Show BITS OF INFORMATION A Scotchman has Invented a new life lite lifesaving lifesaving saving apparatus which Is capable o ot of throwing a line lino halt half a a. mile There Thero aro are two Pasteur Institutes In India In tho the last year the tho ono one a at Coonor treated cases only two re resulting resulting re- re suiting unfavorably unta Syria and Palestine have an Inordinate app appetite for or or Imported dru drugs s. s In Beirut a city where soft sott drinks are In great demand demand demano de de- de- de mand mano there thero Is 18 not n a single soda fountain Y York A cable mid and 1 line Newfoundland ID is 10 to J be laid lda and between will wili rr there New NewYork NewYork connect with a cable able to Europe The new section will vilL be 1700 miles long Prince Edward of ot Wales the oldest olde-et son of the crown prince of Vales Wales has Just entered the royal roial naval college at Dartmouth Dartmouth Dartmouth Dart Dart- mouth as a cadet after having completed his training course courso at Osborne Field Marshal Lord Ird Roberts RobertI of ot the British army celebrated his hla golden wedding wedding wedding wed wed- ding anniversary last month So popular Is Bobs that the tho event assumed somer something something some some- thing r of the character of ot an Imperial fee fes I The Tho Canadian minister of ot the Interior has submitted figures showing that thero there are still available for homesteads In the province of Manitoba acres In Saskatchewan acres and in Alberta acres It Is only a a. few years since rural de delivery delivery delivery de- de livery was In the experimental stage je jethe yet ot the thO number of routes In operation will wll soon reach the tho mark and the appropriation ap ap- ap for Its maintenance during the present fiscal year is 15 3 Brazil has some corking tariff duties duties- penknives per cent screws pe per percent cent Iron racks per r cent Iron bits per pei c cent school chalk h 55 per e cent al Aca Acae key rings T per cent t. t American cannot canned a vegetables pay duties of ot per cent cont canned fruits onions Regarded as a whole the European champagne v vintage of t 1 1908 approaches hf f that of the tho preceding c ln year r neither In quantity nor quality Wet et and mildew were encountered throughout the tho year I Ies and there were disease and n Insect t pests es cY Cognac was a small email l crop o as was claret Fred Tred D. D Counties the new president o otha or of orthe the tha Chicago stock exchange is one o otho ot of tho the youngest presidents tho the organization ever had He lie Is a member of ot the firm o ot of S. S B. B Chapin k Co and began his business business busi- busi ness career carEr as a messenger in the Merchants Merchants' Merchants Merchants' Merchants Merchants' Mer Mer- chants' chants National bank He lIe is only 37 years old A fuel testing plant Is being established by the Canadian government for invests Invest gating the e natural t fuel supplies of the tho dominion r IO Os peat t occurs u py in immense e quantities In bot both Ontario and Quebec an attempt Is to be made to discover a n method of ot using It success successfully tully In gas producers John Ross floss the British general Jeneral who led the force that burned Washington was killed in a battle with the Amen Amer can ran army at North Point aid Nd near Bal Dal- The Americans Americana were defeated Ross floss fell into the arms of ot Captain McDougall Mc- Mc Dougall and the same officer caught caugh General Packenham In his arms at the battle of ot New Orleans There is no trade or industry carried carrle on in n the tho o Liege district lc that does not ot possess pos poe sess s I Its r Institution for training rI high rh grade workmen Among these may be cited the schools for tor teaching horticulture horticulture ture tune plumbing house painting painting paint paint- ing tailoring stonecutting shoemaking etc Mrs J J. J R. R Harris and Mrs Narcissa Owen Indian women are active in getting getting getting get get- ting signatures for the tho national suffrage petition in eastern Oklahoma Mrs Irs Harris is a Cherokee and the chairman of rag league the e Kirt Mrs petition Owen department Is the mo mother for r her o of Senator Owen and Is the tho vice chairman Mrs Mamie Porter Farnsworth of ot Muskogee Muskogee Muskogee Mus- Mus kogee a daughter of the late Chief Chiet Pleasant Pleasant Pleasant Pleas Pleas- ant Porter also takes an active interest In the work Within the near future definite plans will be formulated for tor the electrification of ot the more important state railways of ot Sweden The first line to be taken in hand will be in all probability that between between between be be- tween Kiruna the center of the great Iron fields of ot Lapland and the Norwegian frontier a distance of ot about one eighty-one miles Mme de t was a about 3 32 years e old w when Bouilly II wrote O that h she te was a neither t imposing nor pleasing but had an an eager almost ravenous expression In the eyes and something masculine and as asIn assured assured as- as in her countenance Her lips III's were dry and arid her movements and gestures gesture imperious her voice was sonorous and her utterance rapid and energetic Temperance says It hopes they hay i all the drinking places they need down ln downIn In Ocean county New Jersey n Haven with people has three I sa sa- sa a- a loons Forked River with SOD has five live Harvey Cedars with twenty votes has Its saloon Barnegat City polled nineteen nineteen nineteen nine nine- teen and has two places but Lavalette Lav-alette ers ens with r hb but only the two twenty whole fe- fe population 6 people g b has not t th three voters vot vot- licensed grogg The fit Rt Rev John Grimes Crimes the new bishop coadjutor of ot the Catholic diocese c cof of Syracuse N N. Y recently preached a sermon In which he severely criticised ed women who ride astride calling the practice practice practice tice an offense