Show BITS OF INFORMATION il O 0 bacteriological 1 is to have ha a 8 new lo logical unit institute it ute Th The total number of or nt negroes roes in ia the United in the year 1800 was wall in m round terms an anin and ana andin speaking in iu 1000 1900 Th rh Church of 1 England rf reports or s baptisms for last year and a member membership cr ship o of Sunda Sunday ool a number with JO pupils rho Tho British M Medical association bas has appointed a committee to consider the tuc question of healing of the sick through h hsuch such methods us as tho the Emmanuel l. l movement move ment and may take up the tho subject at its next general meeting A Philadelphia physician claims that the lactic acid tablets now so 80 much used for intestinal disorders arc are also helpful in tho the treatment of catarrh and other affections of the tho throat ear car and na nasal passages el A liquid containing Sheso hose bacilli sprayed into these thes cavities Ca is 18 said to destroy tho the germs with which it comes in in contact The development of the slot sot machine idea has taken further strides iu in New Kew eW York Many of the bi big hotels and so some ne neof of the lar larger er dru drug stores stores' have have- now installed installed in in- n stalled slot shot machine typewriters I For or 10 cents and a press of the button you ou arc are confronted with a standard typewriter typewriter type type- writer u-riter and 1 paper which can be used for half an hour Adres Osuna director of public education education edu edu- cation h hs s asked the state government of Coahuila Mex to enact an order prohibiting school teachers and children from horn attending bull 1 fights Senor Osuna believes that such brutal exhibitions exhibitions ex ex- as bull fi rights fights tends to harden the minds o of students and make them unfit for citizenship The term terni term Christian Venus' Venus has be applied for for many years ears to Raphael's fa famous ta a- a painting The The Madonna della hedia Sc- Sc dia in the gallery of the palace in Florence After a visit isit to th this tbs g gal gallery gallery al allery lery in his lifetime Nathaniel Hawthorne Haw flaw thorne said of this painting The most lost beautiful picture In m the world I am convinced j i is Raphael's Madonna Ia onna della Sedia The dawn of May day saw sav the choir of Magdalen Ia dalen on the top of the tower and the rising sun was greeted with Dr Thomas Smiths Smith's Eucharistic hymn This is probably the tho only survival l of sun worship that remains to us liS and the Magdalen lla dalen choir has been beeD known to wish sometimes that the custom were more honored in the bre breach ch than in the observance Pall observance Pall Mall Gazette All AU over Texas a few days das ago alto was celebrated the time third seventy anniversary anniversary sary of the battle of San han Jacinto wherein the little army of Texans commanded rom rom- com om- by bv General Sam Sani Houston Honston crushed ap aJ ov overwhelming force of Mexican Mex Mex- ican mean soldiers General Santa Ana There is one survivor or of that Texan army Alfonso Alfonzo Steele of Mexia 94 years old and still vigorous He Ho visited Austin last winter and addressed the tho legislature in joint session The Tho legislature of New Rew York has under under un un- un- un der consideration a bill Jill prohibiting biting absolutely absolutely ab ab- ab traffic in in the plumage of wild birds whether tho birds be killed or t trapped in New ew York or elsewhere The bill is supported by bv the Audubon socie ty the Zoological ical and the soth so so- and th the New York state grange I If it is is enacted into lew Jew the traffic in bird bud plumage e in in the metropolis may be greatly diminished for the prohibition would apply not to American birds but to pluma plumage e imported into New v York from Europe and the far far east cast Miss Mary Mar E. E Richmond who has 1 been for nine years secretary and the executive force of the tile Philadelphia Society So So- for Or Organized Charity is is soon to lea leave e that work to become one of the staff of the Russell Sage Sate foundation of New York in char charge e o of a all its work fo for fOJ the extension of charity chanty or organization Warm tribute is paid to tho the work vork of Miss 1 Richmond in Philadelphia and itis it is said that when thousands of men were out of work last ast winter in that city not a single instance of distress reported failed to be answered and relief re reo re- re lief afforded when need needed cd within four ty-four hours Castle Garden was u-as built by the United States government in 1807 from plans drawn by Co Col Jonathan Williams and was called Fort Clinton In 1822 it was ceded to the city of New York and in 1824 became a place of amusement amuse amuse- ment meet getting g-ettin its present name in 1826 or 01 thereabouts In 1845 Ethiopian minstrels min mm- were there and in 1840 1846 to 1849 theatrical companies played there Jenny Lind san sang there ther in m 1850 It was wall closed as a place of amusement in 1855 1853 and the commissioners of immigration took took- it as an immigration depot In In 1870 it was partially burned and on Tul July 9 1876 it was entirely destroyed by bv fire It was at once rebuilt and in 1892 when tho the depot was removed to Ellis island the building reverted to the city and in 1896 the Aquarium was n-as opened Writing to tho the Philadelphia Ledger William Simmons secretary gf f the Farragut Farragut Far Far- arraut raut Association of Na Naval al Veterans says that in in the tho published accounts of the tIle presentation of a silver service to the new battleship Mississippi the public is deceived by tho the statement that the theold theold old DId vessel of that name namo was destroyed during the tho civil war by a confederate battery batter commanded by a lieutenant named Miller Mr iEr rr Simmons adds The The old Mississippi ris iF sippi was run a aground round on a sand lIand bar har by hy a careless ignorant or incompetent pilot above aboTe New Orleans Orleans' on the tho night of March l 14 14 1863 and the th captain Smith finding he could not Dot get g-et the thee ve- ve l afloat set baron her bar heron on fire to prevent pre her irom rom falling into the tho hands of the enemy These are the circumstances under which tho the famous lost vessel vEsel was |