Show BITS OF INFORMATION The population ion in ii b increasing sing at itt tho the rat rate of a year year There are times when became of insufficient insufficient insufficient in in- sufficient water power pO it is not possible to supply electric light for both the houses and aud the streets in Bogota Colombia Colom bia 10 et so 0 the streets remain dark Al AH notes or It legal al p papers pc rs executed in Mexico l must bC bear r revenue rp tamps stamps and andaU andall all aU papers pacers executed in the tho United States or other countries s must bear brar these stamps before le legal al action artion can cau bo be tom corn in Mexico Notes made to to tn t thi it h order of am arn not loc document and are not in says sn's Daily t en 11 sular suar and Trade Trado Reports That benzoate of soda used in food fond I to disguise tho the fact that putrefaction i iad had ad set BElt in would remove e tho the danger r I signal while whilo leaving t the tho ho dangerous P poi A sou U ot of is the stran strange e objection tion ton to to the tho bill hill legalizing tho the preservative presena- presena i the tive in In Penn Penns-Iynia Penns offered by bv Dr Pr William Wil liam ham M. M I. I Jj J. Coplin of Philadelphia phin Dr Coplin was wal formerly director of ot tho the de tIc- of health and charities of Phil Ihil adelphia adelphin Mrs K n. If n. Tucker of Spokane Wash is said to bo Lo tho the first woman wireless operator in tho the world At present she sho is in in charge of the station on tho the steamship steamship steam steam- ship Indianapolis plying between Seattie Seattle Seattle Seat Seat- tle tie and Tacoma Speaking of wireless telegraphy as a a. business for women Mrs Irs Tucker said that tho the only reason she Could think of why women do not I go JO into this service senico is that they arc afraid of the tho instruments I Miss l Claudia McK McKenzie won won on tho the first prize and Mrs Bradley Jones Jone tho the second in the recent hat trimming trimmin contest held by hy a n club dub of women in Now York The Tho first fill prize is to bo be tho the portrait of the tho winner painted by Ben Alt Alf Haggin ill tho the second n a a miniature of Mrs frs Bradley Bradey Jones painted painted by Martha Wheeler Bax Bax- ter The rho hats trimmed by tho the club were given iven as Easter raster presents to a class of little girls in an cast side Sunday school Mm Min Pyeng Suk tho the Korean minister of tho the imperial household was to leave leavo Seoul for Japan this momin morning Two of tho the ladies of the court will journey with him for tho the purpose of studying the tho manner in which wh foreign ladies 01 ot very cry high rank are received at the Japanese I court Tho The reason of this is due to the tho fact that it is is- almost certain that her I majesty tho the dowager Queen Margherita Margerita Marger- Marger ita of Italy will visit isit Korea orea in May after her stay in Japan Korea Japan Korea Daily I News I The people of think Sven Hedin a good toad business man The merchants merchants' merchants merchants' merchants merchants' mer mer- merI I chants' chants association of that place invited invited invited in in- him to deliver a lecture there and andin andin andin in in reply received a letter from tho exI explorer ex ox- in which he said he ho would be bo delighted delighted de de- de- de I lighted to comply with the request but butI expected to receive in return I marks The Thc secretary of the organization organization tion answered that the price was not in inI I keeping with their modest means and I Itha I that tha keeping the explorer probably fancied that I tho the invitation emanated from a colony I of American gold mine owners I The Lancet wants to sign one more death warrant This time it is the tho early cady morning cup eup of tea that is in in disfavor It is admitted that this institution is a source of comfort and refreshment to a I good many persons when the mental and physical faculties are ale in iu a more snore or less lethargic state and that bein being so the I Lancet is probably quite right in JU asserting asserting assert assert- ing lag that that it it is superfluous for physiology gy 5 and chemistry to preach that the tho practice may be beset Leset with troubles connected connected con con- moie more or less Jess with the tho gastric machine New New York Tribune Boston has launched a project for a great worlds world's fair in 1920 to commemorate orate the three hundredth anniversary ersary of the landing anding of the pilgrims and the founding of New England The Thc Herald nero Her ald aid with great enthusiasm takes up tho the and says In Ia 1920 sixteen sixteen six six- teen years will wiH have havo passed assed sin since co tho the preceding great exposition in this country country coun coun- try that of St. St Louis which commemorated commemorated commemorated rated the Louisiana purchase twenty years will have pa passed sed since the preceding pre pro ceding great exposition in Europe that of Paris in 1900 1000 The interval is therefore therefore therefore there there- fore not too short shortt nor is the tho announcement announcement announce announce- ment meat too far in advance The custom of extorting dowries has grown own into the tho very fabric of the social iff life ife and is a a. standing d disgrace s raco to the Bengali community which has no justification justification jus jus- jus- jus to plead or apology to offer The practice has bas now assumed alarming proportions of parents of bo boys e extorting costly dowries as a condition of marry marry- marrying lag ing their sons Tie The marria marriage e of ofa of a a dau daughter amon among Ben Bengalis ais has become an nut expensive affair and the amount in cash demanded by the tho father or guardian of the boy bov and paid by the fath father r or guardian n of the tho bride varies with the educational attainments of tho the bride bride- groom The Tho Indian Daily Duil Newt News pub pub- Fished a 11 few days n ago o a piteous from respectable Hindu parents of dow dow- erless dau daughters Indian Indian Indian Nation Teresa Stone age Jf G. G was tho the star performer performer perl per per- former in an entertainment given by lIy bytho bytho l tho Colony club in Now No York the tho other day bv by a score score or more morn of children who have bae been lieen dischar discharged as cured by br the Stony VoId Wold sanatorium for t tives ves Teresa is ono one of the children whom the sanatorium has rescued and her elder brother was also unsung among the tho performers nt at the tue entertainment entert The Tho auxiliaries of the sanatorium wah watch h hOr over r discharged patients supplying them with milk mill and eggs t 8 and teaching their mothers how to cure care for thorn them In spite of this it is said they will get pale and lose flesh soon after their thir return from the thus country The entertainment at atthe atthe atthe the Colony club dub was for the benefit of nt the sanat sanatorium and anil given iven at nt the tho tibo of Mrs O Ogden Codman The late lato John Murdoch who resided at nt Jn in tho the county count of Midlothian Midlothian Mid Mid- lothian by his will dire directed ted his trustees trustees trus trus- tees to employ tho the residue of his bis estate estat in instituting and cud carrying 1 on u a scheme for tho the relief of indigent bachelors bach bach- dora elors and widowers of whatever re religious religious re- re denomination or belief they may maybe maybe be who have bavo shown practical srm sympathy sympathy pi thy either cither as all amateurs or professionals in the tho pursuit of science in any of its branches whose lives Jives have been characterized characterized char char- by hy sobriety morality and md in industry industry in in- and who are arc not less Jess than fifty- fifty five years of a age e. e Tiie Tue trustees notify that they are prepared to grant Arant donations dona or pensions to persons who hn have YC done something in the toe way of promoting ing inA or helping sonic some branch of science and who otherwise conform to tho the re requirements requirements re- re ments of the Westminster Gazette |