Show BITS OF INFORMATION R Uncle Sam Sams Sam's a cattle eat cat worth orth of hay annually Roumania has a II prison for women which js is mana managed ed by bv women During the year vear 1908 1903 no fewer than tha different books were published inthe in inthe the United States This number humber is 36 less than during the preceding year earThe ear The popular vote for lor presidential clec elec tors tars in 1888 the first year year in in which the these e reports report were required il by by law 11 wa was in tn 1892 03 in In 1896 1890 43 in 1900 in 1901 HlO and in 1908 1008 o or about one vote oto for ery c six six persons There are arc in in ho hoi boa in which patients nr arc nrc annually treated Adding to these t th the inmates of pr private prate ate sanatoria and pa pa- treated at home it is estimated estimate that at all times one person in sixty o othe of the population is seriously ill Little Helen rummaging amon among th the th book shelves found a n volume whiCh charmed her tier by its title and nd spent th the afternoon absorbed in in reading Well she he ho said at last I I ha have lia real read er e every Im Imin himin lint him in the hook book from the first to th the la i and I haven haven't t found anything in i it about A Dolls Doll's Doll s II House I A monument to the negro poet pact Pan Vaul Laurence Dunbar is to be bc unveiled un i in Woodlawn cemetery Dayton ton Das 0 O. o on Sunday Sunda June 26 6 his birthday Ar Ad Addresses dresses will be made by prot Prof W W. S Scarborough of Wilberforce un university Bishop David W. W Moore and the R Rei D. D W. W Clarke The rhe memorial is a fin fine granite bowlder bearing blaring a br bronze platon plate plat on which is engraved n raed a verse from Dunbar's Dunbar's Dun Dun- bars bar's bars Death Son Song Writers of books have a run on sonic Rome certain word is It han hangs s to them closer close than a sick kitten to a hot brick I In Crawfords Crawford's s 's I Heart I of Rome or th the Story of the Lost Water he be stars th the word I quixotic The word I banal I ual treated another author the same wa way One author of the reconstruction days day in in the south had a habit of making he hemen her hermen hermen men bow very vcr low to th the ladies one once in in every cery chapter New New York Press Rochester N N. Y has maintained what nha aro are called I social I centers centers' for over rr a year A number of the school building are utilized as places of meeting to for forthe tho the people without distinction tion t to in gather ather and discuss sub subjects of interest to all These gatherings are arl really clubs for the advantage antage e of c cr c every r person who wishes to enter them The Ii lighting light light- ht in lag ing heating lectures games ames and janitor iani jani jani- tor service sence have not exceeded a cost o oH of H 14 cents per capita There will be a meeting of th the thC board said aid the tho preacher at th the con con- of this service service So the offiCial br thren of the church gathered around the pastor after alter the benedict benediction ion wa was pro pronounced Among th them m was a stranger whom it was necessary a liS as delicately as possible to 10 remind that hi his hb presence wal was not needed I I I be beg our ou pardon said the stra el I 11 I understood understood under under- stood this was to be bc a me meeting tin of th the bored of which I claim to be bc one The mayoralty chair of Cambridge ha lisa has come to be called caned the hoodoo chair by those who have followed Cambridge e politics for many years tears There Thre has been heln no incumbent for the thc last ten years who has not suffered from sickness or front fron business reverses re es either during or after his term of office The pre present ent ma mayor or John F F. Brooks was no conner sonner nominated nomi this spring than then he lie had to undergo under under- go o an operation from which he lie is is still I Io convalescing Boston Boston Journal i Sir Richard Whittington ton the Dick Dickof Dick Dickof of th the nursery tale who went to J London ondon to seek his f fortune and found it by hy the help heIr of his cat survives in fact as WIll well WIllas as fiction and to much better purpose The present I session of parliament will wil have to consider a bill to regulate a R charity chanty left by him him which now yields an annual income of more than I and this is only one of ninny many benefactions brne bene- factions which the the worlds world a capital ap ial still owes to the lord mayor of years a ago o Youths Youth's a Companion While Havre Barlow was sitting in jn his store yesterday forenoon dreaming about what a fin fine rep crop the beautiful weather we ate afe now having would mike make he IP was suddenly awakened by bv a report like ike a II pistol He lie looked out upon the street expO expecting tin to be lG an eyewitness Ina to In toa toa a tragedy of sonic some sort when he lie discovered discovered dis- dis dis lis' covered the thc source of the noise The Th hEat ipat from the sun had the tIll cement rement sidewalk in front of his hill store raised it up lip at one of the joints nn and l rumbled crumbled it to powder la Ia Ent Enterprise The There c is just one way ay for for the people of the city to find it possible to buy Ig eggs s chickens meat end and flour for 1 less Os money that money that is for sonic some of thorn them to tu leave eave the tho city and antI go back to raising more moro hens liens l more ore cattle and growing more nore wheat The fact is that the coun try tr rv is getting top hea hean heavy v. v The cities are are aro calling t too oh heavily on n the producing proc areas Farming is IS getting to be one 0 of the he most profitable businesses of th the Country b because the tile proportion of non producers is ill getting so flO IRr large e. e It is alla alli all a i matter of oC supply and demand just now the demand for foodstuffs is larger r than han it has over been hEen in proportion to tobo the bo supply Denver Republican Does Docs anybody an in these degenerate davs days read the vigorous novels of Harri son on son Amsworth The question is is Eug enig- ested by bJ an appeal for funds to r restore re re- re store the tho ancient parish church at Whal Icy le cv which figures so 80 prominently in the Lancashire Witches Apart from horn ar ar- merit as a 1 fine specimen of the he early arh- En English style this interesting old oId Id edifice which n-hichi has suffered sadly at different periods from fire firo and c. c re restorers rc possesses some valuable art treasures Amon Among them are aro beautifully carved arved choir hair stalls which were rescued from rom ruined abbey when th the thelast last ast abbot was han hanged d b bv hi- Henry VIII for or joining in the tho I Pilgrimage of Grace v Westminster Gazette Ga I I The joke and the ei cigars ars arc are on en me mp said aid Alfred H. H Loughlin the wool mer nier- chant hant of Somerville Just listen to this I took my three three old vear earol oM l girl Alice Mice last Sunday Sunda over o to the An Angora orn goat roat farm in Medford Slip tilie had hart heard heart that hat goats eat at tin cans and carried one over ver to feed to the thc goats I wanted a quiet smoke ant and so I left leCt her playing ing with a 1 couple of the tho goats trying to tomake tomake make nake them eat th the tomato can I returned re re- re- re turned hanEl l ten minutes later with the owner of if the farm and mil found that the goats hadn't even een nibbled at the can But they had eaten nearly every enry stitch of clothing lothing off the kid and I had to take her ler home wrapped ed up lip in in a blanket Boston Journal When we ve hear bear a young strut who is just fresh from colle college e trying to spread on do dog dog by tho the use of great jaw aw smashing words wards we are always reminded reminded re reo re- re minded of fellow a a. young with wh whom m we attended school in in the southeast After belonging to a debatin debating society for a few ew weeks in a vociferous style stylo be he fol followed fol- fol lowed owed the speech of an opponent with the he following remarks and anel nd ladies ladies ladies-I 1 do not come before YOU vou with the tho eloquence and oratorical powers pow pow pow- ers era rs of a a. Demosthenes or Cicero but hut I Io do o come as a mere of Grove rove academy and will say that the thEl argument ar ar- ar of m mv my dishonorable opponent vas simply limply ridiculous preposterous and Camden Point Mo O Bee Be |