Show BITS OF INFORMATION One 00 ton or of apples will m usually yield 10 gallons of elder cider Last year cr ar mor more mort than I Children 11 He lic Were ro taught to Wlm at th the I London ondon public pub pUb- c schools ho I Farming arin In 1 Some parts or of f Nigeria bias baboons rendered unprofitable b by the tue raids of ot Although the steamship Is a n century old ol are still more than 66 sail sail- lag ing vessels on tho the high seas Tho The first process of making soda on 1 vi an Nicholas T scale was discovered Gla by 11 01 Leblanc ti t 1 French chemist In 1701 There I Is one 01 In ln Minneapolis which turns i. i out n 1000 and barrell bar bar- reis rell of flour Hour each ench da day Cann Canadas Canada's wheat crop is estimated at bushels bushe or bush c cia els s more than last years year's car 2 To encourage savin saving among th the p pc the tho Spanish government has established Io a atho postal the tho state savings sl bank Un under ler J guaranty of oC The inow new terminal station action of oC the I Tonn nn- nn sylvania hanla s railroad In iii New Now York has sixteen six six- teen miles mits of tracks Including twenty twenty- one ono standing stations More than school children of ot Chi CM- cage cago aro uro forced b by reason of ot s Inadi seating accommodations to cut their at attendance at- at It- It ther to a a half day session Britain's antarctic expedition now In course of preparation vm carry wireless Mg nt nit f arT L to n ihle messages to bo be sent to New Zealand from the ship and from stations established at atases bases ases of ot supplies on land or Ice Boton university according to I It its new year far book bool tins has an attendance of or 11 au Inal in all al Its Is departments Of or these 62 are men and 52 are arc women Tho The chief In Increases increases In- In creases are aro In the coIe college e of liberal arts Art the tho courses for tor teachers and tho th th school of theology I i Boomerangs are aro ar now made of celluloid mac and hard har rubber Celluloid Is better boter than cardboard because It I Is waterproof J light h. h very hard hard to break and ad can be bo worked Into th the peculiar curve cure arid and c twist so IO o n necessary necessary c- c essary to give the tho boomerang Its ITh t singular properties An Inventor of moving picture appliances appl- appl ances and machinery has hns devised dc a l new now screen which gets set rid of the annoyance of ot darkness In the room rom With hl his hla patent screen a n lar large c mirror with wih a chemically Crost frosted d surface pictures arc as 18 plain In Inthe Inthe inthe the light as 1 In darkness thus thuR dot doing away I with wih the danger of or panic In tho the dark For train dispatching the Canadian Pacific racine Pa ra- elite cine railroad has found the telephone so serviceable that the tho pres present nt system stem of ot about abut miles of oC telephone Sines ines nes willbo will wl bo ho extended to 1000 miles mies within a yea yeu The company states that about abut 50 per percent percent percent cent more traffic can be bo handled bandied now than was possible under the tho old telegraph system of dispatching Dr Amy Tanner formerly a professor at Wilson VIon college has hns been chosen to supervise the work of ot measuring and testing defective children at the Institute for child stul study which h has lias just been opened at Clark university Worcester Mass The Institute is to bo be devoted devote entirely entirely en en- tre to the tho study stud of or children will wI eventually have five 1 0 departments each ench su supervised by an expert In Halmstad Sweden Pontas Ponta Holmstrom Helm Holm- strom Is about to start a spinning mill mi for Cor making yarn out of ot paper Such mills mis already alrey exist in Germany Geran and ond France So far tar the manufacture or of rugs and anI car car- pots Dots pot seems to be the best practical use C Cot of ot this new paper yarn yam ar It X Is said that people In Sweden Sween especially in the provinces provinces pro pro- pr- pr vinces of ot arc are already making mak ing carpets carets with wih paper weft waft dt Narrow arrow rolls roUs of ot paper tape arc are used but this lila 0 o course Is not spun London London Globe During 1907 the government of Ecuador promulgated a law compelling traveling salesmen to 10 PS pay a license of oC 50 0 sucres a n year car for the thc privilege or ot soiling wares In the republic but this decree was wa not enforced till ti August of the present present- year oar Traveling salesmen arenow arenow are ure now compelled to pay the tho license fee and an any Infringement calls caas for a line fine double the amount required to