Show the united states Is sending ship loads of eggs egas to euro europe pe at the same time china is sending us large quant cities of eggs which are sold in some stores of 0 the west at six for or ten cents here eggs are worth 30 centa a dozen it is said that aero plains now carry daily dispatches to and from the differ diber erent armies in the duropan battle fields during the siege of paris in the franco prussian war the only mode of comuni communication cation that the french could and did use was by carrier pigeons and bal ballon lons russian soldiers cre said to be wearing japanese paper clothing made from mulberry bark the fabric is tough soft and durable garments made with silk wadding quilted between sheets of the paper are said to be warm ard comfortable comfor tabe the only objection object on is thit thai the material will not admit of 01 washing howell homes and miss ella hart were married the other day auder a ritual which they had bad prepared themselves both are intersected ed in social science and the ritual was modeled in accordance with modern ideas along that line tle the word obey and all the idea of wifely obedience nce were not mentioned in the marriage ceremony the bureau ol of chemistry in washington is experimenting with combinations of potato meil and wheat flour in bread making the most satisfactory loaves are those that contain thirty per cent or less of potato meal the bread is course and gray in color a good Aaste taste td oia 0 a ar t n I 1 ai ions 0 avaral rd me alsis is if tata scones I 1 k A emad e bout out of mashed p potatoes andA and flour our finding that the wages paid in in eions ti ons open to her were too small to support her ida weinstein a jewish girl became a roan man married facine baulne and for six years the two lived together as mr and mrs ben As a man ben was able to find remunerative work but she was stricken with tuberculosis and died a short time ago until then no one who knew the couple suspected that the husband was a woman believing that the saloon ev evl 1 as it existed there could be reine remedied died by putting the management of the drinking places irao into the hands of municipal authorities the town of lemmon S D some months ago undertook to run a saloon for or the accommodation of its thirsty citizens the municipal saloon is said to be a paying venture providing funds for various municipal uses and at the same saine time robbing the liquor business of a large number of its objectionable features one good husband when theodore theodate parker was married he entered in his journal on his wedding day the following resolutions I 1 never except for the th best of reasons to oppose my cifes will 2 to discharge all duties for her sake freely 3 never to scold 4 never to look cross at al her S never to weary her with commands 6 to promote her piety 1 to bear her burdens 8 to overlook her foibles 9 to sive save cherish and for or ever defend her 10 to kemem ber bei her always most affectionately in ray my prayers in connection with those well de fined p theodore parker Pa ricer we might place along side aide ot of them the s simple mple marria marriage gd agg rement of elder john hope and his bis wife mary when they joined hinds hands together and swore over the good book that no misunderstanding was ever to come betwixt them in this life but agh whit at a kiss was to cure it is stated that hundreds of thousands of gallons of choice nut oil are being lost every year in british honduras because no practical means has been found for its recovery the great fire of lonon in 1666 started in a house on pudding line lane and ended at piecrust alley thirteen thousand thou and two hundred houses were burned including 89 churches wild horse horsek in arabia will not admit a tame horse among them but the wild horses if f south america endeavor to decoy domesticated horses from their masters and seem pager eager to welcome them at a cost of calais made its harbor which was nearly dry at low tide one of 0 the finest in europe and enabled it to become a chief port of nt debarkation lor for travelers from england to france la japanese cooks seldom use the fingers in the preparation of food chop sticks spoons and many other ingenious little utensils in white wood do the work which is of the most elaborate nature many of the dishes requiring 24 hours to prepare the four our leading continental countries at war have a total wheat area of about acres and a rye area of acres the war means probably a loss of acres of wheatland wheat and rye in france germany austria hungary and russia the government bureau of standards the i glass tot ot op optical tic 1 th g a determining the best methods of manufacture and to interesting glass manufacturers fac rs in its production so far american glass makers have given but little attention to this klud kind of glass because the demand for it is comparative ly small and because of the difficulties involved in making it in the varying com positing required and in angeling ann eling it medical authorities who have recently com pleated a study of pellagra have found that apparently there is little consistently relationship between the use of any particular kind of food and the occur ranc of the disease it appears however that it is infectious for new cases cases were found to develop almost exclusively