Show BITS OF INFORMATION In Indian there are nearly widows Brazile grows more coffee t than any other country countr In the world Out of a total of eighteen south pole expeditions nine have been British At a rose competition In Parts Paris recently sixty-nine sixty entirely new varieties of ot roses rosea were exhibited The first airship annual a entitled tI All h 0 r o th the Worlds World's Airships is to be published In England In October On the shores of or Cape Cod there were during a period of twenty years following 1181 as many as 1000 1009 wrecks of vessels carrying r g precious llo cargoes eg of human I beings beings be be- ings and of freight Residents of oC tho the cork regions of Spain heat the bark In kettles with spouts through which Issues a 0 gas that i Is used us liS an illuminant The refuse Is sOld said as the Spanish black pigment on Roman Homan roads road were erected erected erect erect- ed every five or six miles Each of oC them was constantly with forty Corty horses horsell and miles a da day was an easy journey Any Anyone one using these posts must show a mandate from the emperor A sum of 1620 1620 was paid at Christies Christie's rooms London for a set of ten Chippendale Chippen dale mahogany chairs I the backs a pierced er with a all shell and carved dt with lt foliage a and conventional scrolls which at one time were wert It Is U In the possession of Marie Antoinette American apples containing the San Jose scale are refused entry at German ports port but this precaution is criticised an as superfluous because such apples rejected at Hamburg have been shipped chipped to England Eng En- land and Denmark k without i o having caused ci a spread of the pest A pound live pound passes eastward from Irom Vineyard sound In the spring and weighs g ten or fifteen te pounds l In autumn t h bol ol dl lI lIer The bluefish u b is an unmitigated m d de sea e butcher butcher butch butch- er and Is able to whip any other species not larger than himself lie He attacks menhaden menhaden men men- haden with such ferocity as to pack them In windrows a fool foot deep on tho the coast An automatic stoker has been tested on ou the Chicago 8 Alton In a recent te test t one of if the tho engines so equipped hauled lift fifty loaded breaking cars all records from Chicago for aFo long gt to distance St St. Louis lag Ing without the 1 firebox being e cleaned dm en route t Ten nt t tot tons i less coal 3 were consumed ns 3 than usual for the same number of ot ears can earson arHon on such a trip Here lIere are a host of 01 the things that the they put Into Ice cream Water Vater condensed milk skimmed milk whole milk lieu gelatin gel gel- IaUn I attn atin cream butter hogs hog's lard calf's foot gelatin a t soft f suet t oleomargarine rl flour of g r re tO f. f sea moss s eggs g cornstarch 1 TV wheat heat hour starch sugar saccharine extract of oC vanilla va va- i-a- i nilla aniline dyes vanillin chocolate chocola tl burnt sugar molasses extract of tonka bean New York Press Preas Former Indian Commissioner Ix Leupp at ata ata t ta a recent meeting of the National ii Association said Bald that a certain ol old l Indian had lind told him he wanted a 0 desk A Asked ked what he lie wanted with such a athing athing athing thing when he lie could neither read nor write he replied So 84 I could set In mt me chair put m me cigar In me mouth hold me paper aper up before m me- me face and tell the fellers fel fel- lers ers what come coma to 8 se see ln me Git out too busy bUlY to talk to you now Watermelons are arc a mixed with pumpkin hybridization so as to g gt got t thick tough rind to tp P stand shipping and to make them r larger arger e a as fuller rl r while I tIme the rind i fri Improves r the meat la is damaged The Tue old ohl fashioned watermelons with Its thin brittle rind which cracked under thumb pressure or split wh when n a knife WIll was stuck In Is III past pits and Rone gone for such are no good goad In n a Q clay ilay of commercialism A genuine watermelon watermelons Is s a hard thing to handle for It crank cracks as easily an as an all egg It Il often orten splits Itself In Inthe Inthe inthe the patch In an illustrated description of the game of tennis says Like all good things lawn tennis Is lIS of English origin Marie Stuart while a prisoner was wall compelled H d to bt beat at carpets carpet arp t which were hung over a rail raH Not contented ton con tented with this humiliation her sister l Qu Queen n Elizabeth once threw a dead mouse at the unfortunate Marie while the latter was tUI beating carpets The lit littie little lit lit- tie tle defunct rodent was wall caught on Marie Marlell s flail and sent nent back over O the rail and wa was return to her by moans means of oC a a. flail III in the hand ian l of Elizabeth and thus the game of tennis originated B By the means of a new piece of ot app apparatus ra- ra tUH tue Unsigned designed principally for the plumber rs f fu u use lIe e a great deal of oC trench digging C my be avoided It i Is called I a pipe forcing o Jack and by digging a ditch It long enough to take tak the jack ack and start the first length n of pipe It h is possible t to lay almost any length hgr of 01 service pipe This Thill means that the Jack will save av the user ur the expense Incurred In n digging jIggIng the trench and refilling It U when hen henI I laying service t. or rol pipelines lInell The Jack is of 01 driving C pipe up to Inch four diameter and as great a length as all feet pet of ot Z 21 inch Inh pipe has hu been bee forced fored the ground by it During the South war a trooper on in outpost duty on one night f fell 11 f w so O desperately despe despe- tired that lie he thought he would have f lave a five minutes minutes' nap hi his on a do dock k he lay down and anti was I soon In a sound steep sleep Waking suddenly tm h i mistook his helmet for one of or the enen enem ene- ene I n m fly ht hit hll sword and dealt It a severe ore 1 blow Then perceiving Ing Ills t mil trooper picked c up hi iii I t. s shad I In r h had cut In two o. o emil ami ga thanks iu en n that h he h had taken It U if ff down lown For he lie l. l l I heatS head been Inside that It Its is u u tm-u n I dead man I would lm i ben hi-en sc set ICI n nt t self elf at this moment |