Show BITS OF INFORM INFORMATION TION Seven cn c out of ot ten recruits in Russia are illiterate An average le of oC eleven elc persons persona have ha been injured dall dally daily and one person killed ever every other dB day for the tho last 1 three months b by bytho tho timo Chicago sheet cat cars In using v dogs os as aids to sentries gantries the Italian lt arm army as a a. Roman new newspaper 1 pcr points out has merely revived lc a custom prevalent among amoni the ancient Greeks and Homa Romans n. n According to lo an English court a test for asthenia is to 10 mal make c a nina man stand standup up with head erect and eyes COS closed and whistle A neurasthenic subject It tt ItIs itis Is I said can not do this One of the time leaders In New York business busi busi- nes ness flees world who Mho is III also alo a conspicuous philanthropist writes from a a. vacation rc re- re ort Kort ort where he went to rest There Is no rest rut In the country countr for a man who rc- rc es cel mall mail Time The government JO commissioners appointed appoint appoint- ed cd In Ital Italy to report on ott the question of ot woman e have 0 r recommended that women engaged In trade have ha the right to vote for tor members of or tho the chambers of or commerce Turkeys Turkey's government Jo has Just placed with a t firm ot of cotton mill owners of ot 1 Leeds e 5 England an order for about 1500 yards of or cloth for the Turkish ann army mm The is 1 tho timo largest placed for tor khaki the time Japanese Russo-Japanese war t There lucre has hag Just b been cn unearthed tram from the River Annan near Lockerbie a relic of or carl early Britain in the time shape shapo of a A. canoe in ina ina a wonderfully goon good state of oC preservation atlon It Is IR of ot tho the t type pc known as dugouts the material being the trunk of oC a black oak oaktree tree about twelve t feet reet Jon long bug rudely ch shaped and hollowed ell out london London Stanard Stan Stan- Card daid ard Probably one half tho the drinks drinks' served cr In Inthe the cafes rates of ot France ate are syrups diluted with water or 01 ordinary phon soda Such Sueh drinks cost S or 15 cents a glass In time the rates and an yet the conspicuous fountain of the lime United States tates is seen but ran rarely I In France rance and then only In the lar largo large r cities through which the American tourist pa passes pase ge A t new tele telegraph raph cable has recently b bc been n laid right across the Forth bridge The rime cable which was 88 laid b by the time postoffice postoffice post post- office and Is la Its property has taken the place of or the former one which was as found round to lo bo 10 unsatisfactory A traIn of six six- wagons was employed to convey con the time cable mm am-mm anti and this moved etl slowly across the bridge e while white the tho m men n laid the cable down on the tue footpath th on the tho side Ide of or the time bridge At tat last the University of oC Pekin has ha conferred conferred con con- the time doctorate In iii Chines literature upon a foreigner This Is 19 a n cl degree grce hitherto hither hither- to conferred only upon Chinese e after se se- o ci examination foreigners foreigner r not b ln considered to have ha time the faintest ll chance of or facing the time with success ucc s. s The rue Thea sa savant sa- sa ant vant who holds hold II this distinction Is u a Ir Japa- Japa named Hattori Ballod now one of the th- professors pro pro- lessors In the University of oC Tokio The They are arc telling a great Joke on Lysander Iy- Iy sander John robn Appleton Mr lr Jr Appleton writes a cr very poor h hand baud nd and recently wrote an an angry r letter leller to his wife's brother asking him to pa pay what he lie owed him or ot orbe be he sued The Tho brother called d In iii all the thc handwriting experts In his neighborhood and thc they deciphered the time letter to he an invitation to the brother other and family to come for tor an extended visit and five fhe of oC them arrived toll today e. e Venetian women omen have lla formed a Il league for the time purpose of Introducing once more Renaissance period the tile fashions of the tIme signora Inora Rosa Genoni the time novelist who ho s-imi s la is at tt tIme the head of or time the em movement nt appeals appeal to time the split t of or Independence and patriotism of or her countrywomen omen to discard obnoxIous obnoxious ious ions In Paris moll modes and antl to adopt dot the national na an- their Illustrious an an- an t diess worn WOnt b by She has hos won over ocr a consIderable considerable consider consIder- I able number of or women to tm the caus and antl the men of or Y V Venice nice arc aie giving Ing a warm ar n support support sup sup- port ort to the thc n new w league The latest Innovation o In Iii wireless less Ja is 8 the of oC an underground under under- ground station hi In Paris It is It being elected In iii the time Champ de do and w aiH III II probably he be open to for 1 use nr next t. t month The station will be fitted f up on the d lines an and comprise a a. latest t approved machine room a 1 polo 1010 an and amid accommodation for the time officials liy ity the time Introduction of oC a horsepower toO engine It is s hoped that messages ma may be bo exchanged ex IX- miles dl Cia dl- eh changed n cd with t places about taut Tho Timo result of or time the experiment will I I be hc awaited with t much Interest Dean n t dias as a story sian of oC that old hord border i hostility o between cen h arid and Scott Scots A Scottish drover was returning bad humor from om tho time soutI In particularly with the time In 8 h. h having ln done poor busi bush business ness 1118 when hen he lie aW in a a. notice offering a a. reward of or 20 to anyone who ho would volunteer for Cor the time unpopular r tak toS of or hanging a condemned criminal Seeing his bad bart inai- inai for hl his chance to make up lip up with the time comforting himself ket and 16 he was unknown there thought that t ho me did th the job mind and got sot his hi tee fee A- A Aho ho hI was wasen la I vine he was ns taunted a as aa a beggarly en Scot doing for tor or money what no Englishman English 1 would limit But ho hn answered with n mm cheerful man grin Ill hang yo ye 0 A 3 at t the price En n I-n English scientist declares that there theres Is I. enormous normous loss of oC energy in burn burn- urn lair J s ng arm aji coal With Ith the time coal oal consumption of or orman countries s In the time last ten years wears b be bs man many nony In ing greater n-greater greater than In the preceding con con- that less than 3 per percent percent ho lit estimates s tur tun cent of the total heat value has been con Into useful work ark The b but best t power p plAnts ants only 10 JO per cent of oC of ot the fuel tUfI locomotives only he the energy er Y S a to 5 S per cent and electric Incandescent lamps lamp only seventh one of or 1 I per cent this enormous waste 1 Is II one To fo reduce educe i of or tim tho great tn problem mt earv ear ear- of or the th wa waste ute te Is I v horsepower by b gm gas from Irom blast furnaces furnaces being Je lessened d b by the tho lo loss os s Is now no installation of ot gas as engines It I Is possible to t tell lI almost exactly when ht II time th he more mor plc elegant p perspire drove o out the I Ith vulgar sweat cat According J to a J writer lu in u the lImo G ra Magazine In 1791 for Cor some ome time past n neither man woman nor in Great Grent Britain and Ireland of or orAn An any rank or fashion has been boen subject ct to o the time gross form lorn o of oC exudation which wn formerly known as SUI sweat cat X Now ow w every cr mortal except carters coal era v 11 and n charmo-n merely perspires For Forth th these heso o twenty tnt years years' r p past st th the word sweat been gradually JJ becoming mo more mon and more mort odius Before 1 1770 iiO or so o. o perspiration per pr commonly meant an aim nl tl il process sweating th lh grosser arlt valety va va- lety thereof In ono one of ot his bla t sermons rm n 11 v I P. 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