Show BITS OF INFORMATION American Investments in Mexico ar arnow are arenow arenow now estimated at and i in Cuba at The negroes of Virginia own They control eight banks and five insurance companies Up Up-halle day January day January 7 as 7 as the en end of the tho holy season is still sUlI celebrated celebrate in Shetland with many antique ales nies In the London streets there are nearly nearl boy traders under 14 years of age and over girl traders The total losses through robbery of th the banks in the American Bankers' Bankers association asso asso- elation since 1895 1805 are said to be only The resources of all the tho banks of th the country amount to about or about one-fifth one of at the entire wealth of ot the country Beginning with 1887 when Speyer Co raised for Mexican railroads railroads rail rail- roads about of American money has poured Into Latin LaUn America A serious attempt is to be made to de del develop develop de- de ministry l Russia's us of arra trade mercantile has laid marine a before r re 1 Th The th the douma of the empire a proposal to allow Iron built wilt ships to be imported into Russia Rus Bus ala sia free of h import duty ut for t the next ten t years a and also t to grant r t government subsidies to merchant vessels built in Russia i I The new South American bank to be established by American capitalists will wll have behind it probably the most powerful power power- ful financial coalition ever formed When port any it of institution si the t Standard lin can d dc c count Oil 3 interests on es the J J. J su sup support P Morgan Co Kuhn Loeb Loch Co am and the Chicago packing interests r It I Is no not r likely lihi to ag be compelled to ask ss for rh charit char char- h it ity Although the first turbine steamer was equipped with turbines as recently as 1901 there are n now w sixty-four sixty vessels carrying this equipment the aggregate horse power represented being I It ItIs Itis is estimated that because of tho the lower pressure which can be used with the turbine turbine tur tur- bine no less than tons of weight Is saved in the boiler room of or the largest of or the turbine propelled liners After a few days' days drilling and teaching the sergeant found that he had not made any Impression on the recruits whatever lie decided to tell them a tale which ran ranas ranas ranas as follows When I was a boy my mother moth moth- er bought me a dozen wooden soldiers which I drilled and tried to Instruct but bu without any results of course Then I 1 lost them one by one and BOW have found you ou again you wooden duffers His Ignorance of history recently young shocked e k Buffalo one of society O the woman man W friends It was after of a ayoung ayoung Ia a dinner party at his house and she was telling him what she had learned In n her private history class One thing led to another and all the tho time he was getting into deeper water At last she surprised him by Now tell tel me Mr what are the tho knights of oC the bath He lie stammered for a while and finally blurted out Why Saturday nights I suppose I have found that in general most white garden Sarden flowers are black or nearly so 0 In violet ultra-violet light writes Professor Robert Williams Wood in A New Department De- De In Photography in the Cen- Cen tury ury Next summer I am going to raise some white flowers under glass which will screen them from the violet ultra rays during their development and see lee J If this makes any difference for It has re recently recently recently re- re been found round that the color olor o of flowers flowers flowers flow flow- ers Is related to the color alar of the light which falls upon them samurai of Oita Olta pan an age seventy has committed suicide according to traditional Japanese methods as a protest against the excessive Euro- Euro of his country Last month he le heard of the arrest of three young nephews on a charge of trying to swindle a fish merchant by means of ot the American gold brick swindle This caused aused him keen mortification He lie learned a day or two afterward that one of his friends who had lost his Income tried to 10 commit suicide by hanging banging himself from froma a a. pine tree The warmest admirers of ot the Ilk hat hatwill hatwill will hardly claim that It lends Itself to thE he the sculptors sculptor's art Yet the artist responsible responsible sible for the br bronze statue of Krupp on the he lawn of the Kiel Kid Yacht club has pre pre- the with a top hat and anda a walking stick in his right hand He lie has also endowed him with a tightly fitting frock coat carefully creased trousers trOllS trous ers and a mathematical parting In the center of the head so that the tho statue looks more like a a. tailors tailor's dummy than the he representative of a captain of ot In indus indus- Jus- Jus London tt ry London Chronicle Any Anyone one who was familiar with the tho appearance appearance ap ap- ap- ap of the Niagara ara Falls FaUs before the present resent power Installations were built and nd opened can settle ettle the question a ar af to whether the appearance of the falls fails has been affected by going to see for himself Small though the total amount of water taken for power purposes in proportion to o the total amount passing over the falls may be It t ha has been sufficient U I to cause the go Ui shallower portions ho I no of the overflow at the Edges of the falls to become entirely dry thereby hereby greatly reducing the total length ot of the crest line line Chicago Chicago News For the last three years ears meat has been cured by electricity In much less time than han was required by the old method The he meat Is placed In large wooden tanks and nd covered ered with the ordinary pickle An alternating current of ot thirty five amperes at t thirty-five thirty bolts is passed through the theat vat at the alternations serving to prevent action Carbon electrodes art are r used which tare lIre surrounded by bv porous cups tips that dip Into the brine The cost ost of f curing a of meat pounds Is S less Jess than 1 The action of the Current curent current cur- cur rent ent is not perfectly understood The observations of N N. II n. Thompson conservator of forests for southern NIgeria NI- NI gerla geria erla that the mahogany tr tree e erows grows rows much more rapidly than the num nurn- ber her of so-called so annual rings suggests l Mr Ir Thompson thinks that they show three or four well marked zones o of ot growth each year ear corresponding to the he four seasons Both forest trees and those grown in the botanical garden same phenomenon On the tho site of ot the town ot of IJ l destroyed OY tI sixty years ago a forest r t has g grown up containing ma maj trees treos with trunks exceeding ten feet In girth There are of ot national bank notes extant backed by government bonds There are arc of ot United f States n notes t backed by fey a a. gold Sold reserve and f of treasury notes II |