Show BITS OF INFORMATION Sol Soldiers in the Russian army carry compasses with ith luminous needles Two Tro thousand million microbes are sor sometimes 8 ini injected into a persons person's blood to o cure disease Ca Cavalry officers in Italy undergo a course of instruction in pi pigeon eon train in lag ing for military purposes Arranged in in a n. straight line lino lino the the- Tail Tail- road tracks of tho the world would woula reach to tho the moon and back again ain Tho The smallest screws are aro those made maden in In n watch factories An ordinary thimble thim thimble ble would hold of them Tho The eastern states from Maine Maine- to Alabama produced gold cold worth and ami silver worth last year Covering erin Co an m area of 2450 acres tho the tholar lar largest t. t hydraulic gold old mine mino in in the world is in mu Trinity county California The lighthouse of or HeJi has a alight Jj light ight ht of 20 candle power At Nuremberg a u lamp ton ten times as powerful power ful has been made Amon Among tho important improvements contemplated terl in Japan are aro tho the quadrupling quad of the tho Yokohama Tokio-Yokohama railway and tho the improvement of tho Kobe Kioto-Kobe line so flO that a very much hi higher speed may be developed Breweries and tanneries and printing ink factories confer exemption from tuberculosis tu tit and employees in turpentine factories never newer have rheumatism Copper Cop Copper per por minin mining excludes the tho possibility of typhoid among tho the workers Harpers Harper's Harpers Harper's Weekly Cotton growing is bein being resumed in Palestine An extensive suitable area is IB available During Durins our civil war cotton cot cotton ton was cultivated there thero on an nn extensive exten exten- sire sive scale of which several old cotton cot ton presses still bear witness It is said that the tho cotton was of very good quality Duality Companies are arc being or organ an anize ize In Turkey of late ate years ears a n distinct dis dig revival of tho the cotton industry has become manifest From ISSO 1880 to 1008 the tho heart death rate of tho the United States increased 57 per cent in Massachusetts tho tha apoplexy apo ape rato rate per por cent For tho the whole countr country the apoplexy rate increased 8 84 per cent For the whole United States the thc kidney heart heart- a apoplexy rato rate increased increased increased in in- in- in creased 83 per cent Boston decreased the typhoid death rate rato 39 30 per cent Philadelphia Phil adelphia increased tho the cancer death rato rate 79 70 9 per pel cent Norway has forty sardine factories During a a good season tins of twenty to twenty four fish each ench aro are packed equivalent nt to cases of tins each From to cases arc are expected this season Prices range from 4 8 to a 0 case For packing American cotton cottonseed cottonseed cottonseed seed oil would be used if the tho packers could obtain it in an a n few barrel lots at either Bergen en or Stavanger The J latest test returns of tho the assessors show a real estate valuation in in Massa Massa- of or or the basis of tho the census o or 1905 95 9 5 per pcr capita In addition to this there is is personal property valued at m making a total valuation of personal personal per per- and real property of 37 which is equivalent to 1240 per capita This compares with a valuation valuation tion of 1195 for 1908 and anel almost precisely pre 1000 in 1894 Commercial Commercial But Bui- letin There are maD many et etymological excuses for drinking drinkins as an appetizer l or a stirrup cup or or a q nightcap Tho The II sundowner sun own r is peculiar to the west coast of Africa It has nothing to do with tho the Australian sundowner who is a n sort of tramp All AU down west tho-west c coast ast of Africa is a quarter of an hour between the days day's heat and nights night's languor which comes with a chill chili Itis It Itis Itis is u 1 t sort of religious ceremony i ny to share a 3 sundowner at this time timo and war ward off tho the chill China Chinn is planning to spend seven years in reorganizing its navy The Tho most striking items in its pro program ram will willbe willbo be bo carried out from 1911 to 1916 when the government o will have built ci eight ht first class battleships twenty cruisers ten gunboats and three of torpedo tor for bonts boats China Chi a intends to proceed immediately to develop naval bases expand ex cx- paint tho the naval nl schools and enlarge the dockyards She also plans tho the creation of an admiralty board and the establishment establish establish- ment meat of a 3 new naval aca academy emy and to recruit a n force of marines The Tho old brown stone fronts of residences resi reel dences s and apartment houses in Manhattan Manhattan Man Man- hattan are aro sometimes cleansed but tho the brick and whitestone fronts which supplanted supplanted sup