Show II BITS OF INFORMATION I Chicago o shows allows a n. natural o tiC tt of 1 children n of ot school ago eve r year farmers t for foresee o n approaching h by observing the actions of ot ant UJ Insects Insect Tho annual crop of or wheat In r recent nt c years yeara av raJeH In Iii the thO United An loan has lias been Issued tJ at Paris h 1 by Brazil for tho the o Jf J en enlarging CU- CU the port of or Pernambuco I Dr Deaf bicycle bicycle riders in n En England I carry carr a 1 badge at the rear of or their wheels to safeguard safeguard sliCe sliCe- safe safe- guard suard them 3 against motorists W. W T r Homada the lie naturalist t. t and now director of or the New York zoo I tl im-tl to bo ho a n. real I man mm In Buffalo on one C but could not resist the tho call of or the thc caged wild Civil ChU engineers arc said to be he busy bua near neno noaa n making tho the plans for a a. l largo large lr o gravity Uy r c inal nal from the Rio Grand Grando Into litto tho territory territory- It 1 Ia hi possible that tho the water may bo ho taken from tim tho river for a n distance of or about thirty miles Into the Interior I 1 Admiral Nelson was tho tim recipient of favoritism In the ha matter of ot his appointment appoint ment to the lie British naval navai service Nelsons Nelson's gelon gel Nel sons son's on s father could not hot havo o afforded to send his son t to i Osborne But If It ho If had been NII Nelson on would have been il as asI ph physically unfit says sars ft n. writer Nelson I wan Wa shoveled Into the tho navy u IL bit hit bitof bitof of oC Jobbery and pushed on by back door Influence Charles Dickens was h r-ls r I nel l diaries John or ot Huff ham iJ as t tIa Is Ia erroneously entered entert In the r rP P ls T. T But Bul when he ho famous i Ito Jio dropped tho last two Christian names tIl C us its ush Ii h desired in J U bo itO known as ns Plain s Thickens a 11 wll wish h respected on his hid tomb tomi- In lii Westminster c Abbey by hy lila his 11 r and ani friend rl nd John Forster and anil iy IO tim the scrupulously accurate Dictionary of oC Nl National Biography Princess I of or Is said to have given Riven up her plan of or making a lecture lec lee ture tour tom In America of th tho iI law nw which excludes s anarchists The Tho princess Is III described im as a Il gentle Inoffensive woman wo wo- man naili but hut she sho ho and nor her have havo boon n for dot years CArs philosophical anu is IJ s tho the Immigration laws of ot America moko no distinction he between tween the different classes sH s of or anarchists tho the princess would not hot be allowed to land lund A bill 1111 has been Introduced In the South Carolina legislature making provision provi pro sion aloit for fOI a monument nt to the tho om women n jf Jr f the tho confederacy and tho project ct has been t. t En received d with much favor by bv by the me press pross In urging an appropriation tho the t ColumbIa St itc te says flays The Tho women of or the confederacy ae acy endured the privations and hardships lard hard ships of or war without Its ex ox- ox ments The They waited and worked theirs was as tho torture of ot suspense Dr Georgo I. I Spinning In a a. recent lecture lee lec ture tare paid paid- The climate of ot California Is b not nil nU like tho the beautiful of or th the postal card caid If H It be bo true truo that III in the lie Im Imperial In- In valley it Is so hot that thC they o ba bavota tt to ta feed teed their liens hens on ott Il cracked Ic Ice to keep them from laying boiled JolI d g ggs It Is al also true trul that in some ome parts paris of or tho the Sierras It ItIs ItIs itIs Is iso so cold that If It they hn hall I any hens they would havo o to feed them on red reI peppers and finet Spanish tamales to keep th them fi w laying hailstones Venezuela received Jt Its musical name namo from tho the carl early Spanish residents who saw a n. r resemblance of Venice In the sites flUes of ot tho the Inland cities The Tho llanos lanos or 1 I ulc plains on which th tin llaneros changed their thel character since ll saw them Then Thon those great plains of grass crass supported supported sup Sup- ported herds of ot cattle but civil war de destroyed de- de the beasts leasta to feed teed the gents The fhe llanos are aro now rapidly b becoming becom lag ing a no potential source of or timber Marton pro produced In 1896 tho tim first wIreless wireless wire Ire Ireless I less telegraph capable of or sending and ro- ro I electric waves across long dis 1118 I s. s In that year ho he could send IntellI Intel Intel- lI hlo mes messages 00 feet ll By 1900 ho ito had perfected the process so as ns to bo lie ablo to transmit me messages miles In 1902 1002 his lila ship tile Carlo Alb Alberto kept In touch b by wireless ss with a station tation on the tho coast of or England at al dl distances s up to 2300 miles In Jn December r of that year ear wireless mesO's mesO mes- s exchanged ed he between tween En England land and Id C Canada In la 1907 a re transAtlantic trans At lantic wireless service was Inaugurated Stone Stono finally crumbles and the tho bronzes ma may be bo destroyed writes Leopold ghr- ghr lieu lIeh In a Berlin paper Younger generations generations genera genera- havo have theft theft- heroes heros and forget the names of or those thoe who have havo gone SOlle h before But making the tho namo name of or a scientist a n. apart apart i part palt of or the universal selen scientific tine language Is an Indestructible monument Tho The men who gave o tho the name namo of ot ohm In honor of or George e Simon Ohm to the unit of or electric resistance ampere time the unit of or electric current to perpetuate the name of or Andre Andro Marie Mario Ampere and volt In honor hOllor of or Aln kandro Volta rolta to tho the unit of electromotive electromotive electromotive electro electro- motive force forc handed the o names to tho tim people of or all times to follow follo- Tho The cablegram cablegram cable cable- gram ram should have been named namN for or Field Ild IldR R is as the tho wireless ss message e has b been cn for Marconi and the time Incandescent lamp would burn just as well If Ir it were known as an Tho following story Is told of oC how hol Gen Con Andrew 4 Jackson got nt his title of or orOld Old Hickory Capt William hilham Allen Alien who was WiS a a. near neighbor of the tho general me messed sed with him hint during tho Creek w war r. r During DurIn tIme the campaign Camp n the soldiers were surprise the Indians moving rapidly to and were without tents A told cold March larch rain came camo on on mingled with sleet which lasted for or several d days ds s 's General Jackson on got sot a 11 severe cold but did not complain as 32 he ho tried to sleep In a n. muddy bottom among amons his hiM half hair frozen soldiers Captain Allen Alien and his brother John cut down a stout hickory tree peeled oft off the tIme bark barkand barkand barkand and marie made a covering o for Cor the general wile who to crawl was as with difficulty persuaded under r It It Tho next morning a n. drunken citizen entered tho the camp and seeing tho the tout tent kicked It over As Aa Jackson Jaclson crawled from tho the ruins the toper cried Hello Old Hickory conic come out f r your bark and us In Iii a 11 drink |