Show A L vilas of chicago used a hydro aeroplane to keep an engagement at a golf contest in racine wisa wis a few days ago he covered the dis tance of 63 miles in less than that many minutes and arrived I 1 without accident in ample time for the contest residents of 90 counties in missouri recently took a day oft off and donated their services to the improvement of the states stales highways it has been estimated that the work of the volunteers has improved the roads of the state to the extent 0 of may rilma shown by tests of the american guernsey club to be champion producer of butter fat was sold in philadelphia recently for more than the cows record last year was more than pounds of milk which tested over 1000 pounds of butter fat I 1 in assisting a ssi sting a band of cowboys in driving a herd of cattle from portland A et imp wr I 1 kaa 4 distance W 5 MR ig A 1 TI M y P n 7 ran 0 ala 4 colored man stole a halt half dollar 11 t colored man inan he ed was jar arrested rested tried tn i edana and a sentence of SO 50 years yeara imprisonment was imposed by the jury now after serving more than 20 years of the sentence williams has just been paroled by gov oneal C F davis inventor of the lec etric chair and his assistant who have had charge of all electrocutions in new york state s nce the electric chair was adopted there have refused to submit to a reduction of the fee of for each legal killing and the position has been given to T I 1 I 1 mannion who has agreed to do the work for per execution the char chamber riter of commerce of washington D C has decided to keep on an file a I 1 st of the most efficient boy scouts in the district of columbia coin ahia in order that members of the chamber may select desirable boys for positions when they are needed the boys are required to be ba first class scouts and to be up to specified certain standards educationally d and nd physically on june 1 J E t coultas Coul tasi a newspaper reporter of winnipeg canada started on a mile canoe fournel from winnipeg to new orleans he has in an agreement with the press preas club of the canadian city under which all his expenses are to be paid by the club clubie if he makes the journey alone in the canoe and reaches his destination by oct 1 without aid from anyone the connecticut supreme court of ebors errors has decided that a patron of I a hotel restaurant or other eating place does not buy the food that is placed before him on 00 th the table but simply is the right to satisfy his appetite and nothing more this ruling will put an end to the practice of carrying away in the pocket or of hand band a collection of dainty tidbits for which the gastronomic capacity is temporarily inadequate r the horses in phi philadelphia adelphia Ld elphia now proudly drink out of individual paper cups there has been such an epidemic of glanders in that city blat the open horse trough has beba abolished when the hostilities broke out in europe sickness confined mrs james macy of denver colo to her bed in in antwerp belgium Belei um she was ordered to leave and did so when she reached london she was seriously ill her experiences and the privations she was forced to undergo brought on a nervous breakdown which resulted in her death through suicide A party of berry pickers heard the plaintive cry of what they thought to be a lost child in the woods near cath lamet wash a few days ago abandoning their berry picking they begun a search and were surprised to note that as they advanced the cries receded when they had halted to confer over this strange feature of the case one of the party disbo discovered vered the source of the he wailing sounds tt ft was a huge panther crouching on the he limb of a nearby tree the trail out ol of the woods is now marked by many berries scattered from the pickers pails and by y foot prints far apart after four years spent in their preparation pa ration the 11 volumes of the census came off the press some time ago this set of books has cost uncle sam a larger sum than has ever been spent for such a purpose since the beginning of the world the books have been prepared to show just wha what is ia happening in th the nation they esq progress has been made fent ta eded etc and give at atre r that vl 1 J efm futlz U tip ff ii 00 yla order hat 11 wibb her 1 husband nd she ma may have isome part pait in assisting england in the present war mrs grahame white the american wife of the english aviator has announced anno her purpose to try to enter the service of the english red cross as a nurse A chilian province has established two floating schools to enable the llie 4 residents of its many islands to obtain an education the present european war is sure to make some change in the geography of the fighting nations and strange to say the Rus russians flans are the first to start the change they have changer the name of their great city st petersburgh st peters city to petro grad the stronghold of peter mrs boyd culver forty one of eureka mont has juat completed a forty five day fast she was suffering from chronic indigestion and started on the fast under the d direction of N a doctor during the forty fiva fiat day 4 fast mrs culver ate nothing a and riddia drank nothing except water up to the last week when she began taking small quantities of lenion lemon and orange juice she lost twenty eight pounds during the period draping from to 87 after a week of eating her weight has increased to she is enil entirely rely cured after defying a score of traps and as many guns of farmers who have sought vainly to impose summary vengence ven gance loi for the loss of hundreds hund of chickens over a period of six s ix months old baldy a monster california Cal fornia eagle was caught by harry radcliffe radcliff a with a laso Kadel life lay waiting in them the shadow of his chicken house for the chicken thief for more thin eight hours the bird swooped down shortly aher after daybreak the lasso was thrown around the eagles neck radcliffe wanted to capture the bird alive but it fought so desperately that he was forced to shoot it the eagle featured me aured eight feet inch inches ei arom arrn titi tp 1 auda th the e orcy 0 1 ot 1 conductors conduct tafv 5 ticket punchers and other french fie railway officials who have been called to the front is being earned carried on by their wives and sons the women of europe are assuming the duties left by the men in in a number ol of instances now read the following story and listen to the tale the papers are telling about the old minnesota farmer that cut a crop of grain this year with a cradle scythe 60 years ago that was the way that grain had to be cut as there was no mach nery to cut it leis than 50 years ago the writer w iter has helped to cut many acres a year in this city an and d it was cut with the cradle it I 1 took three good hands bands to average cutting two acres of gran a day one to cut and two to bind it cost the farmer less in those days ro cut and thrash their grain than it does now stepheni adams one of the oldest farmers in this section of minnesota has accomplished a feat which will not scon be equalled equal led by adv one in the whole country by harvesting a whole crop of grain by the old pioneer method adams secured the contract from alomal farmer for harvesting the grain with the old fashioned fashio hed radle cradle scythe after being cut the grain was all raked together by hand by adams and was then hand bound the work was done in a short time by adams and his bis many friends are boasting that he is the only man in this section of the state to accomplish so difficult a feat norway holds the record in the employment of women on the police force since policewomen policewoman police women have been appointed in and three of the other large laree towns their police duty is mainly confined to the looking alter after of female criminals and children and they are praised for or the good work they do in assisting the general police force it will not be lone before an efficient female police force will be employed in in every large town and city |