sup- planted the tho brownstone fad are aro susceptible tible of being renewed in appearance by white paint and this account for forthe tho the sin singular appearance o of Madison avenue where of late lato many man of the fronts have been whitened while others remain dingy Until within tho last J st ten or or fifteen years years no no owner of bf f a house housein in Now New York City over ever having haying hay have ins ing ing- bin bia house hous painted on the outside Now New York World WorM Modern steam steamships have o a very vory brief lifo life as compared with tho the old saili sailing vessels Time The Princess Mary which convoyed con voyed cil King Kind William III IlL to England fr m. m Holand in 1688 and was was then over seventy years old l lasted sted until 1827 This vessel was retained as a royal toyal yacht until until un un- un til sh she sho was sold As the thc Betsy Cairns she he sailed to tho the West Indies Iridies and arid back for over fifty years and then thea after another another an an- other chan change o of ot ownership hip was employed em as ns a 0 collier un until il February 17 1827 when she sho struck a a. rock and wasi was i to totally lIy wrecked A railroad from the interior of Mesopotamia Mesopotamia Meso Mesopotamia Asiatic Turkey to tho tko Sy Syrian an coast and ana a 8 harbor at its terminus is lS a 0 recent and good proposal says Consul of Beirut amon among tho the many ninny railroad projects set up at Constantinople Constantino Constantine pIe plc for concessions Aleppo and Damascus Damas Damns cus ens would be factors in this enterprise For centuries each served serve as ns a clearing clearinghouse house between east and west Irrigation Irrigation tion on a a. largo large ar o scale is an En English proposition for Mesopotamia It seems likely that a again ain the the desert will blossom bIos blos som as the rose Harbors at Haifa and Tripoli are proposed the latter seems certain Tho The skill and care of tho the motorman aro arc a a- avery very considerable factor in the time cost o 0 f operating an electric car One way in in which this fact is demonstrated Is is in in makin making use of all possible opportunities to coast on grades and a anew anew anew new recording device devico has been introduced intro to determine to what extent motormen mot met ormen take advantage o of such inclines The device is connected both with electrical elec dee dee- controller and with the air brakes and operates only when whoa both th the tho controlling apparatus and the brakes aro are in off position The Tho record rec rec- ord is m made de on a paper ribbon driven by a a. clock This record makes it possible pos pas ethic sible s ble to judge of tho the relative economy of different motormen operating on tho the same line and encourages es them to let the cars coast const whenever it is possible to to d do 50 BO 60 without fallin falling behind their I I Tho The Japanese coal mines now employ nearly hands bands says s 's s sMa Ma Magazine the tho annual per capita output bein being tons The largest st mine in J Ja Japan pan pan shaft shaft 41 feet by 12 feet feet feel deep has deep has a n daily output of 1100 t tons ns Nearly all the cutting in Japanese mmes mines is done dono by hand but machinery is bein being introduced and it is hoped that cost of production will b be reduced So far as rim coal is is' is concerned tho industrial future of Japan seems well assured In the tho primary grade of a Newark school a teacher was instructing be her class in the composition of sentences She wrote two sentences on the blackboard blackboard black board on OD one grammatically wron wrong tho thc other a misstatement of facts The Tho sentences sen sea were The The hen has three legs Who done it Willie Willia she sho said said gc go goto go goto to the blackboard and show wh where re the thc fault lies ies in these two sentences sent Willie did so 80 To her astonishment h he wrote The liTho hen never do done doo a it God done it t I By some somo people a n. taste for oysters is it T regarded ard as a sign of c comparative af fluence rice Fifty years ago aso however oysters oysters were sold seLl in England Englan at 12 cents a a dozen and it was Sam Sapi Weller who dis die discovered covered that U poverty rind and oysters always al al' always ways go o to together ether The rho poorer a place is the tho greater reater call there thoro seems to beor be for lor or oysters n said Sam Look here sir blessed if jf I dont don't think that von ven amans aman's a aman's amans mans man's wery ivory poor he rushes put ot of his hit lodgings s and eats eats' oysters in iri re lar desperation 9 Th The lack Jack of ori originality and inventiveness inventive in ness in In the German shoo shoe industry has lias seriously interfered with its rapid devel development Until very cr recently manufacturers have clu