Show Ii i I I BITS OF OFIn INFORMATION 1 I In H nS lOg the thc importation of rubber J to lo thi this country amounted to 3 1 A census of th the r railroad ears cars ar of the country shows of which I arc are passenger cars cus Tho The railroads of this country employ more morl telegraph operators tan the telegraph tele graph companies In 1007 1907 Great Groat Britain furnished 30 30 hi bicycles to Japan and ancl in addition worth of parts part while white the United States furnished bicycles and worth of p parts Caviar i is now no made matle in large quantities quantities ties at Lake Winnipeg from sturgeon roc roe Jt It is shipped to Hamburg in Kegs anti comes back to this Country in iii tins and jars as ns caviar The flue state tate superintendent of instruction instruction instruction tion in Wisconsin says sa the college l' l girls eat cat too much candy The Thc Daily Cardinal n 1 of th the tho University of is Wisconsin o in after investigating has decided this is true The girls deny delly Ilen it it of French renaissance design design de de- sign will be he used to illuminate the tho grounds of the Alaska Alaska Yukon exposition exposition ex- ex ex x position nt at Seattle Hundreds of f the tine beautiful have Inca been built On tho thu top of each will L be a large Jarll sphere of light containing sixty SO 0 globes luhrs A young woman n en entered a crowded cro street streetcar car with 1 a pair lair of skates on her arm An n n elderly gentleman at arose O and oT offered her r hi his sent seat Thank you yon she ho said but bunt I very much sweetly dont don't care arc about sitting hitting ittin lawn down I Ive I've been en skating katin all the afternoon Ilar Har Har Harpers Harper's Harpers Harper's pers per's W Weekly ec Because Deall f of the tIle fight anti and resultant nt damage attending th the last lust Cr University it of IY lin underclass dinner i r the the freshmen ha have found it almost impossible impossible sible to get t a hotel to supply th their ir slim din nor ner All AJI save two to places refused cd outright outright out out- right and th the other two a asked for heavy bonds to secure them m against damage Of the appropriation of oC authorized nil nil- by congress for fr participation nt tt tho the Pacific lukon X ukon 0 will be used in the construction construction tion of buildings The hi big exhibit palaces pal pal- aces will b be ready to receive the display from fromn th the department at nt Washington Alaska Hawaii and the Philippines not later than thlU March 1 The the college annual at the University of Michigan baa asked students w with th cameras to chase up the members rs of the tho senior classes to get rt photographs of the 1000 1909 folks without without with with- out their knowing ting they th Ire are being eins taken To ro hr being D caught in ill ridiculous poses into which they JIIn may inay fall 1 by chance the the- Michigan seniors are kept kepf busy husy dodging folks who carry black boxes There is a story tor of Carlyle in hi his old oM age t ins having taken the following far farewell fare fare- well in his Ills broadest Scotch of-a of young friend who lend had had bail hint in charge charle for walks and who while almost alwa always adapting him himself ll t to s wood mood had hall hadon hadon on 00 n a single I IOU ventured to disagree dis disk agree aro with him I would have you on to know young man that you yon have tho the capacity of being tho the greatest bore in J Christendom Prof Ferrero in an interview published pub puh pub pub- published li in the current number of tho the Federal Fed ed eral lun nc Review tal lakes s 's ocenA occasion to deny the report which was recently circulated as t to his religious belief H He lie sa says s I myself am not a Jew Tew but my wife Gina tine the is Jewess and i a among lily iny best hest fr friends I number r that zealous Zionist and philo philosophical essayist Max ax Nordau or au l At one time timp there was two m members nf of the British lf u e of commons i I n named Montague Matthew v and ln Matthew Mat at- at thc thew n 1 e the flue th former forger a n tall I handsome ilia man II and ami the latter batter n a little man During Durin n a ses session ion of parliament the sp speaker hiving having addressed the latter latter lat lat- ter IN as ns the former Montague ont Matthew ob observed