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Show BITS OF INFORMATION Franca haa IU Bee need airmen. A ptnieee hat for women hooka around the head with hook and ayaa. Ovens heated by aa blaata are growing! grow-ing! In fayor for tba uaa of large bread bakerlee. An Instrument for meaeurlng the nocturnal noc-turnal terreetrlal radiation of heat haa been Invested by a Denlah sciential. A year'a product of the eilkworni. made Into a alngle thread would stretch around the world one and a quarter million tlmea. It la proposed to pasa a law In Franca providing that private flying machlnee may be requisitioned by the gov arum ant In case of war. J. P. Brewer, a Neosho (Kan.) man, had to get off tba water wagon In order to get married. Ha drlvea the etreet sprinkler. A windstorm, possibly' of a Jealous disposition, dis-position, visited Brnymer. Mo., a few days ago and wrecked the nomee of two well known auctioneers. favor Oraham of Wichita la ousted aa saying to the mayor of Tulsa: "It Is hell running a prohibition city, whan a major-. Ity of one'a constituents have champagne appetltee." In UIO "seal year Germany Imported IJ.lM.Uo worth of boota and ahoea and exported ll.J77.7J4 worth. Her purchaaet from the I'nlted Utatee amounted to $m.s. besides tl.lal.17 worth of "upper "up-per leather." We Imported last year iH.SM.aoo worth of worka of art. twenty yeere old and over free of duty, beside t73.1M worth of art worka produced abroad by Americana. Ameri-cana. Wa ported IS,Ja .worth of paintings and etatuary. ' Tba Monett (Mo ) Mldgeta. heretofore regarded as Invincible, went over to Aurora Au-rora and got trimmed. In a column obituary obit-uary In the Monett Star a Midget fan ex-plalna ex-plalna that -they bad to pitch downhill, had to Held uphill and the umpire waa a burglar." An English manufacturer at Bradford la now weaving cloth made entirely (warp and weft) of human hair. The fabric fa-bric Is Intended for Interlining for men s wear, and possesses the advantages of beinar abantnterr unbreakable, tmenrrrrk-able tmenrrrrk-able and unrreaaabla. A "come again" note from the Glasgow MIssourlanThe editor of the Mlasourlan Is wearing a new summer ltd, thanks to the generous hearted Col. ftol Oppen-helmer, Oppen-helmer, toe head push of the Glasgow Mercantile company, who la at present sojourning In our city." The century old dlaputa over the boon-darv boon-darv between Perala and Turkey In Asia from Mt. Ararat south to the Persian gulf seems to he at last In a fair way to be aettled. At a conference recently held In Constantinople both governments agreed to submit the points In contest to The Hague tribunal and to ablda by its decision. Ibe the rant sal a. a native of Sumatra, so celled aftsr Sir Stamford Raffles. This Imenenae plant la composed of Ave round petals of a brlrklsh color, each sneaaur- Ing a foot acroaa. These are covered with numeroua Irregular yellowlah-whlta awelllnga. The petals surround a cup nearly a foot wide, the margin of which beara tha atamene. The cup of tha raffleala Is filled with a fleshy disk, the upper surface of which la covered with projections IHce miniature cows' horns. The cup. when free from Its contents, will hold about twelve plnta. Tha flower weighs sbout fifteen pounds and la very m thick, -the petals thioe-yuarters of an Inch. Some years ago a Scotch laird found on auceeedlng to hlg eatatee that the house contained two portralta of -a dla-tlngulshed dla-tlngulshed member o? the family who had flou-lshed during the reign of George III., one by Reynolds and the other by Raeburn. He knew no more of Klcturea than a Newfoundland dog, and e decided that two portralta of the same Individual need not be kept. Tha Reynolds waa retained, while the Rse-burn Rse-burn waa presented to a public gallery. The worthy man waa struck with consternation con-sternation some time afterward when ha found that hla gift had been valued at StKWI guineas, and probably th picture would now fetch double that sum. London Lon-don Truth. ' The school children, of Germany are taught to ewlm without the use of water. wa-ter. It la claimed that the proper stroke and motiona of the arms and legs are more readily acquired In this manner than In the .water, as It Is the more general way of teaching awlmmlng. The student Is suspended by a wide belt from an overhead rail, white the feet are attached to a pair of ropea running over pullevs and adjustable to various re. oulrements. The pupils thus suspended are then taught how to perform tha movements of the breast stroke until the action become almost Instinctive. The advantage In teaching these movements In such a way Is that the pupil la not. distracted by tha faar of a ducking. An Intereatlng experiment In connection connec-tion with the festival of empire haa been the sowing, on May a, of eome wheat, which Is confidently expected to be made Into bread within twelve weeks of thst date. Tha seed haa been treated by some secret process. Invented hy J. 3. Melville, and an experiment last year showed that It resulted In a saving of six weeks between the tlmea