Show BITS OF INFORMATION The Tho total number of immigrants coining comIng coming com coin ing into the tho United States since 1820 the year of earliest record exceeds Water tanKs of white pIrie pine used on railway railway railway rail rail- way work states the Engineering Record have have In the past had a maximum life of twenty years while the maximum life le leof of cypress Is twenty-five twenty years Mme Mine Melba intends t during t this years year's s d PT professional lo tour in and l New Zealand to write a book about the places she will visit This book she sha expects experts will wili agreeably reveal the wonderful possibilities possibilities possibilities pos pos- of her native country The sweetest town In the world is Grasse in the foothills back of Cannes on the French Riviera All through the year Grasso Grass Is really one ne big bubbling cauldron where are distilled gallons barrels barrels bar bar- reis hogsheads of perfumes wJ In the tho le Victorian la era a young English Englishwoman Englishwoman gl g woman a w was in the fashion l if if she at attended attended at- at tended half halt a dozen balls baIls In tho the season By degrees her ambitions increased until now a dance every night is not considered too much Thus the number of dances during the season has vastly Increased Provincial England is smiling in a superior superior superior su su- su- su way at Americas America's belated discovery cry ery that the c country o ought to celebrate Hl gle mothers mothers' r day In the villages e of Cornwall Cornwall Corn Corn- wall waIl Devonshire and Lancashire mothers' mothers day has been a recognized institution for generations It is celebrated on mid- mid Lent Sunday The first Turkish airship tho the has just undergone Its trial flights near Paris The rhe airship was ordered by the Ottoman government that has Just vanIshed vanished vanished van van- and Its arrival al in the sultans sultan's dominions dominions do do- minions is awaited with much speculative Interest b by bt the natives as aeronautics has hitherto been a forbidden sport in that country Primarily and as its etymology shows the verb to orient means to set an object in exact adjustment to the east thence by a natural at co corollary to set it t true with t h JI ote g all the h cardinal fO points of the compass Then rhen in the derivative and tropical signification signification signi signi- it Is used to describe the attitude of a mind duly adjusted to any standard standard stand stand- ard and of knowledge morals or life In spite of his ninety years Lord Lord Wemyss is still a keen golfer He was instrumental in starting the golf club at Wimbledon common about 1862 but when it was made obligatory by a law by-law of the Wimbledon conservators for the goIters golfers golfers golf golf- ers to wear a red coat Lord Wemyss emyss re rebelled rebelled re- re belled belied and his set of ot clubs still stands In mute resignation in his locker tied with a piece of twine Buncombe comes from a county In North Carolina of the same flame name which once formed the bulk of the congressional district represented by the Hon Felix Walker Valker Once In a a. tiresome speech he lie was interrupted with the query Why and replied that while he might weary the house he was talking for Buncombe A classic of the legislative days before the leave to print had been invented A Chicago married man who boasts to the boys that his wife never sits up for him slipped Blipped out for tor a cigar the other evening after supper and failed to notice that his wife had her party gown on When he softly tiptoed In Into to the house at 2 a. a m. m says sas the Record Herald ho was sU slightly surprised to see a dewy eyed lady trip down the stairway turn her herback herback herback back to him and tearfully sa say There are two hooks I Just couldn't reach wont won't you unfasten them so BO I can go to tobed tobed tobed bed bed Fortunately he could and did In swearing in a Jury In the superior court Chicago recently Judge Kavanaugh Kava Kava- took occasion to rebuke Jury dodgers dodgers dodgers ers and to exalt the service that jurors give the public The general idea that Jury service Is onerous is a mistaken one said the court ourt I dont don't believe that any anyone one who has ever served two weeks on a Jury would exchange his ex cx Jury service calls for tor the highest highest high high- est order of intelligence and for the most honorable of men It is not alone a privilege lIege to serve as a juror but it is an honor A Scottish laird overheard overheat some Lowland Lowland Low Low- land cattle dealers discussing the use of ot England Instead of Britain in Nelsons Nelson's Nel Nd- Kelson's sons son's famous signal England expects that every man will do his duty ACcording According According Ac AC- cording to one patriotic Scot there was no question of the admirals admiral's forgetfulness forgetful- forgetful ness and when a c companion mp Expressed surprise at the injustice the patriot reassured him Nelson he lie explained only expects of the English he said of Scotland fo fop foi he lie kent the Scotch would do their London London Globe In In an article on the Natal government railways' railways eating department the South African Railway Magazine says The Natal railway administration like the Natal people are frequently accused of being lethargic slow and inert but that thai this is certainly a fallacy so far as the railways are concerned can be proved e by bythe bythe g tt ig Ct the fact that the Chinese repatriates p conveyed conveyed con con- o from Johannesburg to Durban are fed at t lightning n speed on the tue stations o at which Ic they w halt t for gE Each a train conveys about coolies who are arev In charge of one European n conductor d y rl cb i Every v passenger is S supplied w with a hot meal mE-al consisting of two courses and a n pint of tea during the stop of six minutes minutes min mm- utes which is allowed allow d for refreshment Eleven of the southern states passed ordinances of secession South Carolina seceded December 21 24 1860 1660 followed b by Mississippi 1 January 9 1861 Florida January January January Jan Jan- uary 10 Alabama January 11 Georgia January 19 19 Louisiana January 26 Texas February 1 1 These seven states which comprised c what was s known as the te cottOn cotton cot g ton g belt t organized I t the confederate e gov gov- eminent The provisional constitution was prepared e eF F February 4 1661 61 and the president r iS fa and d vice president f were e In Inaugurated inaugurated in- in at Montgomery Ala February 18 is Virginia a passed articles s of secession oio and d r Jointed f t toe the insurgent l e government April 17 11 1861 1661 Arkansas May 6 North Carolina May 21 Tennessee June 8 5 Though the states of Delaware Maryland Maryland Mary Mary- land Kentucky and Missouri S d did not pass nasa srol ordinances of secession e they were r after afterward ward represented in the confederate con con- gress According to a bulletin issued by the Massachusetts foresters forester's office th thee v state might easily be devastated of its forests by tires fires In two sixty two years If preventive steps and replanting wt were re not under under- taken The E report says Railroads I S are r raf the largest Ep p producers af fo fo forest fires s w with nearly 40 per cent of the total Next comes comes- the unknown with 25 per cent ent Then there Is 8 S per cent caused by smokers amok amok- ers era and 7 1 per cent from burning brush If It some of the unknown fires could be traced out probably smokers would figore figure fig fig- ure ore more heavily in the total Incendiary fires and boys setting fires tires maliciously which we Imagine is much the same came thing I t together make k 11 per cent It ought n 2 08 ertl to be noted i that of f all the 1229 fires which five were set by lightning were lightning were the only ones which were absolutely not preventable The rest in large part could have been prevented If the people would go to the same salVe lengths that they do in cities |