Show IB BITS TS OF INFORMATION n steam cam railways s 's carry passengers 1 year arI arTh ar Th The Th United States ranks third among t I w In Importation of or ton ten The mans mann risk of or sudden death I is eight to ono greater than that thal of the womans V Tho Tim Importation of lea Into Inlo the tho United Un States bins haa ranged from froni rom to is- is a L HJ year r 1 Fifty years ars ago thoro thero worn lb- lb s In Sweden hill but that number r has hag 7 J W v been reduced to I In in n several ev raJ of the tho more mot northern countries coun tries of Europe It I Is the custom to charge women half ra rates s n at t t tho hotel Australia AUf has hns mote mOle unexplored area orca In proportion to lo tho population than any un other r c country Complaints are made maeh In Gorman German pap papers r roC of oC the thc depredations of uC tourists who hunt huntin I in Spitsbergen one wealthy wealth IJ Berliner Killed thirteen i hears bears In four OUI days s To ph W. W r Folk olk former fornier governor Jo of ur Missouri fI 1 Is lecturing III In New ew England under the tim auspices of the lie Y V. M. M I C C. A. A on The Tho Urn Ela of Conscience n By th the all aid of or l production tion LIon of containing atmospheric nitrogen Germany Jermany exp expect cL POOH to largely tf decrease erea e Its Importation of or saltpeter from Chile Th The Tue climate of or Scotland I is such that wa waterproof Ja garments are arc usually t more or Ies less during er c every month of or tim tho yar yal Tho ho average 3 annual rainfall Is about forty five inches I Arrived fd hack back In I Harr harry Lauder Lander Pa says ays' I And nd ml you ou want to know kno what I thou thought ht of President Il Well ell h Im h s kind of n IL man who doesn't care art what an any man thinks of him so o there Rat ICat t exterminators x t had hail to tu bo w engaged Bother Idly h by th the lie Leeds Leede England public library till the chief hl f librarian wa was fp pI I defied by h a great Tn rat t. t and anil the th women nien assistants were In a constant state of or terror tenor V Chinese r report port that the lie ministers min ruin of Great Britain Russia Germany H and nil France purpose C to 10 recommend their r respective t JO governments nt fits to e a portion por Tor- ion tion of the tue boxer Indemnity as s a proof of oC tJ friendship teL for China I There ThIc has hap In I recently boon been discovered rII Buenos Duenos Aires a 1 spider spicIer which C practices fishing lishing nt at times lii In n shallow places place It spins between on stones a l winged two conical I net on which It runs run In the the- water and captures small ma tadpoles etc MC t That It understands It Its work turk well II Is shown by tho ho shriveled skins of ot creatures crea crea- lures tures that lie He about In th the tho web wb net I Th The eighth satellite of oC Jupiter discovered ered r el at the lie Greenwich observatory In January Jan Jan- uary of or last t year car proves prows remarkable not only for so lO far ar from froni tho ho planet but also for Its er very eccentric orbit Its dis tan tance from varying from about O. to 10 miles I It revolves revolves' around tue planet in about bout t twenty six of or our months This from rom Austria lIl j A woman of or Belgrade Bel Bet grade grado sent t her last t years year's a IS hat ha t to Vienna for r reconstruction nub and got ol back hark a n. model of f bite and shape whirl which baffled rJ till tho local loal milliners milliners' envious fn efforts at It has now no b been hn n ascertained that the police pollee at Vienna mistook the th parcel parrel for 01 or a Servian bomb an and after sub sub- Je lIng It to various tp tests t including Immersion Im tin- In water w returned el it Il unopened d Tho aro are a group group of or three small volcanic Islands Islands' In iii tho thio southern part of Bering sea 88 and thIrty seven miles northwest north north- west veat of the Island of One Ono of or these Islands Castle Castlo Hock flock has b been en known since 1796 Firo It island has been known since sinco 1883 while the third one Perry island rose from rom the sea about the timo of the San Francisco earthquake in l OG Accor According to a letter to Science this Island has now sunk Tho Tim Japanese ml mission of