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Show BITS OF INFORMATION Tn th (Mrtn&n trtf Industry the tir dncy ic to uh mI Id plvc of malt labor. - . . In order to hand! automobile easily Mvaral rail road a hava adopiaa a new tyla of freight car, having doors th. full width and halfixth of Ui oar. WHhtn tan rnlloa of the dtr hall, Npw York, thars ara tan subus on Lone Inland, whare aajrlcuMura m pursued on A.Ida aasaaaad at bu.ldln lot oticas. Thra ara avar tlT mllaa of railroads tn - Spain. Amoni tha new railways In projection Is ona from Santander to Bur-roa Bur-roa and another from Madrid to Bilbao. "Ood tempers tba wind to tha shorn lambs" ta not a aortpturai quotation. Tha sentanea is taken from "Tha Aentlrnantal ! Journey," by tba Rev. Laurence Sterna. Quean Mary's - automobile U equipped with a tea basket. The car Is of English make, painted green, picked aut with Ane lines of lighter green, and tha mouldings ara black. A Oerman scientist has Invented a tiny sleet He oven, small enough to be placed on tha platform of a microscope. Ha purpose pur-pose Is to dry objects to be examined under un-der tha glass. There ara ninety -three poetofflces la tha five principal Islands of Hawaii. These Islands nave telephone systems, with rates about tha earn as tq the United States proper. Tha death duties collected in Franc during IBOt amounted to over 161,000.000, Tha estates concerned numbered about I7I.0O0. withj an acgregat net .vau f above a thousand million dollars. I Bpaln la now tha world's ereeteet Xro I ducar of olive oil. Tha production of ollvea last year amounted to 1.HM7M20 pound a. agalnat !.07l,iT.SI0 In Dot. Olive oil to the value of M.m.M waa exported laat year. The manufacture of cotton seed pro ducts on a commercial aoata had Its beginning be-ginning In England, and aa lata as 1170 that country, with an annual crush of 100,000 tons, waa tha leading cotton aeed oil producing country In the world. mnnl.r.af 1...I.. i- - parte of tha world ara fewer In number than -formerly. In 1891 their number was abov iOO.OOO, while that of laat year waa but 36,000 In round numbers. Of this tt.Ooo the emlgranta coming to the I nlted Slates were .1.000. BeVmuda will eoon hava a aalt water flehtng preeerve covering an area, of abeut Ave square mtlea. It will be made by constructing a alll of eancreta acres tha single narrrw opening which unltea Harrington Har-rington sound with the ocean, and Axing a acreen ta prevent tha exit of fish. One farm exclusively for opoeeuma haa bean started In Olppeland, Victoria, which comprteee SO00 acres of eucalyptus bush land. Another farm comprising 500 acres haa been atarted In southern Taa-mania Taa-mania and another of 1M acrae In New South WaJea. Tha average man In health haa tha material ma-terial for thirteen pounds of candlea. one pound of nalla, carbon aufTtclent for ' 100 Senclla, binding fr el x teen octavo books. 00 knife handlea. twenty-eight violin strings, twenty taaspoonfula aalt and one The Rev. a. Preston Tonga of St Paul's church. Yarmouth, England, tn his Pariah Magaalna. under the heading of "Acknowledgments," "Ac-knowledgments," ' says: "Heveral anonymous anony-mous contributions of buttons have been received. We are still wandering how to us thee gift to tha beat advantage In the district, aa, for obvloua reasona. they ara uneultad to tha needa o? the heathen. ' Loula 8t. Oaudena. brother of the famous fa-mous sculptor and an artist of rare promise prom-ise himself, Is now working on figures for the new union station In Washington. D. C. There are to be six allegorical (la- urea, for which President Eliot of Cambridge Cam-bridge haa written the Inscriptions. 81 Oaudena Uvea in a remodeled Shaker meeting house at Cornish, N. H.. built In Th ltftth anniversary celebrating the erection In Lyon of a veterinary erhool will be held In that dtr about the middle mid-dle ef May. Hit. Preparatlona ara now forming to commemorate the event In a Httlng manner, and Invltatlona are bekig leaued to all veterinary echoola In the United Btatea and eleewhere for the pur-poea pur-poea of having delegate la aa large a number as poealble. The 'perfect foeell of a huge era tortoise thirty Inrhee In diameter haa been found in Mt. Baldv, tooo feet above the present Sea level, near -Ios Angelee. Cal. It la thought (bat this Is a relic of a geological geolog-ical age IOO.0D year ago. when all the weetem Mar, nf the MMmtM - - .tin der the eea, amd th Rocky mountains war either euhmerged. or only showed their tip aa J sirred Islete. A apeclal train recently left N!robl containing a record shipment of wild animals. ani-mals. Intended for a menagerie at Hamburg. Ham-burg. Th nam wa collected by a hunt. Ing party ia British and Oerman East Africa. It embraced eight glragee, eleven hippopotami, two rhinajceroeee. twelve waterbuck. aeveq wlldeheeet. the hartebeete. nineteen huahbuck. nineteen reedbuett and about art) antelopes and gaaallaa. One hundred aad aeventeen person. rhuilv habitual eriiplnala. wera banished for life from Perak laat year. Of these, ninety-nine were Chinese, twelve of whom had been ennvlcted of participating m unlawful eoelotiea. It waa dlaeovered that tha number of Pfisoe) ofTeAeee varied In Indirect ratio with the price of tin. Wben tin waa high and the Induetry accordingly ac-cordingly -proeperoua. Inmate of Jails ware law and vie versa. In eetaMtehlng a plant of wireleee I.T.1.UHT i, m maiier or rna gTeaieet difficulty ta "ground" it properly that la. to connect It with the ground. At the wireleee etatlon of Mauen. Germany. In erdep to snake sun of proper connection with the earth, there a re tw flngera which radiate from th machine and penetrate pene-trate the ground to a depth of eighty-tw eighty-tw feet. The total length of th wire sy Angara ae buried ta thirty-three mile. Qremt I th part which the oar hide S stem plays tn tn oelal Ufa of King org of England. People presented to him ara invariably aatonlahad ad flattered flat-tered to And that he knows nil about them, their femlly and tkelr achievement.' achieve-ment.' H put'om kindly ' ojmatlon that show Intimate baowleda. The ex- Rlanatlon Ilea In tha card Index. No body aa access to tha king without an appointment ap-pointment or an Invitation, ao that he has slway time ta consult th private directory. A cult tn which a French woman. Mm. Cotton, la th present plaintiff beat th raoord of th Jnnn case. This lady la the legal helreee of a goldsmith who In ISM lent th government of Venice OS.eoo crowna. th present value, of which, with Interest 1 estimated at about I4.ooo.oeo. The heir of th oiixlnal lender waa a rVenchman. Jean Thlerrv, who died before be-fore tha loan waa repaid. Thera waa a lawsuit over hi succession, and Loul XIV. claimed the estate and annexed the Preneh portion of It. Th ult wa at ill dragging on at tha time ef th directory, whan Bonaparte forced Venlea to repay th loan. Since then Frane ha been the custodian of tha Thierry eetate. Th government gov-ernment ha been aued dose its of tlmea. but to no purpose. Now Mme. Cotton I suing th' government of Austria and Italy, aa well a that ef Prance, because each In turn haa owned Venloe London Chronicle. ' |