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Show BITS OF INFORMATION Beaten seta snare spaghetti than ur other America city. Two-fifths ot ths 'world's lM.tM.MO win are la th L'nltsd Slats. There an nearly fifteen thuaaad pu-. plii la th government schools at Egypt. Franca bow turn aut ovar twa hundred thousand toaa of aluminum acn year. Ksroaen. applied wits (raM cloth, makes aa excllnt substitute (or Iroolnc wax. Ia atari month a alnsla caterpillar, davaura luM times It .owa weight In food. American mesaaine ara conetsnUy Increasing In-creasing their popularity In both Aue-traila Aue-traila and New Zealand. A new high record In the annual production pro-duction of tle or aeapetona waa made by the Lolled State laat year. European ahoa manufacturer ara unable un-able to compete Successfully with American Ameri-can akin In i He dsslgruog of laat and In tne cuttlns of pattern. Th eiports of th Philippine IslSnds for Ml were valued at Itii.vus.tM. while their Importa war worth about e,ouu,-DM. e,ouu,-DM. But th export figure were th largest aver known la their history. The sexuat ra ua today by sa captain cap-tain and other la a amaii aitalr. msae-uring msae-uring only a few Incnea In any direction. About the year 100 of our era the aex-tant aex-tant then ia ua by aetrenomere had a radius of nfty-nm leat nlna Inche. t year there passed through the Sues canal 4(11 vssasie (aa average of about fifteen veeseis a business day), with a net tonnage f mora loan sixteen and a half millions. This waa a gain in tonnasw of considerably mora loan a mullua over Ills. For th fty-yar period from 1SD1 t lte. inolusive, the number of births a thousand of population In six leading coumrlee of Buropa waa aa follows: In Holland, Mi; In Germany. In Greet Britain. Ill; In Auairla, 111; la Italy, 104. and la France, t. . Qua baa i a city without pawn broker, the laat person in that business bavins died about thirty years ago. Since that time. It la said, no person haa applied for a license. The high license lee Is held responsible to a coneMeraole extent for this unusual stste of attain. A plot to aasaaalnate to king of England Eng-land In 1M. the famous Rye house plot, mtecarrled from the merest accident. Th bouae in which Charles 11. was lodged happened to catch fire, and on thte account ac-count ha departed from Newmarket a little aeoswr than ha bad Intended. Mte Clara Smith haa been elected a fellow of th American Association for th Advancement of (Menoe. partly ba-cauee ba-cauee she solved a problem In mai hematics hema-tics whieh pusaied college professor for more than a oeniury. Miss Smith is an Instructor of matnemaUcs la Wellealey college. Mlea Emily Butt of Jackaon. president of the Mississippi Juvenll Reformatory association. Is carrying on aa educational campaign with a view to securing from th next legislature suitable provision for young offenders whereby they may be kept tram aaaoclaUoa with hardened criminals. Mrs. Desha BreckenrMge. who will speak at the national suBrase convention in Nashville In October, la a relation of Henry Clay and la well known. In the suute as a writer and speaker. Sh bs worked fr echeol auKraa In Kentucky. Mis Laura Clay is presiaent of trie sUntucky Suffrage association. Dr. Mary B- Pvnnmgton la making a tour of the country with the object of showing merchants ths proper methods of preparing poultry for storage. Dr. Pennington is in obarge of the .food research re-search laboratory of th department or agrlcultare and has passed to last two year In Investigating cold storage for poultry. The curvature of the earth for a distance dis-tance of fourteen mile I about on aun-dred aun-dred and fifty fet, hindering vision as would an Intercepting hill of -that altitude. alti-tude. A fourteen-inch gun Is calculated to shoot or throw projectile fourteen miles. Hence th question to "bed: Why btrlia cannon to shoot at a tarset that must' be invtslblsr T sell pianos In som targe dtlea basins basi-ns houses appear to reach the limit. They hire a woman to take a Sat. dress In deap mourning, and nav In i ths flat one of their Instruments. An ad Is then pat In the local papers, stating that because be-cause of her husband's death th widow at the net will eell an inatrumsnt as good as now. for a nominal sum. Mrs. Alice McLan Hamilton, who has been paaslns the summer abroad, has been studying tb wave of courting In tftarent countries. In aome pacta of Russia Rus-sia If a men slights a woman she goes at dawn with an effigy of the man mad of strew, and. nailing It to on of the sacred sa-cred tree eurroundtn; th family anrro. prays for the death of th man. Americana ar mors discriminating and careful In their diet than people of any other nationality, according t members of the International Stewards sasaclt!on. recently rn convention In Chicago. America ha etovped It Heavy ting. said an officer of th association, 'nd n longer wants a banquet menu -tired with a tap. Ught eating la tb present rdr. Th legislator of Pennsylvania haa laid down th law to Philadelphia. By next year th city must devise a plan that will dlspoe of Its local sewage without polluting the Delaware or the Schuylkill rivers. Berlin he solved thi problem la a manner aa saUsfectery- as it Is original, and th tlm I at hand whe all "arcs cities laeatad upon water courses must M ths same thing r something like It ' la Uvtr California a largs number of the smaller desert snammals never drlna -water, according to American scientists who have recently visited the peninsula. They live and thrive on dry seede end scraps of vegesetioa ra place where the heet and aridity are sxoeeelve snthout ever touching their lip to water, and It haa even been found IroposslMs to teach some of them to tan water in captivity. Miss Helen Hess, th Osrman writer, whe haa Just bean making a tour of this country, declare that America ha ths beat dreased women. In the world. Aa-eordlng Aa-eordlng to Miss Has, only th women ef the upper class tn th other eeun-tries eeun-tries of in world mke ny attempt toward dressing becomingly aad keeping ' touch with the fashions. In the Tinned tatee she found that the majority of woman In all elas dressed fashionably and in arood taat.. "Wrecking on th. Florid keys Is Js profitable evocatioa. It la alwaye ostensibly ostensi-bly aa avocation and I proeeeuted with fervor." eaye a" writer. "A oartaln wrecking wreck-ing master of Key West haa bad a much aa sK.Sv for hi attentleaa to a wreck through a period of sixteen day. Followed Fol-lowed with daring and skill and a merciless merci-less lack of sympathy for skippers m trouble, wrecking hea yielded fortune to the lelanders. and It Is thus that It hah been followed far generations." 'The duke at Cheater was a yvng and rising peiltlciaa. That Is to say, b was a pleasant vouth. with flat, fair hair and freckled face, wtth mod ere Intelligence and enormous estates. In pubile hie appearance ap-pearance were Always success! ul. and his priori pi waa simple anough. When b thought of a Joke he made tt, aad was called brilliant. When be could not think of a joke he said that this waa no time for trifling, aad waa called able.. I private, pri-vate, la a club of his owa class, he waa simply quiet pleasantly frank and silly. Ilk a school boy.1 O. K- Chests rton. |
