Show 1 1 i ehen en grady a pennsylvania rail td d matron of chicago his has been in the employ of the railroad company for bore boore than 30 years she has lust just fieo bi tu placed on the companas comp anys roll of honor the pension list along with SO 50 or h er employees whom the company has vi retired a 5 mrs annette adams recently took the h oath of office as assistant U S district attorney in the federal court at san S francisco she abonce at once began her duties as fourth assistant to the U S district attorney for northern california cal fornia she is the first women to hold such a mo position in this country I 1 I 1 wa t ta i among the spectators at a recent prize fight conducted in new orleans were a score of women who watched amz the proceedings with intense interest Club women and clergymen of that i place have undertaken a campaign to secure legislation to compel the discontinuance of prize fights within the city and to prevent women from at M tending them h f A unique wedding occurred recently at huntington W va when twin sis ws misses mayme and bessie crawford were married to Willi william amand and ali Vb crt brothers although the 1 he ca seare not the h have ave 01 always been i inseparable ns afable co companions in pan ions they courted the twins together and both proposed ori on the same night while in file erie pa in the interests of his bis candidacy gifford Plu pinchot chot pennsylvania progressive senatorial candidate was taken violently ill with ptomaine poisoning mrs rin pinchot chot a bridi bride of a few weeks pluckily threw herself into the breach and started out on a speechmaking speech making dour tour of the places where her husband was scheduled to sneak ale proved herself tobe a very efficient campaigner mrs T J preston formerly mrs grover cleveland was in switzerland when hostilities began in europe and many of her friends in america were alarmed for her safety because nothing was heard from her for several weeks with her two daughters and her son she gri finally alfy succeeded in reaching naples from whence she sailed for new york arriving safely a short time ago mrs frank paxton of denver colo has been blind since she was seve seven ft years old and only a few weeks ago physicians who examined her eyes declared that her sight could never be regained Re recently cantly a fly alighted on an her face and her little son in trying to knock it off with a newspaper struck herlett her left timple temple with a corner of the paper almost immediately she cried out 1 I c can see the recovery of 0 her vision is regarded as miraculous statistics compiled by an insurance insurance weekly show that deaths by murder have greatly increased in the united states within the past 30 years vie number of homicides hoac ides is six six times as great in in 14 new york GIC as in london returns turns from 30 representative american cities show an average homicide rate of nearly nine per population this rate is higher hl in memphis tenn than ihan in any other american city so far ats s can be determined from the records the hean of an average avenge man makes about one three thousandth of ft a volt of electricity at every beat and an instrument sensitive enough to measure it has been invented among the nations of 0 europe tukey is the only ono one which does docs not fly the red cross tn in time of war instead the army meal medical cj corps uses h red cresce crescent tit on a white background there I 1 Is s a marke mailed 1 l for broken glass some ot of it is ground in in fine particles pa nicles and buted for various purposes at other times it is re melted and made into new glass objects I 1 by treating youns young chickens with high frequency high voltage curr currents qs of electricity a london experimenter has made them grow more rapidly than those of the same age reared without the tret treatment ment the government of india has ao pointed an expert to make an exhaustive study of the white ants of that country whir which h completely destroy all boots books with which they come in contact it if not detected in time convinced that all the world except palestine will be destroyed within two years adolph koenig a prosperous minnesota fa farmer riner has disposed of his farm and with his family has departed for the land of safety when he found his aunts new false teeth in a glass of water floyd fiord tray ler jer a kalamazoo Kak mazoo mich mch youth stole them aad cast theta them far out into the ka river for this act he has Just been sentenced to serves serve a term 01 ol from one to yeaton te n biary the tur european war has cut off the supply of small camels hair brushes much used in watercolor water color work and has thus led to the discovery of a substitute in this country it has been found that the hair from the inner side of a cows ears make even better brushes for the purpose than those hitherto imported from germany some time aro aeo D F hawley of thiells Thi ells N Y r received a letter in which he was informed that a brother had died and left him a legacy of he started to run upstairs to impart the glad news to his daughter but the exertion exhausted him and he fell dead at the top of thi the stairs a victim of heart disease he was 62 years old two governors those of oregon and massachusetts have suspended the hunting season this year because of unusual danger of forest fires because of extreme drouth the fire risks on the national forests in the northwest have been greater this season than in any other since 19 1910 10 the worst year since the forests were created less damage casdone was done this yeu year because elpe rince in fire firefighting fighting was wai gained in n the fires of of 1910 foundry M E church one of the oldest in washington recently celebrated the anniversary of its founding the original church was built on ground donated by the owner of 0 a foundry at georgetown now a part of washington out of 0 gratitude for or the escape of his foundry during the in n vestment of the territory by the aish sh in the war of 1812 secretary of the navy daniels who vvo was one b the speakers at the celebration urged the consolidation of the north and south and of all church organizations for the universal good and expressed the hope that universal peace may soon come even though it would cause him to lose his bis job ob workmen while engaged in the construction st of an intake crib nearly a mile out in lake michigan at milwaukee were nearly drowned when high waves flooded the crib nd cd made it impossible for or rescuing patties to i approach near enough in n agag a tag to take e them off A I 1 member of 0 the ile life lifesaving saving crew finall finally y swim swam to the crib with a line and life belt and the marooned men were say ed A well made stone ax was discover ed frn Im added bedded in a rock blasted horn hom a ledge in madison county ark some lome time ago in 14 the construction ot of a rail road the was in limestone rock and aid left a perfect cast when taken out I 1 above the ledge in fa which the a ax wak wa found there theft wash was a layer of sedimentary rock 80 60 feet in thickness it th arites ago the ancient amplement emp lement was dropped into the bands along the beach of what was therk then the gull gulf of mexico seven yens years ago a prospector told ot of finding a grasshopper gl glacier aclee among amon the Bear tooth range of moun mountains talas in montana but little credence was given his tale recently the supposed myth has been by J JC C Whit bam a government forester he asserts that there is a belt of grasshoppers imbed ded in the ice fee and running the entire length of the glacier clacher which Is 10 miles long it is believed that the swum swarm of insect ads was trying to cross the range when caught by the ice stream out oot of each 1000 soldiers at gettysburg 56 were killed in battle line L in e up on any street 1000 men mea aged 49 years and 55 of them will die aie a natural death by the time they are 53 33 you see gee ilou are 49 your chance of laving lavin 1 in four yara th chance a soldier had bad of at gettysburg see a war dis dispatch P atch running somewhat like this you may be sure it is untrue germans lost killed and wounded in the twelve great battles batties of the civil war the number of killed was only one fifth of the wounded hence in abal abartle a battle tle in which are arc wounded the regular thing would be only about killed the largest known winged is a species of or found in it has a body that Is more than 0 inches long A wingless is found in borneo which has a body 13 inches in length this is the largest living jiving insect kiowa own but a dragonfly dragon fly like insect litif a wing expanse expand d of 25 inches and a body 14 inches long flourished in the carboniferous period at the the pr present esert year there were we telephones in use in the world with miles of telephone wire 66 per cent ol of alit total bumbel of telephones were used in inthis this country aid 27 per cent in europe hollands safety in time of war lies in her ability to flood great tracts of land nd william of orange flooded the country in 15 1574 7 4 and by so doing drove out the spanish invaders the same policy was adopted on the occasion of the french invasion of 1672 |