Show BITS OF INFORMATION I During DurIn tim tho month of or A August t. t ninety ninety- nl vessels entered tho the port of oC Buenos Duenos Ayres Arel and not ono one was American There have havo lately ly boon added 1000 arrs to the thC hi lands of or tho the Forest Summer school o of Yale university at Milford Pa Po The Tho Japanese government has haR decider to import an and louse lease machinery for small manufacturing so 80 as to diversify and In Increase increase In- In crease creaso tho ho various Industries I Tho The TIc Rev Dr William R. R huntington rector o of Grace church Broadway New Nw NewYork Cw York found foun 1 a check for tor under lii his i plate at ot breakfast fust tho the other morning morning- A foot CootU measure varies arles In China from fromi i J eleven f n Inches incites to fifteen Inches Earls Karli district ft It has Its own foot root rules its h pounds and ft It h and an Its It pecKs An effort Is now jiow being made to Introduce a uniform system In the tho British museum Is ser pre preserved the tho oldest specimen o of pure glass which tears bears onlan an any date It I Is In tho the shape of or a lions lion's head hC having on It tho name namo of oC an Egyptian tian kIll king of or the tho eleventh dynasty river timber Is to be exploited b by bya a Japanese Chinese company with two managers ono one of or whom and all nil lallor laborers rl employed by tho the company in felling and moving timber limber including the rafting ratting of or togs logs must he bo Chinese In tn India there thoro Is a patent medicine firm Orm which converts Into penholders tho the wooden wood en cn packing case in which It gets some ome of at I its drugs from rom America This firm makes I such a good oo penholder that the tho government govern govern- rn ove-rn- I ment nt buys bus It It although all nil tho the work I Is I done by hand While a n. German Germait resident was thriving driving It an n English friend from Frankfort T ort to hamburg a motor car I passed at a 3 ne pace raising a cloud doud of or dust Ah Al h said tho th German there thero goes OCI our emperor emper enier- or How do you OU know Inquired l the Englishman Do you ou suppose anybody else could raise ralso a Do dust like that lint he hetal sa tal said Id Sir Ir Oliver LoJ Lodge e. e the English scientist learned to tu play golf at St. St Andrews Andrew's thirty thir t ty years rears ears a ago o. o Ills lila teacher was Professor Tn Taft Talt t. t You dont don't play golf with your our muscles Professor or Talt said to him one ono day you play with your morals But ButI I hope said laid Sir Oliver Oll with a hast hatt glance around that no ono one will consider m my morals as 38 bad as m my golf The Journal of oC the New ew York Zoological society gives hes n a census of or the thC American litton hlson n. n acor ln to which In amen o of all 11 the lie l hundreds of thou thousands or of those those animals sal ani mals ls which formerly ronne roved rO tho ho plains plain only onh 2017 were wre known to be In existence on January 1 ios 1908 Of or these 9 0 were In captivity It In the tho States and ancl forty forty- one in Canada Since that cia date to the lie Pablo hord herd has been sold to Canada IJ By Th an act net of or congress Baltimore Is to have havo at last Jast a n memorial to Francis Scott ScottI I Key e a Marylander and tho tim author of ot The Star Spangled Banner a n handsome tablet having ha been ordered to be put on the flagstaff at Fort Tho The tablet tablet tablet tab tab- let will be In the shape of or a L shield and made of or bronze It will be he suitably In Inscribed In- In scribed and will wilt constitute the only memorial memorial me me- morial modal of or Key that has ever eyer been put up In Jn Baltimore The loss ant and recovery er o of a 6 OO pearl rl necklace recalls the story of a 1 similar experience which a New ew York woman I had after atler the last Old Guard Guar ball She also missed her necklace when she sIte arrived arrived arrived ar ar- ar- ar rived at nt her home and the next ne da day daIt It was brought to her b by a n. woman who had shared her carriage on her way home Handing the lie necklace lace to her friend the finder er said So So o glad giad I found it We 0 al alwa's always always al- al ways was tho ll thought ht thc they were real To reduce tho the reading of oC a Centigrade scale thermometer to Fahrenheit subtract 10 ho degrees from tho ho given hen temperature from this subtract tenth one of or Itself double the result and add arli 50 degrees derees to tho the answer To ro reduce Ji a Fahrenheit I to Cf Centigrade t 0 O degrees front from tho lie given hen temperature divide ld th tb 1 r r litter by two multiply I y this hIs nt bv lIv ten divide th the lie product by lIy nine and anel anelu u add 10 degrees to the last Jast quotIent To show tho the humanity of or the Ii Danish authorities a t Berlin paper publishes s a picture which was taken In a Danish prison pilson on Christmas eve ve It shows the lie convicts seated at a table decorated with witha a n. miniature Christmas tree Among tho thos at tho the board oard arc are a number o of men In 01 or or- citizens citizen's clothes who scum serm to enJoy enjoy en en- en joy the repast with their uniformed guests A large laige Hag nil hides from view the tho bars behind which the lie group roup is 18 seated When hen one of oC his old trl friends was vIsIting IsHIn visiting visit vIsIt- In ing Mark Twain at his its Redding ln home hom a short time ago Jo remarked lie on the lie picturesque picturesque esque appearance of or a windmill In the tho distant landscape It t was not a windmill however howe but the lie tower of or the lie Congregational n church at Redding Center When n the clergyman t of or that church came caine to sr sei- sei Mr Jr Clemens the hue latter tol told him hun that ono one of oC lila his guests had called hi Ills his church a windmill n adding I think that was going goinga a little too far That the navigation nI of the thC air has ha ceased to be bo an experiment and has lias as assumed assumed as- as serious form orm says sars the lie Cologne Gazette Gazelle was wall demonstrated de II by ly the lie fart fact that the technical high school chool of I Char- Char 1 lor tor 1 lor tor applied to till thit ministry the establishment o of a chair hall for or aerial navigation Tho The request can not bo lie ra g-ra granted n t this h I I year a 1 however howe because nUs a all II appropriations up to April have hav been ben disposed 0 of Later the lie chair will undoubtedly be bo established The ThC of or the school Professor Boreman Bonman sal said that he lie had already y received the tho application application tion of or an expert V as as volunteer Instructor The Foreign Legion Is composed of ot a ary avery avery very ry heterogeneous lot who have hn found foun Europe too hot for or them an and It Is a it curious thing thing- that list th the German ei element ment I seems to predominate In this French force Most dost of ot these Germans Ge are de- de l'- l' j I from their own army though In Inthe the tue legion they soon loon find that It Is In even e worse than an ordinary case casp o of out of tho Irving pan Into the thu Or fire TI Time legion Is now sion almost the only survival al from rom the days when kings and ani governments o accepted accept accept- ed Id the tho service of foreign troops unless Indeed another Instance o of the tue same lame kind kindIs Is furnished by the popes pope's present Swiss guard London guard London Chronicle |