Show BITS OF INFORMATION Metal filament Incandescent lamp lamps are arc arenow now no being ue used used cl on ships ana railroad cars Persons born bora In spring arc are eald said to have o more robust constitutions than thap those born at other seasons The next British census will be taken on Sunday April 2 1911 un Forty thousand enumerators will be bo employed The Tho United States toro forestry try service consists consists consists' con con- slats slats' of ot a n force of or persons Ten years ago ngo It was only ten men An electric elevator I vator has been In Installed t ned In trio the stairway which leads to the cupola of ot St. St Peters Peter's church In Rome Roma Tho The el elevator ole ele vator has a capacity for carrying ten persons It bears an appropriate Latin inscription Rose floss leaves are Imported free of duty when brought In In a So crude state the tho value of ot the tho Imports of or 1908 being only In 1907 2137 arid and In 1000 1006 The value of ot rose roM leaves Imported In the tho decade ending with 1908 1008 amounted to over oyer This country countr Is not alone alono In faring facing an nn egg problem England Is endeavoring to stimulate egg production and a n missionary mission mission- ary egg egg- train Is planned to be dl dispatched patched through western England and Wales where It IL Is la said eald that the tho egg Industry Is at a low ebb Tho The United Kingdom now Imports nearl nearly one-half one tho the eggs con con- The Emmanuel J congregation of ot Beau Beau- mont Tex wants a new pastor and has published publisher the following advertisement Wanted Wanted Rabbi young man a native o of America AmericaS or England that Is a good lecturer lec lee who can make himself agreeable with either cither orthodox or reform tion In other words word we e e want a mixer Wo We 0 pay 1500 1500 a year cal The Berlin police department Is 18 provided pro pro- vided with an extensive typewriting telegraph tele- tele graph system There Thera are arc about ZOO re receiving re- re stations throughout th the city and suburbs suburb The Tho sending tending Instrument Is provided pro pro- vided with a keyboard and when hen the keys arc depressed the they cause tho message message mes mes- sage sago to be bo printed at the receiving sta eta tion The object t of ot this system Is to do away with the tho confusion of ot tho the Morse Morao code If tho the Morse code were used It would have hav i to be he transcribed d before beCore a message could be bo put into tho lh hands o otho of oC the tho officer r to whom hom It was sent ent Intensive cultivation atlon so 80 called has reached Its highest of perfection In Inthe Inthe the tho market gardens lying about Paris where land rent runs to an acre or more morea a tear year ear and four crop crops crops' are arc taken fro tro mUte soil soU between February and November No No November vember and on tho the Island of oC Guernsey In the tho Er English channel where farming land In Is valued at t 1200 an two acre two in instances instances In- In stances that move all writers upon agrIcultural agricultural agricultural agri agrI- cultural topics to wondering awe and andy y yet ot it in the near vicinity of ot Boston gardtner gardeners gar gat- growing owIng lettuce radishes and cu cucumbers cu cu- cumbers under tinder glass sines are clearing to an acre a year car without attracting attractIng attract attract- ing more than pal passing notice Magazine Under the headline Not Worth While a Paris paper prints this story from Piccolo of ot Trieste At At police headquarters headquarter a portmanteau was wall re received received re- re last night with this note Please accept this from a disgusted man Dasa Days Das a ago o I gained possession of ot It how It-how how ant and where I 1 need not tell tell and and felt confident because Uso of oC Its English make and the many evidences of ot travel which It bears that It was a rich find Seo See what It Il con can tame Books old Books old books at nt that old that olt sho shoes s 's soiled linen of the ch cheap ap kind and the stockings have laave holes In thorn them Tho The foreigner l ner who carried It was well dressed and I 1 would KO go to prison for tor theft for tor the satisfaction of ot having him Identify his beggarly belongings Mexico has hRS recently adopted a new automatic automatic automatic au au- au- au rifle rille tho the invention of ot General Genera MOndragon l for tor her troops troop It IB is self loading but not self firing and the tho charge Is ten shots The Tho armies of ot all 11 civilized d countries are arc now experimenting with autom automating arms arnie but Mexico MexIco Mex Mex- ico leo s 's seems seems ems to be the tho first one to solve tho the problem of a practical 1 rifle of ot this class clas The Mondragon weighs slightly more than the Springfield of ot tho United States State army and Its mechanism Is said to bo ho simple and practical In that it will stand much hard tJ usage ae When h It was b being tested on on of ot the tho guns was fired rapidly and continuously l until It became so 