Show BITS OF INFORMATION Ivory doubles s In price every few ew years Brandy was ns first made In France Franca i tn In 1310 When the was x first opened opener a It at Feng Ial-Feng China the tho clerks had R It fight with T sonic sorno men who bought stamps nn and refused to go so awa away until the tho the stamps were licked d and stuck on their envelopes fo for or them The Tho pr present wave wa of agitation for COl th the amendment of oC the British copyright law lawIs Is gaining strength from rom th the discovery discover that a Jr great grandson of Robert BurnIs Burn Bums DumaIs Is now making makInI a precarious ln living as a amender mender of pots and pans In hl hh his apartments In th the Vatican th the tho pope has u a piano and a pianola The These are arc Innovations Tho The violin Is also ll o a fa fit fit- a- a Instrument of ot the pope and In hi his 1113 younger OU 1 r days h he wa was walS considered a master mas nina ter of the tho bow bo Thc Delineator ator Th duke lUke of Atholl holds part of hi hilands his n l lands conditionally on his pr presenting a white rose to hi hll his sovereign lIo 11 when honored with a vl visit The Into hats Queen VictorIa And Prince Albert once onre w wrE r r his guests guest at a a time whoa when these flowers wro ou out of season and the tho duke had much dlf di- di in obtaining two roses ropes pes for lor th the occasion on Tho The French government o nt takes is li liper pe per percent percent cent of all the mon money staked at the tho ca casinos en- en sinos sines of or th thin tho seaside and other health re resorts resorts reo re- sorts on tho little horses and other othor gnat gam hung dp For th the season of I 15 HIOS OR t 1003 1909 03 this percentage amounted to tn io the summer r season On naturally contributing con on nl the tho greater reater part part over over Th The llIn at Washington Mason Mano county Kentucky In which Uncle Tom Torn 0 of I nele Toms Tom's Cabin fam Came was i sold Mid was Will struck b hv by lightning and destroyed I o out on August lt 13 The Tint building I was elected 1 In 1791 1731 i. i It If was ft th the sale le of th the tho aged DId oro n at nt this place that t Ga gave Harriot Beeche o th the thu basis for tor her hN story Grcen Ba flag Bag On One of ot the tho main features r H of ho till sl exhibition at India next month will Ill be tho tillage tIlIng Hold 0 on whIch us IS JaN Jargo arge as possible a a. choice of or plows plow and other Implements of tillage will b bs bl r regularly at work so 0 that visitors ca casee can n see for themselves tho the depth and quality QUA of or it the tho and time tho weight and E draft of oC the various Implements About persons In lit th the working period of 01 m life In tho the United States arc o otho on tho the sick JIlek list each tach year The cost of oC the their Illness ti I is about a year eaf o of oC which at al least half hal Is pre preventable Therefore the estimate considered lov low of nt tho the preventable loss Ions front from disease and death In this country Is Prof Irvin Fisher Fishier Ik Heni Ibsen's Ibsen posthumous works wom-ka have hav Just been beon published In Norway They consist of or a R. coll collection of or verse hlo r cal col material and of the plots ant and morals of or his plays II as us well welt an as the tex text of the tho plays as nH first completed the tho la last showing r the great Importance attributed attributed nt at- at to careful planning of or his hilt plays Ellay In advance ance and to thorough h revision Hookworm m can cnn certainly bo ho quickly con con- malaria malnon more marl slowly and consumption con con- I most moat slow slowly but hut almost ns os completely Consumption I In is virtually tho the same sante great sweeping destroyer li In Iii modern cities s of or science that It was a century ago 80 fla say nay In Ix London In Indeed since the great grip epidemic of r 1831 con cor seems worse than It ever e was before and the thc grip epidemic of at twenty years yearl ago did not mAke things an any bet bet- ter New York Press In tho the British savings Vin 1 s bank bankIn In 1007 there thero wore warn deposits o oth of th the value of J 11 and arid last year representing J In 1907 1007 n withdrawals w were ro made In Involving Involving In- In 32 and last year ur representing The Int Interest Inter inter- r- r Nit est credited to depositors In iii 1 1908 1008 08 wa WIL a AS compart compared d with In I 1907 O and th the total e standing to the time crt credit of or depositors on savings bank ac account nO- nO count on December r 31 l 1908 1005 Og was WM an Increase of ot In tho the year caC It was tIme the custom years yau R ago O to purchase British h arm army commissions for tor newly born bom babies th their lr rank progressing progress progress- i ing as 38 opportunity occurred Ono One of ol these fortunate infants Infanta was as tho the son Bon of or Sir William Honeyman Ono One dB day a caller hoard heard Lady Ild shout 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