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Show from Mock, hand painted or utamped wttli Infinite labor and exqulffit art. They were made to order produced In nheetfl of vat-yin- dimenelnne affording to the ue to whlrh they were put. The wdewi polla nf wall paper witk. M-j&tLr. timtoua duplicate denlgn were unknown. It wan not until the Invention of the modern printing; and tamping machine Willi cylindrical roller that a cnntlnuoua f convent lunal pattern wan favored. BITS OF INFORMATION A Chester 1ll. man ISm succeeded in eating a gallon of Ire cream In si a teen mtnuiee. Norway nas twenty-six r-rer mills wltli a totaJ output of I50,o0 Ions a year, some of It coming to this country. By the Tie w pensiie 1?3 farm towns in Majiearhusetta show during the, last cen-decade cen-decade a drop In population from 2A5.:i? to 17. MX. Jamen J. Hill offers a tiono nip aa a prise f ir t h hesC h u od red poi i nds of wheat raised this season In tha weal, the exhibit lo he in Madison Square garden. ftovemor Harmon of Ohio, during tils recent visit to Waahlnalnn, was pm-rtntinred pm-rtntinred by a atateeman to he a striking "douhle" for ex-Henaror A)drt h of Rhode Island. rnsiii Oeneral tlenrv- Bordewich of Christfanta glvea the commerr of Norway Nor-way for as 1 7... J.1" :'; Imports. tll.1S.NM. and exports STl. 134. 64:1. a gain of 13,H..OO oer The municipal council of Paris alms to tea h history bv means of utreet namea. Two of the sUna already in place read: "Rue Rivoll French victory. 1737." "Avenue Victor Hugo French pol d novelist. l&0i-5." Norwav mins iron. 'opier. sih sr. ni ke. alnr. feldspar, maancaite. rut lie;, apatite, molvbdenite and other quarts. K ports of inarhle are Increasing, largely acttas the Atlantic The 1910 nutput of mines and quarries was worth $7.000.O0. against $4,0W.non m 1I"9. J. P. Morgan has preeented to the Mt. Vernon ladles' aasociatlon of Washing-ttou Washing-ttou George Washington s uinhrella. iewis P. Bell of New York gave to tha association a pstr of hrmae fire dogs presented pre-sented to Oaneral Washington by General Iafayette. with a piece of Mrs. YVashing-ton'a YVashing-ton'a wedding gown. British exports of cotton piece goods are gaining this year not only In value frrTTalae t n -ntnme' t ?aj fie fHMi yrda ta the flrat three months of 1911, against 1.43,000.000 v arris In the same period of 1910 and 1.347.nO.OOO yards tn the IftOfl period. The chief Increases this year are with Chile. Braall. Venezuela. Japan and (hina. Alaska's first dining ar. only reiently placed in service on the Copper River A Northweetern railway, was built from an old coach at the Cordova shops of the company and Is manareri by a man and hla wife, with two aaalstauts. A la carte meals are served at all hours during the day. the car being attached to the regular regu-lar trains operating over the railroad between be-tween Cordova and the Interior of Alaka. The I0 production nf bauxite, the present no u roe of all metallic aluminum, waa ICS, 901 long tons, valued at $679,447. a growth of 32 per cent. In quantity and of morn than 4" per ent In value, as compared with 107. the latest previous normal year of buslneas. Arkansas led tn the production of bauxite. Other slates producing the metal are Alabama. Georgia and Tennessee. Kxp'oration wax carried on In t he new Georgia bauxite field In Wilkinson county. The Dutch garden Mrs. Roosevelt laid i out Just south of the white house In i Washington has not been changed hv Mrs. Taft. and each year It Is a beaut v pot In the landscape around the presl denfe hojne. Crocuaea. daffodils and other flowers are kept blooming as tn the dava when t'olotiel ftoocet's wife looked after the white houe and its lawns. A row of California poppies bloom late, and marigolds, hollv hocks and at last c hysanthemuiiiS gne ' beauty to the garden. Regarding the alleged cannibalism of the natives of New Guinea the following ia a comment made by Dr Ioieni. an explorer: '"Cntll more convincing proofs are forthcoming I cannot believe that the Papuans, whom we visited, are real cannibals can-nibals that Is to sav. that they feed on human fleMi, the conditions In which they live being too favorable. That there exlat ceremonies at which the heart and the brains are consumed in order to secure se-cure the courage and the Intellect of the slain enemy. I can readily believe, but 1 do not t-onslder that cannibalism." The wire connecting the transmitting and receiving telephones la traversed by an electric current which varies In unison uni-son with the vibrations produced at the dianhraam of the transmitter. This current cur-rent ta led to the receiver, which la composed com-posed of a thin Iron diaphragm placed In close pmnitnlty to an electric magnet. The varying currenia passing throtmh tlte msanet cause it to attract the receiver re-ceiver diaphragm with varylna Intensity, corresponding to the pound waves set up bv the voice of the speaker, thus mechanically me-chanically reproducing the volte. Mtss Maud Cleveland has been appointed appoint-ed superintendent of playgrounds In the public schools of Han Htceo, Cel. Two years ago she received her degree as bachelor of laws from the t'ntversity of California. She waa for two years secretary sec-retary of the dean of women at the university uni-versity and preeident of the Associated Women Ktudents of the I'nlverslty of California,, as well as president of the Prytaneau flonor society. She la a basket bas-ket be II player of ability. It la because of her keen Interest In athletics that alie has been appointed superintendent of playgrounds. A noteworthy example of patience in small things, says the London Globe, Is to be seen tn the recent aouialtlon of the Invaltdca of some fiOO little soldteis made of cardboard mounted on little wooden stands. It la the work of M Paul Schmidt, a Strasburger. and represents repre-sents the troops stationed in the famous cathedral city tn IS 44. Infantry. rHvalrv, art I Her.-. voltigeura. souavea and bar ra ka firemen are represented and these had taken part In the conquest of A l-aiera. l-aiera. For the most part, at any rate as far as the officer are concerned, the faces are tiue portraits., and at tlte ha. k of each figure the name and rank of the person represented are to be found. The Austrian minister of education has Issued a decree announcing the hmg hours enforced In the schools of the empire, em-pire, amounting In some raaea to forty, five a week. This would have seemed a verv mild regime to some old time pedagogues peda-gogues In Scotland up to the mid die of Hie eighteenth cnturv usual whol hour were from ft a. tn. to a p. m. w ith twu breaks of an hour each. Some schools 1 opened an hour earlier and worked a I long as daylight tasted. No alteration hi i the hours were made oh SAtiirdv, and even on Sunder a certain amount of sc hool w ork was done The holida s were restricted to a day at Candlemas and at Whit sun and a fortnight In tin-autumw tin-autumw tendon Chronicle. It is said that the Kutopean notion ol alt paper as Imported front tmi. There t ornsTtenlal use tor screen, partitions par-titions and He hkf waa known at earlv 'as the fourth century. Authorities on this subject assert thst it was Holland, during her naval supremacv of the nl-teenth nl-teenth century whb'h first began to adpt and hand around the wall paper Idea. The esrlv Oitne.. -aipapers wi printed |