Show Ready to Remember j Ii I According to 10 statistics recently submitted submitted submit submit- ted U by the Universal cr al 1 Postal lostal Union In 1903 1503 tho the number of or letters and postal cards card lassing IJ l through h the British Ilo was per head of oC population while we Wi came next with ith per head hend France Francc and Norway for instance each with a good I school system and a a. highly Intelligent people stand lower on the list than Austria Austria Aus Aus- tria na and Argentina New cw Zealand comes iH to us with whim 3 per por head and n after that Swi with DO Leshie's 70 Leslie's Weekly Lyons Lynns In th the vallo valley valloy of or the tho Rhone in France Franco is the time largest silk manu center in the thc world producing pro pro- annually about Ye worth rt 1 i The Tho n mine mimic In Spain produces pro pro- duces luces about GO per ier emit cent of oC till nil the time quicksilver er used in time the world The he hemine mine has haR been heon worked for fol more than SOO son years The Tho worlds world's consumption of oC tea outside outside out out- side of tho time countries in which It f is grown ma may bo ie tak taken n to tn be he about GOO COO pounds per annum valued at nt About 90 IO per cent of the tea exported from flom Asia iia is s consumed by l' speaking English sh l people The Time tallest building In the world worl is f being erected In New York b by a i life insurance company compan It will bo be I fe feet t hl high h or five o feet hl higher her than the Washington ton monument and el five eighty ht feet higher r than St St. Pet Peters Peter's r Rome The worl worlds world's yearly use of postcards is enormous Germany uses 11 1161 G 1 the time United States tat s Great Britain C As to letters letters let- let tors however hOWe time tho United States is far fur ahead of or all other countries The total number of letters posted here I II durin luring during 1903 1003 was I Time The latest t no novelty in vegetables Isa is isa isn a n black potato which has been en sent to a well known no seed merchant of London This l tuber came rpm Kongo and nl i said to 10 hove hf an aim n excel X lent nt flavor ol It Is cc a Jh go mended amended for ornamental C cookery okery an anIn ana aita in salads alad At the time pre present enL time there arc liS li'S Filipino students in this country le le- an education at the expense f tho lie Philippine government g The Time arc are selected b by examination and one stipulation is that the they will wll enter the Philippine civil service after aftem they have completed their studies In Iii the time Friends Friends' burial grounds ground II In alem m N. 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J there lucre HUI stands H the largest mak ak tree treo In ill the th state tate and possibly tim the argest est In the tho United States It Is now no used as ns the trade mark of or the time New New- Jersey Jerse Forestry as association The smallest quadruped in the time world Is the pygmy mouse of oC Siberia A cows cow's hide imide o of average size pro pro- luces about 35 33 pounds of or leather Recent rains have ha insured an Immense Im Im- im- im unease mense yield from orchard field an and vineyard In California this year eur Chinchillas H have been s so 10 o much i In request t for Cor furs In the last few year yem's C that tho the species Is in danger of or ex extinction ex- ex In Chile an and Bolivia la Stockton ton Cal like everything e else IS s following tho time course couise of empIre It Its eft city surveyor SUl has hns dl discovered cov led that In Ir fifty years ears it has moved mo fifteen incites Inches westward In other words the soil In which it is built Is gently slidIng slidIng slid slid- Ing lug down hill to the San Joaquin river three miles away 3 There is not underground telegraphic communication between ant Scotland Germanys Germany's underground round system dates from France followed followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed suit in 1879 as tho time result o oa of ofa a 11 great reat storm that isolated d Paris laris ii In 1875 1575 Up to date her imer system has cost but it Is believed to have more than titan paid for Itself Lines constructed In 1880 a are c still In excellent excellent ex ex- condition Of or thirty Italians in a night school chool In Kamras CIl City only two Ia la last t w week cl knew time the name of oC the thc president of oC the time United Stat States s I IA J A bull iUli entered a china shop at Ash Ash- la de England Englund tho the other da day took tool a n walk around surveyed the time display with apparent interest rest an and amid departed without having done ono more than 25 5 cents' cents worth o of damage Recalling the time borrowed story tOl of Governor Hoch hloch of Kansas about time the farmer paying for all nil it is iH pointed out that tho the products of American farms in HOS were of tho the Miltie of 6 er D Every worl working ing lay day of the time year jear car Uncle Sams Sam's forms farms arms earned or 1 for each hour of a ten-hour ten day A table tahle which Is Isnow now no in the tearoom tearoom tearoom tea tea- room of tho the hO house S of commons was Yn designed b by Sir Christopher Wren ren and at it the time first members of the thc Scottish con constituencies who came to Westminster ster after aCter th the Scotch union in 1707 tool took the tho oaths and sub subscribed their names on the time roll 1011 of oC parliament Tho Time salary of the time speaker of oC the time house of representatives Is a year car more than that of ot his fellow mc-m mc members bers of the house The I speaker of oC the thc British h house of oC commons com mons receives es a salary Hilary of a. a j year with a commodious furnished residence an and at tho time end nil of oC his imis of official of- of tidal service Is usually rewarded by hy byu bya 1 a u peerage and amI receives recel a pension of or J OOOO Members l of cit parliament re receive re- re no Ito salary alary from the thc British gOVera gov- gov j era in emm t. t j Speaker er Cannon Is a teetotaler and so bo Is Representative Day Sperry Republican Second district of or Connecticut Cannon has hUM made Sperry J 3 I chairman of the time hou house e committee on If alcoholic liquor traille SI I Representative Charles Henry Honry GIO Gras Gros- I g venor Republican Eleventh district t tor of or Ohio who Is II to be he retired this fall fail to private ato life after a lifetime in tho the it house was a Connecticut bo boy havIng ToI I been ben born at Pomfret Windham in ham I count county M. M Fallieres the tho new president o ot of France wears vears a butterfly tie to his his his' hisco co collar button with whim a piece o of elastic clastic lie He says saS that he has worn that lint kind rill of tie lIc for thirty years and is iR not nol going g to change presidency or no presidency Dr Charcot Is supported by ly Sir SirI Clement and Captain Scott cott cottIn in iii the belief belle th that t the time south pole where the ice is tolerably level and constant not not changing over as that in the the- noi north may th may be he reached by a motor sledge gc of or special notion TIme The fiftieth anniversary sary o of the time In Invention iii- iii y of the time aniline dye is to be he cole celo- by hy time the world of oC neo by hy th time the placing of or a portrait of the time inventor Sn Dr lr Perkin in iii tho time National Portrait gallery and a bust hust in the rooms of the Chemical society at Burlington house London Both tho the Cai Carmania mania and amid the time Carenia Caronia Caronia Caro- Caro nia tho time latest additions ns to the time Cunard fleet neet are equipped 1 with submarine signaling apparatus It seems to he be a question of only a short time when all pa passenger steamers tamers in the transAtlantic transAtlantic trans trans- Atlantic service will bo ho protected b by bythe bythe the latest and ani best beHl equipment for tor re- re un water under waler er-waler warnings of or the tho pi proximity of the shore or of or other vessels vc when fogs or like conditions make mako it impossible to sec see such possible lossl- lossl ble blo perils |