80 hot that tho the stock took fire without an any In interference In- In with the op operation of the them m mechanism It Is s capable of or sixty shots a minute By having a record k kept pl at th the cash cash- ier's lor desk of ot pay checks checkA which patrons patron tall fall to turn In I sometimes mako up my lo losses e e said the tho proprietor of ot a a. large restaurant Today Toda a a. man got ot a B. check for tor 65 cents To tho the cashier he ho pre presented one ono for 25 cents cent The latter Jatter glancing at his missing ch check ck card that It was wall ono one of ot the listed ones Detaining the man h he notified d m mo me After being confronted d with the waiter alter thA beat wanted to la pay both checks check I ordered a n policeman man summoned The Tho mans mann pleadIng pleading plead plead- ing led me to to- pho show him the list of ot missing miss- miss Ing checks which amounted to something like 80 saying that I didn't know but that he was as the caUM of ot them all Ho He offered d to pay flay the tho lot If It tho the matter mattor would be he dropped and this proposition I ac ae ac- ac New New York Sun Acting on the tho Idea that a a. bu business businessman man or In fact any on one wilt will open nn and read a telegram where a n. circular would be bo thrown Into a waste wate basket many I persons who hare havo hah h heretofore used th the tho malls mails for tor reaching prospective customers are arc now using the new l telegram system of at the t telegraph leg companies Ono One firm rE recently turned d In about dIe dis patches to be bo tI sent nt In one night for Cor that purpose eO Where a form tonn Is la used with a a number of ot addresses In the same samo city the tho form torm is wired through once and nail tho the ad addre addresses ad- ad dresses s fI are nt with It It to bo hl copied off ort and delivered b by th the tho receiving office A Advertises 1 say lay that this m method thod Insures a a. reading of what wha t the they hn have havo 0 to 84 say In lit lit- It means mans work for tor many more tel telegraph graph operators as 88 w well as more In Income income In- In come for tor the tho company Ne New York Trib- Trib Un Un- One of ot the favorite pastimes of ot Em fIT- of oC Abyssinia Is to mount a n tower of ot observation which he ho hns ll constructed con- con KI 71 d tor for the purpose o. o and aid watch his hi subjects going ab ut their th duties In the streets and open spaces through a n power ful telescope One Ono disadvantage dlf of ot this m method thod of ot spying Is that it is IA perfectly well known k to the people them themselves CM cJ who consequently do not their king of kings king much opportunity for tor discovering an any deed worth worthy of ot punishment a a. Paris Parts caricaturist having d determined d so 50 commonplace a step as getting married d decided that h ho he would i l In no Wa way He lie asked all aU his hili friends to the wedding but hut there was as a n. due Ino qua flU non condition at attached at- at to tho Invitation In You had to go be with h. h admitted a 1 head or you OU would n not t Preferably you OU were re re quested to make up HS RS a country cousin at a n. village wedding Some Somo gue guests ar or ar rived as all ancient peasants others as 8 vII lage hage idiots There were wern several oral bluff blurt and rural elderly gentlemen with means a number of ot retired or 1 exuberant uncles uncle front from the south I i fierce nerce military gentlemen o fu-o from th th tb test stations of Algeria Th The Tue mi on Cal sons who ho wore their natural natura py mils mice the were couple most They had dr drawn wn the tha line at makl cone con themselves as aa a burlesque JH comic bridegroom London Dally Dall graph 7 Bellboys hate hato It a man named i isaid said the hotel clerk Every hot hO hotel Importance has Its Mr Kelly Keily m ma time but the pages page's call of Mr lIr starts the tho Inevitable Ino query JU U 1 here seen Kelly and the whole floor laughs McGinty Is till tUl till a S conjure with In hotel camdon n IJ ears years have havo pall passed cd since the he heyday of oC his J popularity but buti da day people remember hla exploit i a hoy boy who tries to page pago him nj laugh New haugh-New New York ork Sun Reflective a apologists for lor w war rj present day all aU take It rell religiously sort of ot sacrament Its It p-o p prom a art ara vanquished d AM SUi w well 11 as to the tho vICt i quite apart from any question of ot tr p Is 18 an absolute good goodS we Are ArC told f fI a human nature at Us its hl highest he t horrors are a cheap price to t t rescue rescue- from rota the only alternative IU UI w of ot a world of ot clerks clerk and teacher education and zo- zo sO of ot com rons leagues and associated Indu Industrialism unlimited an and tern tem unabashed No corn acorn no valor an any more Pie Fie upon such tuch yard ard of a n. plan t-Prot t Prof William in London Public Opinion Trade of ot the United State irI w ii non contiguous territories am tnT In the year car just ended l about aboul S a a. decade a 89 ro a v |