Show BITS OF INFORMATION S The supply of ostrich feathers comes generally from Africa The Tho forest fire re fighting service of New York state costs a year and is worth the price Among the peoples of pf the earth except ex cx- those of the Americans are the most liberal meat eaters V Professor the eminent pianist still teaches at his home in Vienna though he is nearly 80 The city council of Easton Me voted by a a large largo majority to ask the legislature to amend the city charter EO so as to give the municipal suffrage to women owning worth of property Miss Ethel Wood has been appointed instructor in the art of story telling by the Massachusetts state board o of education Miss Wood won fame as an original story teller toller while teaching in Brookline The maiden name of Nassau street New York was Pie Womans Woman's lane It was opened in 1696 by a Do man named Kay who obtained the Hie right to make it a to what is now City Hall park In Germany thirty-seven thirty cubic feet of timber per capita is taken annually from her forests France is able to get along with but twenty-five twenty cubic feet while in this country the consumption is is cubic feet per Der capita Bishop Green of Ballarat complains complain that there is too much praying for th the king While r Anglicans are loyal w we wedo wedo do dp not want to pray for his majesty five times in the course of one service says he It hardly seems loyal to imply that King Edward needs so much mu h pray ing lug for London fort London Opinion After stating the statistics as to the thi mortality mortality- from different diseases in Panama Panama Panama Pan Pan- ama at different periods Dr Osler Osier said that that in 1908 the combined tropical diseases dis dis- dis- dis eases malaria dysentery and ana beriberi ben killed fewer than the two great killin killing diseases of the temperate zone pneumonia monia and tuberculosis Negotiations are proceeding between Italy and France with regard to a proposed pro posed tunnel through Mont Blanc Th The tunnel is is to run nun under the Sonnet pass pasi and will be the longest in Europe It II will be more than double the length oi of the Simplon tunnel which is meters long Berlin Berli Berlin A wooden trestle on the Klan Klama th Lake railroad in Oregon is protected from fire in the dry season by a tern tem of sprinklers which keep it t con continually continually contin contin- n- n wet A pipe runs nuns the entire length of the trestle between the tho tra tracks ks anc and at short distan distances es are holes through throng which the tho water is sprayed over o the structure Popular Popular Mechanics Only old New Yorkers know that thai there used to be an island feet off the Battery and that it was fortified and known as Ft Clinton Tho The island was connected with the mainland by a drawbridge When the tho waterway was filled in the island became a p part rt of oi the Battery and was known as Castle garden As everybody knows it is now the Aquarium New New York Press The most moat effective e means of life saving cay sav ing in the tho event of a storm is the lifeboat life boat the first one of which was launched on the Thames on January 4 1785 by Lionel Lukin a of an inland inland in in- land town near nar London The first lifeboat lifeboat life life- boat was a Norway yawl which he had fitted with watertight compartments a heavy iron keel kel and other essentials in buoyancy and stability which are are ae I the cardinal and requisite features of lifeboats lifeboats life life- boats now Mrs Dinah E. E Sprague who celebrated cele cele- her one hundredth birthday last Mai May is the oldest member of the Worn Worn an's ans an s Relief Belief corps Though born in New York Mrs Sprague was among the early arly settlers of Cleveland During During Dur Dur- ing jog the civil war a large number of off f soldiers camped on the heights above Cleveland and Mrs Sprague was untiring untiring un un- un tiring in her efforts to better the condition condition condition con con- of the sick and wounded woun ed in the camp At the age ago of 90 Mrs Sprague claimed her right to the ballot by voting voting vot vot- log ing ing for university trustee From the days of Joseph down own the tIle only well populated country which had enough grain to satisfy its own consumers con con- sumers Somers was Egypt rich beyond the record record rec rec- ord end of any other soil this side of para para- dise disc Ferrero in his- his history of Rome shows shon's the transcendent political cal Importance im importance Im- Im of corn in all times tomes Feed your people king or demagogue else they will overthrow vou you For the mases fro front from n furthest to most recent days there has Ims never been ben any any torch of dissatisfaction rebellion and anel anarchy like n a shortage of bread Now New New York Press Prof Jeremiah Smith of the time Harvard lIan-ard law school who has just presented his resignation to take effect S September 1 1910 when he wj will be in his seventy seventy- third year is actually a son son of the father likewise I Revolution Rc Ills His Jeremiah Smith by name ran away I from Harvard in in 1777 to join tho the rove rove- army being then 18 8 years year of a age e. e He lie served ed in the campaign against an and was wounded at lien Ben Ho JIo finally graduated at Queens now Rutgers college in in 1780 and ana was later governor of New Hampshire Hamp shire congressman form that state and I its chief ef justice I Mrs J Julia Ward Howe is said to l bo 10 e elar lar largely e responsible for the tho election ejection of Geor George e II H- Fa Fall as may mayor r of Maiden Malden Mass During the campaign one of Mr lr Pall Palls Falls 8 opponents wrote a 1 letter Jetter saying that thou though Mr Fall ha had ser served ed in In the legislature he lie had done nothing to attract attract attract at at- tract attention Mrs lowe Howe owe sent an immediate answer reminding the tho voters oters that hat it was Mr Fall who who introduced and ind carried through the legislature the bill ill making mothers equal guardians of their heir minor miner children with fathers Mr I fall JI and his lots wife are both lawyers and their heir eldest daughter recently distinguished distinguished distin distin- herself in the tho Boston university law aw school Herbert Spencer was an enthusiastic billiard player He lie says that he found it t a n very very desirable way of passing time the he time because it prevented th think think- ink ink- in iDil no- no nu nod and exe is tn to z read It suffices for ne me me he be e tr adds i- i that that I like 8 I billiards and the tha al- al alI at- at of the pleasure given gives I Irel regard I as a sufficient motive T r have hae for a that time asceticism deliberately which set my mv fare a ff- ff t makes it a to do doa a thing f for the thes f ot e doing it The opposite view is s nothing g else than a remote of tho the old devil worship of the bar barian banian who sought to please W lois his god tod by br inflicting pains on himself and believed his god Would be he angry if lie he ii dp himself happy One of the few accomplish accomplishments which Gladstone never nevel acquired wa the ort rt of smoking Iris His few i ill this direction are reported to have b beet dismal failures Only ones once known to try try- a cigarette the being one evening when King Edwar Edw r then prince of Wales was his cn u at Downing street After prin prince e desired to smoke and with fine courtesy sought to at guest case by bv at least tl cigarette In later years the grand ol 01 man one day accused his smelling of the weed Werd No No was the tho reply I I Ie t-e t e e been o ef ha an hour with Sir William W What wH Does Does' r claimed Gladstone You You Yon must tel telUli hi to be careful always to chan h e clothes thes before he conies comes to me mp- Wet minster Gazette |