Show according Acco to estimates of the kansas kansas 1 state board of agriculture wot weather eather W during the month of august A caused a loss of poo to tile tho farmers of the state ancl na i reduced the states total pro d of the cereal for tile the year bikov bushels i oa A largo maternity ni hospital in chicago Chica gobas has adopted the custom of 1 obtaining soon after a child is bop imprints of its feet matte made by inking them and pressing thern them against a sheet of paper the prints furnish a permanent record for identification purposes tesso so that there is now no chance for a substitution ution of babies an indiana man claims to have in invented anted a wireless photographic device by means of which he can photograph objects many miles away eithe either r in the bright light oi of day or antho in the darkness of night tho apparatus leei on the photograph the exact distance in feet feel between the photographer and the object photographed he says his invention will be it invaluable i n time of war and that he will hold ji d it for the united states stales exclusively As james ames watson of bayard del stumbled homeward ho late one night t recently he stopped stepped into a concrete pavement which had been laid only a few hours be fore in the of his bis home a and nd had not cef haA hardened ened find brig it sott and cool he decided to ifor the night I 1 4 borkine Wor kine lh the next az z rt r is W t y morning dvorn the donca q te I 1 W which 1 filch lib hejbal bad sunk t 4 hard a 04 3 h fo 10 b asin aw rt r t afy i evidence in a wll case c g b fe I 1 1 was tried at alphis Amp his 1 isa tecil 11 I 1 some time tim ago was ws stricken nf from u record and the J adge stipulated that it should not be I 1 published taking d t that I 1 bat th te e judge had exceeded his authority itt in making the order G R raine former editor of the memphis news scimitar published the evidence and was wag sentenced for contempt of court the case was reversed in the appeals court the case was reversed in the appeals court but the state su supreme premel court has upheld the original decision and raina will I 1 have a flue fine of 50 and serve 11 sentence of 10 days in jail in the interest of efficiency and economy of time some of the big business concerns of tile the country are beginning to drop the more or ar less meaningless gess and worthless dear bear sir yours truly etc from atom their correspondence in order that their correspondents may not misunderstand the omissions a new york concern has printed at the bottom of its letters the following we ve have never h heard eard a good reason for the use of f dear madam dear sir 0 yours truly and other similar phrases in n business correspondence for the sake of accuracy brevity and economy we have disc discontinued their use in just two years the united st states ates will have such competent t it can dey dex tile the world ld lail gad tho T ho mas A edidson Ed iason chairman Rhal rafan bt the naval ad advisory v isery board while making a tour of the public schools at los angeles within Wi that time we shall aall be in in a position b be afraid of no one the bible bears no date it C comprises m 66 documents document or books and Is supposed to have been written by 40 men the book of Isaiah has 66 chapters there are 54 miracles recorded in the old testament and SI 51 in the new testament the sh shortest ottest verse in th the e bible bibie is john al ali 35 jesus wept in boint of words but not of letters another verse is equally short viz thessalon the scalon ians fans vt vi 16 rejoice Rel gice evermore the longest verse is the ninth verse of 0 the eig eighth n th chapter 0 of esther esther Is 13 the only book in the deity de ity Is not mentioned the bible contains letters letter words esaud I 1 chapt chapters erd the word lord occurs 1855 times and the word and times the word reverend occurs but once and then in the ninth verse ot of the psalm the middle verse iti in the scriptures is the eighth verse of the psalm the aist verse of the seventh chapter of ezra contains all th the letters of the alphabet with the exception ol of the letter J in the bible are no words word or nates with more than six syllables learned men estimate that there are at least 1000 forms tit ti religious worship practiced in ahe world today to day rh ase may be classed under four great heads bizat viz the pagan the dan the jewish and tilie christian ot of these the chief pakan pagan religions no now existing are fetishism Feti chism brahmanism and Bubb hism confucianism taoism and the primitive rell region gion of the coith american indians the number num berof followers of christianity is estimated it ti ith followers follo were of the other creeds cri eds thus thu ft ilu li that christianity claims nearly to 9 thirds as many as the other sects combined i 00 f pv f 0 r 0 seela 1 1 m museum u scum 1 which WM wai advertised 