that it wa was strange h he should make such Much a It mistake as ns there was wasas as ns great grent a difference li h between them ns IS a horse chestnut anti and n a ch chestnut horse home 1101 1 Divorces s is a remedy for evil il rather than an nn evil il in itself declared lared Chief hir Justice of Maine in a aft rn- rn cent address Marriage he hI defined mol nY nYa mola M Ma a civil liil institution in established by hy Jaw Jw for or the time benefit t of man gran and anil h he lie suggested sing sug gr gestel that fh the divorce laws could 11 be perfected in three ways ways first ay first h b by granting granting grant grant- ill ing nc no divorces until husband anti and wife have Dare liver lived apart for a year second second- by my publishing the rho suits f in the tho daily papers papers papers' I third by hy giving ing th the court authority to delay hearings if necessary try eo u that I they they can not bo le rusher tin through rough as s is sometimes the case now A new code of honor has hag just been Iu i issued in Vienna for use in Aus Aus- n trio in which t the h wT writer tr r. r Gustav advocates s courts conr s of arbitration tion for tor till the settlement of disputes but hut maintains also ro that it would be wrong to abolish the tho duel which omen gentlemen in sonic some instances is una l- l able ahle The new code codo hoes does not allow allowa a n principal or hi his second to tn determine whether the adversary is il worthy that worthy that thatis is socially o or otherwise I I eligible to the tine i bonor honor of an In an encounter hut encounter but tc loaves leaves nci the tine I question tion t to tb a hoard board of arbitration which when it Las has decided that point jl shall al also o endeavor to bring about a aI bloodless settlement of tho dispute I Baltimore has begun to believe c that being willing to pay par handsomely for it I she nhe should hn have v grand opera a as a steady musical diet flit TIP Tine papers in in inthe th the tho monumental city ity arc are pointing with wilh I pride to the fact that for two performances per per- 10 bv Ire Mr lr compau com com- pau pany the tho sales of or seats scat amounted to The two performances IJ by bytho thc tho lie Manhattan opera opera company were entirely entirely t e says n the the American Ameri Amen can ern the thC cocktail before the ban ban- gnet t as HarT Harry the son pw praised it And nl while it was 3 not l stated in in so sa many words it c can m be au au- ly cJ ly paid ail that Mr fr Hammerstein Hammer Hammer- sh stein u will return to tu Baltimore with his com company pan at some om future time One of the tc l latest t indications of the tho pro progress of Japan in in occidental ideas is jg the project now low ou on foot to illuminate the tho summit of the celebrated mountain Fujiyama an and which i is one of oi the loftiest loftiest loftiest loft loft- iest and most beautiful volcanic peaks peak in the world worl with wito a gigantic electric Ji light bt Already the pil pilgrim rim stations on the way up the peak arc aro heated and lighted with electricity Since tho the Japanese are aro an artistic people one wonders whether r some pome of them nm may not nit oppose this startling Hartin innovation as 1 tho tr people PC of Venice recently expressed their disapprobation of the schema to light th the l canals with electric lamps Youths Youth's s Companion Most p people opta know that it is ig etiquette at the papal court fo for or women whatever er their rank to appear in black but few know that nn aft exception to this rule is jf made for the popes pope's sisters and niece all lall of whom are privileged f to wear white whito at ot the audiences 5 and church eel cone monies but the old ladies s do not avail themselves themselves tI of tine the relaxation of an nn ordinarily ordinarily or or- rigid f regulation lation though tho the niece makes n a point o of wearing white when attending papal tapal functions for mantilla n all as well as her dress dreM being as nf n white hito as snow Another little known point of papal etiquette is it is that women who Lo come to th tine the public or private audiences audience tl must keep kelp the right hand covered cO in indeed eed it is js is even n more correct t. t for both hands bands to be un Ladys Lady's Lads lo Lady's Ladys Pic Pictorial orial |