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Show BITS OF INFORMATION fn London 24 ,0M persons ar '' living more thaa six to a room. Th municipality of Cleveland has a. surplus of $-.600,060 lying Ml. isiy iihieti Mima piim la Omw many, on a railroad employee. A- French economist write to a Paris iournal that America haa no real money. Th thirty-six mortgage banks In Oer- which will be covered with a layer of dry artta. In profll th bridge reeemble a teel structure, but alt the members are bamboo rods. It Is estimated that such a brldgs should be good for tan or fifteen years. There ar two kinds of bamboo seed la kuUiltrg and cabinet making In the east, one having solid and th other hollow stems. Th solid, seen In Jaoa-nee Jaoa-nee furniture. Is much smaller than the hollow, but both belong to th earn Rperlee. In th construction of nam boo ouees no nslls are ueed. The parts ar bound together with lashings formed from th skin of th bamboo itself. many hsve now more thaa $2.414,ooO,ano I loaned out oa mortgages, I A udg In Morris town. N. J.. fined a hark man for falling to keep his appointment ap-pointment to carry a passenger to a train. Germany do not produce any table grapes, th supply for that purpos coming com-ing from th Tyrol, Italy, Franc and Spain. Th average annual damage dona to the cotton crop of th United States by the cotton boll weevil la from $2,ooo,000 to $30,000,000. Th spread of the dest ruct tv cot ton boll weevil la attributed by some to the destruction of birds which formerly held th Insects In check. Authorities of Baku, th Casplsn seaport, sea-port, desire to Improve the water supply of the town by bringing water from ths mountains, 1X0 miles away. Th business men of Manila ar pro-paring pro-paring a monster petition asking that th Canadian Pacific steamers make their city a regular port of calL Of th I.9O0.O00 Inhabitants of Sweden. 110,000, r I per cent, possess one-third of th total property, and one-third of tha total Income of th country. Th Japan hav developed Into good brewers, and an effort Is being made to cultivate a beer thirst among th Chines Chi-nes In order to create a market. Russian emigrants to America show a marked preference for th Lmtch steamship steam-ship lines, and Germany Is trying to divert di-vert tha stream of travel to her own lines. Sine January. 106. beef. pork, veal and bacon hav goo up In price 29 per cent In B witter land. Th best beef costs 40 osnts a pound; soup meat." 2 cent. Exports of liuman hair from Hongkong to tit I'nlted Htste rose from a value of 141.880 In 1&07 to 67,UV pounds, worth iW.117, gold, tn 110. The total export to all count rite waa 1.100.00a pounds, worth 91.900,000. In th municipal effort on the part of tha London council to chevk th Increasing Increas-ing drunkenness among women, shows that .mor than 46 per cent relapsed and only a smsll percentage of tha remainder were effectively reformed. A New York Jury hss awarded to a model In a cloak house 934 oecaus owing ow-ing to her prepossessing figure she wss Instrumental In sellinjr $13.', (mm) worth of 1 good- In one year. When the firm tried to settle with her for a few hundred dol-lara dol-lara alt brought suit. An English writer calls attention to one objection to th us of purely automatic danger signals, which, he thinks, no invention in-vention can get around, and that Is the fesr that th sole use of such signals would render engine drivers csreless. The greater th spparent security afforded by tlte signals, (he greater the reliance upon them. Charles U. Ayres of Metompkln life saving ststlon has fifteen ducks which are the chcampton layers In this community. commu-nity. This species of ducks, which Is two-thirds wild snd one-third puddle, hav laid every day In th year, except Sundays, for the last year. In that time they hav laid 4S gga and hav netted hlra between snd 900. Eaatsrn Bhore 0's Herald. A land owner In Japan, states a British Brit-ish consular report, owns the surfac and products of the surfac of the land only; all minerals under the surface appertain, not to him, but to the Japanese government. govern-ment. Moreover, should the government or Its nomine wish to extract th minerals min-erals lying, under a land owner's property, prop-erty, the letter, thoush . he would, of oo ume, receive compensation for loaa. cannot object on legal ground to th development de-velopment of thea minerals. Prof. Jamea F. Kemp eaya that along the north ahore of Cuba, near the sea. at Ita eastern end. In three area which formerly for-merly appeared to be simply expenses of barren ferruginous soil, recent exploration explora-tion and testa have shown that therw exist ex-ist deposits of a very pure Iron ore, amounting to 2.x.(Mrn.000 or J.w0,000t-eoo J.w0,000t-eoo tona. When deprived of the large percentage per-centage of water which It contains, thia or will yield from 40 to 4b per cent of Iron. Or from this source has already been exported to the United States. That an electric current flowing through a conductor stretches It in tht direction of the current la a proposition maintained by Carl He ring, M. K., in the Journal of the Franklin Imttltute. Although Al-though th Internal fore producing the , stretching does not move the conductor as a mhole. aa an external fore would do, yet It mar produce external movements, move-ments, aava Mr. Herlng. Just as the Internal In-ternal forces In a stretched ruober band can produce external motions. When the currents become very large, aa In some electric furnaces, or in short circuits, and particularly when the conductor la liquid, th results may become quite formidable. for-midable. The World's Work sets forth some of the absurdities that people for the moet part intelligent will commit when they have money to invest. If a man la ah k, he goes to a doctor; If in a row with his neighbors, he goes to a lawyer; If in spiritual spir-itual trouble, he consults a minister or prieat; If In buslnewa straits; he calls upon the banker. If. however, he has a prott-' lem of investment on his hands, he calls upon merchants, lawyers, bankers, min-j Isters and mtaccllaneoua people outte In- -diecrimlnatelr and with about the aam 1 J .Tactical results that he would gel If he ' ollowed the same method In sickness, la; I leaal troue. la buslneae trouble or in aptr- I I Itual woe. , Birds have an excellent time In JepanOi I and our own agriculturlata would do we " to emulate the treatment meted ut bv their eastern confreres to such birds til the swallow and martin. With a skilled appreciation of the part these feathered friends play In relation to their crops b keeping down th Insect peats, they exert every effort to propacat their kind. (t to be wondered at that this sentimental but withal eminently practical nation rev-1 ernce the swallows as measenrers to the gods and Invties them to build thel- t nests not only under eawa and rafters, but In every and any room of the houe In th hotel dining room were several neeta, where the happy parent reared their families In compute aafe ty. Wide World. In Java the government engineers have refentlr constructed a road bridge more thaa 10 feet long, with a central pan of over sixty feet, entirely of bamboo. The roadbed U compoaed of bamboo mat tins. J |