1 to contain cori t alln line oldest and queerest antiquities I 1 tle in 14 the world vie the showman brought out a large arge sword and said aid this ris is the sword that balaam slew his ass lyp with th the scotsman being well up in bible history here interrupted and paid said balaam did not stay slay hi his s ass he only wished d lor for asward a sword to slay it ohl oh returned pat then this is the very sword he wished fort A minister of the north 0 of dand vh will was not too ready at ae paying his debts but very fond of a joke meeting a tool fool he was in the habit of teasing asked him how the po potatoes were delit ing in the moon jut just now oh very cheap and plenty of them said aid the lobl idol but dont you think said the minister that there might be a difficulty in getting them down nae fear 0 that answered the fool send up the moray toor ey aa and soon send them down A married man who had bad been dining out not wisely but too well staggered tag jered home among the small hours houra I 1 and getting gettice into bed as quietly its as possible at once put up his umbrella ia what tomfoolery are arc you after now I 1 I 1 inquired his fils indignant wife only preparing for the storm dearest i the soft answer had turned away rw wrath rath as the wife could only turn on an the other side j and laugh pie eaters will be glad clad to learn of a new machine by macais means of which a foreman and sha assistants can turn out 1800 1 pies an hour the machino crusts which are placed InI gire bolvina bold holder sand ersland C assis assistants th the b crusts moi moistened loistene stene d by b ashes s iles and a wheel trims abent the bilter alter which the pies are read to be removed and placed in tavi oven b axt at one time in england people were prohibited by law from nitika nii ika hats of anything except beaver according to palmists pal mists hott hort hands denote impulsive judgment without analysis whit while louz lout hands denite denbae capacity for or detail scientists have determined the cause of humpback deformity end and predict the hump humpback baci will be a curiosity a hundred years from now the chinese now roust must doft doff their hw hats ewhen when hen meeting friends the government has adopted western ideas in enforcing its new customs recently compiled official statistic ici show that Ir elands decline in tion has been arrested and that illiteracy is tapi vapidly adly dying out an arizona scientist has demon that dates can be ripened la in td incur bator to a perfection that rivals tile the best africia fruit there ate twice as many people in tile the united states as there rate in 19 1880 80 and three times as many its as at the outbreak ol of the civil war japanese sugar cane males makes excellent sugar and is also of great value la in feeding twenty seven ions ion s 0 I 1 this can be raised on one acre f bridal as meaning a least feast to celebrate brate a wedding is really bride ale k ale fe being the terms formerly used to indicate a festival in england in the scottish highlands in olden times a burning wooden 1 cross was carried bla blazing zilig 0 to o and fro ro among the clansmen clansman clans men to rouse them to battle M korov forty varieties of alfalfa art ar neing tried In v florida one scientist promises alfalfa adapted to every climate from the equator to the archie arcele circle en in W the e t X rat broo di s 4 4 britain and ireland only net was vias killed bior or every 72 1000 60 0 carricut carri the first farm paper was printed tn id england in 1681 and alg dignified ifield itself J with the title collection of letters ir the improvement of husbandry n and trade I 1 birds have an extra eyelid which ch can ba drawn over the i eyeball to project it t from the strong sun while the proper proper eyelid tei remains nallis open enabling them to see previous lobs war honors pale before the word that plum pudding is to be scarce twelve thousand tons ol of rais an fn i are being held at smyrna by oe cfaft french fach blockade I 1 that 14 the marshall field estate a amounts ati to t to andr includes among its assets one twenty fifth of 0 the cl chy 0 chicago has recently been brought to light 1 1 the weighing machine raae bine used in im the hb oratory of the bureau of standards ds in washington is said to be the i most ac accurate curite in the world it will we agh the wing of a fly british eyesight tests require men distinguish to colored lights light the size of 0 a pl pinhead pinh ahead cad twelve fee beef eef away before they are licensed to pilot mail steamers on the atlantic I 1 marriages gained 33 pit per cent last jear acar in ireland over the byear year before his with the falling ailing off in fit emIg emigration rallon leads england to believed belie belle ahe edem emerald ld bole alc it Is comi coming liz back to i 16 i tt f the change cham of 0 a gene gener generation ta lion alion in hu hanina harn