Show BITS OF INFORMATION The Time theatres of or London will 1 scat seat People and also niNo can got get Into tho the music halls hails hals In twenty seven years cars the tho diamond mines yielded worth of ot diamonds s. s A prayer book was among the articles found round In the stomach of ot an dl dissected dis dis- In iii London In New ew York and Jersey City there are often oren as many as eggs In cold storage at one time The he olive 01 0 tree produces alternate crops a full tul yield generally being followed by a scanty one the next year ear Canadas Canada's exports of pulp woo wood In 1890 amounted to only in 1908 they had Increased to Tho Timo ho mineral minerai products of tho the United States for 1907 and 1908 were and respectively Japan furnishes 12 per percent per cent of ot the Im Imports imports In- In im- im ports of tea ten China Chinn per er cent tho the East Et Indies Indie S SJ SI per cent and the United King dom 1 per cent cent Last year car London's 1425 fire fre fighters an answered calls cals and persons were Injured and ninety tIp killed The Tue bri brigade brigado br- br bri- bri gade gado gaa spends a of Ono One of ot tho the churches near the crest cret of Murray Hill Hi New York has ha adopted a street number BO so that strangers m may find It I with wih no more morn difficulty than than they en encounter encounter encounter en- en counter In reaching a shop the they may muy be b looking for This church Is now Indicated In the tho directory by Its Is num number r In Fifth avenue Figures Figurs Just jUt compiled by the Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsyl Pennsyl- Ivania I vania railroad system show that althou although h hIn In 1908 and 1909 Its Is various lines carried a total of passengers In Ia Its mile mie sot track on only I one ono passenger was waskie killed kie as 08 a result of ot a a train wreck In other words tho the chance of or a pa passenger losing his life In an accident occident on time the Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania railroad system was one ono out of ot about Tim The most Interesting letters leter received at the tho aquarium are those written b by perSons persons per per- sons who live Ivo In a mosquito infested neighborhood said sall a n guardian of ot the time city's fish Those hatched fish prefer a diet of ot mosquitoes and the they write urgent appeals appals for tor us to como come and skim a few tew millions of ot young oung mosquitoes off nit or the surface surface surface sur sur- face of a L neighboring pond before the mosquitoes get set big enough to require a diet of their own New own New New york lork Sun Dr Marlon Marion Parris Paris presided at tho the congress congress congress con con- gress of ot women Interested In agriculture which was wa recently held at nt Bryn Mawr college Women with wih practical experience on their experiments In general genera fanning farming fruit frit growing landscape gardenIng gardening garden garden- saren- saren ing bee keeping poultry raising raisin dairy farming truck gardening and horticulture The general opinion seemed to be that women could ordinarily carry car on successfully successfully success success- fully any of or these branches with wih a profit of from froni 10 to 20 0 per cent cent Tho operation of large lareo punching machines machines machines ma ma- chines used In boiler boier shops and similar establishments has been greatly Improved In efficiency and econom economy recently b by a simple system of electric control These machines have havo been operated heretofore b by a foot toot attachment but this Is cut out entirely and the time push button buton placed at nt a a point where it is much moro more mor acce accessible Two men can by this arrangement do the work formerly requiring three and the work worl is said to bo be done in a 0 much more accurate manner Helium the sun metal thus named because It vas was found by spectroscopic observation ob ob- ob- ob sel in Iii the tho sun before it I was known to exist on omi the tho earth appears to exist In lr perceptible quantities hi In a n number of minerals minerals min mm- ale em-ale exuded from Vesuvius and und also Inthe inthe In lr the tho air about Naples Prof A. A ha has recently examined ned b by a new method tIme the gas emitted by several minerals and hInds finds that helium is often pr present Hohas Hohas Ho lie has detected its Is presence in so small email smal a quantity of ot ordinary air as three and a ahai half hai cubic centimeters Man Many suggestions havo have b been cn made maE to explain the term Rom or RomanI Roman applied to the gypsies Time The last Is that of oC Leo Winer Viner In the Journal of oC the Gypsy Lore society for tor April Apri lie He points out that the some Is current curent in Christian Christan countries only Europe America and Armenia From the law of ot Charlemagne It appears that thai tho the gypsies pretended to be pilgrims and their name was usual usually connected with that of or Rome Rome Ultimately ho lie thinks it I originated in iii the time Greed a hermit and that when the tho popular etymology etymology ety ety- connected all al hermits hermis and pilgrims with wih Rome Home all ni other terms term designating pilgrims were so o transformed as to bring them Into keeping with wih this new new Idea It I Is quite hopeless to trace out the fathers of smoking In general and tobacco co smoking In particular Who ho first drew drewin drewIn in smoke of ot allY kind through thrush a pipe In England and who first of ot our countrymen country country- men took to tobacco will wi always remain uncertain which dl disputable It Is equally equal western tribe made mae the tho sublime dl discovery cr co There Thero Is la even cven dispute as to whether to tobacco to- to bacco hacco takes its Is namu name from the tho Island ol of Tobago from tho the Yucatan province pronce of or from Tabasco In Florida or from a shaped y-shaped pipe which tho the people of smoked with their noses Only one name Is definitely associated with wih the thereat great reat Institution that of ot Jean Nicot the French to Portugal who spread tho fame of the herb through Europe Eu Eu- rope And of or all al who are familiar with wih nicotine today how many associate te It with Nicot or havo even heard of ot him London Chronicle The Tho Lackawanna pays the entire entre amount of or Its pensions the men contributing contributing con con- nothing Any ono one who has been In tIme the service twenty five twenty o years yeat goes ICS upon tho the pension list when ho he I Is retired at seventy se Between