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Show BITS OF INFORMATION ChlfUw-usei 400.00A,oa1 pound of tea waui at net stvrvtrra SiHi Ann OAit nminde. Tha Japan are developing the glaas manufacturing industry or Manchuria. Caaarta nave been known, to reach the advanced ag of 11 year. Denmark la th dairy of Europe. It has elghty-flve head of cattle to each lit) Inhabitants. Th diamond cutting Industry of Amsterdam Am-sterdam baa a "welting list" of 1000 persons. per-sons. The eicas of th German hen are below tha average 1st weigh I. running aa iow aa ten to the pound. Australia has an artesian water area of 640.000 square miles, mostly arid locall-Uee, locall-Uee, available for Irrigation. Automatic striking cigarette llghtera have now ben taxed In &naln, and the first to pay thla new tax waa King Alfonso. Al-fonso. Cinematograph theatres are very popular popu-lar all over Oreat Britain. The Inlted Statee supplies 0 to 7s per cent of the fllma uaed. Experiments In compressing flour show that Its keeping qualities are prolonged almost Indefinitely by the process. Its bulk Is decreased by one-third. Th laboring rlaaa profile by the exemption ex-emption of native tobacco In Mexico. They are able to purchase two boxes of cigarettes, containing ten each, for 21 centa In our money. It Is said that the nut trees of the world could furnish nourishment for the entire population of the globe. Brasll nuts grow In such profusion that great quantities are waated every year. Shetland ponies are brought almoet dally from the Shetland Island to Aberdeen, Aber-deen, where they are rested for a few days before being transported to Glasgow Glas-gow or elsewhere by rail In trucks. There are two kinds of bamboo used in building and cabinet making In the east, one having solid and the other hollow hol-low stem. The solid, seen In Jspanese furniture,- le much entailer than the hollow, hol-low, but both belong to th earn species. spe-cies. In l0 there were 144 Alp climbers killed and In 11 100. not Including twenty-eight persons who met their death while ptrkln edelweiss. Of this to. tal of U fatalities, forty-two were Germane, Ger-mane, twenty-four Auatrians, nineteen Swiss and four English. The Korean who murdered Prince Ito ws taken for trial to Japan, and faced hla death sentence with greet equanimity. equanim-ity. As he waa engaged at the time In writing a poem the author! ties postponed the execution for ten days In order mat he might have time to flnleh It. Writing to American Medicine. Dr. Charlee kV Woodruff of the medical corpa of the army, stationed In Manila, makea plea for "artificially cooled hoa-pltals." hoa-pltals." using thst term as the subject of his article. Colonel Woodruff declarea that It Is "amaalng that the medical pm- feealon has mad so little therapeutic use of cold producing machinery. " Is many year alnca It was discovered that there waa aome mysterious therapeutic virtu In the breathing of cold air.- Ooethe was so often Intruded upon by th curious In hi house In Weimar that one day. made Impatient by the determination deter-mination of an unknown Engllehmao to force an entrance, he suddenly ordered his servant to show him In. The Englishman English-man entered. Goethe planted himself erect In the center of tne room, his arms crossed, his syes on th celling, motionless motion-less like a statue- Surprised tor the mo- . . . a baa-. iwnnMMnilM the situation, and. without belns In the least disconcerted, he put on his slaeees, walked slowly around Ooethe. Inspected him from head to foot, and went out. From the French of Judith Gautier. The time la not far distant when It will be possible to make a very comfortable comfort-able eicuremn acroee the width of the African continent, as well as the lenth. All are more or leas familiar with the protrreee of the Cape to Cairo railroad, which le puahlns In a northerly direction, but the other trip wlH be made feasible by the completion of the railroad which la to connect Daressalam to l JUJ. on lke Tensanylkl. There are now lO.enj workmen on the !7-mll stretch from the first named place to Tabora. In German East Africa, which work la being pursued pur-sued by the German government. After thla the road will b stended to t'JIJl. and from that point there la already a chain of railroad and boat connections to the mouth of th Congo. Blr J. J. Thomson saya that by means of the positive electric rays th gasee present In a vacuum tube can be chemically chemi-cally analysed, and thla analysis will show not only whether an element, say oxygsn. Is present, but also In what form It occurs oc-curs an1 whether there am allotroplc modifications, auch aa e"-Pr!;.i.In practice the raye are subjected slmulta-neouelv slmulta-neouelv te the Influence of electric and magnetic Selde. and the deflection are recorded photographically. By this method much emaller quantities of met-ter met-ter can be detected than by the preeent chemical methods, and transient phases In the processes of chemical combination ai revfaled. Thre Is hope that this will throw light on the Interesting nn my-terlous my-terlous problem of the nature of chemical combination. Commenting on the remarks recently made bv Miss Ann M. Putler. Inemictor of phvslcal culture at the Itilverelty of Minnesota, a fashionable dressmaker said: "We hear thla talk about doing with corsets every Mttle while. What lllss Butler saya about women being healthier who do not lace may be true. It waa also true a few years ego when the antl -corset campaign wa started by a society for 'aane dress' la 1nrton. But women seem not to car for all these things: they go right ahead rorsets Just as their mothers did. eseept that the modem ertlele Is mors extr.rr.e The dsy may come when Mis Buttor' atvle of drees will be fashionable, but I the meantime w are for etyl and good form." Tsewanlmuc. the oldest T.umml Indian on the reservation, died recently, and we burled from hie old home on I.umml Island. Pioneers from stl parte of ths I aland gathered to pay their last repect le the old Indln. who seventy-five yesrs ago Identified himself aa a true white man' friend. Under the name of Jim F.ldrldge. a name taken from a pioneer of Whatcom couwty. Tsewanlmuc was accorded ac-corded th rites of the Roman Catholic church, to which he had belonged for half a century, and Tsswanlmue Is mourned bv the old eneews In genuine tribal feshlon. From the clesr and definite defi-nite accounts which Tsewanlmuc was able lo tell of reels which tranaplred three-ouartera of a century ago the oe-llef oe-llef prevalla that the old brave waa well toward the century mark Seattle Poet-Intelligencer. |