Show BITS OF INFORMATION Nineteen l states stats have laa naval al militia England many of her hr orphan and deserted children n to Canada Within five o ears 3 cars Uruguay ua w will have c olive olho trees capable o oC of pr lI in in- rounds pounds o oC of olives and oO- oO O 0 lieu callous allons 0 of oil III In eighteen months there will ill be bc direct direct di di- a l communication between Buenos Aires ires ir and Asuncion the capital capi capi- tal til o of lam n Tho rho railway has bas aready already al a- a read ready the thc Bolivian frontier A Russian bank in Buenos Aires ires and andt anda a t direct line liia of Hu Russian Hussian steamers to bouth Hen Ann ar are projected at t St. St Petersburg Pet lct t ing owin to tho the continued increase ot of Hn i mir in ii American trade B fly Ily i 1 traveler in Italy the Rubic Rubicon on the fatuous famous r river r cro crossed rJ by hy Julius a n I i is J d described as t the he merest of a stream n. in which it would bo quite impo impossible sible for fur a n nina man to drown irown him himself Great Britain sent Canada Cannel immigrant im- im mi migrant rants in the twelve months ended d JUlY n decrease of from Crom lulls 8 and of ot from 1907 It rt is the lowest record ford since IDOl About J bO t. t three three- fourths fourth were wr-re n J-n l and Scotch Only July MW w were s-cro r I Irish ri h. h Two children age J e about 6 rind S S. S w u wandered Into the recci in receiving ward ard nt mit u. u i London hospital The elder cider handed the doctor in char charge o the flu following note from frum its mother mothel They Thoy have bavo awful 1 think it is You wait wait a and hear henr th them m She hc was wal ri right ht Th The Tue reappearance of 01 Halley's comet has re i revised the tho ol old calumny that Pope III launched a a bull buIl 3 against tho comet in in his lila dar da- day Historical facts in m this case casl show that ho ordered public prayers that if evils wore impending God Gol would turn all upon the Turks then fi fighting the Christian armies Xo No bull or exorcism is is mentioned against either cither the comet or the Turks in JJ au au- au documents of tb tho period perio Catholic Truth In Alexandra ro Bisson's Disson S 'S 5 ue new play pIny which will be bo performed nt at Paris laris forthe for forthe the tIme first time tinie next week an au a additional scene has been created in order to introduce in two police do dogs s. s rhe They chase time the villain up and down across and under un un- un der the stage tat and finally Ir capture the bad man nian Tho dogs O enter so heartily into what the they seem to consider a n great re t lark lurk that tho unfortunate villain tins has expressed the hope that the play may bc be short I lived cd It is expected that aluminium coins of low Jow value will be in circulation in in Prance France by the end of this year rear It is is interesting to note in iii this connection that the adoption of M. M for an aluminium coinage in 1871 would have o rc resulted in a bean loss to tot t the he French tr treasury Although li experts declared it to bo 10 impossible that the value of the tho metal should decrease it has now nov fallen to nearl nearly half the price ruling at that time a poor young woman of I Lon on don tion was being entertained by a f patroness pa trone s. s Durin During tea tel the girl firl led the conversation ion into personal persona al channels ls Is jour our bu husband band in work world I she asked her lur hoste 5 HY Yes Yes aud c and nd rai raised d her ber eyebrows If How many children have you 1 Two T F o and and an astonished smile H Does Docs tour jour your husband drink f Why my dear what put all nil this into your head Mother Iother said I was to talk taik like a lady ladr and that's how the they talk to her ber Princess Patricia of Connaught who ha has baa been exhibiting some of her artistic work at the the- East Kast ast Berks art exhibition is one of the most versatile of ot Europe's royal ladies ladics and amid besides n a painter a of great great merit is a noted sportswoman bein being almost almot t e equally proficient pro pro- fi entin in tennis hocke hockey golf ol and nud horse borse riding One of or her favorite h hobbies is the collection of uncut gems of which she Jaa has a magnificent 3 assortment The princess is A cry very democratic in her ber i ideas and ln she aIm once remarked to a friend f Mamma sa says that we can for forgot ct about the time royalty if ir we Wo only that we we wc arc are ladies ladic M. hadie J M. M r. r A. A P. P When British could not write they ther used to pay a pursers purser's clerk to for them The fee ee was a shill shill- in ing Two men Dlen on board a British ship in the Baltic durin during tho Crimean war wanted t to to their w we wives e but since sinco the they could only muster a shilling between them thorn they agreed to have havo a joint letter written to the women omen to suit uit both It h began an II 11 11 M. M I S. S Dear Deal Polly and Susan This Susan This letter Jetter comes from your loving DI husbands the they wish ish to t tell 11 you ou that they the arc are well We Ve arc the and arid me mean n to thrash cm em again anti and hen when that's done 0 well we'll II get t back lck so no nomore more from your lo in loving husband Bill Rill and anI your los in jag ing husband Jack The rhe En English cour courts