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Show BITS OF INFORMATION itij pr! there wre in the I'n'te-1 ,Te 1 y.1v"P" (heep. of whirh ". nn.i'is rt, in th- fmitn The w-liti of me Rjtthp-'hndf y t twn ,ith.r! .1'T in rti Tb's is f"tir i t j t the p'obal-'e wealth of all fir j fi'-rkefMr'n I Wh-ic ft i n''-i tte6 m lit;r j f v.n if fc't'f ' p ''t.i i n t ho -i 'i i r.tt'.i i 'id ere row Irii'i t'a-'tor ne rf 'd tii: t f e ThaT. nt Karking. for t " exr r-ftnii "f r-lbbT tPn tie iqf.'X .f t1-' Tim ..alli tn-e- niin h wre no prolifi. if ! ifet Rr'tain rhTkn flot-K rum !i-r 'iT,('i" . " ". ii.l the itgrii-iilt urai b'-nrd nf that r.mntfv it nhi nM (,e t - r.'f f ,ii(- f ,.11 'in (-.-r J I-. l,ofid--.r 'ie erntr-'i pa--e-l n .''d-riri-'r- -'. ent f'.rK'i'lir , f .. r :t : l:i i k'''. the m:ir-!ia i at 1 ,-, : .-. t. k"'' h m to eof'Ti'e if. 1 1 .i , i ! u t n." - i ni'iier an expei ipit-nt., -f..'n a : ! ifi f"-1 British niii.,tii'i t 1 r.'. .-n -if provHirifc. :in -i.l. i i1 ii. It i-. l ift ' --it-rH r-und i- ! . ,-f f-n tni'it mi thf M-.tr 7'in. the Tra"tn 1 " , : 1 ! ' ' -"i n' M t (,, hkp .t in if! .-n f ' K'1-. 'n. itortnanv, Iteliexl to i.e the uidfM inhabited lions tn ' lt.fe?iee Moor of V.-roiYn ride at full speed toward a trai.r as it triey intended tn r ir him o.wr, anil ah souq an they! hu e a i Ti-ai-he nerr they u1dn !y M"P nr l tire a pit-I o er hfn head. Th wini",x of r'ektn, ('hind, ar1 in teneiv eo;d ?ero beintf familiar, and Men h-t Ipyreei"- a It hough the hih wa'i .nr ron riding the eit protect it t.i-iew ha I !-.; the .:.dd temper- tp :; t l-e -'i.ty '-'and twn r-ernon tm nieefin' vi'ntf h nitiMng' TTe""efld'' i.f their n--ep ftfiet her. nnd (he valuta, inn t f.l i-we-i by t-aeVi taking the hand i-f the nther and rul'bing it upn Inn own n'c an1 m'Uth. The law vr took hi.- wife tn eourt After plie hd boke.l around a minute .he j;ne a Midden shihldrr "I.' hf,e wiiiperd. "wh.it an awful erR- t u re t hf pr oner is ' ' " Sh h h ! ' ' her husband hissed ' ' The. prisoner han t com hi vet That's the judge." The month of tigust was namid for the emp ror --f K ne, Augustus H i4 a that robbed Kbruarv of a dav and ad -led t he same- to the month "f An guft, no thHt the month named for him should not be larking in nmnereia. strength and consequent importaiK A tip talking inaelnne. has been in vented b a man in Taoonia, wliieh I'laims to make a record u a long fi'm. sueh is ued upon the reels oi moving mov-ing picture machines. Hy its help the public may not onlv iee-a in motion picture but hear entire operas and theatn.-al plat n. lf a man will feed daintily. " says a Iatiu writer. ' he miiht indulge in i Sam i an pfHrnckt, Phrygian fowN, Me ban cranes, Ktolian kicis, rhalredonian porpoises. Talent inn oysters. rhian nustls, Kg pt ian datea Spanish acorns, eels from Tarshinh. 'pi40 from Petonus. neft fish from Rhodes. " ' An Irish writer claims t liaf the mayor of New York is of Irish origin. He declares that the name was "figi nalh Mac h'hmnhhar, afterward ehangt'd into Magion ar, because " Ph " and "bh" ar silent in the liaelic tongue. Then in course of time Mag;- j inn-ar became Mctiavnor, and ultimately ulti-mately fiavnpr, as we have it today. Htmlv of the statistics of suicide in 1 00 American cities discloses a grad ual reduction in the last t hree years. The rat now ia about H out of every pio.Ouii of population, whereas it wa about 21 in 