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Show grown animal atands about alx feet high, and the neck la much longer than that oi the elephant of tha circua. Mrs. Walston Hill Brown Is the daughter daugh-ter of the late Robert IngeraoU. and it much Interested In the subject of child -welfare. Che says that tha Ingeraol home should be a "house of reforms." It Is situated In Gramercy park. New Tork, and metlnga for the good of humanity are held there often. Mrs. Brown is President Pres-ident of the Metropolitan branch of the New Tork child labor committee, and she la Just now Interested In having the laws In rrgard.aa.ma la,tCILl llUd.rea croperlv enforced. The biggest family tree In the world if believed to ba the one in Hatfield, which traces the genealogy of Queen Elisabeth nark to King David, and thence to Adam, or at least sa nesr to Adsm ss one could get. The coat of arms Is given In almost every raw. with full particulars of the dalea of blrthe and deatha. The labor of providing ooata of arms la abandoned before be-fore Methueclah'a time, but the chart meaaurea forty-live feet, and certainly doea take one through a mase of nobility. New york Press. In a German restaurant where many meala are served at midday the menu card, which la written by an artlatln penman, pen-man, contains every day either a picture or a "Joke." One day recently the extra apace waa occupied by these ilnea: "Many good physicians say that water when taken ta-ken with meala dilutes the digestive fluid. That retards and may deetroy digestion. If you grow IU In consequence you will blame the dinner. We tell you thla for self protection. Moral: Drink bear. New York Tribune. Otto, or attar of roses, whichever you want to call It, seems the favorite of all the ecente won from flowere. and la the oil of the blooming rose. Much Is distilled dis-tilled Irn Persia. India and other part of Asia, but little of thla gets to Europe, let alone America. Bulgaria, "the roe garden gar-den of the world." turna out most of ours. Otto of roses Is msde from the red rose, but the white rose Is often mixed with It so that the oil melta at a higher temperature tempera-ture and can be adulterated with geranium gera-nium oil. thne fooling some experts who test by taking the melting point of tha oil. New York Press. The crisis In the sge'long sulphur industry in-dustry of Sicily, due largely to the recent exploitation of sulphur deposits In Louisiana Louis-iana by meana of the procena of melting the sulphur, beneath the ground with su- Krheated steam, and then pumping it out. led to an attempt to re-establish the Sicilian Industry by utilising tha raw aul-phur aul-phur mineral Itaelf. together with the finely broken snaasea. hitherto thrown away, for the production of auiphuric acid. Thla comes Into competition with the manufacture of auiphuric acid from Iron pyrites. U is said that the sulphur mineral haa many advantagea over PY-rltcs. BITS OF INFORMATION No married man In Vienna la allowed to go up In a balloon without the formal consent of his wife and children. "The only thing that keepe ua from hsvlng an automobile," saya tha Lamar (Mo.) Democrat. "Is the fact that we haven't a blamed thing to mortgage. Alpine glaciers are receding and some of them are disappearing entirely. Home attribute thla action to the boring of tunnala and building of mountain rall-waya, rall-waya, ' The stetea of Queensland and New South Walea, Australia, are giving very considerable attention to government irrigation, irri-gation, mainly by meana of artesian wells. Edna O. Weaver, a yeara old. who took examination for seven different dvH service serv-ice positions open to women at Kanssa City, holda first place In six of them and second place In the other. A Sacramento valley Irrigation company haa shipped a year okl peach tree -bearing over 100 peachea to Chicago. The tree la six feet high and when packed with dirt weighed 1000 pounds. . in liio fiscal year the government Ice plant at Manila earned a net profit of Il7M2. The earnings were from Ice, cold storage, distilled water and the sale of soma electric current. The groea earnings were I314.04S. Miss t. M. Carpenter haa been appointed appoint-ed soliciting agent of the freight department depart-ment of the Pere Marquette-Lehigh Valley Val-ley railroad, with headquarters at Davenport. Daven-port. Mlas Daisy Odin waa made division agent on the Burlington, at Bock Island, about a month ago. Both women are ex-parts ex-parts In the kind of work they wlU do. The Kentucky DaugTiters of the American Ameri-can Revolution are pleased by the psss-age psss-age of a hill In congress appropriating money to mark the trail of Danlef Boone. Suitable milestones will ee set In place to commemorate the Journey of the pathfinder path-finder 'of Kentucky. The Vh-glnlaoa are setting up stones to show the patha of the Brat traders. Following the example eat by aome sports down In Arkansas.'' saya the Liberty Lib-erty Mo. Alcalde, "a anake chase Is to he nntanlsed out northwest of Liberty, with Farmer Duerson as chief trailer. He la of the opinion that It will prove more exciting than fox chases or wolf round -upe. and purposes to become the BL Patrick Pat-rick of West Fishing river.' The foreign trade of tndo-Chlna has more than doubled In the but tea years. Whereas ten yeara ago the entire country depended upon rice- for Its prosperity, crops sre now much more divers fled, and while the production of rice haa Increased there are also material exports of pepper, tea, coffee, rubber and ranee, says consul con-sul General Andereon of Hongkong. A aped men of the African fresh water flvlng fish Is now to bp eeen In the reptile housi at the London geological gardens. In the day It la uaually polaed motlonlejs close to the surface of the water. At night It darts about catching InaecU A spe.-les found In British Guiana eklms along the surface of the water with the deep keel of tha abdomen Immersed. The greatest eating house In the world waa opened In Berlin recently. It la the new loologlcal garden restaurant. In which 1D4MX) people can dine at the same time beneath the roof, while the open air ter-racea. ter-racea. for use in summer, can accommodate accommo-date another 1."0 dlnera. There are li wallers and a kitchen staff of ' j eraon.-. The water elephant te a new rr dlecov-' dlecov-' ered animal. Five specimens of this pre-I pre-I vtooslv unknown family were seen In central Asia, and a report of the discovery discov-ery waa ent to the Zoological eorlely of I England. The animal reaemwea the ele-' ele-' pliant In many respects, but the earn are an-all and the trunk short. The full |