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Show BITS OF INFORMATION ; The Carnegie hero llat bow numbere m. . Amsterdam haa 1T diamond clears rs and 47(1 polishers. ' A hornet'a neat contalna om aa average lS.oeo cells. Every properly cot diamond haa from fifty-eight to slaty-four facete. Bound travela through the air at the rate of about thirteen mllea a minute. The telephone rate In Denmark out-Ma out-Ma of the larger cltlea la about 111 a year. ' ' Two million dollara" worth of euasr is made Into aweeta every week In England. In 110 the rnlted 8tatea produced two-thlrda two-thlrda of the world'a output of petroleum. The nnharlt whale la called the "greyhound "grey-hound of rt.e aea." It. apeed through the water equala that of the faateat eleam-ahlp. eleam-ahlp. The 'government of Au.tratla la now of-fertng of-fertng liandenme prlae. for the beet de-ign. de-ign. to be uee4 in making a new eerie of poatage atampe. Mra. Wllloughby Cummlnga ta the flmt woman to re-lve the honorary degree of doctor of civil law from King a college, Wlndeor. Nova Scotia. In a new Internal rombuetlon engine In-ventd In-ventd by a Pennaylvanlan the burneo gaeea are blown out ol the cylinder ny air compreaeed In the baaa of the engine. A California n haa Invented machinery for pumping warm air out of a freight car and filling It with cold when perlehahle artlctre are to be ahlpped ahort die-tancea. die-tancea. A Maeeachueetta Inventor'a" hoiee feeding feed-ing bag haa a compartment to hold grain which permlla only a email quantity to roa. h an anlmal'a moulb at a time, thue preventing waate. Tn,reauacltate persona who hare nearly A mm an EiirnnHn aoctor haa In- vented a simple machine to which the arma and body are fastened and manipulated manipu-lated to produce artificial respiration. A Belgian haa Invented a method for cutting metals, similar to the oiygen- - - - i-g-gieaehaa an ecrqeqeqesqw- wf-TSSBjaaw-reTT Tlr-T 1m II.' .eTjjl an place of scetylcns In a dmrhlss torch, one et heating ths metal with ths mixed aaaes, the other cutting It with pure oxygen. oxy-gen. Woman achoof teachers tn the hi Tit prhoola of Russia have been put on the aa me wage ached uk sa mi n teaxhera, with the same rights tn respect to pen-ilons. pen-ilons. Wherever dlscisalon of the matter mat-ter took p)ac there waa a atrong fevllng that women should receive equal pay with mn for equl work. The cantonal authorities at Berne, flwlt-serland. flwlt-serland. have decided that the long trms and sentence of "polttenssa" In official rorreapondenre. especially concerning the beginning and ending of letters, must he suppressed, as the custom entails a great loss of time, and the French equivalent of "Sir" and "Voura truly" will be employed. em-ployed. The 6wlas watch Industry psssed through varvlng vtcixsltndes in recent years. The period of greatest activity waa attained In ISO, when the export valuea reached the record, ftaure of 129,-027.4!r.. 129,-027.4!r.. Following the financial crista of 17. the Industry Buffered a sertoua depreaslon. the export values for 1P0), fulling to $24,84. 240, a decrease of 14,-078, 14,-078, 25a aa compared with ! There was a further decrease of over $400,000 in llH)t aa compared with the previous year. Health authorities of Chlcajto are kicking kick-ing against Uncle Sam's backwardness In sanitation and hygiene. Illinois has s law against com i iron drinking cupa and roller towels In public buildings, but In ; the Chcago federal building the prohibition prohibi-tion la calmly Ignored, the explanation being that atata regulations "don't go" on government property. An appeal to the Washington authorities la suggested by the newspapers. - Th current number of Our Dumb Animate Ani-mate contains this story: "A cat has lived for sixteen years at a church In the suhurba of London. . Bus has had a kind master In th person of the Janitor and regularly attends the services. She has brought up many son a and daughters, which have been sold at church benefits, netting substantial sums to help defray expenaea. Th cat appears to taks genuine genu-ine Interest In. all the activities of the church." It Is particularly useful to know what animals we may . regard as our atdera and abettors in fighting the rata, says .london Country Ufe. It does not seem that we need have any hesitation In rating rat-ing the weasel aa a vsluable fighter on our side. Kven the keeper himself, with his natural tendency lo do to d. eth any creature that attacks his game (and certainly cer-tainly the weasel ia not to be held wholly guiltless of this charge), baa become so generally convinced of the weasel's value aa a slayer of rats that he often holds his hand, and we do not nearly so often so the carcase of this small but courageous cour-ageous killer nailed on the barn door as we uaed to a It. Whether th glob on which we dwell Is gradually drying up or not Is a question ques-tion that has ben much debated. Recent Re-cent discovert la Central Asia have hen regarded bv some as favoring an affirmative anawer. but , others have replied re-plied that the observed phenomena are simply periodic change. Dr. Walser of Zurich chsmplons the affirmative view on the ground that a great number of European Eu-ropean lakca- have certainly dlsappoared within the last 2M yeara. The canton of Zurich, for raampie. aaya the Mclcntinc American, had lis lakes a quarter of a century ago. and only seventy-six lakes today. He believca that a similar tendency ten-dency to disappearance haa affected the lakea of Germany and Rueala. A society for the prevention of cruelty to anlmala haa been organised In. Parla, where no legislation on that aubject haa been passed aim- ISM. Ho long aa the heaet waa not the property of the offender, offend-er, acta of cruelty against dumb anlmala could not he punlahed. According to recently re-cently published accounta, a man who had poured turpentine on a dog and then l applied a mat-h. and another who had I been discharged from service and had i taken revenge by tearing hia former maa-I ter a horsea' evee out. were discharged by magistrate becauee the brutal men were not the ownera of the tortured anlmala. j The act under which the new society waa I orgHolsed provides that any person ahall be punished who maltreata a dumb ant- j mai. |