Show BITS OF INFORMATION A baby born amid the floods at Alfort- Alfort Alfortville yule ville Paris Parle has been named Moses Attached to a a. tombstone stone In a Harles Harles- den England undertakers undertaker's shop Is a acard acard card which reads You may telephone from here A cents cent's worth of electricity at th the average price In this country will raise rals ten tons twelve feet high with a crane 1 In inless less than a minute A French chemist has advanced th the theory that the odors from vegetation disseminated through the air diminish th the actinic powers of f the solar radiations sufficiently suf cut to affect photography No coal Is mined In this country lower lowe than a a. depth of 2200 feet while several severa English mines penetrate feet down and there are mines in Belgium feet fee deep Inch Eight-Inch seams of coal ar are mined commercially abroad while few veins less than fourteen Inches thick ar are worked In this country A woman who likes to have flowers flower In her windows but finds it ImpracticablE to do so 50 In the city has artificial ones one painted on the glass The windows ar are high up above the street and the flowers are In bright colors to enable them to b be seen more easily The apartment house hous houseIn In which the woman lives Is on Broadway Broad Broad- way and the effect of the art Is very striking New New York Sun Montreal is said to be in a bad sanitary condition The water supply has been bee condemned In parliament and the method metho of sewage disposal Is far from Irom tory A medical member of parliament declares that the Montreal water furnished furnished furnished fur fur- on the cars of the railway where alcoholic drinks are no not allowed Is a distinctly dangerous bev bev- bevI I ferage Crage rage containing disease and death Typhoid fever Is prevalent In the city The number of automobiles owned b by farmers Is growing rapidly Out of 1000 autos In Iowa are owned by farm farm- ers era Kansas farmers spent fo for automobiles during 1909 and in 1908 In one Nebraska town of 80 population forty autos were sold last year yea to f farm farmers armors s near the town and retired retiree farmers In the town Careful estimate o othe of the number of automobiles owned by farmers in In the entire United States is Corn grows in days from its plantIng planting plant plant- in Ing time Out In the great corn belt during durine 1909 the corn farmers made the ground give up to them everyday every everyday everyday day of those In other words everyday every very everyday day from the time the corn farmers pu put the seed In the ground were poured Into their laps until a a. grand total tola of was rolled up All the gold and silver sliver In the whole United Sta States tes today Isn't equal to this corn crop of last las year Travel Travel Magazine for March One effective result of the suffragette Invasion of or Holloway way Jail In England and the constant complaints of ot the votes for women prisoners as to their treatment there Is a new scheme which has hae just been framed by the home office e. e In fu future future future fu- fu ture women prisoners between the ages of 16 and 23 will be separated from hardened hardened hardened hard hard- ened criminals and will receive lessons In sewing and dressmaking A committee commit commit- tee of l ladies dies will also assist them to obtain obtain ob oh- tam tain situations when their sentences have been Served Make a note of or this said the jewel jewel- er or Last Thursday a Russian living In Ina a fiat flat above this shop died The next day his widow brought us her wedding ring and a piece of fine silky black crape to cover t with She thought we could make a neater job of It than she could She expects to keep the ring In mourning for six months She says It is 15 the custom in her home town In Russia for widows to cover their rings with black I dont don't believe It will wUl ever become popular here New New York Sun The diamond industry which in 1908 suffered severely from the effect of the 1907 financial crisis In the United States commenced to show decided d Improvement In the beginning of 1909 The rapidly In Increasing Increasing increasing In- In creasing prosperity of the United States which absorbs 60 per cent of the diamond production of the world caused ca renewed purchases PO so o that In the early spring all the diamond shops of Amsterdam were at work In full force to supply the de de- de- de mand Conditions have steadily Improved improved improved im Im- im- im proved and the trade prospects are exceptionally exceptionally ex ex- good A new automatic rifle the Invention of an Englishman Is now under consideration tion by our army officers Its caliber is 28 28 and It has an effective rouge of or three thousand feet teet with grains of powder The Tho design under consideration carries two clips with ten shots in each which means apparently that It will fire twenty shots without reloading Efforts have been made to transform the present Springfield Into an automatic arm by means of some attachment but thus far farno farno farno no satisfactory device has been found The new automat while lighter than the Springfield is a much more complicated mechanism and more liable to give trouble trouble trouble trou trou- ble in the field The ordnance department of the army has decided to adopt a new arm the arm the Mercle automatic rifle also known as the Hotchkiss portable Brig Gen William l T Crozier r reports nf sl that one hundred hundred hun hun- dred of th the guns will be Imported and ar arrangements arrangements ar- ar made eventually to manufacture manufacture manu manu- facture the arm here It is said to be the simplest machine gun made and to have an almost perfect mechanism It may be fired In single shots as a semiautomatic semiautomatic semiautomatic semi auto matic or as a full fledged automatic In general appearance It resembles an ordinary ordinary ordinary nary rifle In action one man does the firing while the other loads At Monterey where It was tested shots were fired without a hitch Meat eating Is on ott the Increase ase in Japan and for some time the Japanese government government government govern govern- ment under direct encouragement from the emperor has been devoting attention to the Improvement of Japanese rattle cattle The head of the cattle breeding department department department depart depart- ment of the Japanese g government vernm t l Mr Hashimoto Is at present sent visiting England to make purchases of stock According to Mr Hashimoto the Ja Japanese ane peasant does not eat much rice It Is too to lO dear deal Barley vegetables and fish are his staple foods The middle classes however however however how how- ever who have hitherto eaten large laige quantities quantities quantities quan quan- of rice are arc now slowly beginning to add meat to their dietary Beef Is the favorite dish It Is cut up small boiled with a native bean sauce and vegetables and eaten with the hash hashi or chopsticks The wholesale price of beef In itt Japan Is about 1 12 cents a pound A short while ago an article In one n of t the newspapers to the effect t i IY that a the h Marble r Collegiate c church of New York was the first church founded in America and that It dates from 1626 America In this case Includes Mexico and the southern continent This Chis however however however how how- ever Is not true Cathedrals were built and dioceses were established In iii South America as early as 1526 1521 The rhe diocese of Santo Domingo was founded d In 1424 1124 and has had a regular succession of bishops ever since In the United s there w. w were re churches In Florida and New MexIco Mex Mex- i ico ice long before 1600 The Marble Col Col- ColI I church Is undoubtedly the ole ol oc church In New York The Collegiate Is pre eminently a Dutch one Hest liest settlers In New York founded church Leslie's Leslie's Weekly 11 |