Show SITS BITS OF INFORMATION I Western Siberia is keren times as largo large lre as tho German Genan empire It I is on record that a 3 mass of or gold weighing hing fifty poun pounds s was taken from The Tho London city policemen get from to 1033 a week An extra al allowance at- at lowance for coal conI is is granted anted in winter and nd uniforms are furnished free 1 A Garnett man in his hia hs wife's rib nb- hence e ate a lot of c canary marr see seed mistaking mistaking mis mis- taking it for breakfast food and ever since finco he has been sleeping with wih hi his head hend under hi his hiB arm Kansa Kansas Notes in Kansas City Star I The Tho Chilean government o after a 1 careful study of oC the relative cost of the thc two systems of tel telegraph aph between Santiago Santiago San San- tiago and Punta Arenas Arena has ha decided that tho wireless is the tho most practical as ns it at i will wi Cost coat less for upkeep as most of tho the route is through h a wild wid and rough Co country LI ii try The now new queen is so 80 thoroughly British Brit ish in in her culinary tastes that she is reported reported re re- re ported to havo o ba dismissed King Edwards Edward's Edwards Edward's Ed Ed- dwards d. d wards ward's French chef M. M who for years ears has been the monarch of the royal kitchen kichen Queen Mary is said to 10 have 1 decided to employ only British whenever possible The groom room was attired in a dark ark bl business suit and wore worp pink begonias and plum blossoms which made mado a very pleasing picture as ns they the stood between tho the bridesmaid and best man in in the trouble double door between the parlor and nail sitting sit tin ting room of tho the Amos home ron Kan Km Jacksonian This is an au extract from a Siamese paper that has an En English column for foreign n readers Shooting Outa Outrage Outrage- e 0 o Fearful A Agony Kloon Kloon Ton Tong was a n aman aman man of Lan Langoon oon and on his hs return accidentally ac ac- ac- ac shot at by some miscreant scoundrels Untimely death cleath oh fearful fear full ful fil All AU men expressed ser their mourn The cowardice dogs dogg is still sti at lar large c. c Distressing in official statistics show that at the end nd of April Apri out out of a population pop pop- of in En England land anc and Wales Vales there thoro were paupers namely persons receiving in public assist assist- ance This figure over fire over two twenty to toone toone one ono thousand of the population population-is is one of tho the hi highest hest on record London's 8 paupers total a a. ratio of about twenty five to one thou thousand Tf If I rain water has bas Jas virtues as a complexion com corn purifier there thoro aro are a good deluded persons in Now New York Any An kind kinc of rainfall from sunshiny showers to f a tempest brn brings s out put a gleaming array arraj- of ol tin pans and pails Persons Persona who would scorn to set not fat anything less aristocratic than a flower owr p pot t on tho the firo fire escape at arm any other time IPSO loo all al pr pride o in mn the tho to presence of a rainstorm and set get out ont their pans to catch a supply of water New New York Sun Miss Job Tob of n Ta Tasmania lania is said to bo the only woman who has las ever es-er e cr sat sat within the bar at a n Wesleyan Methodist conference When she first first- took her seat eat one minister r protested that tho the conference was composed only emily of ministers nail laymen and that the they had no power to admit time the best Lest lal lady ladym in m the land All Al others including the president of the conference took the tho position that women were wore included as at laymen and Miss Job retained her scat within the bar I IFor For English bof f of poor quality technically technically tech tech- called caled rough English tough stin stringy meat mea higher hiher prices are paid pid in England than for Argentine beef though tho the latter later is far better and more appetizing The Tho fact fac that it i is ig is foreign foreign for for- eign ei and chilled makes this bettor better foreign for foreign eign eig beef le less s popular and it illustrates the Engli English h preference for everything of domestic origin orein a prejudice varying for all al commodities offered for sale and that is particularly pronounced in Birmingham Dir Bir Br mingham writes Consul Albert Hal Hal- stead The Tho Putnam house at York itself itsel over years old contains man interesting interesting interest interest- ing relics says avs tho the York Transcript and probably the most interesting is a whistling tankard which e deri derives its Is name from fron tb tWo fact that tho the tankard turned upside down dow shows shown a whistle on which the tho owners used to summon the servant The tankard will wi hold bold about about a quart and n a half of liquid It Itis Itis I is in excellent shape boing ing smooth and bri bright ht On the front i is engraved ed the of tho the Moulton coat of arms oulon family Journal Mrs r Harriman to whom her husband left Jeff lef his bis entire entro estate variously varouh estimated estimated esti esti- mated at from to i fa is proving herself a remarkable business woman oman She is if in Mm offices of the estate almost daiv and looks after the tho innumerable details s connected with wih the stocks and bonds which her husband husband hus hus- band left her with th such discernment that she he has bas ha ma made mado o largo large profits in the tie last year yar With Wih it i all al she is preserving a remarkable secrecy and ane tb there r are nrc rc rcman many man bankers banker in Wall street who have h sought in in vain to ascertain just what she nho is is doin doing Miss Mis Fletcher who attended tiie tio late laic kin king in in his last illness W wn was s his nu nurse nurse-in- oin in- in chief when he lay so NO desper desper- at the time of his bis coronation Miss MIBS r Fletcher was a of Miss Ethel McCaul the distin distinguished lady who slid did service 50 so valuable in I the South African war under Sir Frederick Troves Trees and who i is h a valued friend of ot royalty royally ro Miss Mis K Fletcher was trained at a L Liverpool hO hospital has hos pun pital and is a capital nurse knowledge knowledgeable able on the spot infinitely understanding understand in ing of a patients patient's p needs Deeds Ier Her devotion to Kin King Edward whom she he hc found fonne the most lne of ot patients and the thc most amenable and also to Queen Alexandra may well wel be b imagined as aA well wel as a her grief Lief that her untiring efforts to save pave C Chis his life were unavailing una Gentlewoman |