sixty and sixty-nine sixty who any ammy anyone one of twenty five twenty o years years' service becomes Incapacitated may bo retired on pension 01 or any ny y ono one who becomes incapacitated incapacitated inca Inen- through Injury The Tho Lackawanna Lackawanna Lacka Lacka- wanna fixes time the pension by hy taking one per percent percent percent cent of or tho the average wage for the time ten yours before retirement and und multiplying that thal by hy the number of years of o service An Aim engineer having averaged a month for ten years before retirement and having been an employee for thirty years retires with Ith a pension of 45 4 a 1 month I-ast I year real tho the highest Lackawanna Lackawanna Lacka Lacka- wanna pension was wan aM the out lowest was 5 t cra average e. e 2223 Tho The average nee ago was vas sixty eight years and four m months The Tho stem has been In operation since 1902 The Tho presence of or any pray gray IY bearded man mami who resembles Mayor Gaynor amon among a I group of ot city workmen Is a remarkable of or work A day ilay or so ago one producer leisurely strolling such was through person City Hall park Besides the tho physical phys phs ical leal mind and hirsute resemblance to the tIme cIt ct city's s K chief ex executive li ho hI wore a IL silk lk hat li-at and carried a cane and that made mad a deep cep Impression Im Impression ira ira- on cne the passersbY p many of ot whom turned to look at It tho the mayor mayer Tho The hatter lat hat tor ter stopped near a grass plot where there ther were three park workmen who however were not working One was as leaning on a arake arake rake rahe another had hind a spade on his shoulder should while the tho third stood with wih his hands behind behind bo be- be hind his back bac One of the trio caught caugh sight of ot the Important looking man there ther was wasa a whispered word word word-It It was wa probably Gaynor and and and the tho three men mon set bet to work worl at a speed unusual for tor public employees They kept It up for three minutes the minutes th length of time the tho mayor maor watched them New New York For sor some time largo ers growers of or tomatoes toma toma- toes cucumbers and similar vegetables for tho the London market have been ac accustomed us- us tomed to inject steam into tho the soil soi with wih time the view of destroying insects and slugs Tho Time plan operates very VC well wen for that purpose pur par pose pos but time the unexpected fact has de developed developed do- do that the tho soil sol thus treat treated cd In Increases Increases tn- tn creases greatly in fertility fertility so so 90 greatly in In- In that the ordinary amount of manuro manuro ma ma- nuro cannot afterward be bo used so 80 stimulating lating the tIme plants that their luxuriance o of growth interferes with wih their beaming ii ei J pact Dr Bernard Dyer Der explains I lAs tA A effect elect as 38 being duo due to the tho sterilization produced b by the time steam which kills kis the phagocytes or protozoa which under ordinary or or- circumstances keep down the numbers number of or ba bacteria terla In the lie soil soli soi wimps wimps' operations operatIon arc are beneficent In turning turInG organic organic or or- ganic ganie nitrogen Into plant food Although there is no relation apparent between the two phenomena yet ct It is interesting to recall the fact that that among the tho stars certain colors clors appear to characterize characterize characterize char char- different stages of change chang o or evolution Red Rel stars according to the time testimony of or the spectroscope differ widely in their constitution from or yellow ones and it has ha been thought though that varying colors ma may give a clue chlo to Dro progressive changes in the time hea heavenly bodies bodle Sirius for Instance is said to toha toha ha o 0 changed from red med to white am and amid some have havo suspected that Arcturus is fading from cnn red toward yellow clo There are nearly half hal a million horse and motor vehicles of all al kinds in Paris s today with whIm wih handcarts and wheelbarrows In 10 1909 accidents were caused In iii the tho Paris streets by 81 v vehicles These statistics are arc contained contained con con- In lii a report drawn up b by M. M J. J Emie Massard at the time request of ot time the Paris municipal mu council counci on the tIme o othe ot of the Paris streets street One Ono of M. M 1 Massard's calculations shows that the time street traffic of Paris if stationary would occupy HG acres acrs of the tIme 2079 acres of streets which Paris possesses es Last year persons per Per- sons eons traveled tra by omnibus and amid ti and Ind there were passengers on 01 the time underground railway Hailo Johnson Byrd n. n 1 Maryland society society so so- SO- SO let girl prides herself on having amon among her ancestors Robert E. E Leo Lee and ami tim the fa famous fa- fa amoos a- a moos mou Sebastians The rhe home homo of her an ancestors an- an rosters was in Westmoreland county Maryland where the time Sebastians Carter Cartels und and anc Ix Lees es formed a circle that thatIs Is II re regarded still with wih admiration by bv th time the society women of or today Miss 13 Byrds Byrd's grandfather was wag Captain Hiram Johnson who was a soldier in tho the confederate army and wan In charge of or the commissary commis sary department In Pote Petersburg burg at Rl time the tm time of ot the evacuation Miss Byrd nr Js s N gifted In music and elocution She SIme Is called caned upon frequent frequently at entertainments given b bv by society folk In Baltimore to tell eli tel stories In negro dialect dialect Tho Time ill til money held by commercial banks lanko In Franco Is tho time on only I cash cah the they have havo ha on omi hand and that tImE seldom exceeds 3 or 4 per pr ClInt of or their deposit ties tics The Tho Joint stock banks however have a secondary reserve amoun amounting tn to I about aboul 15 to 20 per nor pr cent of liabilities t 8 Inmon in iii mon mooney money y at al call cul and at short short notice which Is mono money loaned to merchants and amid others on stock exchange and nl similar securities A test of or nickel steel riveted ted joints made madu from four tour different kinds of or commercial com corn mercial merial nickel steel stoel showed the lie strength th thor o of or nickel steel to be 0 about nut two to two and a quarter tunics times as high as 38 that of Joints riveted with wih wrought Iron or mild steel tel rivets The Time advantage nd thus pained gained more moro than thun counteracts Increased lost cost |