| Show SOI PRIVATE OFFICE OF CHOATE SO Tr MB CCO PI v AV AVor or orin in int t S ni r ri i i The accompanying Illustration from a 1 recent photograph rn h presents the NI private vate at office of ot our to Oret Britain Joseph H II Choate In theAmer the Amer i Inn in Victoria str t I ondon It Is ts a cozy 0 hut but commodious devoted mainly to tn business Tile The walls are with portraits portrait In eluding nt of ot the tM Milted States and n portrait of ot th Ute President This In III tile the actual headquarters hot of ot the l awl l h here re are con conducted conducted ducted Important diplomatic b the by b his train troia trained ed staff Mr Choate is II at nt Carlton Home Houle terrace where hospitality takes 1 the place of ot statecraft orr SCIENTIFIC AND OTHERWISE h Herr ns the result of or stud Urd i Us U upon Ii the t 1 w tight of or machin machinery r t ery 1 as related to Its output that his observations tend to show that up 10 to a certain le be the of mate mat material rr rial J Iii fir O f l tr i p Will but bill th that t J JQ from this i the unit uniti i of ot rower power remains y try ry constant tt It tn ma most meat to know that the tho JI Hulon In North the W H are than t 1 l of th Ih l stain Of ot 4 fa fl e ti Porto ni nt and i In n Mi h N nh i Klig II K vard mr po i are nearly Ill rl miles larK r than tho th of the Stale and ami taking In th Indira and Newfoundland lan more Inore than square milt larger Mountain J with the influence m nn th Ih body boll of ot the tho exer le tt I Iff r of or at anu utu III I t II mil HI t better after I il Ih now In in the Alps by a Q party part of at physiologists led I by Professor Th ICI of ot fungi that have ha ben Known to show luminosity are arc found by b Professor D lo to number tyone t one of or eleven belons to the genus emu J five 1 are peculiar r to let Australia Austrell Tho luminosity Is I not due dill to pho r i r but but to com of ot meta t bolic the fungus Itself The light Is II thought to servo sero tle fun tun guS by attracting Insects that scatter Its It spores Porto orto nico has no debt No 0 country U Ls more lightly taxed It pays p for tor no army arm or navy It has haa no Internal rev revenue re tax U It unrestricted ted hade with lIh the United States This amounts Amount l to a haunt bounty on n every ton n of ot lr It raises s Its lis government Is III eco its It chief charge Is III for tor schools and petty I tt ing have hae been After Arter nil all the strain and ond which nar ar bur hur famine and ond the reorganization of at Its It political 1011 I and social Item brought It Is III awakening to n a new ne life I The Th k ky y to the Ig Is now hang Ing on the wall wail In the hull hall of ot the old home of at Washington nt at Mount Vernon emo Vo VII It 11 was given ghen to Washington Wa of bf c The regular army firm of ot Sweden on a pence ence tooling footing Is II compo d of ot M J en listed men clan 10 engineers and anc 3 of ot the making a 11 total force toree of Ul Of or th thue e eare are Ar cavalry aIry and Ml 1411 rr |