Show BITS OF INFORMATION I The tra II average f wa wage p of the working woman is 0 I a year r. I There are SIre more moreo than liDO women studying medicine at the Trench French uni nm versifies A town in north in-north north Prussia ia ha hat decreed that nn any woman who promenades the streets in a It trailing skirt will be fined The rate of divorce orl in this country countr is twice that of Switzerland thrice that of Prance France and five 11 times that of or Ger Ger- many During Durins the twenty years from 1870 to 1890 divorce in inthe the the United States Statts increased about three times as ns fast as ast t the he population During the last seventeen years American Amer tiner- ican lean coal mines have ha killed men made at least widows and upward upward up up- upward ward of orphans Of the tho women omen who have hase qualified fled fied for the law in the United States State less Itu than forty have become advocates ad in the tho federal supreme ne An effort is being made to bring Irish agriculture more up uj up to date b by introducing modern machinery There are public demonstrations throughout the country Canton China merchants at home hOll and abroad have e formed a navigation association with capital to torun torun torun run steamers open a bank and an au insurance in company While volts was considered n a maximum maximum tension for transmission lines linesa a few years ago they are now using An volt lt line thirteen and one half miles long is now non building and a line has been built designed for volts Africa produces the worlds world's lI supply of I ivory It Its elephants are mammoths mammoth different in shape from India's Indias tusk- tusk less hess behemoth and anel with ith ancestors which are found anti and preserved iu in m Artie Antic An Ar- tic tie ice iee ice prehistorically true to today's today s African t type pe The Indian animal has lias I never been quite the same structural 1 has never grown rown tusks worthy of the name and is a plain beast of burden I more valuable a alive he than dead I Worcester Mass has bas under consideration consider consideration an ordinance a against whistling I One of the features of it is that if a aman aman aman man thinks he lie cant can't get along without I making alleged music ho he can indulge I himself by taking out a license The Boston Journal jeering at the proposed pro iro- posed enactment says that a tax for sidewalk conversation eOD 1 will be the next on the list It also suggests k tt fine for all nIl persons who do not wear rubber heels heel I j I I I C t I Professor David Davit W. W Marks who vho died in London recently was probably the time I only onh Jewish minister who held a place with the same congregation for sixt sixty sixty- nine years rears He lie was 9 97 years vears old but I was a member of the tho y younger unger class having haying been the first clergyman of hi his faith to east cast aside in in an English congregation congregation con con- I re some of the tho antique usages and to make the service of the tb reformed reformed re reo re- re I formed kind He lie was recognized as one of the learned men of his time but was not a university I gra graduate To illustrate the twentieth century childs child's ignorance of old time timo methods method's and to show that as she designated it there is nothing new or wonderful in inthe inthe inthe the electric phonograph automobile era for the youngster of today a mother told this story A A piano plana tuner I Iwas was a busy putting our instrument into I condition when our little year old son Ron rushed into mv room with wonder stamped on bi his face ace and anti exclaimed Mother Iother think of it there is a man manin 1 in the parlor playing on the piano with piano with j hi his hands The youngster had been accustomed all his life to mechanical music makers The coal oal fields field of or Columbia are arf an- an well wen placed to take advantage antage of the markets which will be made available by the Panama canal At t present they are Imperfectly Im Im- perfectly and crudely work worked l and the means of transport are Inadequate Both drawbacks can bo bl remedied The are arf twelve short railways none of them I o over seventy Ie miles long nil all planned d without with with- out omit regard repard to coal oal export although si sr RI oral Iral or of them thE traverse 10 coal 11 n fields The na rivers are arc suitable for ves es TI sels of draft t The lower O Magdalena a I aoI bo i is navigable for about miles I e and the i upper tipper e river nt at times Jr e for about mIles milea i The coal o fields I are quite numerous U Go Governor Gornor Stuart of or Pennsylvania Pennsyl ha has vetoed a a bill hihi i te to permit Juries J In murder l cases l to determine between th the mt death penalty mid amid life Imprisonment In v ln tn of the disregard i of human rI life ho-h ho ms coin elements of our population all ally exhibit I t do not think that our Oat la law go ernin thu th punishment nt for murder murder- In tho tiit- fit first degree decree should b be relaxed re- re says the governor the hf veto tto the Philadelphia el Sn SJ II I When wo reach th th point ln where j juries 1 swayed momentarily o rW t by emotion f or bv by sympathy can virtually llly d destroy the death of penalty wo WI shall arrive rh nt at this the be beginning tn an Increasing list of cold blood blooded rJ n I I I I h I In rn England land It is 1 rare if It ever r. that th nth ath or of o n T Je Jew V w h is regarded n ar IF due to alcoholism In N New w York where were 1 ew fh th fhe num- num her of th the hebrew w Population of or Russian I I Is Considerable the I rt tl from alcoholism In on one year far cording nt-cording to the British Medical ME Journal formell 42 I per cen rent cent t of the total tota I des deaths while I among those thoc who w were r i children of RussIan or I Polish olish mothers the percentages f horn flom om the same Cau Jle was only 0 13 The same I proportIon proportion pro pro- Portion th rt represents ratio of rases asea o 0 of alcoholism m and disease directly due to it ft I among t total cases case admitted d into t the I e Jewish hospital In New York Tork whereas il In the he Boston city hospital rS' rS ti of aA a nl l I lI o per cent of the total total- Nw York r Tribune A new portrait of di discovered ered co bv by Ernst of Munich has hilI h been n pro pro pro- i genuine by Constantin Brunner F who ho ho thinks It wa waR made In jn 1600 It ft shows the philosopher In the prim prime nf or life with bUck black curl curly hal hali haland and black Mack mustache It It was as made mad it l Is con W tended before the dreadful malady pu pulmonary pul- pul I consumption did id changed 8 flu hi H It In is R known that h h his abundant d an ap hair air fell out at t that i t and dh Ith that he lie bS- bS be 1 came camo Quit nult bald For or that n reason a nn the bushy bla black mane with which h l he i Is III shown n In so II man pictures was waR ol i a wl wig nto in with the tho fashion of Slip worn daTh da day Th Th portrait will new nw i serve a RI as i a corr t corre-t t foundation for a a. picture of th th pher to take the pla place v of ot th the th n I ones oneil with h l t the e world Orld thus thul Contented Itself far ha has |