Show BITS OF INFORMATION The present population of Tacoma is about which is three times as many inhabitants as there was nine years ago The Tho death records of tho the railroads have hava been bren lessened materially recently as a n result of the compulsory adoption of safety devices ices and systems system A patent has been granted rant d in Germany Ger tier many on a starch insoluble in hot water and unaffected by bv strong which sc in is useful as a filter in plastic compos and in the tho manufacture of paper Concrete when whoa brou brought bt into eon contact tact with water steadily acquires compactness compact compact- ness and resistant power until it attains its maximum in those qualities which it retains indefinitely and without de deterioration de- de Whalebone cost only 35 cents n a pound half a century a ago o Today it costs about aboul 5 a a. pound The Tho total product landed landec from the American fisheries durin during the nineteenth century exceeded pounds A sin single le whale many yield up to pounds Tho The possibility of a a. planet outside oJ of tho the orbit of Neptune since sinco its discovery ery in 1847 considered the outermost of tho the solar system is is indicated by calculations calculations lations at Harvard observatory of certain tam tain irre irregularities in Neptune s a orbit Mt Washington on is the highest point in tho the New En England land states Its hight is feet Mt It Mitchell 1 is the tho highest hest point in North orth Carolina feet and anda a number a-number of other peaks in the Black mountains of f that state aro over feet above the sea Mt in Tennesee Ten Ten- is feet hi high h. h The cog cog- road up Pikes Pike's peak is 8 8 miles mile in length th The Tho United States navy contains ty ty-nino battleships as ns follows ws Iowa Indiana Massachusetts Ore Oregon on Near Hear sarge Kentucky Illinois Alabama Wisconsin Wisconsin Wis Wis- Maine laine Missouri Ohio Virginia Nebraska Georgia New Jersey Rhode Island Connecticut Louisiana Vcr Vor- mont Kansas Minnesota Mississippi l Idaho New Hampshire South Carolina l Michigan an Delaware and North Dakota This con college o professor like liko many other men of erudition was fond of Lewis Carroll While Whilo visiting his sis sister sis sis- ter tot he ho asked his his' niece his niece a miss of fifteen to get et through h the looking looking- glass for him from the public library She evidently evi i dently did no not like the task and he hr asked her the tho reason With some hesitation hesitation hesitation hes hes- she replied Oh Ill I'll get et it if you really want it it But I dont don't like to have tho the librarian think that I 1 read rend childrens children's s 's books The making of the plate originated in Bohemia according to a recent paper by William E. E Gray Grav hammered iron plates having been coated with the tinn tin in n that country some time before the year of 1600 Tin plate making ng- ng was i in introduced introduced in- in I in England in 1665 the art bein being being be be- in ing brought ht there thero from Saxony In France the first tin plate factory was established established es es- es in liB 1714 The first commercial commer del cial manufacture of the plate in in tho the United States was at Pittsburg in in 1872 1812 The Erie canal anal was begun in 1817 and completed in in 1825 and cost Its construction was due chiefly to De DeWitt DeWitt Witt Clinton who was governor of New NewYork NewYork York during nearly a all of the period covered by it its construction At the present time the canal is seventy feet wide wido at the surface six fifty-six feet at the bottom and has a n general Jeneral depth of seven se feet There are fifty seven fifty seven dou dou- blo bio locks fifteen single Jo locks Jocks ks feet ct long and ei eighteen feet wide It is miles in hi len length th The owners O of a St. St Abbs Abba England boat have made the Important discovery dis covery ery that a net dyed as al nearl nearly as possIble possible pos pos- sible the hue bue of ot the sea Ilea Instead of ot the traditional brown yields much larger re results results re- re suits In the matter of fl fish h cau caught ht The News put to the test tut a short time ago when one of a fleet of sixty five x hosts beats ru-en ru the tho ebO boat with I Its s nets dyed e blue made far farand farand r rand and away ay the largest catch The dye de used is s bluestone The Tho discovery has haa aroused much Interest among the fishermen Fifty more colonels In G Georgia r a. a tift fifty more uniforms fifty more notable citizens citi zens m march fi fifty more follow the h horns horns- Fifty lf y more g colonels fo fo 1 In Georgia that Georgia feo fifty a that i makes ten thousand and one fifty more fellows allows to strut and have fun tun fifty more Georgia big guns They're There thicker than In Jersey Jene they're there thicker r than crabs In the ba bay until the whole tat state tat of old Georgia Is III getting to be one hooray hooray hooray hoo ray But nut Georgia is II dry as u a boneyard oh list to the mournful sound lI wl h with fifty more colonels In G Georgia and not enough drinks to CO go 0 round round Baltimore Baltimore Sun Current biographies of ot players frequently frequent- frequent ly y omit man many a ages ta Mrs Carters Carter's first appearance appearance ap ap- ap- ap arance was wall nineteen teen years ago Eugene Cowls Cowles joined the Bostonians In 1858 1838 William H. H Crane confesses sixty-four sixty years ears Frank Daniels DanIela Is II still lUll frisky at 49 History U Is silent on the bounding bound bound- Ing ng and bubbling Eva Davenport Jefferson D Dc D Angells Henry E. E and Reginald De Koven were born In the same ame year ear half a a. century ago alto Marie Iane Dressier was wa 16 when she played Cigarette tte In Under Two Flags She h could play a perfecto c l r rw or an invincible now o Eleandra Duse Is bOo 50 MaxIne Elliott d does not look a da day over her 36 New New York Press Pres' Mr G. G F F. of 0 O. Is the proud owner ner of a R. cat nam named d Roosevelt lt which has killed according to car careful ful calculations calculAtion II 45 rats during twenty eight years an of ot a uI useful ul life Th The cat c-at has hall outlived 1 two mut masters masiera II and is II thought to bo boo the old oldest lt cat In the world Roosevelt has MS lived for more than twenty five years year In and has hu maintained a high dally daily death rate among the rata rats and mice of ot that pleasant pleas pleasant pleas pleas- ant t town town- wn By continual activity his hili teeth have bare been Men kept in unusually fine condition and end Mr Ir has haa not spent a dollar on tb the cats cat's d dentist bills In n ten years Roosevelt works ork seven days In n the week |