ortense against tho the physical and moral law The Sl Syracuse U Ot Herald a could not see It in that t light at all and ob obtained ob- ob Interviews ls with five leading physicians physicians phy phy- of the salt city upholding and commending the tho style man riding The doctors strange strang-a to say agree at least IE-ast leaston on that point that riding astride Is far farless farless less dangerous than the old side saddle way In a strong plea for small ImaIl parks and public playgrounds l. l the Chicago Tribune calls attention to the Increasing number of accidents to youngsters playing In busy streets Prohibition of street playing tho the Tribune adds Is of no use uso whatever what- what ever er unless there Is a n chance to play elsewhere To meet the needs of ot a great gleat population there must be many places In which to play It Is the constant t toll of ot dead and Injured that makes the small parks and playgrounds so BO valuable Their number must be bo Increased man many fold before the roll of killed and injured can be reduced much Chimpanzees bring high prices In London London Lon Lon- don although although or or perhaps because they because they are greatly in demand for tor pets Not ong ago ag age one e was sold d to a woman for 2 ago Of-ah Of at Some o of these animals l are arc exceedingly ex cx- Intelligent Two Dive remarkable ones are possessed d by a woman living In Paddington Their names are Dinah and Daisy The shining light tight of or the pair Is Dinah who ho does elementary needlework very needlework very elementary but needle needle- work Dinah also goes goca out with her hei mistress in the tho motor car and pays visits clad In a becoming frock of ot lavender and anda a gorgeous red bodice and coat Its a good rule never to give you oui card to a beggar who promises to re return return return re- re turn your loan of ot 50 60 cents or 1 re remarked remarked reo re- marked a New ew York clergyman the other day Not long ago he continued aman u a uman 11 man in clerical clothes called on me me presented presented pre- pre the card of a minister out on Lon Long Island and borrowed enough money to get Jet home on He asked for tor my card promising to return the amount promptly prompt- prompt ly y and that was wu the last I 1 heard of him until I learned that he had been arrested and sent to Jail In a nearby town own for swindling As my card was washa ha tile only one found on him he was docketed docketed docketed dock dock- eted In my name I 1 discovered In the newspapers that I was nas as behind the bars bara without knowing It Southwest Harbor plans a new Industry industry Indus- Indus try ry during luring the coming summer In a revival re re- re- re viral vival of whale Whales hales are said aid to b be plentiful lf off Mount 0 Desert rock and d vicinity cf g. g and d John Stanley yes and sons have lave the steam yacht Princess from rom Castine summer Rummer parties and will utilize her for tor a whaling v craft during the coming summer The Princess Is a flyer Vel very fast with horsepower and is 18 two seventy feet long Bomb guns will wili willbe willbo be bo fitted on her decks and amid she will so go 0 after whales in dead earnest Each finny monster Is worth something like and after h he Is captured he will be towed to o Southwest Harbor to go the way of all dead deDd whales The prospect for the whales this summer e is by no means cheerful Lewiston i t. t eI Me I Journal ur 1 Chicago apparently has a sort t of li license ii- ii l fr ce cense system for br its burglars One o of t two men caught red handed and landed In a acell ell cell after arter breaking into a Catholic church and robbing the altar of ot costly gold goldes es vt's ads and fittings n was fined and costs his too o in the tane face fae of police 2 testimony u that hat the follow fellow is an ex- ex ex In th this state the law rails calls the crimes the man burglary and grand Ian lar r in inand and a t term rm in Sing Sing a w Nw N w York Sun Prince v Honi-v of n. n Reiss 11 I ha i hi lii c at the Hit lul f academy at Cologne for tor a dl di qualified merchant The prin been studying at the Cologne I college for two years is th prince In Germany who has tr self for a commercial career 1 I Ilow low up tip his successful examina the office of a great H liar Har r chant as ctt a voluntary ll unpaid c Cj this a ho he will s serve his ship J Men like Newton Galik Ptolemy Aristotle Arago ha hll to solve the th problems problem I may say that the weight c points to an atmospheric t F the stars twinkle hf because heense of ott 1 temperatures and an densities of or layers through which hl h their II 11 Therefore n cording to tho the si I atmosphere and the altitude c o broadly speaking HO so should th tb Increase or diminish diminish I F. F R RJ London T. T Ps P.'s Weekly As American student at Bei sity writes I 1 dare say Hay that's that B street names In o oi or i country country's and impossible to lit 1111 German Germans first hear heal them If BO so 80 and J jf fl them up as horrible r examples size the e wisdom of r using nu figures rc we may b hi p permitted to some ot of the ne new Charlottenburg where I T live ll Walter Valter LeIstikow strasse a memory y of an artist rt t and d tw streets b bear ra the tho h names dr r reap strasse and iK J. J 1 strasse it Consul General r Ble Bie nav Raven rut says that th the question Egypt and Syria h hy hH H It railway to be seriously on a aate ad ate J are i obvious He lie writ writes t a project Mi Mr A a I to Italian in iii Alexand the Egyptian G Gm tto that h hI Ottoman and Egyptian gO gover allow him to makr nak plans t for line Une by way of El A rish Arish t J negotiations are ure In charge harge 0 orSI M the engineer of th the firm liim who returning to Egypt from Italy is that the line a after trossin canal should run along the o frontier at El Aria sl and then terminus I sa at Jaffa where e fleet with the Jerusalem rails rail sular aular Reports 1 |