Show human huma beings generally stop growing at the age of 18 A british private escaped three bullets in an hours fighting in france one penetrated his pouch another the pack P on his back and a third destroy rifle chinese take the oath in court by kneeling down and breaking a saucer the officer of the court then says you shall tell the truth and the truth the saucer is cracked and if you do not tell the truth your yolar soul will be cracked like the saucer the only monument in the world erected erected toche to fihs ihs memory of horses which have fallen in in war was raised by public subscription at port port elizabeth cape colony south africa in recognition of the gallant animals which perished in the boer war 1899 1902 five thousand civilians hive been shot by order of the german military authorities in belgium according to authentic reports report received by the belgian go vern ment the figure is approximate and unofficial because no local authorities who fear ear reprisals would dare draw up official reports the estimates so far made are as follows aut Brabant flanders liege lim limbourg bourg 40 luxemburg 1000 namur 1800 an american officer who fought in the philippines tells the following story of filipino wisdom an amerlean american came home one day just in time to stee see a thief in the act of climbing out of the window with the better part of the americans wardrobe he gave chase so earnestly that the ahelf was fiely to drop the clothing so that he tight might run theft ater he soon i h rr veto cs c beloT s just t lan gathered pt ere ftp his dg ahen then along came a native police policeman raw who proceeded to put the american under arrest since lie he seemed to be adil acting ngin in a suspicious ous manner to the I 1 local magistrate before whom he was baled the Ameil american can told his story very plainly and emphatically when he had concluded the filipino judge you are arc diss missed but yaa you may leave our clothes here why demanded the american for this r reason answered the magistrate magi i e with the air of a sage that thai it is uncertain whither you speak the truth when the thief re turnes to identify these clothes as the ones he stole yon may have them for every man killed in battle orte one ton ion of cannonballs cannon balls is required although this was an old theory in the days of 61 the flintlocks flint locks and muzzle load ers it ft is aan a known 0 wn fact today general drobne of the german army has proven this 0 to o bp be true by a careful study of les un on the battle of kiso chau which prece proceeded eded the siege 61 port arthur during the russo japan ese se war I 1 inthis in this battle the russians killed were 1475 officers and men the I 1 japanese loss numbered officers and men tile the japanese discharged cannon shots and tine cartridges while the russians arces fired rifle cartales and cannon sats eighteen per centon the losses were caused by artillery and 82 per cent by small arms according to general ro rohne line it took cannonballs cannon balls or cartridges to kill each japanese and 11 can cannon ton shots or to gohll kill each russian the cannonballs cannon balls U bied sd by the japanese had an average freight ol of boz and the akas disch aei by them weighed Kr Th trefor it appears that about of steel and lead in the boim aim of cann cannonballs cannon balls or alb in the lorm form ol of was required to kill each russian lost loit sn that battle s experiments indicate that fireflies emit a species of xray X ray henry VIII was the first english sovereign 0 to o be styled his majesty ji 13 poisonous in its raw nw state but is by toi roasting sting some mi machine cliftA buhi cuns have a grins firing power of mo mote te thin than 1000 shots to a minute before thi the nineteenth century shoes were hot biot made to in rights and lefts iron rings ring yere used as money by the ancient britons lucullus so sometimes llie tImes spent more than on a single meal lit ih the courts ot of a year about 1500 1 I 1 species oi of birds are arc imported into the country the fore forestry service hits has found several substitutes tot lot spruce in the manufacture of 0 paper the bank joi of england london stands on no ailbe valued at it is three acres in fin area tile the britt firl lish sh government is establish ine inc a vety very powerful wireless slat station loil in jamaica in some parti of 01 switzerland granite is so plentiful ti tak it is used for tele graph poles j virginia is tha tha leading state in the production of sol soapstone 01 tone vermont ranking ing second in the Ja japanese nary an admiral gets tha th same allowance for or food as his hil enlisted eni I 1 sailors s A camera with which motion pictures of the aurori h have acen been made a t fay alexander pope the poet was four feet six inches high a hunchback and unable to dress or undress himself althe of the IS 15 0 kinds of mushroom fungi listed by the department of apiculture agriculture 72 ire an described as poisonous I 1 the longest pable cable crossing the atlantic is that running from lisbon to rou ca cometh something ing over miles new york state gets geta more of ifie immigrants crants rants striving arriving here than an any other commonwealth broken bones ate are now quickly healed by an injection of bone dust in petroleum around the ruptured ends it is said that nero once paid a sura sum equal to about for two cups of transparent glass statisticians say that out of every million of the worlds population about 64 are arc blind when elephants are in tle the vicinity ol of tigers they beat their trunks upon the ground hyenas jaws are so powerful fu that they can break the thin shin bone of 0 a bullock bulloc kit at one snap the catgut used for violin strings I 1 ii not obtained from cats but from sheep or boata the ne busis tusks of the african elephant sometimes weigh as much as pounds each and reach a length of eight or nine feet oatmeal is generally adulterated with barley flour to give it a whiter appearance C one