of sowing snd harvest. Apart from the utility of the process In enabling farmers to defer the sowing when the weather la unfavorable. un-favorable. It la manifest that in good years a second nse might be made of the aame land, since the whole time of Ita occupation by tha wheat crop would be only three months out of twelve. Tha A great advantage of cultivation in sunnier sun-nier lands Is that two eropa can be hsr-vested hsr-vested In one season. Countryside Monthly. The discovery of a aeam of good quality coal, which far exceeda In Importance anything that haa yet been found In the Kent coal area, waa pierced on May 17 In a conceaalon boring north of Dover, the seam proving to be no less than twelve feet ten Inches thick. The seam wa struck seventy feet below one nearly Ave feet Ihlck, and la believed to be aecond only to the great aeam of South Staffordshire. Stafford-shire. While Paraguay offere little opportunity opportu-nity for foreign trade, th merchante of Aacunclon claim that business Improved In 1910. a larger number of commercial sales agents having visited the oountry during th year, three of whom were from the United Btatee. Our trade with Paraguay In the laat three calendar yeare waa: l0i. Imports. IK.J47; ex port a. tst.-1Z: tst.-1Z: U0. imports. lJ3: exports, 74; 11. Import. fM7; exports, u,-Ml. u,-Ml. In an address to the Parle Academy of Sclencea Profeaaor Balthaaard contend! that when a leaden bullet traverses cloth characteristic marka are left upon It, which are not obliterated by the subsequent subse-quent paassga of tha bullet through flesh, provided that It doea not atrlka a bone. It Is even possible, ha claims, to Identify live nature of ths garment through which the bullet haa passed by a careful examination exam-ination of the marka an tba lead. An executive order la being prepared In tha of Boa of tha governor-general declaring de-claring the region about Taal volcano to be a public reservation and prohibiting residence thereon. The exact terma of tha order have not been given out. but It ta believed that It will be modeled on the regitlatlona applied to Taal during Spanish Span-ish daya, when no one waa allowed to settle set-tle an the volcanic Island or on tha waat ahore of the lake. Manila Tlmea. The Andover Theological seminary haa stored at Andover. Its library of ,0u0 volumes: these books will be moved to the library of the new building In Cambridge Cam-bridge In June on motor trucks. It Is Interesting to know that the road which these books will traverse by way of Lawrence. Law-rence. Reading and Wakefield la tha aame over which the library of Harvard oollege waa carried to Andover for aafe keeping In revolutionary tlmea. At that time the books were hauled In ox carta. Harvard Alumni Bulletin. Having philanthropic aymptoma a northern woman waa trying to Instill a little economy Into her husband's colored tenants. One of them. Mary Kinney, an anti-race sulrldlst. kept a colored girl aa nurse to her group of ten growing American Ameri-can eltlsens. "Mary." remarked the lady, "do you think a woman In your circumatancea circum-atancea can afford a nureeT" "I dunno. mum. aa I kin. but I don't pay her but twenty-IT cenle a month. aar I paya dat In old chVee, and" with a wide amllo "aha don't st dam!" Of no author of our time hava more atorlee been told of Inclalve comment or eruahlng repartee than of William 8. Gilbert. Gil-bert. One that la perhape repeated a little leaa often than othera la of a meeting meet-ing between Ollbert and a popular actor, who on the evening In queatlon happened to be laboring In the part of Faletaff. Ollbert met him behind the acenea, In all the enormity of a prodlgloua makeup, redundant and panting. He gased upon a handkerchief and a streaming .prow. "Your akin acta well." ba remarked. Tha Bpectator. ' While breakfasting with a friend at a cafe in Parla a dlatlngulahed notary Indulged In-dulged in some stinging comments on the public acta of Marahal Marmont. Sud. denly another gentleman, dining at another an-other table, arose and approached them, hla mustache bristling with anger. "Hlr. cried he tragically, "you shall give me astlsfactlon!" "Are you Marahal Mar-mont?" Mar-mont?" quietly asked the notary, "lluiw not that honor." waa lb Indignant reply, "but I am hla chief ald-de-camp. Olve me your card then, air." aald the notary. "I will send you my head clerk. Men eorm tlmea dream of anorrnoua wealth stored deep In tha earth, below the reach of minora, but experte aver that there la little or no ground to believe be-lieve that valuable metalllo deposlte He verv deep In the aarth a crust. Such deposits. de-posits. It Is said, are made by underground under-ground waters, and owing to the pressure on the rocks at great depths, tha watera are confined to a shell near the surface. With few except ton, or deposlte become too lean to repay working bow 0i feet. Nine mines In ten. Is king the world aa a whole, are poorer In the second sec-ond thouaand feet than In the flrat. and poorer yet In the third thouaand. I 'This worlds isjrestflower Issald to |