clung tenaciously b to the tile shapes and styles so 50 characteristic of the German shoe as kno known D to most Ameri Amen can travelers Practically all tho the novelties novel ties tes and improvements in shoemaking have come to Germany second hand and it is this necessity of imitation that that is the tho we weakness of the Gorman German shoe sloe industry industry in in- today In the construction of the reservoir voir in th the tho tor Catskills more than cubic yards of earth erth must be bo spread in six inch h layers moistened and rolled o eventually forming a dam feet cot fet hi high h in places and four tour miles long IonS and this work is bein being done don by st steam steamrollers steamrollers am rollers which is the tho first time they have been ben employed for r such work These machines have corrugated front rolls rols and cross cleats on tho the rear roar rolls roUs so as ns t thoroughly thorough to knead th the moist earth and each covers tho work done dODe by thirty men a n dozen teams and a a andis and andis andis is guaranteed agai n in continuous con con work for gevon years There arc are aro probably not many land owners own own- ers era who p ply the hoe and rako rake at the tho age of ot 82 32 but Lord Lr Haddington has always ways given the tho closest personal attention to his property and gardening In iii particular has always been one of ot hi his k keenest ene t de de- de lights Eleventh earl and a 8 a representative tive the peer peer for tor Scotland Lord succeeded to the title tile nearly forty years ago igo and f for r moro more more- than a quarter guarter of a century cen con tury he has been lord lieutenant of at his county Tit Tit In a. a letter from In the tho Glor nalo nab of Rome a correspondent says MYS Famous stage stag tenors tenor have been bee ro- ro from froni n nearly c all al walks of ot life lc Among those who attained great favor we rind find a farmer blacksmith cab driver physician 3 shoemaker merchant man of ot leisure ete etc The list Hat may now bo be- ex extended OX- OX tended to include a R monk Francesco Burron Burron Durran Bur Bur- ron ran who made his debut as Manrico In Tr Trovatore vator last week was until he deserted deserted de do- to take up uP uptime the stage as a prot profession s. s sion slon a member of or the thc Franciscan order and md one of or the community ln the tho monastery monas moans tory tery at Turin tor nth which arrived The Tho Eighteenth Infantry this hie morning on the tho Logan from Camp Mindanao Mindanao is the first drat rt regiment States to complete In a the United arm army a i third tour of duty In tho the Philippines Tho rho regiment came first to the Islands with tho the famous second exp expedition dlton which sailed mailed wih tron fi San Sa Francisco Jurl June Hi ide 1803 1898 and saied reached Manila bay July 17 disembarking barking Immediately Manta and going Into tents Ging at Lt Camp Dewey The r regiment too took took a n apery avery In the active part with other troops very pery veT occupation of ot Manila on August Augst 13 IS 1898 1398 Of or f tho the officers Mania who marched Into Manila only two are au now with the regiment Manila Times Reginald Clarence the tho th well wel known own bibliographer bib bib- of dramatic data dats has ha been working for tor twenty years on a stage to o C cy cyclopedia C- C which will contain a a. bibliography wl o of f plays alays of which it has been boon possible to find md any record from B B. C. C p to A A. D IX D. IDO 1009 In order to brIng brine his remarkable work york to completion on Mr Clarence has lias 13 among ancient records and mus musty must S manuscripts In In Inthe the tho British museum l 1 1 has hns stu studied led th the th numerous works mum Guildhall library until unU his book bock bk particulars of ot nearly payi cove in Ing the whole hole range of at stage tago production drama comedy farce tc ramat l om London tor J opera opera opera- News Representative William Brown ley Icy of ot Illinois the owner BroWl of ot r of Interurban electric railways mi than than n ar Ithan other man In la the tho world worl Is is- because of ot the way In which flU love lo e him If I ho hadn't hant made y i railways said John Eversman the day he could have made mae a aan f fortune an animal trainer At home In town known him and follows t the street Washington s' s Norway Norway- Noray packs tins Un of J dines a a. year On account of tl tl price of ot olive oU e oil 01 the Sw Swedish fao hI have havo been experimenting with wih Aj cottonseed oil 01 with wih which to Immer t sardines In the tins tine Experts Epert w tried trie the two kinds one kinds ne' ne one In eli oU other In cottonseed oil oil have ol havo been to detect which was as which so p pf It will wi not bo ho long Ions before we wo Yanke eating Swedish sardines packed ln In In Icon ican Ica oil N w York Press |