Show the first regular standing army was in egypt about 1900 B C the first modern standing force was in trance in in lapland men and women dress exactly alike in tunics leather breeches wrinkled stockings and pointed shoes for the last thirty years the average yield of potatoes pot atoe an acre in ontario his has been about 42 pey per cent over that of the united states at a sale recently held in london 48 semiprecious semi precious stones were sold on each of 0 which is a natural representation 0 of human heads or animal or 01 bird forms after a long series of remarkable experiments peri ments a new york physician has that the function of the little understood spleen is to supply red and white corpuscles corpus cles to the blood william penn in ia his bis charter of rights provided that for every five acres of forest cleared one acre should be left in woods foresters Fo reters today declare that on an average one fifth of the farm should be in timber IW meteorites have hive fallen flallen recently in the vicinity of east belfany Bel he bany thany N Y their impact against the earth was attend edby loud reports and they fell with such force that they buried themselves deeply in the soil A shipment of in paper currency from the office offic e of the assistant treasurer tret sorer surer 4 of the U S at san francis taa to a bank anken in herail was made a lew fa day ago by r registered re a 14 cost 3 A is i charge is the the the high toned literary workers of the country have been much chagrined to learn that the winner winner of the first prize in a contest recently recently conducted by one odthe of the leading magazines for the best articles on the drink question was a nel negro aro a product of booker tuskegee institute while baul baker night watchman at the city dump in chicago was making his bis rounds at an early morning hour recently thieves stole a red hot stove and hill half a ton of coal from his shanty he had no warning whatever he heard no noise and saw no BO vehicle in which the thieves could have carried off their booty charging that a man who lives next door to him operates a dog kennel and that the wholesale dog fighting dog barking and dog growling of the occupants is very annoying to him judge bartolomew of the marion county ind superior court has ha S appealed to another judge of the superior court to give him blin relief from the nuisance the casualty listef list of american Ane rican mines and q quarries for 1913 recently issued by the US U S bureau of mines shows that more than men lost their lives while engaged in this industry in the year it is estimated that others were injured more than I 1 men were employed in the various mines and quarries of the country the death rate per 1000 is almost 35 ao an arousing incident happened some time ago in one of the paris courts oi of justice A vain haughty woman was called as aj a witness when the inaz magistrate istrate inquired her age twenty five last august promptly replied the lady the next witness was a young man who at once acknowledged that he was 27 years of cf age are arc you related to the last witness queried the magistrate yes I 1 am her son he rt replied plied ahl mused the magistrate 44 your you mother must have married very young henry siegel a new york banker merchant has just been found guilty of B misdemeanor in obtaining credit on alleged false financial statements and has been sentenced to day a file of and serve 10 months in the penitentiary although his business en enterprises terp rises were in a bankrupt condition it is charged that he allowed and eyen even urged depositors many of were poor shop girls to put their money into his bank in order that he might turn it into his stores it was announced some time ago aeo by the president of amherst college at amherst mass that the ifie income from a fund of is to be used in that institution for the establishment of a chair of common sense the british road improvement association has offered a prize of for an improved horseshoe which will afford the animal sound looting footing on the modern smooth pavement and at the same t time me minimize the amount of damage done to the roadway by t the he cyp a of shoes |