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Show ' CHUNKS OF INFORMATION Farming and pig roaring are tne staple Industries of Serbia. In Russia the people are divided into three "stocks," Great Russians. White Russians and Little- Russians. British vital statistics Bhow that there has been more marriages and less births sinco the war has been in progress. Apparatus invented In England for preserving fish in carbonic acid gas under pressure is said to I'.eep them perfectly fresh for at least six months. For retail dealers there has been invented a machine that will take coal from a pile and pour it Into bags for handling at a rate of 25 tons an hour. Two cities In Colombia on opposite gides of the Andes mountains will be connected by a steel ropeway more than 37 miles lo'.'g which will transport trans-port both passengers and freight. The first white woman to be married mar-ried In what i." now the city of To-peka, To-peka, Kan., and who st.lll lives there at the age of eighty-eight, is Mrs. Hattie A. Bunker. She was a native of Wo-burn, Wo-burn, Mass., and went into the territory terri-tory of Kansas 61 years ago. |