| Show BITS OF INFORMATION Filipino prisoners In both men and women arc now no allowed a 11 certain number of or cigarettes a day RY at government expense Rhode Island received Its n name nm m from what was vms supposed to be bo a 11 resemblance In contour of ot tho the island of Rhodes In tho the 1 Mediterranean Platinum used extensively In electrical work I Is only mined In and Orp Oregon on In lit this country Co the former ronner supplying supplying supplying sup sup- plying So 85 per cent of the tho American prod prod- oct The rhe adaptability of ot electrical energy 1 lx I only limited b by human imagination to do do- vise new W ways S 'S to put it to work Now methods of or applying It arc are Invented In every I Iria ria day An n Instrument that enables tho the user tiser to gaze Kazo Into tho thu human stomach and watch the thu digestive processes at work was 5 ex explained ex- ex rt at the tho British M Medical association tion Oon meeting in Belfast The Tha ctt city of Naples will soon bo be lighted h by el Cli felly secured from i-em i water pow power r. r A At t Cx Volturno po horsepower er willbe will willbe willbe be generated nail and carried at lil 1600 volts to tho ho city six lt miles a away w The eighth satellite of Jupiter dl cIl co cov- cov IrNI at nt the Greenwich observatory ator In January of last year car proves pro remarkable remarkable- not nol only for tor being so o far fill from tho planet hut hilt also for tor oC its Ita very eccentric orbit its distance from Jupiter varying from about to miles It revolved rc around the planet In about t six twenty of or our months I Tho The National Red Reri Cross has hiss met with will such success in th the lie 1 last two years In teaching t first aid Rid to tho the injured to th the employers of large largo corporations that it has determined to undertake th tho work ork on ona onn a n much larger er scale scalo Jt ft will bp begin ln with tho the United States Ste Steel 1 corporation and will Instruct more than twenty thousand employees of that concern That Edison is as fertile as 06 ever In HUg sug suggestions appears In his proposal al that the gliNt East river rJ New York be Oiled filled In and Its waters provided pro with a a. new channel dug duc across Jon Long Lone Island at a R point farther l east cast Good authorities pronounce tho the scheme by no means chimerical l. The Th real estate value of thu tho present site of the thc liver would be he almost t beyond calculation There Is a Il rc revival of oC the tattoo habit IIi In Germany Grman according to nn an article pub pub- liaised In a Frankfort paper Heretofore the writer Nay says Nays It was as to find n a nta ta tattooed subject who had hart not b been en lIf decorated deco dr-co- O. O rn rated led n nt at t ono one of tho seaport towns The Tho Thomen Themen men 1 wern rn sailors l and the tho few women who h had d fallen to the habit were wives 8 or sweethearts of tattooed men The Tho tatton tatton tattoo tat tat- ton too artist now finds willing subjects far Inland l. amon among people who never ne saw a sailor or the tho sea nci Dr D ma may claim this Unique distinction that ho is th the first German Grman chancellor to wear a R. beard Bismarck Bis ha marck marek hn nod hastened to shave sha off ort his when he ho entered upon diplomacy and showed showell hl his rivals and enemies a n massive Jaw antI and chin and nd he shaved ed to the tho end with an nn interval enforced by bv neuralgia In Inthe Inthe the tue early el A As n a soldier too Caprivi Ca- Ca shaved I. all RII but hul his mustachio mustache and so did 1 anti and But Hut Both Beth mann mann-Hollweg Is 18 gaunt rugged hirsute pan I At a n garden party parl commemorating lIn the l twenty fifth h anniversary ar of or ginning beginning the tho work of the lie National l Society l for tor the Prevention Pre of Cruelty to Children of ot ln England Hogland Hog Eng land there ther were exhibited In a tent some of the he Instruments of or child torture tortura that lint ha had come Into the he society's possession No children were lre allowed Inside tho the tent Round th the 1 walls hung whips iron rods chains chain sticks ropes and other oilier lor- lor or- or turo weapons lI used d in tho the 6 II cases of III ill treatment and assault In the last quarter ter or of a century Congressman Livingstone of