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Show j noee. Tt is proposed to tsblisb see- oral eenters, and to epend a.ixwi.O'O j pounds in money sad four years in ! time to accomplish the work, lender the scheme the dominion will be di- ' vided into aevea dtetricto, aad each -will possess a generating plant. ' President Taft danced ' four hours the other sight in the east room of the white house, at the party given by ... Mrs. Taft in honor of Helen and young Kobert. The president carried his weight with the agility of a young maa. Mrs. Taft, however, cannot indulge too mnrh ia the whirl, her health not permitting. per-mitting. The dancing hegsu at 10 and kept up without interruption until midnight, mid-night, when supper was served, and' was then resumed until S ia tho morning. morn-ing. It eras Yearned recently that Henry .Sanford of Southampton, "L. I., who left New York for Algiers, took in his party a maa said to be a detective, whose business it is to watch oVer Mr. flan-ford's flan-ford's eight months-old hshy. While they were at the 8t. Regis the detective . always Wept in sight whenever the child waa taken out for aa airing. Also is Mr. Ssnford's party are his wife, ,a governess, a nurse, a maid, a man servant ser-vant and two chauffeurs. New York Hun. In aa addreea before the royal institution insti-tution in London on the development of -explosives during the laet fifty years, a distinguished scientist related a remarkable remark-able story of what occurred during one of hia experiments with a gunpowder made of cordite and carbon. After the. explosion, in which the elevation of. temperature waa estimated to have been shout 43'H) degrees Centigrade, a residue was left n the explosion cham-, her in which the investigator afterward after-ward found diamonds. They were, of course, exceedingly minute, and must have been formed from tho earbea under un-der the influence of the immense heat and pressure developed at the moment of flie explosion? BITS OF INFORMATION More than two miles of silk fre quently are taken' from a single co-eoon. co-eoon. The t'nited States fishing industry employed L'L'U.IIM persons at last repori. A nineteen foot parchment with the family tree of Henry VI. has been put into the Welsh National society al Aheryatwvth. It is a beautiful ' piece of work, is elaborately illuminated an. I In it the pedigree of King llcnrv is traced from Adam. The l'an American railway snd the Vers t'rua to the Pacific railwav have passed to the operative contrul of the National Railways of Mexico, giving it continuous service from border to border, bor-der, except s small break in the cen I teT-tif-fhe-Tepiihli.'. 1 (Irest Britain's output of food, drink and tolia.-co waa worth 1.2."il,7:if).7(l:i in ll'iXi. according tn returns just published pub-lished bv the British .board of trade. Manufacturing added S41I.M1.17.1 to the value of the materials used. The workers in these industries number 4o.45d. In providing a ervpt for the body of John l'siil Jones under the door of the nsvsl academe rhspel at Annapolis it ia proposed to spend about 1.1.000 The l.l.i MX! sarcophagus ia to bs f solid porphvrv. Kiglit vsults sround the erypt will be used for ths burial of other aavsl heroes. New Zealand has in hand s huge scheme to supplv electric power for all kinds of purposes from her great lakea snd rivers power for factories and railways, and also for lighting pur- |