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Show OddsandEnds. "The Gospel of -Common Senae was the book Thomas Baxter of Glasgow elected to steal from a public library-m that city. - So fashionable is appendicitis In British society circles that, toys London Opinion, many women would lather hava it than a three-quarter length photograph in a magazine." The exports of Cuba for 1H f,p-gated f,p-gated in value $100,000,000. eleven millions more than In 1908. and of this amount S3 per cent came to the United States. Nearly Near-ly half the total Imports of Cuba Is sold by the United States. Since March 14, 1900. when the national banking act waa so amended as to permit the organisation of nstlonal banks wlta a minimum capital of . tea1 f $00,000. 24U banks, with $138.895,0 capital, have been organised. In support of her contention that an unlicensed dog. on account of .which she had been summoned, waa not six month old. a woman of East Orlnstead, England, produced in court the dog's birth certia-cate, certia-cate, signed by a veterinary surgeon. Pearson A Co. of London hava began the publication of a new monthly magazine maga-zine containing only novels. But the most novel .thing about it is that all buyers buy-ers of the first number price S cents could have their money returned by writing writ-ing to or calling at the office for It. At the Anglesey assises recently Mr. Jutlc Lawrence Inquired what the letters let-ters "P. G." after the name Llanfalr mean. Mr. Bryn Roberts. M. P.. repl ed that it was an abbreviation for the W elsn village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogery-chwyrndrobwllandysilllogogoch. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogery-chwyrndrobwllandysilllogogoch. Law Notes. Recentlv Barcelona invited the architects archi-tects of the world to send in competitive plans for enlarging the town, beautifying the working class quarters and unifying th five or six suburban towns. The first prize, $6noO. has been won by a young Frenchman. Only five arrhltects. two Spanish, one French, one Gecman and one Italian, competed. In order to plsce eleven young men of Yale in the field agalnet Princeton and Harvard last autumn $'J6.996.06 waa spent, or more than IJOOO a head. To fit eight youths to row against Harvard, a test or twenty minutes, cost Yale J16.SM.Sok or row a head, not counting the coxswain. This Is boat racing, at a cost of the best part of a thousand dollars a minute. Outing. Of the total amount of cement produced pro-duced in the United States in lfcH. M.oOG.-887 M.oOG.-887 barrels were Portland cement, valued at C3 335.119 ; 4.866.331 barrels were natural na-tural cement, worth 2, 450.150. -aad 305.043 barrels were elag or PutTamrt cement, valued at $226,660. The production of Portland cement la a recent industry in this country, nearly all used here a decade de-cade ago, being of foreign Importation. To perpetuate his memory in the minds and hearts of the people of the city which has been his home for half a century, George A. Grund of Kansas City. Kan., has given his entire fortune of more than $100.0110 for the erection of a hotel, which Is to be the property of the city. The only conditions are that, the hotel shall always bear his name, and that a life-elxe life-elxe oortralt of himself shall be placed in the foyer. Work will begin at or.ee. MaJ. Shlmose's smokeless powder is a Japanese Invention, and Is acknowjedeed to be far more powerful than the English En-glish lvddlte or the French melinite. Indeed, In-deed, this powder is by actual test five times as strong- as the Eurooean powder. When a shell filled with lyddite or melinite melin-ite is fired It breaks into ten or fifteen piecea, whereas the same shell filled with 8hlmose s smokeless powder when exploded ex-ploded burst into 2U00 to 3000 pieces. It is the moat powerful smokeless powder ever invented, and Us inventor Is a Major in the Japanese army. The deepest gold mine In the world Is said to be at Bendigo. Australia. Jt Is called the New Chum mine, and Its main shaft Is sunk to a depth of 3900 feet, or only sixty feet short of three-quarters of a mile. The most difficult problem of working a mine of such depth is how to keep the tunnels and general workings cool enough for the miners to work. The temperature Is usually about 108 degrees, and this la. of course, greatly enervating. To make it possible for'the men to work at all, a spray of cold water Is let down from above and kent continually playing on their bodies. They are naked from the waist up. The evolution of the canary of today from Its ancestor or should it be ancestors ances-tors ?-f some centuries ago. Is aa wonderful won-derful as the bringing of our present queen of the garden from Its humble projector, pro-jector, the wild rose of our hedgerows. There surely could hardly be a contrast more striking, says a writer In Cage Birds, than that 'twixt the modern crested crest-ed canary, with its wonderful head feather feath-er or the giant Lancashire and the greenish-yellow -little creaturjs who fluttered and sang in the orange groves- of the sunny Wands whence they take thelp name. The writer sees no reaeon Why canaries may not become the slae of the son thrush. The King haa really no power aa Is commonly supposed to veto, a bill which was passed through both houses of Parliament. Par-liament. He can only exercise this prlvl-, prlvl-, lege on the advice of his ministers, in which case It is not a merely personal act. As a matter of fact, the royal assent as-sent to a bill is given aa. a. matter of course, and haa never been refused since Queen Anne put her royal foot down on a Scotch militia bill, nearly two centuries ago. So really powerless la the sovereign in this matter that the author of "the English Constitution," writing of Queen Victoria, said: "She must sign her own death warrant if tha two houses unanimously unani-mously send it up to. berV Philadelphia Ledger. ... a |