Georgia la was wan standing outside tho ho senate l finance committee committe room when the tho cl delegation I of or young oung woman hosiery s from Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia Phil Phil- adelphia left that loom room after an nn au audience with Senator Aldrich Senator Smoot I Iwho who Is a Mormon from Utah and a member mem morn I Iber ber of ot the finance committee len left tho ho I room In the lead of the young youn women Who ho are arc all nil these young women asked a man who watched the tho procession url curl Smoots wives w said Living Living- Livingstone stone atone laconically Miss l Edna Cockrell formerly a a teacher in th tin the Tonkawa public schools t Is fl now nosy assistant as as- as superintendent of the girl girls girls' In Industrial lading Indus lu trial school nt at Clarkson l Miss Writing to friends at Tonkawa Miss Clarkson son said lately The Tho girls art are from 14 to CO 20 f years yearn old Most of them are Yer very poor people whom church people have hR given mone money to lo go 10 to school One poor girl came leading heading a n. cow CO twenty five miles i She Is going to milk the row cow nl night ht and morning and sell the milk to pay her tui tul Ui- Ui tion Oklahoma tion-Oklahoma Oklahoma News Yul Vulcan Vulan an an alle alleged cd planet was discovered ered In ani only to be effectively clr obliterated crated from tho the planetary system flU fifty years late Leverrier 1 who acted n ns godfather godfather god god- od father to the tho n now w addition calculated a 1 Pa path th and amI found that tha t the planet net revolved cd around the the- sun un In about twenty days Yet other observers observer failed ever cr to see seo tho the planet an now Professor Campbell an announces announces an an- that hut the tho eclipse observations of recent years cars prove almost conclusively that th thu existence of such a bod body Is a practical Impossibility A human hair of or average Crage thickness can support support- a R. load of six and one fourth ounces and the tho average c number of hairs hairson on the head hearl Is about A womans woman's long Ion hair has han a total tensile strengths strength of more moie than Ilvo f tons and tills this str strength n th can an be Lc Increased third one b by b twisting the hair Tho The ancients ts made practical use of the strength of human hair lr The cords of or orthe the Roman catapults were wro made of at the hair of slaves sla and It is recorded that the tho free women of or Carthage offered their luxuriant luxuriant lux lux- tresses for tho the o san use when their thell city Voa was besieged b by the Romans An attempt Is to be he made mado to Introduce the famous Massachusetts l and Rhode Rhodo Island clams to Maine waters aters and two men from Massachusetts 1 and others who are arc to be bo sent hero b by James Donohue commissioner of sea and shore ole fisheries will be begin ln the work about tho ho 1st st of Octo Octo- ber Th These o clams arc are very ry largo large and have lIa very ery white whit shells and command a n much higher price In the market than the lie Maine product At 1 the last legislature people r interested In the succeeded in get s ito an appropriation al from the tho state It will probably be he two 8 seasons before the results of or the lit work cnn cars be lie known known Lew Lewiston Lew- Lew iston lson Pic Me Journal The Tho ancient Romans excelled In making pottery Th They possessed sed regular muffle ovens and even en a at sort ort of producer gas a ov oven n. n Attempts Attempt to produce the beautiful soft soll gloss glosH peculiar to old Roman Reman pottery have c not yet attained complete tn success The be best t result says the Scientific Amer iner- iner ican lean Is obtained b by Fischers Fischer's mechanical process Iri li-I which the tho ware before It Ifred Is I fired is II coated with a paste of or clay and anti fred Fine hint pl pigment ment and ond Is then thon polished of ancient pottery nr are thus produced produced pro pro- but the lie stud study of the defective portions portions por por- ions of ot the tho genuine terra term ware shows that It was wn marie made by Ly a Il different process tho the gloss having o evidently Uy been heen produced b by the lie application of ot a n superficial super super- glaze glue without t mechanical polishing |
