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Show J .Odds and Ends, j . Efforts are being made by the Canadian Government to secure control of the wireless telegraph stations there. The wells of faims visited In summer by city folk are now regarded as' perhaps the chief source of typhoid fever. i . Grand Duke Cyril of Russia, the; young gentleman who out such a wide swath ln Manchuria recently, has been ordered by his physician to go to the south of Italy. Official figures show that the Manhattan Manhat-tan "L" carried U8,0C more passengers on November 1 and 2 than on the same dates last year, m spite of the opening of the subway. ' ' i A French physician. Dr. Foucault. has found that in ll.Ott deaths" investigated by blm, 759, or 7 per cent, resulted from cancer. can-cer. Ha could not fad that heredity was a factor in the- cause of the disease. One of the largt gold nuggets ever found in Colorado was recently picked up at the Snowstorm pL-icer, ln Park county, between Alma and Fairplay. It weighs i ounces and has a market value of Bibles and other books are' difficult to distribute In TurKe), said a speaker at Exeter hall, London, the other day. A work on chemistry was rejected becsose H20 (wahr) was translated as "Hamid Second is a nobody." Kettles made of paper a Japanese Invention In-vention used in the Japanese army are about to be supplied to the German army. By pouring water over them they can hang- over the fire without burning for a length of time sufficient tp boll tne water. , . On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary anni-versary of the death of Schiller (May t. 1M,) the 8wiss Government intends to give every pupil in the public schools a copy of that poet's play. "William Tell." The sum of 3),000 has been set aside for this purpose. A London jeweler has made a coUcction of ancient forks used in England, which show some little known facts about the table manners of a few centuries ago. The forks, which are of solid sliver, date from the . sixteenth contury. In many cases tha designs in all this time have scarcely varied in any detail, and the forks look like those which might be bought today. The Old forks were a great luxury ln their time, and were used only by the aristocracy. Recently printed extracts from the diary of Adolf Plchk-rs !liow that that Tyrolean poet did not Indorse the popular notion that traveling has an educational value. Most lourlxia ae, in his opinion, Biilded chlelly by the drslre to get good things to eat ln the hotels and to flirt with the foreign girls, and in the end they are surprised to find themselves as much bored as at home. He commpnda the sincerity of . a patty of Bavarians who played cards on top of a hi ih peak to pass away the time. Prof. Robert Koch has recently been Investigating an outbreak of typhoid fever fe-ver for the German Government, and has since been at Pitrls, where he was enter-talr.cd enter-talr.cd by the Pasteur institute. In the course of the winter he will proceed to German East Africa In order to continue these studies of tropical and other diseases dis-eases which he had not corrrjileted during his recent vtett to Rhodesia, In particular he wHl continue to Investlr.ite the part played by ticks in conveying the infection infec-tion of various cattle diseases. |