Show I I BITS OF INFORMATION The he Importation of spirits spIrIs wines nines an and malt mal liquors as a whole made their highest highest highest high high- est record In 1909 1309 their value having aggregated aggregated ag ag- ag- ag 26 against less tha than in 1908 and in m ISO 1899 The water in Lake Lale Van In Asiatic Turkey which Is about sixty miles mies Ion long by from twenty to thirty wide Is s so strongly Impregnated with wih potash that tha the residents along its Is shores use It t to wash clothing without the use of soap One of the oddest domiciles on earth is that erected at- at at Yokohama at-Yokohama b bj by Di Dr Dr Van Va Vander dec dei Hey den the noted bacteriologist o of Japan This is a dust proof proof air proof microbe building of glass whIch stands in the open grounds of the hospital of Yokohama A Scottish clergyman got into come conver- in a railway carriage carrage with a worl worling workIng working work work- ing man who wise informed him that he had hac been a coupler on a railway for or severa several years ears Oh Oh said the minister I I ca can c-an beat that that I have hae been a coupler fo for over twenty years Aye Are replied th the workman but I can can uncouple am and amid you can anna cana a What Vat is regarded as an excellent means mean of comparing the time sturdiness of th the American built buit railroad rolling stock stoc stockS S with wih the lighter types of British construction construction con con- took place rec recently nty in th the shape of an accident on the London Brighton railroad when a train tram ran o othe off the track and crashed into the station static staton The Pullman car c-ar was damaged very ver slightly while the cars of English bui build were completely wrecked iso No 10 less extravagant in the matter mater o of toilet requisites than the beauty of to today today today to- to day was the Egyptian belle bele of B B. C C. She required amon among other things a Ion long longstone stone palette palete with wih a hollow in the cuter center In which to mix her green eye paint Th This palette also held beld a small smal delicate se sea seashell shell wherein she sue mixed the paint wit with the the necessary grease for stiffening he her eyelashes ivory luau hairpins which rivaled in length the hatpin of the present da day and quaint ivory combs Those hose almost perfect doubles George Georg du flu cu Maurel arid and ad Sir Lawrence Alma Alma- Tadema were nearly Indistinguishable The tory story Sor goes gocs that a woman sitting beside beside beside be be- side Du flu Maurier at dinner dimmer started c cOnversation con cOn cOn- n- n by pooh all al Idea of a resemblance e. You Know Mr Alma Alma- Tadema I think It its it's Is I's s absurd to say that tha you jou ou and Mr r. r du Maurier are so awful awfully alike alke Theres There's s really realy no resemblance e a aall at all al Dont Don't you agree with me me Quite Quie was the time polite answer but you see I happ happen n to be Mr du Maurier By means of improvements of the nature nature nature na na- na- na ture of curve cure eliminations and short emits of one-kind one or another the length of th the trans-Siberian trans railroad will be s so o shortened short short- shor- shor ened cited that 1200 miles mies will wi be cut Iut off of th the trip from Paris to Instead of being being belag be be- ing lag more th thin than n miles in length lengh it I w will willbe wI be and the fourteen days now consumed con eon umed by the time trip will wi be reduced to mn nine and amid a half The improvements are beIng made on the time most substantial lines at atwill and will wi not be pen open to the unfavorable criticism the original work was subjected to t. t toA A French Fench investigator has lately Inte Inter Inter- misted eted the time French rench Academy of Science In his researches concerning the glass mi mir mir- mrs which were used in ancient times In Egypt and In Thrace e. They were backed backe with wih a highly polished metal the tile nature of which has been in question queston It I hanow ha has now been ben ascertained that the metal wa was almost pure lead lea and it i Is believed that tha the method of manufacture was wa to pour pou the molten molen lead on the tho concave surface sum o of disks cut ut from balloons of blown glasIn glass glas In I consequence of their shape the time mIrrors mirro minimized the images of objects looked a aIn at atIn atin In them Fur Fr trimmed overcoats overcoat are an all al tl time the year round roud adjunct to a photographers photographer's property room said the photographer Mens Men s vanity turns to furs just as sure surely as w women's omens does They think they loo look lok better beter In a picture with wih a fur collar colla colar snuggling up around abound their faces Most Mos of ot them do too For Fr years we have kept kep fur boas in stock throughout the time summer for women to be photographed in No Nothey Now they have been joined by b- the fur trImmed coat A temperature of a hundred in th the shade shae wont won't drive a man away from that tha overcoat if I he thinks it will wi add to h his good looks ew York SunA Sun A native of in China has re recently re- re centy invented a machine which whIch it is stated is likely to revolutionize th the straw braid straw straw-brId Industry The manipulation of the apparatus Is extremely simple am amit and it is said that one person can turn tur ou out twelve-fold twelve more with wih this machine than tha by hand A newspaper representative be before before be- be fore for whom experiments experiment were we're made mad states state that the manufacture a especially of th the fine b braids runs very es smoothly Et ll while hYl th the cheaper and ad coarser grades do not seen sem to be so satisfactory Machines Mac are now being made maile in Germany and If I the ex expectations ex- ex mae of the time inventor are fulfilled bo become ome the worlds world's s manufacturing manufacturing manufacturing manu manu- emporium for straw braid brId At a banquet one night a professor from the University of Oxford drank several several sev sev- eral l glasses s of port or The e professor dl did I not know this I wines wine's ln extraordInary in strength and in all al innocence he lie took to too much When he rose to leave heave tho the tab table his legs to his dismay tottered and th time the room loom seemed to sway slightly The Time hor hor- rifled professor got to the parlor i in safety He lie sat down in the most dis distant tan corner But soon his young hostess leading a a maid amid who carried her two beautiful beautiful beau beau- twin babies came to him for his approbation ap tip- probation The Time professor sat up ver very erect He Ho gazed at the twins glassily Then he articulated carefully in a hoarse thick thIe voice What hat a bonnie little child Womans Woman's chief moral morl blemish oc oc oc- cording coring to Professor is circumlocution circumlocution circum c locution We Ve are Indebted to the professor pro pro- pr- pr fessor for so lucid an explanation W We Ve had never been able to understand tand before just what was wa the matter The synonyms synonyms synonyms of circumlocution are various fo for instance diffuseness pleon pleon- prolixity tautology all al of which means indirect and roundabout expressIon slon sIon or the use of many words where few fe would suffice So the women have high higl sociological authority for knowing just jus what they are Of course coure we can no not adopt this heartless analysis but ou our opinion is neither here nor there on s so Important a matter mater It J is the professor that speaks and if there is any controversy controversy con oem speas it is with wih him and not with us us- But the time professors professor's i s use of this untoward fact is what makes maIes the time observation sig- sig fac He lie says the time cure of this blemish blem blem- ish as he calls cals it I is woman suffrage that tha thatis ib is is if sho she wants to escape the sad sa ordeal ordea of beating around the bush she should go into politics politic Ohio Ohio State Journal |