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Show BITS OF INFORMATION Pearls coat three times aa much aa they did ten years ago. Only about 10 per cent of the world's output of graphite Is usd fr lead pencils. pen-cils. A comedian says you can act a laugh tn a theatre any time by sitting dtn on a silk hat. Trwi American Blbl society expects In' sell too. Km) copies of the Bible in Korea tins year. Thre hundred thousand persons lost their lives In a typhuon October , ll. In Halfona;, ulna. Tha Motxfv Blhl institute has just rtr1-tated rtr1-tated its nw dornili.try fm- women, i ho building cost $'C5,u. Ormanv import linrncnc iiantlii-s nf cruMird oyster shWIs from Kintian.l every i year for poultry fd. I I Nearly eleven thousand Indians were i 1 kK-ateil on reservation by thu tJiilf an government last ear. Prince Rupert, the Pa.'inV mast terminus ter-minus of i he Grand Trunk Pact h rall-ro-i. Ilea 5t0 mllea north of amuuvrr. A modified1 form of camera obsrura has bean patented bv a Kren. h Inventor to enahle an aviator lo tell when lie deviates from a given course. Girls now operate the elevators in Milwaukee, Mil-waukee, helnic dul llceiirtfd to do t..e work bv the ilv lnpe tor, and ti rcr-titled rcr-titled to make ordinary repairs on the machinery. The ratliolle nrc-a in the 1'nifd State. ia represented by nliPHp'H atwl pTi'.1! ,ala in Kngllah. OermHii. Krcmh. Holl.li Bohemian. Italian. Slavonic, Myar Dutch, Croatian. Spanish and Indian; o theae thirteen are dalllca and 110 an wcckliea. for tha flrat time In the hlatory of ath ! letl.a the t'hlneae are to i-onipete ithr nation, at the Olymr'1' aamea o 191 In tho track ami field aporia th atuilenta of th ( nlverally uf Shanglia (or three yrara have bec-n coached tiy ui ; hlngllahman. f Hie ti n i at e.auliful liuilillDga.-U 111- Tnlled Siatca Hie niiihuial ..ipilnl a' WaalilnK'On rank firm In tti-- eatlniatloj of -ritlrj. and the . Ity hall or N.'W irlc laat In the Hat are llir-e ihun ha. Hire. Mhrarloa two aoverntn.'iU alriii'tmos. nf private 'raaldruve and one mur nicnl hiiildlni. Th- private residence w H-tlnaulclied H-tlnaulclied ie In North Carolina at Hill-more. Hill-more. Between 1I) and 151" the value ol landa In lamia In the aouth mote Ihan doubled. Inercaalng from -', .n.U.nnn u $.-. 207 ;nl) ono or hv :'.M.i'S,X". e.)iml n 118 per cent. The rale of Inrreaar In lh aoulh waa allahtly greater than the rale of Inerenae in Ihe rent of the c.mnir. which ahowa an Inerenae from IF.H.rmn to .':i.l7.l."". or hy Jll-.o'ii.-Oi.ttott. equal to 117. :t pel' cent. There are two klnda of hanihor. uaed In building and cabinet making In the eaat-one eaat-one having aolld and the other hollow atema. The aolld. a-en In .liipane.e furniture, fur-niture, a) much amaller than the hollow, but both belong lo the aaine ajiecles. In the enna! motion of bamboo hoiiaea no nalla ara ied. The par la are hound together to-gether with laahlnga formed fiom the akin of tha bamboo liaelf. Tha Italian chancellor of the exchequer haa granted l.oon.ooo lire for Hon. to he made In Hereulaneuj m. Thr king hlmaelf ha. pron.I.ed to Sl Rtw.o n lire for the aame pnrpoae It la ' "irio lo note that alxtv houaea have been bud I right over the atreeta of the old town. Thee will all have to . pulled """j C-onalderahle treasure, t la "W-dan "W-dan beneath the rulna to be examined. It la often extremely dlfeult to dl-llngulah dl-llngulah between animal and vegetable In C forma of life, hut a recent dla-coverv dla-coverv la aald to provide the nereawirv teat. When an electric current H V through a weak a.nul-lon In 'J tvple.,1 animal and vegetable eella .uch a, bloe1 corpua. lea. yeaat bacteria and unicellular algae, the animal cell, , are driven to the poeltive pole, the xege-lable xege-lable calla to tha negative pole. Mra Anna M Alhrecht la the only woman blaekamlth hi New nrk t -and perhapa In th entire "" acta aa aaaia-ant to her hitahand. ho ronducta a ahop In Bronx horongli. Mia. Alhrecht haa aided her huahand in hla work the laat two yeara. at tlrat the entire dav. but now that h la proaper-Ing proaper-Ing ana llmlta her work to a few houra a dav. She la a alurdy. well built woman, of medium height. 