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Show BITS OF INFORMATION Florida and) California oranges were exported last vear to the extent of 9ti2,22 boxea, worth $2.- .-Vr5. There would have been a faav famine fam-ine in the United States this rear hid it not been for Canada's surplus. The number of women employe.! in manufactures and trades in Germany is 9.400,001); in Australia, 5,60o.(KH; in England, 5.30U,Oihj. Frank Jones, the ex bandit, lives "t Flotcher, Ok!a. Cole Younger, tiie ex bandit, makes bis hoirie with bis niece, Miss Nora Hall, in Lees (Summit, Mo. For the first time in the hintory of Brazil the grand total of the country's foreign tfommrce in 1 9 1 it exceeded 500.000,000. In tins respect Argentina ia a close rival of brazil. The money sent home by Hungarian emigrants in the t'nited States during the decade lf00 l9u amounted to the enormous sum of $222,fM,214. Last year's contribution was $.17,017,915. The women 's industrial council of England has opened a school for teach ing motherhood in London. The school will teach the theory and practice ot managing children of tender years. Since the first woman deputy of Norway, Nor-way, Madam Olga Koystad, has made audi an exceptional record among the lawmakers of that country, doors hitherto hith-erto barred have been opened to women. wom-en. The academy of sciences, for centuries cen-turies tightly closed against women, has just elected its first woman member. mem-ber. During the decade of 1900 1909, the capital expended on railways in the United Kingdom was $671.7,000, an increase of only 11 per cent, compared with the preceding decade, while the ffrosM receintH ulinwed an incr cum nf 174,807,83s.. or Ji.ti prent. ndthc net receipts $24.721,H2il, or 12. i per cent machinery, linena and paper stock. Frank M. Smith, known universally as the "borax king," stands totlay the most gigantic figure of the west. In his head is revolving a swarm of traction schemes which may develop the greatest great-est trust the word has ever known.' This reticent f'alifornian today ha his linger on a capital cS more than IJiiii.onn.tiYni. which is used according to the Suiith program, will triple itself in ten vears. World Today. Geologists are claiming that the greatest underground river in the world ows from the Rocky mountains underneath under-neath New Mexico and Texas, emptying empty-ing itself in the gulf of Mexico. This river is thought to be in places several sev-eral miles wide, and it is believed that it feeds rivers that flow upon the surface. sur-face. The artesian well belt of Texas is pointed to as the uplifting of the water wa-ter from thia river, often from eight hundred feet below. Christian Herald. In sonio parts of Switzerland it is said that cheese form family heirlooms which are sometimes handed down from one generation to another. At Lea Ormouts, in the canton of Vand. it is eustnmarv to make specisl cheese for certain family feasta. Thev are tagged with expanatory labels and eaten aev-eral aev-eral years later, at other feasts, or even at funerals. Recently there was discovered dis-covered a cheese dating -from 1875. It waa as hard as a rock and hail to be cut with a saw. It is reported to have tasted good. In order to protect the interior of ships from the humidity caused by condensation con-densation upon the metallic walls dur- ing audden ehangea of temperature, the Italian marine has experimented with a king of hvdroscopio varnish or coating, the essential compound of which is ground cork, which is consolidated by pressure with copal and litharge and applied to the walls. It has been found that the eork varnish absorbs the watery wat-ery vapor of the atmosphere to the extent ex-tent of eight or nine grammes for every square meter of surface exposed. Scientific American. The China correspondent of The Lancet Lan-cet gives a gruesome picture of the disposal dis-posal of the victims of the plague in north China. The greatest difficulty, it seems, bas been experienced in this matter. About 150 grave diggera took five flays to dig a pit large enough to hold 100 coffins, the ground being frozen fro-zen deeply. The dead, coffined and un-eoffined, un-eoffined, accumulated in huge stacks, but the local officials absolutely refused re-fused to cremate aa advised by the foreign doctors. It waa not until permission per-mission had at last been obtained from the throne that the dead could be buined. A few weeks ago attention was called to the probability of the passing pass-ing of the stereotyped expression, ''She wore skirts to her ankles," because of the general use nowadaya of the short skirt without regard to age. Nowhere is another expression that probably will become obsolete because of the progress of fashion. It is "he belongs to the silk stocking class." That used to mean, taken literally, that the person so referred to was wealthy enough to buv silk stockings. All that ia changed now. Tha ailk footwear is no longer only witMn the reach of the ric.h. It mjv He obtained now from 15 centa a pair upward.- -New York Tribune. "Nowhere in all the world today can be found as many confirmed drunkards as there wrre among the Thracians, the Iberians, the Celts or the Sythians," sav a writer. "The man who didnt get drunk every day or two was regard ed as queer. . 1be Greeks were moderate j drinkers until they began to copy the luxury of the Persian feasts. The Ro-n-ans Imitated the. Greeks. Then ll-e whole world went on a mad drunk. It was a enturnalia. Caligula owes his niche in tile hall nf fame to the drfluk-n banquet with which he mad.' even Home mnrvei. The excesses mad') fashionable fash-ionable by auch rotentatea as I.ucullus. em, VeVrev Tiberius. Caligula, Vitel-liua.-4nd Luinitian-really-began in the , dtor of Fompev, and thev mark ths oe-ginninc oe-ginninc of the end of the republic." Th employment of circular duk of irc-m timing with great velocity, hut )onetM:ne ro teeth on the ede, for i iva tt inn iraterial. ia common in muvy wnr'-vnhoa. Among ether place whre ni ch iwa without teeth are. used are. the celebrated Krunp gun work, where armor plate ia aometimea cut in this manner. The proceaa ia not a newlv discovered one. Aa long ao as 1824 Darner and Colladon, at Genera, ex nerimented with awiftlr rotating disk of iron. Thev found that when a disk about aeven inches in diameter turned with a peripheral vejoeitv of ten meters a aecond, it could be cut with a fiteel tool preaaed againnt it, bnt that when the velocity waa increased to twenty-one twenty-one meters n aecond the iron waa un-j un-j affected and the steej tool wa damaged. At a velfteitv of eixtv meters a aecond j the iron diak even rut quarts and agato. |