ot architects which Is visiting Europe to obtain Idt Ideas is for tor tho the now hou houses r of or parliament In Japan Ja- Ja pan Is going to study the lie earthquake ef effects ef- ef I feets In Ital Italy and nud nd try to evolve c laws lawR from which h th y will b bo enabled fl to 10 build legislative log leg I houses es In stone in iii spite spit of or tho tim predisposition of or their country to earth earth- I quakes Their new buildings are aro lo to cost o t about no 0 so 10 thc they sa say ray th they must not allow to be surprised h by 13 geological cataclysms Under Lnier the tho new regime In the Turkish empire tho ho restrictions on In electrical apparatus ap ap- ap- ap of or all classes o ho been removed The JO government t Is planning to establish a telephone service similar to th the telegraph raph service This Is a l Cr very Interesting Illustration illustration Illus illus- ration of oC the advance ad C of tIme the Turkish government sOY gov O which heretofore has bias had hod 1 a particular particular par par- dread of electricity oln owing to Its ls connection with tho ho word dynamo which obviously ob must have o something to do o with d dynamite to In thirty y vears the tho street treet railways as o of tho United Kingdom have havo grown from to lo 2 2464 2164 6 miles their thell capital from I to and their yearly early net I receipts receIpt from to The Tho number of passengers annually carried Is equal to sixty times time the entire population or sixty Journeys a rear fear for every ory man woman and child In the country a country a total carrying of or miles Increase In ono one year Electric traction Is steadily displacing other motive o powers A New York photographer recently learned to his 1115 sorrow that the gas mantle mantic omits emits a ray lie Ito had haLt stored away asay a n large number o ot plates In a a. dark ark place and In Inadvertently Inadvertently In In- advertently left heft a C gas mantle near tho the plates The They remained In tho the place for or a month and when the photographer took his plates out he found nil all of them fogged The Tho mantle tn contaIned cont thorium a R radioactIve radio radio- net actIve I vo substance that flint penetrates a ft carr cardboard card card- hoard board il plate box as 88 easily lIy as 01 It goC gocS Joes through h glass gIllS Th The Th man mm didn't know this thill but tut now he lie knows know bettor better than to h leave heave g gds gd's mantles mantiC's near his ples Vt t German East Cast Africa Arrien n a na native pa- pa tive the who like all II tho hoMe c bj belonging lon lonn n tt to 1 th the tribe of or the Iu uru regarded snake flesh Jl as an tn especial delicacy found a huge boa hoa constrictor lying In the middle of or a field 1 He lie confIder confided the d discovery ErV to ono or two others and fwd arranged with them V to kill It lurIng during tho hours hOll of darkness l po so that thiat the they might enjoy th the delicacy I to to gether Toward TO nightfall the man armed with a n stick attacked the hm huge serpent rp nt The boa hoa constrictor aroused 1 from rom Its itA ap ap- parent torpor suddenly seIzed d the unhappy unhappy un un- happy negro and slowly crushed 1 him to pulp and then gradually swallowed l him There aie arn nt nl least fifty nine metals known to the chemist t At the lie dawn o of history there e were rC only four our four copper tin gold and anal silver cr Three more more- were Cre added I b by ancient civilization cIvilIzation Iron lead and V I mercury These seven even were ero all were known to classic antiquity an and for tho the first thousand nd years of or tho the Christian era ra raIt II It IK Is believed fd that copper because found most abundantly In the pure state was as asI lie first to attract the attention of primitive primitive prim prim- t man maim Tin was It probably the see ftC I end ond ho largest hargest deposits being In those thoe regions region longest Inhabited by hy the human race Iron canto came Into general u use c be between be tween t a thousand and fifteen hundred years before the Christian era fra Imf Marie eat cat saved SA lice her mistress mistress mis mis- tress trell life one ono morning Jast month Mme Mm nf I wh who lives In Parl ParK Paris heard the cit cat mew loudly and jumped out