Show the department of agriculture estimates mates that the apple crop in this country this year will amount to bushels this is about bushels more than the 1913 crop bushels less than the 1912 crop and bushels less than 4 athe the 19 1911 11 crop the mean price paid producers in the three months of heavy marketing last year was i a little more than 85 cents but owing to the war the price this year will probably exceed that somewhat 1 E H ackerman of elizabeth N J has apparently lost a whole day from his life while to toning ring the orient with his wife he started from the meridian of degrees western longitude and aad traveled east cast when P ne e reached his destination the next da day y he be found it it was june 18 his birthday june 17 haying having been lost somewhere en route miss della delia crewe accompanied by her irish bulldog has started from he her horn home me at waco te tex x for a motorcycle motor cycle trip around the world she has given herself ample time for or the tour and pl plans ans to take n numerous tim erous side trips the dog traveles tra velea on top of other her luggage in the side ride car attached to her machine t athe the brooklyn navy yard is now test MS A a new bearc searchlight hilight apparatus pro iu bcd by a german inventor the ht is ii of candle candlepower power an and is capable of illuminating objects p plainly aril y at a distance of two miles miss nancy white 87 years old ol of anniston ala dreamed the other night that art an old spanish bill in her possession was of great value out of curiosity she took the bill to be examined and found that it was worth six six times its face value or miss ethel was arrested recently and fined 20 in the chicago police court for rocking a boat in which she and three young men were rowing the shore policemen wh who arrested her asserted that he had warned her twice and was forced to arrest her because he feared the boat would overturn and all would be drowned assistant attorney general edgerton of lincoln neb has issued a ruling declaring miss gace bailard eligible to the office of county judge of washington county in that state despite the fact that she is a nonvoter non voter he asserts that it is not necessary for a woman to be a voter in order to be qualified for the office investigations show that an Al algerian gerlan variety of cactus known as contains 14 per cent of sugar sagar which by a process of fermentation Is capable of y yielding from 45 to 60 pr per cent of al cohol cabal which is of 0 good quality and JA p addition contains aromatic ingredients of an agi agre bable taste it is believed that a profitable alchon industry can be developed with but small cost it is asserted by those who profess to have made a study of the subject that thai tho the blond type of woman is be coming less common in this country and the prophesy Is s made that she may in n time disappear entirely some scientists believe that some years year 5 before the christian era the earth was in the grip of a terrific cold spell that choked and capillary pigment to such an extent that the skin and hair of them hei people in certain regions of the earth were permanently bleached giving rise to the blond type others have regarded blandness blond ness as being connected with character and temperament A copenhagen bank clerk has recently c antly invented an ingenious trap for would be bank robbers robb the device consists of an electric button concealed behind the public counter when this button is touch tI the front door immediately close and lock another button beside it controls the inner swinging doors which may be closed and locked by touching it chena robber starts to leave by the front door he will find it locked before he can turn to ho go back the inner doors will also be locked and he will find himself a prisoner A railroad station at ft wayne ind became so thick with rats that workmen fixed an electric trap for the rodents the trap consists of an iron plate with a steel spike suspended above it these are connected by two wires to an ele electric cIric circuit when the rat stands on the plate and rea reaches ches for the bait on the spike it completed the circuit thus ele electrocuting itself |