in persons living in houses where it had previously occurred and in adjacent houses it is thought that it is not to any great greal distance A new zeland newspaper has hit upon a new plan to raise money for the colonial war fund it has opened iti columns to a competition for the office of poet laureate of auckland but to become eligible for or the office each aspirant must send in one verse of his elusion written on the back of a five pound note there will be one thing certain about that competition the verse written on the bank note will be worth some thing but most of the will have to keep out of t the he competition competition for or want of the note if life be a battle how mad roust must he be who falls fails to arm himself for the contests conte cont estl sll if life is a storm how iffat bated is he who sleeps while his bark is driven amid unknown if life be a pilgrimage how bow unwise is he who strays from the right ro road nor seeks to return till the evening shadows gather round his pathways path mens wens lives should be like day more beautiful fulin in the evening or like summer aglow with promise and like autumn rich with golden sheaves where good deeds h s the harvest canada has over acres ol of land devoted to alfalfa growing owing to the dry cold not one infectious disease is known knowal in greenland A telegraph cable for use between new york and colon Is a being r made al ae that will cost i 1 jamaica annually tarnishes furnishes from to bunches of bananas to the united states ten years ago the british army in south africa drew on the united states lar about horses kapok fiber as a filling for life preservers has been found to sustain 20 times its own weight in water both fine lace and strong ropes are made from the siberian nettle in sweden nettles are cultivated for cattle fodder there are arc about acres acre s of tillable lands in the philippines of which only about acres are cultivated it is unlawful in turkey to seize it a mans reside residence nc for debt and sufficient land to support him is also exempt from seizure if there were only one potato in the world a careful cultivator it As is estimated could produce from it in 10 years As Asia lastic russia contains rivers with a total navigable length of 1349 a 4 TI T I miles in and c rao our u r 1 lakes akes t that arh 4 can abe be navigated for miles more than 2000 mileson miles mi lesof of line and miles of wires and cables and telephone exchanges were established in india last year farmers in one region of queensland feed their horses on chopped i banana stalks taken just after the fruit his has been harvested on the flat top of 91 table fable mountain near cape town a strong southeast wind produces a horizontal sheet of cloud known as the table cloth mt sangay in the eastern chain of the andes in south america is the most active volcano in the world it has been in constant eruption since 1728 both the heaviest and the lightest woods grow in the united states the former being florida ironwood and the latter the so called cork at 0 southwestern missouri parrots seize objects with the left claw clava by preference or exclusively and they have been found to make a readier use of the left claw for clim climbing bread than the right concrete as a material for or gate structures irrigation canals is beginning to displace wood its durability overcoming the disadvantage ol of higher cost the mountains mounta lits of porto rico are s sa magnetic that they attract surveyors vors plumb line it has been found that some old surveys are arc incorrect by hall a m mile ile or more it is believed that ultraviolet lelet light IN rays ate are largely responsible lor for the lading fading of 0 museum specimens in show leases cases and experiments are now being made with ii a view to obtaining glass which will be at the same time colorless and inexpensive C P henning of atlanta ga 1 bought a pair of 0 shoes the other day and after he had worn them a few hours they hurt his feet he removed them and found a 81 1 bill la in the we toe ol of each shoe the brand of the shoes is not mentioned in the dispatch for several weeks past a female voice haa been heard every day at a certain hour singing the holy city in the private office of the governor in the state capitol at madison wis the room has been carefully searched but no explanation of the mysterious voice has been found W A maigne and his wife of dunton danton L I 1 had separated but they could not agree as to the custody of their three children it was finally decided to deed them over to malones Ma lopes mother accordingly a quitclaim quit claim deed was madi mad out and put on record exactly the same as thousands of other dededi involving iny real estate transactions the parents agree in the deed to relinquish all of their rights in consideration of 1 A powerful ferryboat ferry boat said to be the largest in the world his been built and will be used to transfer loaded freight cars between key west fla and havana cuba its use will sim r fy the shipment of perishable materials between this country and cuba and by eliminating the handling of such freight in transshipping will insure its transportation in good condition it will also probably lower the cot cost of shipment I 1 H f you want the best the affords at all seasons ct cf the year go to tc 0 ala ua v a |