nature tute is and then some now it Is the briglia red automobile second handed banded for which indians are trading away their valuable lands nothing but a twentieth century bead according to indian mythology the earth is 13 sup supported posted by eight white elephants 4 electrically speaking the average man each day dissipates about two and one half kilowatt hours of energy in motion muscular action muscular ex artion and heat radiation sweating coins is the practice of shaking gold coin in a bag until some part of 0 the metal is worn off in this wa way y a considerable amount ol of gold dust dun can be collected the health department ol of new york city cily has as required reau ired druggists to discard medicines medicines which are labeled sure cu cures r co these concoctions concoct ions ons must now I 1 be described as remedies I 1 yo young ung men arid and women of the azores are looking toward the united states for their university training and are anxious to know costs slid and POW possibilities I 1 bili billt ties lel of earning their living hert hers the greatest star known with a luminosity times limes that of the the sun Is vi visible from the northern hemisphere an english astronomer believes it to b be e the center of the universe cormany for many years thrown into the sea as worthless a low grade cuban molasses lass esis s ming ex exported potted to the united plates in increasing quantities for or use in road building distilling end other purposes A bar of iron worth SS 5 worked into horseshoes horse shoei is worth 10 made into nee adles Is i worth made into penknife pei knife blades is worth and made into balance springs spring of watches is worth simon daria dane macnei Mai neI dl in says lie lf has a jehl I 1 hit n porcupines aral d to lo hoo aang U each morn f mu 4 T A 11 I 1 1 1 b I 1 t otil them toot apic s i Alistra australian Auit ralian llan boner birds con construe ea ra ceries under hinging hanging branch branchesi ell which thay adorn with hl 9 bly colored leathers feathers rags shells bones etc these rhese bowels ate are used fort for mating I 1 in n the breeding season three hundred yearn yeara ago in england klass glass I 1 windows only to i be found in the houses of 0 the hv were regarded reg aided as so pr precious cious that ihil when people left their houses for or a time limp they used tu to take the windows out and put them away the che chemical engineer of the united states slates bureau of 0 mines has discovered a diw new method for or producing I 1 gasoline ile he has also algo found a way to manufacture and from rom petroleum these latt lait named products are used in making smokeless powder in amsterdam there Is being constructed on ted a floating theatre which will accommodate 2300 2309 persons person sand and which will have a restaurant and bar the theatre Is to be towed up the ahne and will give perform performances inces 0 italian opera in eighty pvc five river towns the suu sun valve invented by gusta aaen of stockholm will be used in connection with the le lights on ch the pa panama n canal the sun both lights and extinguishes the light the inventor althe 0 the sun valve recently received the nobel prize fi r this clever deice de ace gentility Centi lity is neither in birth wealth manner nor fashion but in the mind A high sense ohonor 01 honor ft A determination nefer neer to take advar advantage ilag ol of mother another an adhere adherence lica to tr truth ut delicacy and po li tow towards those with whom we have dealings are the essential char actris aC teIs bics tics of 0 a gentleman ent leman A teacher in hi explaining alio fin different kin kinds ts of sentences to liar her class asked what it would bo be it if sho she said 1 I sun ain looking lor a man man 1 I dont know sald said tho lie boy at tile the toot of the class but I 1 adless it would bo be tile truth A well dressed nico looking young woman mol inot RV INV S S heed at st paul adin on oil tho street and condrat u latell hill hain on a sermon lip hp had delivered del vered tho lie sunday before ho thanked her and walked on oil wondering who she could be iio he wondered won derel still diore a short time later when lie discovered that his pocketbook contain conta illif if 30 0 and a roundhill roundtrip round trip till ticket to aid california expositions with her followill Follow Follo wilm liiK an order by mayor thompson for ilia alio police to enforce a state assato law which has bas been ignored for so long conff that fow few know of its existence a ban lias has been placed on oil of liquor in chicago on sundays for tho ilia first timo in 44 years more than liquor dealers aro affected temperance advocates in that city are rejoicing at tho the dry victory aid celebrated tho the first sunday alias closing with a cical anti liquor parado parade A low ow havo have violated tho the closing order and aro are to bo be prosecuted |