Show i As a result of 0 a clean lips lipa cami bogn asu en instituted by the women of 0 cleveland the police there have been instructed to re drove reprove all men who are hend heard using profane or foul language in fri public 11 they persist in nth use of objectionable expletives they are to be wrested arrested and each oath will cost them 1 A floating hospital manned by a crew of doctors and nurses ed for the use of patients awaiting admission to the county hospital his has been projected by the hygienic section of the academy of science and art of pittsburgh much money tor for the purpose has already been subscribed and moving picture shows in the county will be asked to set anait one day for showing films depicting the ravages of the white plague and to donate the proceeds to the hospital f fund and an expert criminal recently called on a fashionable parisian dentist and disked that a gold croven crown be fitted on a tooth the dentist took a cast of the tooth and while he was in the laboratory rith the mold cist his patient patent J filled hs his pockets with a quantity of sheet gold and beat a retreat when 44 I 1 fland haled baled before a magistrate I 1 the ihnet etwo p tested his innocence bat when presented the noih cast which chic exact lys fitt edJus f t W 1 I t f M ur A h spir s K nothing ipg and Z g mp F wad HM fota W m k 1 w s gatei iA tei fc vy i ace 4 04 a ui W W 7 i to w one ince i banat andl a apar abed abed b by means of a 1 ahe the Hostilities were v threatened by mexico and gen zachary taylor was ordered by the president ot of the united states to march into texas with an army and camp near the rio grand river in jan 1846 he took position opposite the mexican city of matamoras Matar oraa noras and commenced a fortification which he called fort brown soon after this war began and continued until near the close of 1847 gen taylor invaded central mexico and gen scott beginning at vera cruz penetrated the country to the capital city glinin g vic victories tortes at every step he took possession of the city of mexico on sept 14 1847 on feb 2 1848 a treaty of peace was signed by this war the united states came into possession of northen mexico and california but that war cost the united states in money and the loss of of her brave citizen soldiers the department of agriculture has made a success successor suc cesso of growing the dasheen a rare and rich vegetable of the tuber luber order which has just appeared in the washington markets the plant is a native of the philippines and also of south america for years the inhabitants of tropical and subtropical countries have lived on this food which is a good substitute for meat the scientist have introduce 4 it in the southern states and have brought it if to perfection the dasheen has the appearance of the ornamental caladi caladiums 1 ams or elephant ears cars of the garden various parts of the plant are edible the young blanched shoots of the dasheen mike make a salad which resembles the flavor of the mushroom the chief food part is the large spherical tuber which hu has a nutty savor flavor steamed or baked these usually weigh from one and a half to three pounds persons interested in this novel vegetable and wishing to procure seed should with their mem lers acen of congress or application may be made dhert to the bureau of plant industry agricultural department washington Ink toti the supply of sek seed is limited pd will probably soon be exhausted it is reported from jerusalem that the original nil tower of siloam referred to in the bible has been at last unearthed this tower is mentioned in luke xiii alil 5 those thoe 18 upon whom the tower in siloam fell and slew them think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in jerusalem I 1 A colored woodchopper at greens green boro N C the other in morning orning fell and hurt hla his neck but he picked up his ax and worked all day long on reaching home at night he fell dead and an examination showed that his neck had been broken all day this is be deved to be the only case of the sort on record A new volcanic island having a circumference cum ference of five miles and a height of I 1 1000 feet lids has lately made its appearance pe arance in the bonin benin group near japan three miles east by south of island the other islands of this group are of volcanic origin but they are believed to date ba back to eocene times they are not subject to earthquakes and are without any hot springs dr frederick A cook who claims to have discovered the north pole in 1909 has brought suit against cyril scott an actor who is leading man in a new play now appearing in chicago tor uses the lines that little 6 s othe o the station taught me to C 1 cv 1 eye jak london 0 cco 0 11 about b mi kiy help 1 llila aw appt ial f 14 W several fossil bones of the biggest bird that ever lived on the globe so far as known geologists figure that this region is two and a hall half million years rears old and this bird became extinct ages agod ago it belonged to the group of flightless birds of which the ostrich is the largest survive surviving ng specimen but it was at least twice as big as the biggest ostrich being 15 feet high or more it is estimated the gas company at honolulu found that large quantities of gas were being used without the consumer putting the required quarter in the meter they assigned detectives to the case who accomplished nothing the company at last offered to pay the man for the secret and guarantee him against prosecution ec ution the culprit came forward and explained that he made a disk of ice which he put into the meter to r release the supply of gas the disk melted and the water dried up leaving no trace whatever of the fraud A negro named long torn tom was arrested on a minor charge the other day in chicago his remarkable height saved him from a term in the house of 0 correction correct ian tor for when the judge judee found him to be seven feet 11 inches tall he listened to the culprits pleas that he fie had never done anything i wrong arguing that he could not possibly poi sibly disguise himself so aito as to evade tle the officers in case he had bad ever departed from the path of honesty and rectitude A many 1 interesting observations were made by the loosevelt ioos roosevelt evelt party in travers ing bg the hinterland of san luiz de caceres in brazil it is anno announced that a river hitherto unknown to civilized men was discovered by the party in in that section the brazilian authorities propose to name it the theodore river river in honor of teddy it is the toledo pickpockets pick pockets who have turned jokers now one of thern them picked the pocket of police chief murphy the other night and relieved teli eved him of two filled filla wah money and important documents so vigilant have new yorks juvenile policemen been that in a short time they have found cause for or 2000 complaints against law violators in the sections assigned to them among the charges red were those ol of selling cigarettes and liquors to minors and bof of admitting children to moving picture shows the defendants who appeared to answer to the summonses were censured by a court held it in the rooms of the protective association under whose authority the youthful officers of the law are acting although an octogenarian of 83 george fesler spelled down youthful contestants and won the logan county spelling championship in a recent contest held at ohio he ought to be able to win he has the advantage of years government agents recently arrested two men at philadelphia and a search of their room revealed a complete counter counterfeiting leiting outfit one of the men samuel tate is 80 years old and has spent newly nearly 20 years of his life in prison both pleaded guilty to the charge of passing counterfeit money and were sentenced to five years in the federal prison at atlanta |