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Show BITS OF INFORMATION A school of music baa swan opmed In Bangkok. Slam. A cubic mil of average - rock veeighe lt.too.ooo.ooo tons. , . There are known so he at least 10 varieties of flesh sating planta. Fifty thousand coo Use are at work In China a tha Bsocharaa-Hupeh railway Una. Any person guilty of running a motor vehicle in Prince Edward latand ta fined taoo or put In jail six months. With the help of the government, MK famine, representing 13.02 persons, wsra estsbushed In the varioua colonise of Bra-all. Bra-all. . Italy prortucse lft.ofto.eoo gross of buttons but-tons of vegetsble Ivory each year. In Its fourteen factorlea are am ploy see numbering number-ing sooo. To eetablleh a network of connecting line (21.oeo.eo la to be spent In Japan oa tha construction of narrow-gauge railway. rail-way. areece Is ooUcltaus for trade with the f'nltsd States During the decads closed with 1910 It Is estimated that 310.000 Oreeks emigrated to the United States American business men allow a prejudice preju-dice to be crested a rates thorn In Europe Eu-rope by sending letters and catalogues to merchants without sufficient postage. A window refrigerator, that a Washington Wash-ington (D. C.) man has patented, file Into tha place of the lower assh. but can be lowored out of tbe way U tt obstructs ths light. Elisabeth One Bear, a Sioux Indian maiden, has brought suit against Jacob Abraham, charging brsacb of promise. She wants (sooo a a halm for wounded affections. Th Vienna Zelt anwonnos that the second Anetro-Hunaariao drssdnsoght will be munched at Trieste In Ootobor of tbla year, and will be ready to fo Into commission ta the spring of 11 1. The Brat, tt will be reraembereS. Is to tales ths water on June 14. and will be la service by th end of next year. It waa prescribed by an oloTiuperstlHon ' that If thoee who were affected with agua would visit at dead of night ths neareat cross road fiv different times and then bury a new laid egg. the dlsesae would be buried. If the experiment failed, they attributed It to eonie unlucky accident acci-dent that may have befallen them on the way. ; Either tea or yerba mat I erved In Chile at 4 p. m.. not only In the homes, but at eluba. restauraate and botala. and many bualness housss. A cup of tea and a ran or small oaks In the club or hotel cost from S to 12 cents United Rtates gold, while the business houses nerve it free rather than have the clerk leave their work or go out for tt. For tbe monetar a team hi Olympic the ISO-Ion atern frame waa east tn a foundry In England. There wsi not a freight car In the kingdom that would hold it properly. It protruded over every side. At four miles an hour It was hsuled to ths cosst. while the traffic on both tracks of the railroad wee atopped. Even that did not give sufficient leeway and atatlon had to be altered ta let It pass. Professor J. von Kowalakl. m a letter to Nature (londonl. describes his obser-vatloae obser-vatloae of th spectra of sunlight reflected by snowflelds in Bwltserlsnd. He finds that the ultra-violet ray are reflected by snow slmnst In their entirety. This fset help to explain th trying effects of such light upon the eyes, snd suggests th ad-vreabillty ad-vreabillty of wearing, during a period of enow aad sunshine, glasses that are akaoua ta tha ultra-violet rays- Th pes ease of returning emigrants through Prussia I now permitted only when tt I th shortest rout to their native na-tive land. Emt-rents returning ta Russia must be provided with a Ruaslsn passport. pass-port. Reluming emigrants who bar othorwts complied with the conditions but who refue to buy a ticket to a station sta-tion beyond the Prussian frontiers, in the direction of their home, wtll be expelled from Prussia at the frontier at which they entered. Crushed to death by a steam roller which he was t lasting tn Melrose wss Roslin Fish. (4 years old. well known In Boston as a model for artists. Yesterday waa tha first dsy h hsd worked in front of th roller. Mr. Fleh hsd ppeed for Boetoa artists particularly In ths roes of a fisherman. He had a round face and whit whiskers, his countenance bearing a striking rseemoisrtcvi inu " ui"-oal ui"-oal Cape Cod fisherman of lb old days Boston Transcript. , , Thar Is aa earn eat hop In England that th growing political unrest In India In-dia mar a checked, if not completely overcome. by the forthcoming visit of King Osorge and Queen Mary to attend at-tend tha coronation durbar. The arrangements ar-rangements for th event indie ts li st It will b perhaps the moot gorgeous affair af-fair ever witneassd In India. Th cost of th visit will amount to M.TM -, es-elualv es-elualv of what th people of India will be oallaS upon to pay for their share In (a demonstration. Oenerat Heltebaut. th Belgisn (minister (minis-ter for war. haa mad an Innovation la matters military by establishing a day of rest for all branch ee of tbe army. Sunday Sun-day has been appointed aa th reat dsy. Henceforth all soldiers will have perm lesion le-sion to return to their famllle and spend Sunday at horn. They wlU have a formal for-mal permit granted, which, on their return re-turn to th barracks, they will have to produce to tha commandant, algned by th "chef d famllla" to th effect that thy have been at bom. In th dark agea a cardan waa only a Eatch of "simple" tended by a patient, iborlnua monk. But th Italian garden of th day of Lorenaw d Medici bad become be-come alt that the garden wisdom, akill and expenditure could max. A formal garden of the Villa Palconlerl. more than five centuries old. la still considered the moot beautiful aad dignified ornamental orna-mental garden tn tbe world, a painter's and a post dream of cool, clear pools and stately cypres. In Japan they go so far aa to msks every look one gets ever wall or through window a perfect plctur.-rNsw Tork Proa. Mr. Dougherty, who ears that he tried Georgia for twenty years and adralta that he "probably left It for the good of thst state." declared that he "would rather be a palmetto tree on the bank of th Hall-fax Hall-fax river la Florida thaa to b a bishop of th Methodist church In Georgia." Mr. Angle did not seem to- think Florida bad gained much by the accession of Mr. Dougherty. forne shook hi band Ip Mr. Dougherty- fee, pounded, upon Mr. Dougherty desk, and ahoutad: "T want to aay to this gentleman light hr that If he ws wrapped up in Broward s vest he Is ao Infernally little he would fall out of on of th button hoes "Mobil Register. Reg-ister. It appaars from a net la Electrical Engineering En-gineering that an appllanc la being tested test-ed In Australia which I deelgned to glvs signal In ess of small movements of roofs tc. In mines. A tripod etsnd haa a telescop xtntoa terminating In ' a fork, which can b arranged to press sgalnst th roof. Th top part I flexible, snd is pressed apwsrd by springs, and carries a ere arm provided with can-tacts can-tacts at ach endV t to b just out of connection with those oa a similar cross arm on the sect ion. within- which th top section slid: thus any slight movement of Vh roof r rosea one or other of the pairs of contact, and work ball or other signals. |