Show for yew ye rs radley mohr hoarded boarded at the home ot of H A acker at allen alien pa and the two men were exceptionally good friends after death a short time ago a will was found making acker the sole beneficiary of estate which much to the surprise of 0 all who had known him consisted of in currency and know now it la is pig raising contests contest that is coming into vogue for the third year the better farming bention of the north dakota experiment station is enrolling many hundred boys and girls in pig raising contests they offer generous money prizes for the litters furrowed not latter may that gain the most weight in the least time at the least ex pence the contest will close on november 20 I 1 li is remarkable to reid read about the number of foreigners foreigner who have clang to their homes and places of business in mexico city during the turmoil and cruel fighting of thi the past two or 01 three years according to a redart issued by the state department ment at washington it is estimated that among thara are arc 2500 americans Amt Arnt ricans cubans spaniards 2000 chinese 2000 turks 1000 french 1800 germans 1000 english italians japanese and others nearly in a population of less thin than halfa halt balfa a million A late bulletin ol of the department of agriculture sets forth the startling fact that it the export of wheat from this country to european nations goes on as i it t h has j a t been doin doing gAhe the past three months 1 he h 6 of wheat tor for bread and for foi op 16 b ec tit ok 7 on march I 1 to bea sur surplus plus of about bushels of the grain which would be available for shipment abroad in the months preceding the harvesting of the next crop but figures show that an average of bushels per month has been exported inthe in the past three months at that rate a total of bushels would be required to supply the foreign demand until july when the new crop will be available the school children of the united states rece recently itly presented to the ten waring nations through their representatives it at washington a peace petition the petition was two and a halt half miles long and carried the names of hall half a million young people miss katherine devereux blake a new york teacher suggested the plan and signers in III all parts of the country supported it the petitioners petition ers signed themselves the children and grandchildren ot ol your former subjects and begged that the differences of the warring nations be submitted to the hague tribunal for the sake of the helpless children of europe and asia who are being deprived of cheif fathers and their education uca tion and who are being irreparably degraded by the hideous conditions condition created by war about a dozen witty commercial travelers were eating at a hotel in boston and were being waited on by young lady waiter girls one of 0 the girls was very pretty her triable ways and trim white toilet drew the attention of every one alter after chaffing the pretty waitress a while one commercial mana handsome young fellow from new york looked up and asked whit what is your name my pretty wai waitress tresi i My Lly name namey said the young ladli I 1 A z blushing is pearl pearll pearil repeated the commercial man that is a very pretty name a very v e r y pretty name then thinking a moment he 4 asked are you the pearl of great price no modestly replied the pretty girl 1 fam I am the pearl peford sine to ferdinand terrell Tc rrell of patchogue L I 1 had his back broken in his boyhood and has been incapacitated for hard work ever since he has a luxuriant growth of chestnut hair and has dec decided to sacrifice it in orde to eke out I 1 his fortune to this end he is advertising in the local capers that for the suro sum of he will exchange his scalp thickly covered with hair lor for the bald scalp of someone desirous of hirsute adornments stipulating that the transfer is to be made simultaneously by skilled surgeons the location of eureka springs in arkansas is unique in the extreme the house rise one above another like hugh steps order and regularity was disregarded and houses have been built upon every available spot the streets abound in crooks and angles and the general aspect of the surrounding country is wild picturesque and romantic the houses ire are oddly shaped and face all the points of the compass Ii forder to ascertain the strength of a dynamite cap T A smith i ranchman living at lindsay calif placed one on oa the tongue of a plow and struck it with a hammer he is cow in the hospital with his face and hands swathed in thick cumbersome bandages but he knows that I 1 the cap pressed ps essed plenty of strength mrs dolly shute and her daughter miss josephine of south norwalk conni conn were married recently to alfred and moslem lyle twin brothers mrs shute gave her age as 35 and her daughter stated hers hen as 21 J the pearls pe eirls found in australia are aie of miny many and sizes I 1 the alps contain at least glaciers over five miles in length A little more than one third ol of the workers of this country are arc agrical tourists turis ts during one flood ol of the yingtse kiang kiane in chini china persons were drowned A it wi 1 fai 6 1 more kinds of flowering plants A t than th all europe the river in seberia Se berla is 2200 miles long lone and drains miles of territory experiments in france have haie shown that ordinary sod is an efficient filter for sewage I 1 the worlds greatest iodine works are arc in chile having in an annual output of pounds in 1850 there w asre re 2528 newspapers published in this country now there are more than italy harvests about acres of tomatoes yearly and the wastage amounts to practically nothing the united states has been supplying horses to the counties of europe recently it t the rate of 2000 a week in the secondary schools idone alone in japan more thin than boys and girls are studying the english language the canary bird importation anio into this country from the hartz mountains has amounted to birds a year for several years what is asserted to be the finest stone mason work in the world is to be seen in the ruins of 0 inca palaces in the city of cuzco peu feu an observatory at berlin holds the worlds most accurate clock which is kept in an airtight air tight light glass class cylinders in ahe be basemen basement tot of the gliding Fill ding the supply of aluminum foil which is largely used as a substitute for tinfoil and over which it has advantages other thin than that of economy has been seriously interfered with b by the war as much of this material has been heretofore supplied by Germany io 10 prevent imposition on visitors there is a rovern government ment office in london where so called antiques may be submitted to expert examination white pine and yellow pine are the woods most used for boxes and each contributes more thin than feet to the box industry annually the united states consul in calgary canada says gays uie the remarkable develop development of western canada has been made barge ely on borrowed capital all germany many uses a postcards for dome domestic correspond respond por correspondence uce as any other n nation japan rank ranking second and the united states third plants are forced by a danish scientist by administering chloroform his theory being that brief periods of rest are arc followed by quicker growth the outer walls of a rw rew safe are perforated to permit the gases 0 of f an all explosion to to escde and thereby a burglar who tries to blow it open regarded as weather prophets by the natives the black howl hollm rs the largest of the panama monkeys monkey st set up a roaring howl al almost most suggestive of the lion A project for draining and reclaiming acres of land in egypt work on which has been beed begun is one of the greatest and most expensive tasks of the kind ever attempted spinach was introduced into england early in t the he reign of queen elizabeth as also was the cucumber while celery was introduced to english tables by a french prisoner in 1701 u it if you want the best the marke affords at all al seasons of the year go to ze evisa |