1ft'". Hut the rate is sub jeet to gTeat fluctuations. In 1 "'.'l it was only about 13 per inn.ono of in habitants In conferring the sacrament of bap tim our old Scotch priests were aerus-tomed aerus-tomed to treat his satanir majesty with quaint incivility. The latin was usuallv translated into the vernacular, and when tli-v eame tn ' ' Kxi ab eo. itn mende spiritus. " the unclean spirit re eei ved his command in the broadest Iorie such as "iang oot o' the, bairn, ye muckle deevil! " The Tablet. Throughout thm dark Mires of Knrone an accused person had to carry a piece of red hot iron for some distance in his hand or to walk nine feet barefooted over plow shares at white heat. The hand or foot was bound up and in spec ted three davs afterward. If the j defendant had escaped unhurt he th" i pronounced innocent. If he had1 been burned he was declared jfuilty. A disheveled citizen ruhed into a Boston police station one afternoon and shouted for vengeance. "The automo I h'le that hit me five minutes ago was I o. 4114.."' he sputtered. ' I can prove I that he was exceeding the speed limit, t and I w ant I want - "" Vou want a j warrant for hi arrest " Warrant I not hing" What good would a warrant do me at the rate he was going f I want extradition papers." ' In th stnggl: ng days at Tnskegee ' Hooker T Washington found that he would hn e to ue an old chicken hoy ' for a s hoolroom. "Pnel." he sad t. sn all olored man. ' 1 want von to i'o.tp down at nVlnek tomorrow morn-j morn-j -n 2 and help m clean out a hen house. " i"l.sw. now. Mr Washington.'" the old ! miit! expostulated, "you all don "t wai.t j to begin cleanin ' out no hen house ronn ' j ! her in He day time. ' , Mourning the on of o'd ime man ner. an aged Kngiishman said the otner I day; " ' Hovs are not like they used t i j be If th dn not like a schoolmaster; (tifv show ii nowadays bv treating him with sMi'iioi.slv cold politeness. h . I j reineru'-er when 1 was at Kton a lor of j i -s getting hold of a master who taught us i!Ht hematics mii'1 whom we a!l c-r j d'Sllv detested, and holdifg him bv hi ; heels over Harnes pool bridge un'l w , aw in th d' stance another master : coming in our direction, when we gentlv loosed our 1 ict im and let h;m slid, headforen.est iDlo the water." stjtprerd 1 . Ibigger. 'fie bard ' ran : f.tt In r mount i in. recent I v 1 st rihed for 'he CM nerver a dam e .i' Hlow ng Koi - k. i on Id anv w ord . , ) t r t h . embo-l1 ' more sens sublime Than. Ths "J'i ss th atTfon fn fr-.n. I ,th sji'set gathered in is folds, men I and women darted into the d.tm-e I kej I meteors, an-1 as the swee rerhr froi; 'he iirandfather whisftered - poems throigh the wndows thv glided me ' tri.a'l on the thr.lbr.g pu!e of rniiS'. t.i the rhythmic rneirr of souls " Or 'han thene? "The gaudily dressed ou p. Kfr thick on the fliwir that thev looked like a wilderness of hloo-rtngj rhododendrons stirrd bv a breer "- j harlotte .S. .1 Observer The state board of agriculture -s at f tempting to devise a plan wherebv the! soil of wornout farms mav be material! 1 enriched at a nominal cost bv th u of dust- snd c-rTs! gleaned bv the street ) sweeper of the metrTo;'tan encs The-hosrd The-hosrd wll S"k the co.opemt on of rsit ( roaH The p1!! as projosed will be t" hue tee eitrcs nn the tret aeeumii I latiors into cars as it i aker up ano ! haul it to the smaller towns whr trj farmers mav dr'vs in rith their wagons J |