provide hunting grounds rounds for tor many Englishmen The rhe gaucho is on one of oC tho timo most picturesque as well as useful use use- ful fut figures on thes these s ranches and forms tho the Counterpart art of his Imis brother the cow cow- boy lOy hoof of North America Life LICe on a ranch i la Is far for from unpleasant a and on some of oC tho the big ranches ranche under tinder British control evening c dress for tor dinner Is the custom In tho mouths of or Ve Wesley lc and Whitefield White White- field tho the rep repeated sermon became both hoth necessary and effective For they Journeyed Jour jour- and found new h hearers for Cor or old sermons Wesley Wesle for Cor Instance traveled 00 miles mUes a aMr year Mr until he lie was well vell on toward three Tore oro eor years and ten and traveling preached two throe and occasionally occasionally occa occa- four times a a. dB day With WhitefIeld Whitefield White White- field particularly tho the sermon termon pained gained by repetition Thus writes his biographer It Jl never nover reached its highest point of oC effectiveness until he had preached it forty times Umes Then Them it became on his lips lipsa a perfect Instrument of or perR Ja persuasion lon it has been calculated d preached more than timan eighteen thousand sermons ermon In Japan the censorship of or novels Is exercised b by a n government official who Is empowered to prosecute offending attending authors authors au au- thors as aa well vell as forbid the sale salo of ot their books Not long ago ugo the tho author of or a It Japanese novel called The Gr Great at City was brought before the courts for giving too realistic a n description of life mo In Tokio His Ills counsel used mused the old arguments arguments ments about tho the rights of or literature iro and the tIme ennobling of or everything b by art but tho the c. case e was given against tho the author liven Even somo some of ot Moller's works havo have been forbidden to circulate In In Japan Tapan the ground round or offense being tho the lack Jack of or respect respect re re- re I speet shown by European wives toward their husbands and b by eons sons toward their fa fathers In the diary of which a a. partial translation translation trans trans- lation was issued last year Li Hung Chang reprobates the habit of ot earl early rIs ing lug At t the close dose of or his visit to St. St Petersburg Pe Pe- I the Chinese statesman wrote I have learned that we start sturt early to tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow to- to morrow morning This is not to my taste I would much prefer to to begin the Journey now find nd sleep on the train To arise so to early in the morning seems to tobe tobe tobe be a foolish western practice foolish sh especially es es- among men of or state who could so 80 much better transact their affairs at night when whon all Is quiet and the mind Is most alert But from nil all I can learn these statesmen and lawgivers look for their pleasures at night going to banquets banquets ban ban- theatres and fancy CancY parties To this I attribute much of or tho the intrigue known to all these those courts courts' Women cannot cannot cannot can can- not enter tho the council chambers nor nOI make speeches In hum parliament but they work their wiles lies at the parties sal and operas S operas |