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Show 1 BITS OF INFORMATION Pari, ha s rauaeura of phonetics. - Ne.rlv twice as many womea aa me. ara eaget'd is the industries of Japan. A moiature. ga sad even exploaioa proof telephone for uae in mines hat been invented. About 4500 apeete. of wild lees re know aad of waapi 1100. In moving the Aetor library, is New York, 20,000 volumes s day ware handled. han-dled. The barber, of Europe collect s crop of 1,200.000 pounds of hair snnu.llv. Baltimore American. An important movement it beine made to promote irrigation in Cuba, at aa expenditure of 125.000,000. The average number of acres to the farm in. North D.kota in 1B10 was 883. compared with 343 in 1900. Egypt b a deeert railroad which runa fortv Ave mile, in a straight line, but the longeet straight piece of railway rail-way liae in the world i. from Nynean to Bourse, is New South Wale. This railway runa 126 mile, oa s level in a straight line. A Connecticut woman in t"0 made the following entry in her diarv: "We had roaat pork for dinner, and Dr. 8.. who carved, held up a rib on hi fork and aaid, 'Here, ladiee, ia wha$ Mother Evo was made of.' Yea.' ..id Sister Petty, and it 'a from very .much the una kind of critter.' " Dr. Wiley, the government food ex pert, tell, of a voung woman of whom wa. aaked the flucation by the teacher of phveilogoy, "Ia tight lacing un-wieef' un-wieef' The girl replied that it was. Aaked to explain why, he aaid. "Be rau.o it Huale hO'TOTaeTa. Dv. ltley was reminded of this by some of the explanations of the fall in the price of meat that occurred at abont election time. A recent estimate of the amount of energy derived from Niagara falls placea it at 73.140 horsepower, divided di-vided in it. application, aa follow.: Electro chemical indu.triea, 128,000; railway service. 96,200; lighting. 36,-400; 36,-400; varioua industri.l purpose, 34540. Thetotsl energy of the falls is eati mated at 6,000,000 horsepower, ao that aot much mora than S per cent ia st preeent utilized. In nearly every branch of Russian in du.try there is a growing output and the ontpnt doe. not remain oa hand, nor does it preen down market price.. It find, s ready sale, mostly for ea.h. Bevond all doubt the standard of living liv-ing is becoming higher, and not at the coat of the nation "a aavingt. which are ateadily increasing. Deposit, in saving, bank, have increased during the last fifteen years from 235,303wo0 to $649,930,000. Johsa Ola f son Turi, poet, artist and hunter, aaid to be the flrst lplander to writs a book, spends the long, dreary winter trailing; wild gam. in the snowy wilderness of his native land. He lives and travel, alone, and when on his midwinter trips can be fonnd only bv aeeident. His book was written writ-ten with the intent to dispel tha ignorance ig-norance about the Lapps, which in his opinion is ths cause of many wrongs they suffer. More than one third of a billion pa sengers carried in eighteen yeara and a half and aot one killed a. the remit of s train aeeident, is the record of tha Long Island railroad. The official figure, fust announced, show that this subaidiary of tha Pennsylvania railroad has carried exactly 334,148,826' paasen- fera since June 1, 1803. Tha Long slaad railroad has probably th densest dens-est passenger traffic in the country coun-try and, due to the restricted territory terri-tory covered, all of the traffic is properly prop-erly termed suburban. New York chauffeurs . may learn something from a recent London police court esse. A taxirab driver in the metropolis was eharged with intoxication intoxica-tion and ho pleaded that the fume, of tha gasoline from hi. machine were to blame. "I only had two glasses of whisky," said ihe chauffeur to the magistrate, "aad what the policeman thought were the effects of alcohol were due to the fume from the petrol. Just before the accident I had to blow some of the tubes, and inhaled th fumes." Th London papers call thia aew excuse ex-cuse "petrolitics." Th magistrate called the offense "plain drunk," to use s New York tenn, and acted accordingly. ac-cordingly. New York Press. Certain "four nu.hers" from the metropolitan centers .re not going to "put anything over" oa the Oaark boarding house keeper, this summer. Witness this declaration from the Mansfield Press: "There is a class of city people whom the people of the Ozarks will welcome as guests or sum mer bosrders. but there i. alao a class whom th natives of thia section will not welcome. Th class of snob from th eity who have bees raised on corn bread, salt pork and hogs' liver, and trv to impress npoa n th ides that thev are accustomed at horn to fried spring chicken, frogs' legs, oysters on the half .ball, omelets, baker.' bread, pic, puddings, dssssrts, etc., need aot pplv to us for beard. We doa't want tbeni. " Such extensive us has beea made duriag th last few years of silica glaas for chemical apparatus that it was found necessary to devia a method whereby this glass might be produced ia the electric furnace instead in-stead of with oxy hydrogea blowpipe. To produce perfectly transparent silu-a grass from melted quarts aa artifice is required, because oa reaching the temperature tem-perature of 600 degrees Centigrade the qusrtz splits, and minute bubbles of air fill the m.aa, Thi. c.n be prevented by first raising the temperature of the quarts to a point tittle uader 600 degrees de-grees and then surrounding it with fitiui'l silica at a temperature of 2'0 degrees t'enticrad. The liquid silic. act. as a shield to prevent the entram-e of air when th. quarts splits up. and thus tha formation f bubble is avoided. London Globe. ' |