single tuft is left on the shaven crown of musselman for mohammed to grasp hold of when drawing the dead to paradise A swiss scientist freezee living fish and revives them weeks later one third of 0 the sufferers erets from gout la in hospitals are plin painters saws were first fashioned in imitation of the jawbone of a snake silk was at one time so valuable thit it fetched its own weight in ia gold australia in h 1913 consumed matches valued at sl the united states in 1914 mined tons of crude iron eagles and vultures have been known to live for or more thin than years plowing Is illegal on in certain days in india chile his has acres devoted to vineyards y Louish kin russian the glint giant druna drum major of the amerial guards was eight feet five inches high it it i rot not lawful for a man to leave a british ship or even a snare in one KS as it a lagacy to a fo foi eigner leigner hypodermic injections of water wilt will often induce sleep if the patient thinks in morphia ehla is being given engrish Eng A ish chemists haye have succeeded in producing substitutes for hard rubber and leather from on the surface submarines derive theli motive power from oll oil or petrol submerged they are driven by electricity triciti tri city erty kangaroos X augu oos 0 ol 01 I 1 which th there er are arc fifty 11 six species sp ecles can sometimes sometime 3 leap as I 1 much as twenty feet j accacio occa oc cacio clo byron dante dick dickens berrick Oer rick ere si 1 l siri f y before painting of his bis celebia celebrated ted snowstorm turner had himself lashed for four hours hour hourston sto to the mast mail of 9 I 1 steamer in a tempest F the installation of 01 a light electric plat plant in the palace of the sultan of oman marked the introduction of electrical machinery into arabia more thin than as de oer r ce cent antof of the mile age of german railroads ii laid on iron ties one state which is rich in forests using them hern almost exclusively p i j according to a statement going the rounds of the capeis in the united states there is only obly one in iu that buys a book in the course of a 8 year white while in great britain it is one in in prince france it is about the sane same in germany and japar it Is rather better and in switzerland erland it is one in cheaper books in paper covers accounts for some of this differ ence but whatever the cause it re mains true that the europeans buy twice a s many books per capita as we do rhe fhe rev ernest houghton an english minister has started an appeal to patriotic women women of the english nation to give their lives to ameliorate thi the condition of malmed heros ot oi the war by marrying thern them he mehai hii or organized a league lea gue for the marring of broken heros this minister contends that the cia example mple of france shows that unions thus or ranged promise a greiter greater par percentage of happiness tha ahai 1 is customary from the methods in iii england because they are based upon a high degree of strict secrecy is promised promIs Fil as to the of 0 bomin women prepared prepared A to t imm olife A f themselves fro stives after the planol the league until the arrangements for their marriage rite are carried out Tuil parents always beat their children on the soles of thelt their liet feet lea ida for architect architectural unal purposes is used with wonderful results in northern countries portably Por bably the most remarkable bui building ldina constructed wholly of ice was the palace built on the nova neva by the czarina anno of russia largo blocks of ice wore were cut and squared with creat care and laid on one another by skilful masons who cemented the joints with water which immediately froza froze the building buil dinn when completed was 56 feet long lone 18 feet wide and 21 feet high it was but one story tho facade contained it u door sur mounted by bv an ornamental poul padl men mont and six windows tho the frames and panes wore were all al of ico ice an elaborate balustrade adorned w with aith statues ran rail along the lie top of the facade facino and another balustrade surrounded the building at the loval leval of the ho ground the grounds were futher adorned with a life size figure of an ail elephant with his mahout on his back A stream of water was thrown from the elephants trunk by day and a flame of naptha by night A specimen of the tyrannosaurus 47 feet long and 18 feet high was placed on exhibition the oth other erday day at the american mus cum of Nii natural tural history story it was unearth on oil big dry creek in the montana dad bad lands by barnum brown a fossil hunter who has discovered several specimens of tite the dinosaur the he tyrannosaurus tyrannosaur ug is a giant re bitile distantly related to lizards but with hind legs fashioned like those of 61 birds and its gigantic head dagger liko teeth and sharp claws show that it was savil roamed jy IFie ais lie efio steb p tl ii tarca en pla aidt tet ei be sides b A was giving a fe essof on thir the circulation of tho the blood trying q make the matter clear d said NOW buys boys ii if I 1 stood ad on my head bead the blood as you know would run into it and I 1 should turn red in the face yes sir said the boys now continued the teacher aliat what I 1 want to know is this how is it that while I 1 am standing up right in tho the ordinary position the allt blood does not rush into toy my feo fee r and a fellow shouted why sar because yer feet abut empty tho the now regulations governing the sale of alcohol throughout ghoul france prohibit wine shops sell ingaby ing any form of alcohol before noon sales to women and chit dren at any hour are forbidden for biden all the lighting fighting nations are f st finding out that hiat alcohol is one of their worst enemies either atheme t omo or abroad more than is being bald weekly by ifie he british gove bovo rement to the wives and children of soldiers serving in in the army since the start of the war france has lost 2000 public school tta eachers chers kalled and injured |