s are arc taking stron strong action to catch and send up Ia rascally call bird dealers who for years cars have ha been systematically blinding song birds which 1 they thc put on the market under tho the popular impression that blind birds sin sing best hest The fearfully painful methods methods meth meth- of blinding these beautiful little in in in- noc nt tufts tut of color and song is to stick a n needle in behind the eyeball ceball and tear the nerve of sight in two bo with 1 the point of n a needle Such uch birds look Jook and behave o like liko other othar birds and anti can find their wat water and seed cd in their ca cages es af nf after after af- af ter recovery recovers from pain It seems this brutal world word ever e needs returning reincarnations reincarnations rein rein- carnations of the tho spirit of Victor Hugo Hug to remind it if- of its coldness cruelty ant and brutality York Pre Press The Tho American vice consul general at al Calcutta India reports that a n great tat business is 13 springing up in that oli in iD securing and preparing the tho skins Idus of or brown rats which aro are used for many purposes such ns nil binding of books the making of purses gloves lo eM and und other articles ar nr- ar- ar ticks II of feminine u use uey and nail and the thC traffic in this commodity with s Great Britain amounts to y yearly yearl- u I It is required that tho the rats I shall bo ho trapped or at la least t that no virus irus shall bo be used in killing as ItS the peculiar eruptive effects of poison iSon depreciate de tie- the value of tho skin kiD The Tho supply of rodents at Calcutta is eaid to lo bo be o illimitable while the demand for rat skins skills particularly of time the brown species is constantly Ur i increasing ng Victor Hugo lingo was as at the tho time of his bis death dath death tho tho wealthiest of nineteenth century century cen cen- tur tury authors In his younger days ays however cr he knew lene the pan pangs of poverty crt as after a quarrel with his father Ge Gen Geu- oral cral Hugo ho nor and his s brother had their allowances stopped Wo We made 1130 last us for eighteen months One Ona chop would servo serve for or lunch three days das ii in succession on the first day we would eat the lean on the second r day tho fa fat and on the third da dB day we could suck the hone bone Wo We discovered disco a place in the Latin where for J Jo sous 15 15 cents we obtained a n four course dm din- ncr nero a bottle of wine and as S much bread breall as we e liked For another ROU sou we ob ob- ob tamed the sweetest of smiles from the pretty prett girl tirl who looked after us This Thi rp regime ime docs not appear to have havo spoiler spoiled lIu Hugos Hugo's o s 's di digestion for at the ago age of ot 8 83 be he cracked nuts with his teeth and ate ato oranges as some sonic people cat apples peel peet and all Chocolate creams each one of which is guaranteed to contain at le least st ten million carefully isolated lactic acid or massol bacilli in n the highest state o ot of nativity activity have ha just been placed on sale gale in in 10 London stores They are aro a British bacteriologists bacteriologist t s 's solution of the problem set by hr Professor O J of tho time Past Pasteur ur institute in Paris who ur el tho imbibing of sour milk or lactic n acid irl for tho the arresting of old ar age but who is-ho omitted to fa say ray now how the nauseating cf cr ef- ef feets of this substance upon delicate delicato subjects could 11 be avoided The blue massol bacillus is not only the foe of the reel red bacillus collus collus or putrefaction microbe microbe but but its un i master rime Tho blua army arm of ba li it is is' urged have havo no sooner booner been liberated in the human system I by bv the swallowing of a bonbon than ihan tb they r betin begin begin be be- gin tin immediately to de declare war on the thc red arUl army of putrefaction microbes until at the end of a few fc weeks celts at most niost 13 hy bythe the thc swallowing of three bonbons daily the reds havo bavo been Tout routed d. d With much 3 asperity the tIle Army Arm ant and Navy Journal resents i the assertion ts that the phrase 0 K ori originated in in tile the ignorant spelling of ot All correct as Oil by Zachary Zachar Ta Taylor lor while chile bile in Mexico or some other officer of or thc army General Taylor says the Array Army and Navy a Journal Tournai was ns not nota a man of t liberal education in in tho ordinary ordinary or or- sense but neither he nor Dor an any other officer of the army arm that we wo have bno ever heard hard of was so fiO i ignorant as this According to Edwards Edwards' Words acts I-acts and Phrases the tho use of 0 K h. ong- ong with 1 John Jacob Astor AMor the millionaire mil who being tho the son on of a butch a-butch might be he ex- ex er o of Waldorf Germany cu cured ed for a deficient knowledge l I I e of En Eng Eng- lish Edwards says H If If a t note o of inquiry lD Qui r as to any particular traders trader s position came the answer to which 1 ho bo intended to be bo AAti satisfactory satisfactory-he he was ac ac- to write acro across I tho the note the letters O 0 K and return it to the writer Tho Ti-ic letters 0 K R. ho lie supposed supposed to bo be the tile initials of All AU correct and amid andin in this tense sense n e the they are now universally alb current in the states |