Show BITS OF INFORMATION V B M H W j lt Longe Longevity I is Jl m rici most st frequent in countries countries coun coun- trl tries s of t low birth rate A bushel of or grain will make mako four and one half gallons of spirits and twenty twenty- seven gallons of ot beer beet The Gorman German Iron and and steel Industry Is apparently as as busy and pro prosperous as ns thol American merican The The Tho city council of or Chicago po has Killed the proposed ordinance prohibiting ped ped- ulora and end newsboys from crying their wares From this time t forward forward ther nay may maI be a a. diminution In the totals of ot excavation reported tram front the Panama canal This Is due to the fact that portions Of the I c excavation av h have vo been beca finished antt that as the excavation grows grow deeper the number num num- ber of ot shovels that can b bo bb employed will wm b hi be reduced t I. I 4 The l' l National Academy of S Sciences an election to which Is b th the highest honor In In this country open to scientists was chartered b by tee national government nearly nearh half halt a century ago and It Is Ie the thc official adviser of or tho the government In scientific matters The m which is b limited to has never been heen over 00 A lad lady of or muscular proportions ons called to see ee tho to Servian home minister at ot Del Bel grade Before BeCore the tho usher had done dono e exi she lifted him gently by the collar and penetrated d to lo the tho sanctum H Here r with her back bad a against the door she read a. a lengthy length petition from the mothers of a R dl district destitute of oC schools Then with a bow to the minister and his s secretary cr tary she he departed In peace Pall Fall Man Mall Gazette Dr William Osier Osler Is said to lo ha hays been practically ll driven out of ot Baltimore by the rule forbidding a a. physician to ac ac Capt a a. fee tee from a a. brother craftsman Dr Pr Osiers Osler's fame attracted other physicians from a all lover over tho the country who were loUs lotis for tor his advice and as a r result his days dRYs work at nt the university was ren men derod dered almost impossible Then came an ample competence o c an and abundant leisure A patent medicine concern In Ham lIam burg burS Germany Is sending through the malls and publishing in th the Illustrated papers a a. picture showing Commander Pear Pearl Peary an and DI Dr Cook In arctic costume Jointly planting the American flag at the north p le The picture is ble bit for the flag which has baa el eighty ht stars and twenty one one stripes eleven eleen red and ten white with the the- legend under the group Croup America triumphs at tho the pole i edy but wo wc 0 have lavo discovered tho the rem rem- remI I Civilization lisa has t to thank the French revolution and the tho subsequent wars ars for tor masculine emancipation from the thc wl wig It was partly the hc scarcIty of flour and the war ar tax X on or hair powder that banished the powdered wig but partly alro alo the leveling Influence of at Jacobinism I do not know the present generation b by sight wrote toto Walpole In 1791 ComplainIng complain Complain- ing In- that the young joung men in their dirty shirts and shaggy hair have havo leveled no no- no bilitI a as much as the nobility in France I have By resolution of the Vienna city fathers a plot has been set ct aside In St. St Marks Mark's cemetery for tor the Strauss tam fam am II fly ily The last bodies to be buried burled there were exhumed d from another cemetery a a. few weeks ago The They were those of or the wife of the innkeeper and i her daughters Anna who when hn she alic died was waR known as the Strauss trauM and Josephine who ho wa wu tho the widow of a A. physician Frau Str lm was the grandmother of or the fa famous fa amous a- a brothers brother is famous for its carefully guarded ed luck In th the shape of or a dried fruit known as 31 the pear It originally belonged to the Hay Flays of Tester Lord l famil am II and one ver ver- erslon sion slon pa says eys It came to its present owners owner through Hugo Huo de GIfford thc Warlock In who died In 1267 gave ga th thc tho magic pear to his daughter who married an ancestor olf the family of When tho the fire broko broke out at tho the relic which has hat a piece bitten out of or It It was rescued b bv by Mrs Ir Baird and during the rebuilding tP of has bp bei n d do- do posited for tor or sat safety ty In Jn an Edinburgh b bank Court Journal When Z Zeppelin p III lIT made the II flight night from to E Essen Esen lIen last lut month It was waa as observed that bon hr horses e and cattle ran wild wild- ly About the tho meadows as cc 8 it approached ht and she sheep p crowded with loud bloating around their shepherd fr From these facts Count Z Zeppelin pp lIn concludes that the em rip rip- Ip of or airships of or whatever type tf will have ha a disastrous effect on furred and feathered p game me Ml 11 ll animals show how fear teat at their approach partridges and oth other r lam game birds cower and nd hIli hid themselves and domestic cocks cock utter utti-r warning crows crown as at If they pd some me gigantic bird of ot pre prey Van n the Swedish h aeronaut when hen at a moderate height watched elk ik lk foxes har harfi B and oth r animals 18 take to flight and dO dogs rushed howling Into tho the house Deul Deutsche Popular M Mechanics for fa november o r digs dia out the meL fact CL that during the fifteenth and Anti sixteenth cn h. h centuries marking the ages age'S when m mechanical genius ona wee was Just jut awak awake ening there were attempts to drive ye- ye o- o hides H other than b by animal means In In In- deed as as Hi there was S a curious monocycle automobile built hullt for for- Emperor l of or Germany German propelled Ilk like a l tr d b by four Out Out- men treading on th thi the Inside of a a. gr great nt rim and steered b by moans incans of a handle connected to the axle held h by a man walking beside it T ThiS Tl l seat cat rested d on the axle and was b balanced b by weights to It Jt keep upright Th There r wa wail another automobile constructed t d that tam same y year ar driven by bv a a. crank which was connected onn with a ft drive wheel Voh el A man mait walked alongside and turned the crank h by means ens of ot a Jon long It handle Two c cen cen- n- n later r th there re was onas an in automobile con con- at t tt- tt Nuremberg which traveled about Germany that year and which was driven b by great ineat spring wound tip ip lIt itt short Intervals Queen of ot Italy has a n. weakness weak weak- I cak ness flees for forthe the books book of or American and ana En Eng Eng- Itch lish no novelists She also reads English I and American mag magazines and It Is her I opinion that th the American merican school chool of short hort etor story writers Vo at present Is the best In the tho world orld The queen gives over several hours ery e day to n fiction She he reads ex extensively e cx- In Italian o of course but her but her C cs cs- cs pedal fondness I Is for tor books In English She talks and writes E English h fluently and andIn andin In all tur lIterl likes hiker nothing BO so 0 much astales oa ItI tales Ule of western American life UCe whether of the mining camp or the ranch She has hIlS read rud almost ever everything thing that has been written n about th the cowboy American and English books book ard sent to her by a London London London Lon Lon- don bookseller r as icon R as published and once she takes up a. a volume a-volume she abc linda find it difficult to part pirt from It until she he has turned the last page I |