8.1 yeara old. and la the mother of three children. A cage containing a canarv la Indla-penaaNe Indla-penaaNe on approaching a mine- after an exploalon. fanarlea and amjll wonn blooded anlmaJa aurh aa mice are. probably prob-ably becauae of their extremely delicate deli-cate organlama. particularly eenaltlve to carbon monoxide. Thua a rage containing contain-ing one or two eanarlea ahould alwaya be taken with an advance exploration party; thev are affected hy minute ouan-titlea ouan-titlea of thla gaa a ahort time before It will affect a human being. Caaalcr a Magaalne. Adolphua and Rlanch Heath, divorced di-vorced at Pea Mnlnea a few montha ago. will wed again lo prevent the marriage of their fifteen-year-old daughter lone to an admirer named Armatrong. wtio la twenty yeara her aenlor. The divorced father rebelled at the Idea of hla daughter daugh-ter marrying Armatrong. He found that the only way he could prevent It waa by remarrying hla wife. 8he conaentrd and they were reunited. The caae of the girl will he taken up hy the Juvenile courta. Omaha World-Herald. The dnmeettc trotlhlea of a Chicago couple well known In the beef packing nobility, no-bility, which the man attrlhutee to "dlf-fereneea "dlf-fereneea In temperament." were the topic of g ronvereatton at a New York hotel where one of the dlaeaflafled onea la a gueet. "Six tsonrha ago." aald a townsman towns-man of the roupl. "a almllar caae had the attention of tjpe beef world. Then the man put the tama on !n-ompallbll-Ity of temperature.' He wanted the bedroom bed-room windowa open and hla wife wanted them doeed. The caae never got Into court, but waa aettlel with the aid uf in architect." New York Tribune. Rarnahy Rich In hla prefai-e to "A New !eacrlpt1on of Ireland." pub'tahed tn Mae. write.: "On of the dleetee of thla age la the multitude of boka that doth ao overcharge the world that It la not able to digeat the abundance of Idle matter that la every day batched and brought Into the world, thai ar aa dtvere In their forma aa their authore he In their facee. It la but a thrlftleaa and lhankleaa occupation, thla writing of boc-ka. A man were better to all aing-Ing aing-Ing In a cobhler'a ahop. for hla aav la certainly a penny a patch. Hut a book writer. If he geta eometlroea a few corn- J mendalluna' of Ih judh-ione. It ahatt he aure lo rean a thouaand reproaehca of 1 the malirloua." Itndon Chronicle. j If la a fact fhat the careful Investor ' aeldoni loaea much, while the ape, ulalorl la cenetantly In danger of lo. The one geta Interest on Ilia Investment and. If hla Inveetmenta are aafelv made, can hold ihem through perloda of panic, knowing-that knowing-that thev will come out all right. The peculator, eeperlallv one who Drue on a -margin, may aee all I la posaeaalona awept away bv a panicky break. The wlnnere In Wall afreet are. therefore, the ftiveatora. The loaera are ti, apecula-tora. apecula-tora. On the other hand. It atlll remain re-main th Iruth that tha warv apecu-lator apecu-lator aometlmea flnla Wall afreet a oulck and eaay way to accumulate a fortune. ' Th trouble with him la lhat-he aeldoni keep hla fortune He .lave In, Hi game ' too long. lailie. j |