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Show BITS OF INFORMATION A single grain of Indigo will color ton of water. . .. Over tl.460.0OO was deposited In naval savings banks of England during 1911. London's debt In now f.A&.NHi.wto, of which $2,100,fuo was added during the last year. For the three months ending March 31 the yield of gold in New rtouth Wales was SO. $33 ounces, valued at $Mr0.0vn. Otto Urht anticipates a European yield thla season of 7,6'M.(00 tors of hei tugar, almost the same as the 110-11 output. Of tho 4300 known species of flowers only 420 have an agreeable perfume, the white and cream colored being the i aeet-est. aeet-est. The season of navigation In Russia was exceptionally long during 1P10, the port of CronMtadt and St. 1'eiersburg having been open 248 days. England has ll.SOfl ahlps enraged in foreign trade, fje-rrnany over 2h. Japan nearly 10 0. while the I'nlled Hiates has only nine ships so engsged. I The highest price ever paid at a publle auction for a woman's portrait In England Eng-land was ITJ.tofi, which was the price of the portrait of I-ady Jxmts Manners, old In 1901. J. W. Alexander, chief engineer of the Oceanic, has recently retired, having during dur-ing his senice crossed the Atlantic 91i times and traveled no fewer than 1,000. -900 miles at sea. The population of the province of Quebec Que-bec Is estimated at over 2.000,000. In loi (t was l,48.$8 of which 1, 322.OO0 were of French and WO.OAft 0f English descent. de-scent. French Is the prevailing language. The cable brings the news that Mra. Harriet Homann of Providence. R. I., has, with her husband, bought the Hoial Westminster, I nter den Linden. Berlin. Germany, and la going to make an American Amer-ican hotel of It. I Representative Henry H. Bingham of ' Pennsylvania la the oldest member of the ' house In point of service, having served I continuously for seventeen terms. He ! lives at Philadelphia, where he was born not quite seventy years ago. aL-Plsxponi Unrgsn enatlwwssj Ms ssa-reh for wonderful antiques. Kvery day one reads of some new purchase. He Is now reported to be negotiating for the Chesterfield Ches-terfield suit of Topf armor, to give It to the Metropolitan museum of art. An old man stood on the street corner In Cherryvale when the trolley stopped and let off a woman passenger. She had on a linen dreaa. s Panama hat, champagne cham-pagne colored hose and strapped pumps, "tlosh!" exclaimed the old man, "I'd spend less money on my bonnet and buy some socks." CherryvaJe (Kan.) Journal. A Pittsburg Irishman cried. "Ood save the king!" the other day. A German policeman po-liceman arrested him and a Swedish Judge 'fined htm $5 for disturbing the peace of the American city. And. says the Hp rl nan eld Republican, Pittsburg was namd after William Pitt, one of tho greatest of Englishmen. To save hlmaelf from loss of time caused by callers who are a long while In coming to the point, Paris functionary has had put on his office table a card bearing the words: "Be so good as to abststn from speaking of my health .or the weather or of the bourse quotations, three subjects with which I am perfectly well acquainted. Start at once on the matter that brings you here." Ixmdon Telegraph. Thev are good guessers at Hope. Kan., remarks Charles M. Harger. The Dispatch Dis-patch notes that a farmer missed a tine team and telephoned far and wide without with-out locating the animals. "Gradually It was forced upon his mind that his horses had been stolen, and he Anally notined the deputy sheriff of his loss and suspicions. suspi-cions. He made an Investigation and was convinced tha horses had been stolen." stol-en." Sure enough they were stolen. This from Hawaii: A native woman called on the attorney general the other day to complain of the had language used by the child of a neighbor In the presence pres-ence of her own tola. "How old Is your neighbor's child?" queried the attorney at-torney general. "About replied the woman. "I shouldn't think that a child of that age could use much bad language, lan-guage, remarked the attorney general. rYou ought to hear him." exclaimed the woman. "Why. he can swear Just aa good as hla father." Lady Rosamond Butler, eldest daughter of the earl and countess of Carrtck. In Rngland. has become a member of the i Olrl Guides, an organisation for girls that Is spreading through that country. Al- though only 1? years old, she Is Inter-i ested In the association and Is eager to ! associate with the girls who belong to ! It. tfhe Js learning cook Inc. sewing snd i the principles of first aid to the Injured. , The girl also Is reading many of the! books prescribed by the association, snd says she means to remsln a girl guide, so that when she gets older she mav be among those at the head of the organisation. organi-sation. t Spencer C. Russell at a meeting of the Rovaf Meteorological society described how he obtained records of the actusl slse of raindrops. Ha said the experiments experi-ments had led him to conclude that the moat satisfactory results were given by the use of plaster of parts or fine flour placed in three-Inch shallow trays to a dpth of one and a half Inches. Raindrops Rain-drops during six thunderstorms had been registered, yielding a total of 14 drops, divided up Into the following sixes: Twenty. Ave of millimeters. 40 of 4 mtllfmeters. 4 of 1 millimeters. 38 of 1 j millimeters snd In of 1 millimeters. The largest drops occurred at the commencement commence-ment of the storm, grading off as the' storm progressed. - Before a fall of hall I a market Increase in drop sise Is ap-psrent. ap-psrent. London Standard. |