Show I HITS BITS BrT OF INFORMATION TrON I Tho The wireleSs T e telephone will 1 b be demonstrated on tho the grounds ground of ur the exposition I Official statistics i in Berlin BerHn I show V that young men were con con- and during 1917 for or attempting to evade c or mill tary t A substitute for marble which answers an nn many of it its purposes is in of a mixture of blast t furnace slag a and nil Iliac j pu pulverized 1 compressed and then treated with carbonie car Clr I bonic honi acid I Korea Jorca will ill m bp be represented lute at tt Seattle l h by an exhibit of brass bras wares carved I wood linens anI and silk silks An exporter ex cx- porter in Seoul is il preparing a tine fine ex ox- x- x hibit for tho WOO 1000 exhibition to show how X-I X I the tho pro progress rs of tho the Pacific country A After a year of prohibition in Atlanta Allan Allan- j ta the th Constitution Co reports that ar arrests arrests rf rests t bv hv the Atlanta police decreased c the fines collected in th the recorders recorder's re rc- ro- ro corders corder's or er PI court fell off ofT and and the fines worked out in tho the streets were less Jess by liv I I I An i ar i is hein being built huilt in PhilI Philadelphia Phila Phil i I delphia Cur lor a coal mining anti anil na i navigation a tion hon that will pick up tip canal boats l lilt lift them sixty feet into the theair theair I air nir and nuil dump their contents into a storage pile a wharf or into another vessel 1 I Professor nr Percival Lowell announces that spectroscopic proof has h been ben obtained ob ob- ob- ob tamed of the presence of water on Mars This would seem according to tho the Scientific American Cm to settle Oce and for a all a moot mont martian question question ques ques- tion in m Lowells Lowell's favor or Although h more than pounds ot of rubber arc aro used in the world worl each year nr PO so little attention has been leCil given n to its cultivation that tho the pure luro article sells at nt wholesale at a i a pound one ono of the hi highest prices paid paul for a staple commodity News from vessels ol in the Alaska trade will be published in a n daily a ly paper i issued suea on tho the grounds of th the tho Alaska Yukon Yukon Pacific exposition The rho publication will be known as tho the wireless wire wireless wire less and will contain n both local and foreign news n received in Seattle by I wireless The new woman in China instead of following tho the example of her Ln English and American sisters in railing against the tho tyranny y of If men has revolted rc against her relations in Ono One of tho the women's wo woo mens men's clubs in Bhan Shanghai proclaims as its ts object rebellion a against mothers mothers- v. la w. w Every erY year a tree treo is dug from the kin kings king's s 's Wi Windsor estate and presented to tho the local workhouse o by 11 his majesty Then gaily decorated with s it is hun hung with drums trumpets dolls doBs and toys of oC P eT every conceivable ahle description le on for distribution on among the tho children of workhouse London London Mirror Mrs Aubey lo Ic Blond who has climbed mau many mountains says that a climb of man many hours becomes no more fat fatiguing than a hard haril game gamo of oi tennis u Only Onty a short time tune ago the mother of one of our members who is i nearer eighty than seventy sev enty crity dill did au an expedition of fourteen or fifteen hours in tho snow without turning turning turn turn- in ing a hair There Thero has recently been completed at I Great Falls Mont a hu lingo huge o brick chimney him chim I Ine ne hey ney for carrying away tho the fumes of thu tho smelter works which will vill take rank as one of the tho tallest structures in the tho world It is feet in the outside diameter at the base and IMS 55 at th the base and 53 feet 0 inches at the tho top It extends fiO SOfi feet above o its low T cut foundation course Its total weight ht is is 2 1964 tons tous rite Tho shepherds of France Franco all go KO on stilts and they think nothing of bring being perched up from dawn to dusk I with their feet on a level leol with a mans man's head bead The shepherd is provided with witha a stout staff that answers for maO many mans pur pur- poses At the proper place in th the thc staff is a u flap which makes a comfortable seat at when turned down On this the shepherd quietly sits sitA Tind watches 1 his flock and while whilo he sits its up iiI there thero he knits or spins with ith a distaff thrust in his girdle Enormous ener energy y is developed dc by a flat fiat spot on a wheel Professor Hancock of Purdue University Uni finds that flat fiat sopt two and aud one half incites inches lon long on a n thirty- thirty inch carrying a n load lond of pounds at thirty miles an hour will vill del deliver a n blow to the rail rait of moro more than 1000 foot pounds The Tho same flat wheel I supporting a five vo ton I I I I I car running at sixty miles an m hour would deliver deli a blow with Hh an energy of foot pounds Such a flat spot would be produced br by wearing off lc less than 05 OJ inch of metal Says the London Chronicle Port au nu Prince which has conic como into notoriety again through h the thA latest civil war in Hayti is one of those places wh which ch have hat repeatedly had to chan change c their names to suit Hint the changes c and chances of polities politics During the jUt ItH ears vears ars since e Haiti became finally independent of Franco Prance she has been lIeen an nn empire a n kingdom a republic an nn empire again and an a n republic c once more Hence the town ori originally original known as aJ J I has been at various times time renamed Port Henri after tho the native o J King in Henri I n. n Port Republican and finally Port au an Prince Princ without prejudice to the fact that there arc are no genuine princes in ti Ha-ti now Among the anecdotes tNt reL h by the tho Marquis Massa tassa In his hiM Souvenirs ct et Im Tm- recently published Is b ono one about tho the first president of ot the French republic which I is II making tho the rounds of or ortho tho the theatrical columns of ot the tho European an press It t run runs runs- A short time after ater young Thiers had been elected as ns a legislator toa a n. number of our set arron arranged Crl to gIve 11 a n performance of or Roman floman Ch Chez z la ha Portiere a at t the house hous o of a n. mutual friend On the cl evening of us the tho antI J performance without rf ru run n n. n e mOo emOo our I prompter W hesitation lies hes the new nn fledged deputy volunteered I to take the tho place and despite the protests of or sonic some o of the party part who feared that his lila dignity b be everlastingly p Injured d h ho lie jumped Into the bo boy box where he lie remained l' ready to help us u In iii time of or need neel until the curtain d descended on what proved pro to b be bea bea a highly satisfactory n performance I |