Show tin in the manufacture of cans an alloy of oC I 1 zold goldis is being used as a coating in josl ste ead adof of tin tia the result is much more a desirable e s I 1 r able but the cost is greater T the h e salt contained in the oceans is estimated iterated iti rated at more than cubic miles cr enough to cover the united aa states with a layer 16 miles IV deep the te bedouin marriage ceremony r i consists of 0 the vroom proem killing a sheep iq spilling some of the blood in sand baw i t e floor of the house of his tire teather inlaw in law K the Wa kambas a bantu tribe is ni V ahe the most highly civilized tribe of arica africa they understand ironwork iron work ing s make use of a decimal system of calculation Ic and have a good system of M music the milk of a single roquefort efort heep will in one year provide from ariy rt 1 1 to 6 forty pounds of cheese in brict there are about eighty cheep devoted to the cheese N aW 1 n t la Is being tried in ai figat irrigation iori by br means of a great jwj 1 1 1 1 vi Mf 3 bahi P u P e water from rom the aror art t t e eu aft haift rubit rt BiT afi and and deposit ft it in dirt reser 5 i where it is il stored until wanted by means of photographs prot prof E E barnard of 0 yerkes observatory announces that he has rediscovered enches comet this celestial wanderer was named from johann encke aberman a german astronomer assistant in the observatory of S seeburg cincinnati surgeons have discovered a method by which it is possible to successfully open the heart for the removal ot of deposits in the alves they make use of a device which excludes the blood from the right auricle and right ventricle during the dirk dark days of the civil war some one asked abraham lincoln whether he thought god was on our side 1 I do not khow he be said 1 I have not thought about that but I 1 am very anxious to khow whether we are on gods ands side thomas A edison the electrical wizard has brought out an instrument known as the tel for recording both sides of telephone conversations the instrument is wired up with the telephone on the user users desk dek and operates with its own batteries without interference with the ori ordinary inary functioning of the telephone the spoken words are arc recorded on a wax cylinder somewhat after the manner of a phonograph the latest recruit to the ranks of federal legislators favoring woman suffrage is republican minority leader mann of ill III in a recent letter to a prominent woman suffrage leader mr mann denied that he was a convert to the cause but asserted that he has always been an advocate of woman suffrage the announcement of his attitude is causing great rejoicing in suffrage circles between 2000 and 5 00 B C baby lonia ionia was the garden of the ancient world the land landt surrounded like an island by two tia ZI of the finest streams in the world the euphrates Euphrat cs and tigris the rivers pt of paradise is truly the gift of both they flowed with swill swift current from the armenian highlands into the th sea now known as the persian gulf in the course of centuries large masses of loam were wem tolled rolled down and heaped at their or original ginat mouths and this is what we now call babelonia babylonia Baby lonia it was on this soaked fat and fertile soil that the oldest authentic civilization not of asia merely but ol of the world developed itself the melting of the armenian snows caused inundations which had bad to be checked by damming the rivers with dykes and aad walls canals served for navigation and also led off the superfluous waters to parts unaffected by the overflow and developed to such a degree their fertility that wheat and barley often gave the laborer tivo or three hundred fold near bagdad the two rivers are so near that only six six hours are required to pass from one to the other on this tongue of land which was once a fourth narrower the great canal system commenced and by means of still smaller arteries the life waters were distributed ti U nearly every tree the dis district b between bagdad and hilla a three days ride was formerly strewed with heaps of towns and villages to its south in in the very heart of the land lay babylon the gate ol of god the united state government has a farm at panama for or workmen who have become disabled during their labors on the great canal the farm em aloys nearly a hundred men most of whom are cripples some having even lost an arm or a leg the farm produces orangers cocoanuts cocoa nuts bananas products the live I 1 ytol r p stOr stock kincl includes odes cattle pres ates a and poultry y rv on the same plan why could not the government have military farms arms for disabled soldiers or even able bodied soldiers where they could help to make part of their own living instead of being such an expense upon the taxpayers of the country there is is not a regiment of soldiers except during war time but what could spend pirt of the day at farm or other work nd thereby help ease off pirt part of the f unmerciful burden that the tax pay payers ers have to carry in peace the able bodied soldier is as much entitled to help pay part of the of government as is the old laboring man who is doubled up almost in two by helping to carry the tax burdens of his country the U S department of agriculture declares that the bellel belief still to be found in all countries that the planets and the moon affect the weather never had any scientific basis whatever it is only a remnant of the many superstitions generated and fostered by that other greater superstition astrology the department believes that neither the planets por par the moon can appreciably effect the weather on the earth for the reason that they furnish practically no heat on which all weather changes ultimately depend i dr fan fair an englith english scientist s SAY ly that if one could watch the march 0 of people through gh life the following result would be observable nearly will die the first year the second year in the third year and less than ihan in the thirteenth year at the end of forty rive five years will have dated at the end of sixty years 3 7 0 will wil I 1 be still living at the end of eighty yeary at eighty alive fh ve years and at ninety five years 2 2100 at the end of and at the end of years there will be but one survivor many have doubtless heard of the traveling stones of austarlia lia similar curiosities have recently been found in nevada which are described as almost perfectly round the majority of them as large as a walnut and of an irony nature when distributed about upon the floor table or other level surface within two or three feet ul each other they hey immediately begin to traveling fa 0 o f a common cent centered center erad and thereto huddle up in in st a bun bunch chilie like st a lot of bt egil begs in an nest A single si agle stone removed to aj a distance of three and a half feet upon being released at once started off with wonderful and somewhat comical celerity to join his follows taken away four our or five feet it remained motionless they are found in a leg region ion that Is comparatively level and is nothing hut but bare rock scattered over this barren region are little basins from a lew few feletto feet to a rod or two in diameter and it is in the bottom of those that the rolling stones are found they are from the sze of a pea to five or six inches in diameter diar fleter the cause of these stones rolling together Is doubtless to be found in the material of which they are composed which appears to be lodestone or magnetic iron ore according to prof E J banks who acted as field director of the rockefeller Roc hefel expedition sent out to babylonia babelonia Baby lonia by the university of chicago there is little doubt that the people who inhabited the babylonian deseret years ago were more highly civilized than the arab tribe living there today ile he believes I 1 it possible that egyptian civilization and picture writing may have had their origin in some common tribe now unknown to scientists the expedition discovered fragments of 0 pottery and bricks known to be years old and exhumed a statue of an ancient king which is believed to date back ack to B C prince william of weld weid the deposed mug klug has honored theodore roosevelt lyman abbott and C R crane with decorations of the order el cl skender bey these honors have come to ro roosevelt because an essay of hit his delighted deligh td the king to abbott because the king ho has been pleased with his editorial in the outlook and to amne because he built a school for the mori monarch aith dr H A knox of the IL S public health service reported some time ago that he had discovered ln in a finn emi emigrant at ellis island N Y T a throw back to the cave inan man the mari man darwin wrote about but never saw the man was wa of average height was unusually unus ally strong had ft a roving gatt gait and haaf I 1 ayea constantly consi antly the voad ground he he ha lad da a receding g N forehead head dr 12 ha is ears car were lower ow er than tha normal and were placed as are those of an ape the top of the head which was round was covered with coarse wiry mr hair the under jaw protruded prominently and instead of canine teeth he had long aings that made his lips stick out prominently the hands and feet were apelike in many respects and his mentality was far below normal ile he was deported by the authorities on an account af constitutional inferiority |