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Show I BITS OF INFORMATION " A Mil Ion talk a yar tmkt plac ovtr tha telephone ol Kv York City. The telerph wirm of th Unit) tilmiim would wrap around tha world WW The women- of New Hampshire after many veara of hard work have at laat succeeded In gettinc a bill pM maktnf moi hern equal fuarrllane of their mloor children with the father. Prlncem Maria of Hweden, wlfa of Prince Wllhelm. the klnfa ann, le an unusual un-usual Iv democratic woman, and U endear Ins heraelf to the Swedish people becauae of her unaaiumlng manner and her patriotism. pa-triotism. Miss Brooke Clarke's treatment of crystals crys-tals and her method of mounting amethysts ame-thysts In neck ornaments after old Florentine Flor-entine designs attracted considerable attention at-tention at the exhibition of handicraft work held last month In the Lyceum club of London. English consols are selling at a' price to yield th buyer a trifle over St per cent. The Issue of United States Panama canal t per cents, without the bank circulation f privilege, are having advance; quotations n the market of over 103 or to yield the buyer only about 1.9 per cenU Glass eyes are made principally in -Iauscha, a German town twenty miles from Co burg. The trade Is flourishing, with constant Improvements of value, though In minor details. As In many occupation oc-cupation In Europe, the artisan hand down their acquired knowledge and skill to younger members of the same family. The rubber shipments from Mexico during dur-ing the- five months ended November. 1910, sggregated In value I4.970.OOO gold, against ftZ.l4S,00 In ths same period of 19u snd onlv $1.40.000 In the same period of 1908. This was exclusive of guayule rubber, which totaled S2.6&O,0OO in the Ave months last year, compared with II.-700,000 II.-700,000 and IM4.000 In the reapectlva periods pe-riods of 10 and 190ft. The will of Margaret A. Weller, said to have been the first woman in America to use a typewriter, was filed In the probate court. Tlie document, which contains more thin 1 000 words, was wrl 1 1 en In ' tmc tie rut -tiy The woman and Tontatns many technical legal phrases. She, like her husband, was a court stenographer and resided at 37.19 Windsor place. Su Louis Globe -Democrat. The latest news of how ejrrs go In the stomach Is: Two freshest soft bolls, one , and three-quarters hours; two raws, two and one-ouartr hours; hard boils, three hours; omelette, three hours. The figures speak for themselves, hut do net tell the whole truth, for It looks as If soft bolls are more easily digested than raws, whereas, raws are so bland and gentle as , not to excite the flow of the gastric Juice not a single eq4iirm of the stomachs New York Press, "Bretons are Immobile like their dolmens, dol-mens, rugged Uke their rocks, gnarled and knotte like their trees. says a writer. N!where Is the relation between man and the soil whence he springs so apparent, so harmonious. The Breton peopla are animated stones, and the stones of Brittany also have souls, for there Is no more soulful couotry than this, and it would seem to exercise a mystical attraction on nature's responsive respon-sive to its expressive melancholy." Because they do not require a depositor to have the consent of her hustand when she opens an account, a group of Berlin ' women who manage a larae bank all by themselves have made a bis success of their venture. The Institution Is the first bank exclusively for women, and the only on 4 In the world that Is conducted by female financiers alone. The first annual talane sheet shows the bank has done a blr business and made a good show In t Its first year. According to W. F. Arnold. M. late surgeon In the I'nlted States navy, writ-, lng in the Medical Record, the hookworm larvae, because of the activity of their, movement, can penetrate Into any ere-1 vice of a shoe that will admit water, and ha believes It Is probable that the larvae may be able to penerate crevices between sole and upper which will not admit wa- 1 ter. Ordinary shoes with machine sewed welts will not keep one Immune from hookworm. The wooden sols la necessary, neces-sary, Jie says. iJrunkard's Island la the name by which the Salvation Army's largest colony for Inebriates, 'off the coast of New Zealand, Is known to passing mariners. Its real name la Pakatoa. All spirits and alcohol In any form are forbidden on Pakatoa, and the colonists lead the simple life on a fruit diet, without drugs or policemen. The New Zealand government recently passed an act giving magistrates power' to commit persons who have been four tlmea convicted of drunkenness to Paka- toa. The residents work at market gar- dening, fruit culture, frame making and . the manufacture of children's toys. . Princess Mishesco de Buk hares t, one of the wealthiest and most fashionable women In Roumania. la reported to have worn at the Ascot race meet In England recently the most expensive hat ever created cre-ated for any woman. It cost about 91200. but that price Is only slightly greater than what the princess Is accustomed to pay, and she thought not nine of the money provided she oould get the colors, design and harmonious arrangement of feathers that she wished. The ha la a large black tagal. lined with silver lace and covered with many ospreys and a cluster of silver rosea. The unusual coat of the hat waa due to the many o preys. Now that we are making a house to house search lor memories of Thackeray, let ua not forget 3 Onslow square, whither the novelist removed from Young street In 158, and where he spent seven of the busiest years of his life. In this house were written "The Virginians," "The Four Oeorgee," "Lovel the Widower.' Widow-er.' the opening chapters of "PhtHlp." and some of the "Kound about Papers." , It was. too, white residing In , Onslow square that Thackeray made his one at- , tempt to enter parliament as .Liberal can- dtdate for Oxford city. The industry of i Mr. Lkyd Sanders has resulted In the I discovery that the rate collectors book for. Onslow square contains the name of "W. W. Thackeray." London Chronicle. Forty on fifty years ago few people In I England had titles. There were only a I few decorations which entitled their owners own-ers to put the preAx "sir" before their names. We all of us looked down with lofty contempt upon the counts and barons bar-ons that were so plentiful in continental countries. Now we can do so no longer, for probably there la no other run try In the wrld where the traffic In titles Is so open and sd indecent aa In Kngland. What the number of our decoration I I do not know, and I- Imagine that few do. Every few years some new one Is created, and an Engllehntan with 'a taste that way can easily manage to exhibit himxelf covered with metal dlska and bits of ribbon like some sucreseTuI cow at an agricultural ahow. These embellishment my flatter the vanity of their wearer, but they do not Increase, the respect that ) felt for Fngtlahmen Truth. |