Show I BITS OF INFORMATION Burglary and house breaking are e ethe on the decrease In London The sick sick- list of the London police force forc averages men every day clay The average height of a wave In feet la Is about half the velocity of the wind In I miles mills The pay rolls of the enlisted men mn in th the navy during 1911 1011 will aggregate nearl nearly Fishguard promises promisE's to supplant Queenstown Queenstown Queens Queens- town as a stopping place for transAtlantic trans Atlan tic passenger vessels In Ceylon the manufacture of or salt I Ia Is Isa Isa a government monopoly and yielded I In 1908 1003 rupees to the rev rev- Canadas Canada's total railway mileage last Jul July was miles This means that theris there ther Is one mile of railway for ever every SOO In In- In habitants A translation of the scriptures scripturE's mt Into modern modem Idiomatic Spanish n Is s being g pre ore prepared pared for orl use In Porto r Rico no nos noc Cuba c Mex Mexico r l ico leo and South America Thirteen whales valued at in were ore killed off of the coast of Korea during the thet it first part cart of November e by the Oriental Orients t rg lj Whaling company of Japan p The sea kale used as 8 food rood In China Chin comes romes largely from the tho coast of lien llen where the leaves average one foe foot in width and forty-five forty feet in length Water Vater thrown on the Ice of the arctic regions will crack it It Just as boiling water v will crack a piece of glass This i is because the Ice Is so much colder than thai water Fears that the sea will soon bE become becom comp depleted of food fish If the operations o of steam trawlers are not restricted Is not no sustained by bv experiences In the North sea sel for or the last ten years ears earsIn In the recent parliamentary election I In Victoria Australia women cast more moe than 33 per peT cent of all the tire ballots polled This was the first election In which women wom worn en tn were allowed to vote for members o othe of the state parliament American granite is 15 being shipped ti to Europe Not long ago ao 30 3 0 tons of blue blui granite from South Carolina were sent S to Aberdeen Scotland It required eleven cars ars to transport the tho stone to Charles Charles- CharlesI ton S. S C C. from the quarries It will bi be manufactured Into monuments One of the grocers of Paris has been beE found guilty of Contravening pure food re re- re He offered for sale eggs of o othree three e kinds lInd described as fresh new the last las laid and but as even named d came a me from Russia the authorities Instituted proceedings and he was fined i Miss Helen Gould gave to the th tb Girls' Girls college In Constantinople last year Mrs William K Vanderbilt gave Rave for sanitary tenements and is suppose supposed to have given half a million to a home horn I for foi cripples at Chappaqua N. N Y Mrs I Russell Rim Rus rP ea tg eaPh or toY gil gilI i sell Sage gave to schools anc and colleges for the relief of aged women and for an industrial industria home at Lawrence L. L I. I Writing riling on billiard playing a Chicago News correspondent says It has been beer to minIature miniature min mm- my pleasure play pla frequently on a table tablE three throe feet by one foot six ala inches using Inches using steel balls bails of one and one- one eighth Inches diameter and I can testify to the great satisfaction these games have given The bals being of ot steel and having greater t solidity than Ivory ag or composition gave i playing YI weight ap approximating sp- sp to that of the full sized billiard billiard bil bil- bil- bil liard hard ball so giving 1 that resistance to the cut which the small Ivory ball does doel not riot give In France experiments are now being carried out using rising the aeroplane as an of offensive offensive of of- weapon In one such recent ex experiment ex cx- the aviator flew to a height o of yards with a gun mounted on the tire aeroplane According to one report a new type of or aeroplane carrying two or more tested In the tire machine guns Is being at Meudon Latham Is said camp to one of rapid fire gun to be fitting a believes his Antoinette machines lie He that as much of the tire steering can be bedon bedone bedone will be able to done don with Uth the tho feet he aim and fire the gun while flying Inland waters ma may be put to many uses rises sometimes the they hey are utilized as row row- outlets for OF great cities cWI'S sometimes sometime age Into commercial high high- converted theare they the are restricted be be- become may they or wai wa cause auM ause s 's of the reclamation o of grille fertile bottom lands All these may bt be good god and necessary says or an any tary sary of them may be obviously obvious best est un under er one but In the circumstanCes any such uch schemes due regard should always to the Importance and promise of be paid natural e waters water as a perpetual source of heap cheap and healthful food for for- forthe the people of t the tire country There was wall recently sold sord at auction I In lenin Berlin the celebrated Lana collection of antiquities and art objects Probably the most valuable of the tIre relics was a bumper of Ef hammered tin which brought the top price at the sale flail something more than This piece has been blen known by hy connoisseurs the world over as the Breslau Breslau Bres lau au tin bumper because It Is sippo supposed to 0 have ha been made In that city It dates from corn about the year 1500 1100 and Is octagonal In n shape Its sides having scenes from the lives yes of evangelists e and other religious rp figures t It Is one of th tire finest specimens of f hammered metal ware extant lIar Harpers Harper's Har- Har pers per's Ors Or's Week Weekly |