of or b d. d thinking that It was after Ja her r birds which were In tho ho next room As API Mm Im rushed rushel Into this rom room a burglar hunI knocked her candle from her tier hand hantl antI and caught lu ht her h by the lie throat and attempted to strangle I ra hor hr II UP lie I I let t bier lier g go how however with a cry of pain pl oath and wh n Mme shrieks J brought In th the n neighbors neigh neIgh- bors hors It was found round that the cat eat had caught raught the ho burglar by hy the throat and had liar scratched out omit one of his C An accomplice accomplice of the tho burglar was found hiding under un un- un der er a bed bd In Iii 1907 07 Cuba had harl a St population of o S.- S. 9 90 0 an Increase of to 30 per r cent from Hi Havana the ito mos most mOlt t thickly populated province has p people One on one half h l of tho the Islands Island's populo population lion live lives In the time rural districts th the tho towns and cities r containing Inhabitants or per perCEnt percent percent cent of the total population Havana ana tho ho largest lanet city has people Thero There are males and amI j females this average a number to a 0 family Is sll slightly le less s than live and an Ar area a of or Hl square miles allows of or an au average of per lr square rt m mile 11 Frt French children ar are often on their wa way a to 10 school a i i. little little- after 7 i o'clock In the thie morning morning- If It they have concluded their lessons bv by 9 o'clock la lit th the c evening It Is 19 only b by dint of great application Youns oune men mn for th the higher professions have appointments with Hit their tutors at o'clock In the thC morning In summer r time time- ot otherwise he I they lit cannot accomplish h the tIme mountain of or work vork that lies lits before them In Iii all branches of art the labor Jabor of the lh tyro Is immense At tt t the conservatoire the lie strenuous life lire Is III carried to a point which provokes okel the lie astonishment even n of f laborious labori on O ous German students Pall Pall Math Mall Gazette Gazett Mrs frs Kate Douglass I s nh-s addressed ad ad- dressed dressel th tIme the meeting of kindergarten en enthusiasts ron ron- who ho met mt the other day In th tim the New ew ew York home of nr Mrs J. J ft the purpose e of establishing kindergartens kindergartens kinder kinder- I In small towns and villages g Time The scope of or this new ne' kindergarten will wilt be bo national thou though h It Us its members de declare de- de clare dare that nowhere no In the country countr is II there such uch a demand for the schools as 11 within u n radius of ot miles of or New ew York City Richard Watson atton Glider Gilder Mme Maria Kraus Kraus-BoeHe and nod the tho ne Rev Dr David G G. Wylle WylIe also made c speeches In favor lavor of the movement nt Th The recent Intervention In Cuba cost tho the United States some somo six millions of dollars And Cuba i la Is expected to pay the freight lint But the terms tenus are aro S N easy The Tho 1 president I Is empowered by congress to receive from the tho Cuban government from time to time such amounts to re reimburse re- re Imbur o the tim United States as ho may consider the Cuban treasury Jr than able abl to topa pa pay without serious embarrassment There Thero Is 18 a chance here for or a n difference rne of opinion between tIm the Cuban secretary of the time treasury and th the president nl of the States tates In rf regard to tim the meaning o nf of the last six Ix words of or tho the condition New W York Press Pres Solomon Andrews AndT's who died th time the other day lay in Iii Cardiff Wales Vales at tho a age c of or 7 73 Vi left Itt a fortune of bf the foundation of which ho laid as a 0 me meat at pic pIe peddler lt r rOut Out of or tho thio profits on tho the pies which he lie made mad himself Mr Ir Andrews was able II to I establish h himself elf In hu business as a baker and confectioner Time The foundation of his fortune was now firmly laid haiti and the ho n miti- miti m rous other branches of commerce to which ho turned his attention all nil pro c proved pro prosperous J Hero Is a full till lI list t of th them m Peddler baker haker bus proprietor draper undertaker cr cab proprietor restaurant J. J kf eJer Jer and and colliery r owner O |