Show it is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse urse with superior minds and these invaluable means of communication muni mu cation are in the reach of all in the best books great men talk ja 10 lo us give ui us heir most precious tago thoughts 9 ats and pour their souls into ours our god be ba anan thanked ked for lic books they are ie the voices of the distant and the de dead dand and make us heirs heir of the spiritual life tile of past pail aes 1 books are the true eyelets they give to all who will faithfull y use them the society the ual pre ence of the best and greatest of our race no matter now poor hoori I 1 arn am no matter though the prosperous 0 ot my own time ilme will not enter my obscure dwelling if i the sacred writers wilt will enter cuter find and take up their abode under my tool roof it if milton will cross my threshold to sing to me ol 01 paradise and shakespeare Shak speare koopen to open to me the worlds of ol imagination and the workings wo ekings of the human heart and franklin to enrich roe with his practical wisdom I 1 shall not pine for ifor want of intellectual companionship and I 1 way may become a cuhl cultivate yate man though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I 1 live england was the scene recently ol of a fire which destroyed ab ab ker wyke the historic mansion mans ionin in which henry VIII wooed anne 13 runnymede Runy mede meadow famous as the spot where xing king john signed the magna chana was illuminated by the flames Wi wealthy althy russians are burlea burled in a glass coffins f ai scotch atch waterfalls possess R million horse power 1 one child in four dies before it is six years of 0 age I 1 I 1 austria has assumed cont control ro i of the galician Galic Gali iun cida oil industry maintenance of 0 prisoners in Engla england tid costs a year alaska and nineteen states of the union produce copper I 1 slate billiard tables were first played on in great Bil britain talu in 1827 the pig ot of morocco have learned to climb trees in search of nuts the hump of 0 a camel is re regarded is as a choice morsel of food in arabia california date growers have received new palm trees from africa june and a 4 wet summer in engen h have ve caused a honey shortage thor tane there I 1 A shell shelf about seventy pounds explodes into nto a shower of 1200 pieces there are golfers in the united states ten years ago there w were are only argentina is getting boore of the ar war bui business ness than any other country except the united states stales canners in sodus N M are using the kernels in the cherry s seeds er dujo to give flavor to the canoed canned fruit n U isace time soldiers in the italian im arra Y yare afi allowed allowe d tw two h boari 0 urs in 61 the e at 11 0 p 1 I W is a middle t the hi day 0 n arg T A 1 I rs wk ial practically any outdoor game gam e i that ai a child plays playa in the street lk 0 of ake few w k york is a violation of the law A man that weighs pounds ti contains an enough create to make seventy biye candles and 4 pound of soap hong kong has a wireless Ss station with a radius of from SOO 0 jo o miles in daytimes day times and more than thana mites miles al i i cannons loaded with sand have been found inflective 4 active in breaking up swarms arms or of locusts that frequently appear 1 in n costa rica an ant can carry a grain of corn ten I 1 tirres liras its weight while it a roan man or of a lorse can carry a burden of only belr thela own weight the d raised by automobiles has bern blamed by medical authorities for or an increase in pulmonary diseases in the philippine in an effort to keep the germans german i from er crossing issing the vistula several hun bun dred died women aided the russian soldiers i to 0 dig trenches the russian government plans the longest railroad tunnel in the world with a length of fifteen nilles to save an mile detour del our y A german scientist has demonstrated that radium has a marked maried effect on woody plants eyen even forc forcing ang them to bud iq in dormant sea soni the peir pearl fisheries 0 ceylon are believed to be the worlds oldest industry as they have been carried baffled on for impre than yew s T w by bv transplanting upside i down so that the branches developed roots and the toots roots leaves an english railway hu produced small shade trees tree in less time than han ordinarily some of 6 the horsepower a valla bleat at the aun dam in egypt will be tiled tot tor the production of at nitrogen by electricity the arti artificial fical coloring of gold fish 0 f meet m bet prey prevailing alling tastes by keeping keep ing them in water containing certain chemicals I 1 is C extensively carried on in sicily A arld wild goose has been the pet of 0 it a kansas XA ansas man lor for eighteen yeary acting ac ling as weather prophet watchman and a decoy when he goes hunting A careful test ot of two swedish ships ol 01 oj identical design showed electric motors more economical econom cal for propulsion th than triple expansion steam engines insulated with a specialty prepared P paper ap er an electric cable carrying lo 10 oft volts in england was wag found in 4 perfect condition after more than twenty nty three thre years 0 of service leogue buying or operative cooperative co purchasing ch asing in washington the supervision peryl per vision sion of government offic officials lils has resulted in a iving tving s o of 15 to 20 a month by those participating the queen ot of norway is the most economically attired queen tn in europe she phe spends 1000 yearly on her dress the queen of spain is the most ment extravagantly trava gantly dressed queen queen her dress bills runs to about it a year the guns used id 16 1882 at the bombardment bar dment of alexandria egypt we were re of sixteen inch bore bare fin an inch larger than the big biggest zest british naval calnon bof of today while four years later that navy had bid guns of 1625 1615 inches call caliber ber twins are note more often born bon in temperate etlan asian other climates the tate in aimea b ten cases itt average 6 babies to accor once in every bahlis filis bl bf hlis concrete piles have been patented with pipes gh their centers through which water can be pumped to wash vash away the earth and permit guem to sink under their own weight pine timber valued at on the bad river reservation in wisconsin will tie he divided between Indi indians atis according to an announcement from the Feci y of the interior they will also get the land averaging eighty acres acre s each A college droles sor at ames ia has perfected a machine that will scarify the hard bard seeds of sweet clover alfalfa and the like so that the bilky balky seeds will sprout A sprouting record may br increased from SO 50 to 95 per cent by this method fires are so scare in holland that the city of rotterdam with a population of more than has practically no fire department while the nu berous canals offer an ever ready water supply to fight figat any fires which might occur the word hello has been saved to popular usage by the telephone and by that thai alone thirty five years ago I 1 there was a real crusade the so called slang phrase and the great conversational al invention came to the re cue just in time w the cowbells bowbells cow bells used in switzerland have a peculiar pecullar sound rather mournful Is in its dronen droning g prolongation it is said that tigers feir it and run when I 1 they hear bear it Ther elwe ioe swiss have been introduced into the ainia layas as a protection jor or cattle |