pay for tor or the liege leec The Thc license cense om omy covers the time the salesman Is In the count country and I Is forfeited as soon as aa ho Io passes the tho boundary bun bun- boun boun- dary darr line lne One Ono hundred leadin leading London chefs chef are aro to celebrate soon the professional jubilee of ii M. M L the Napoleon of tb the kitchen kichen The supper will wi be surprisingly simple consisting of English Eng Bag lish oysters filet fet of sole chicken en cn casserole old casserole casserole ol old style cold meats salad sala and an ice This seems in strange contrast con eon with some somo elaborate and aud monstrous monstrous monstrous mon mon- monI I bills bis of faro fare fre that President Taft Tat is steered up it against or steers awa away from Escoffier er has las been chef at the Carleton Careton and Savoy Savo for many maD years cars and former formerly when chef to Napoleon III ILl Il was captured at New etz New York Press Pearl fishing writes a correspondent is still sti carried on with considerable success on the River at ut Callander Callan Callan- I der den Perthshire The seed pearls pearl which include both black and pure pue white specimens are arc got t in iii the tho shells shell of fresh water mussels Tho The local worthies who of often ton add lar largely l to their incomes practice their calling at night tho the moro more oro date up-to-date using a asmal small smal electric li light ht attached to a cord which when sunk within a few fow inches of the bottom of the stream m reveals the tho glistening shells These arc then secured secured se so- cured with wih a cloven coen ash stick slick Oblong pearls of b big size siro aro are often ofen got West got West Westminster minster Gazette Not ot lOD long ago Noah oah White of Chesta Chestatee tee tec distri district t ao had a butting batting sheep This sheep went across the tho Blue Buo ridge in Union county on a visit and while there went ent to the hou house e of a lad lady with ih her flock Bock of sheep This lady decided to put ut the strange sheep sheen up until its is owner called caned for it but lo ho and behold she made a failure for the sheep com to show fight bt The Tho lad lady mado made for the house hom c tho the sheep in in hot pursuit but butting in her bier ever every step until tho ho door was reached Then rhoD it entered and did Ht not stop until it ran not only the tho lad lady but every child she had oil off of tho place After staying stain a while it left lef and aDel the tho family took possession of the tho house again a Ga Nu Nugget got There Thero is ii a real campaign in Europe Europea a against the tho corset The Tho queen of Italy is opposed ot to stays and Carmen Sylva Syla queen of wishes every overy woman weman wo woo man thin and fat to catt cast off of the tho corset corset cor set and md truit trust to nature The woman who wears corsets 5 sh sll says hays 4 makes a n martyr of corfe herself and docs does everything every thing thine possible to hinder her natural to development nt All 1 that is unnatural 0 offends offends of of- fends my sense of of beauty and aud is hateful hate ful tl to me mc A tight waist I I. I resent as unaesthetic German Jerman scientists decry the cors corset t on health grounds hut but but the German empress is an earnest s advocate of if it She not only wears a stiff stif corset cor cor- set ct herself but insists insist that her bier maids of honor hODor shall ban not appear before her unless tightly lace laced Vice Consul General Claudo U. U Guyant Guy City ant of Panama reports report that that a 1 British inventor in hn ha has beer been beer giving i tests on the isthmus of a new explosive which led leel tho canal commission to order twenty tons tong of it for fn trial Mr Ir Guyant writes write This i is to absolutely explosive o claimed bo bitchy tale Tho inventor in ha has factories facto lucto ries ric operating in Norway and fn England a and 11 one i is being built buil in Alaska It Itis I is it if stated that thai that inasmuch as this thi sub substance stance stanco is in in itself not an nn explosive c it itis itis i is il carried at ordinary freight rates h 1 by bythe the transportation companies in fn England Eng Bag land lanai and Norway This now new product in is i compo composed pl of ot of ammonia nitrate of ot soda oi anti and ant severa several sev sev- era eral ral minor ingredients such Much as paraffin fin tn for or water pro proofing etc It is el claimed churned u that it is CO no per stronger than the 66 per r cent grade of ot dynamite Hn and that the lie cost coat COtt of manufacturing wilt will wi be be- over oer t 0 O a I ton tOD Cheaper Consular Ik V |