Show S 1 BITS OF INFORMATION It Itis is estimated that tho the earthquakes earthquake's a speed is from to feet a second Last years year's purchase of ties by bythe the country country's IS railroads was only two thirds as lar largo large e as of 1907 1901 Silk and mixed cotton and silk industries industries in in- in France Franco are lire said IBid to empl employ oy altogether ethor upward of half a million workers There are definite evidences of ot im im- im provement reported from the Scotch shipbuilding yards Mays May's la s new tonnage was heaviest of the year In tho the five completed months of the year tho the output of tho the Scotch shi ship shin shipyards yards yards has been tons near nearly tons moro more than thau the tho correspond corresponding in mug ing period last year The Tho freak photograph is the popular fad in iu Paris Paria at present Several photographers photographers pho pho- to raphers are arc making it a U specialty and nna turn out the humorous grotesque and gruesome iu in large largo quantities The Apaches who for many years ears were ere the scourge of Arizona and Iud Now Mexico exico probably never numbered more than Tho The present number is about and most of them live in the tho White mountain r reservation Arizona The students of the tho University of Chicago have havo decided to put the su subject of whether or not the honor system shall govern all examinations to popular vot vote All indications point toward the adoption adoption tion of the tho plan by a II largo large majority In fifteen years we wo have havo imported 25 bushels of potatoes or or all to told d about twelfth one of a single years year's crop in this country The value of the imports has been for forthe the tho fifteen years the tho duties paid have been New New York Press One of the most important needs of China today is wireless telegraphy telegraph It ItIs Itis Itis is Is considered practically impossible to establish the ordinary land lines acrO across 8 I the tho great reat desert between Pekin and the extreme northwest but the natural I difficulties could bo surmounted by tIll tho use uso of wireless I In Jim a lecture at the royal institution recently Prof Sir James Thompson I said saul that matter is is neither continuous nor homogeneous He showed by bJ an ex cx- that hydro hydrogen en can cau be bo passed into lUtO a vacuum bulb through an incandescent incandescent mean incan incan incan- descent platinum window In a similar way sodium passes through glass The Henry Watson Children Children's a Aid society of Boston has adopted a new now I System of caring earing temporarily for children chil chil- dren committed to its charge Hereto lleret Heretofore fore the children have been eared cared forat for at the society's home Under tinder the new now I plan the the- children are aro to be boarded in private families until permanent homes are arc found for them by the society A white tigress 8 feet S 8 inches in length has been shot in state Orissa The ground round color was pure white and the stripes were wre of a adeep adeep adeep deep reddish black The Tho skin has bas been presented to the the tho rajah of who vho has had it mounted and placed in V hii his palace The Tho hunters of this thimi country say that it is tho the only white tiger they have ever seen London Evenin livening Standard As Alexander Dumas Dunias had dined wit with witha a t l state min minister ster homebody asked hi him if ho had had enjoyed himself lie He replied If If it had not been for me mo I would have been bored Dumas was in th the habit t of giving 2 francs 40 cents to toa toa a beggar leggar whenever he ho met him Once c he only 10 centimes 2 cents I wh which ch he lie gave ave Oh Ob M. M Dumas exclaimed ex I claimed tho the beggar beg reprovingly ly Give them to a beggar Dumas replied Seven mil miles s of little known country in in North Korth An Anglesey were opened up re recently by the tho London Northwestern railway the tho first train tra elin traveling from Holland Arms station to Red Hed Wharf bay The stations on the tho new line are all areat areat at Rhyd y-Raint y and Llanbedr Tho The country traversed is undulating and the coast has haK a succession sue suc cession of beautiful sandy bays The Menai straits and a background of the purple Grampian hills are arc features of time the scenery There is iK in us use in some parts of tho the west coast roast of Africa a system of of writing writing writ writ- ing of native invention which is said aid to bo Le successfully competing with Ell Eng Eug lish lieu writing It It is called the Val language lan Ian guage au and Was vas vas invented bv by Un- Un leere kere assisted by five of his hIli friends The characters resemble E Egyptian hieroglyphics hiero lucre but hut the Jho tongue in is said to be he harmonious relatively easy to pronounce pro pro- flounce and anti and with a Q grammar that is far from difficult It is bein being more and more u used ed in West Africa and antl it is is- said may become the dominant form of ot native t speech p ech in Liberia and adjacent coon conn tries V According to Electrical En Engineering rules have havo been issued to the effect that no apparatus for wireless tele telegraphy raphy on onboard onboard board merchant ships whether British or foreign shall be bo used while in any of the tIme harbors of Gibraltar except with the written permission of time till gov gov- The Tho making or answering of signals signals sig sij- nals of distress are arc excepted The bill requiring all steamers to bo be equipped with wilh wireless which was introduced introduced introduced in in- in the Canadian parliament has been shelved for tho the present for the reason it is s said aid of seeing ClOg what steps the British government is taking in inthis in inthis this direction |