| Show II Ready to Remember II I IBy IJ II By pasting a a. bit of or paper upon th the eyelid a photograph record has been beon made of or the duration of or time required in winking ln the eye It has been found Cound that a wink requires third one-third of a a second I When hen an Atlantic st steamship has onboard on onboard board what Is called a full Cull mail mall she Is IR carr carrying about letters and I sacks s of n newspapers to London alone alon besides large lare quantities for other places It has hns heen been estimated that ten mil mil- lI lidon lions n sons la Is sp spent snout nt each year ong on g lf Th There rc nr 71 England Eng Eng- land iGO in lu America 3 In Scotland and In n Ireland numbering altogether altogether alto alto- gether gethel pl players er In East Italian Indian schools hool m mental arithmetic arithmetic arith arith- Is treated much more seriously than it is in the schools of or this countr coun coun- tr try Catch questions are arc numerous and pupils of ten years yem's are taught ht the multiplication multiplication mul mul- table up lilt to lo forty times time Cort forty The oldest university In th the tho world IJ IP is IPat at P Peking J It is called the School chool forthe for Cor forthe I the Sons of oC the Empire Its antiquity I Is Very vory great and amI tL a t grand register r j consisting of stone columns column 3 O In ill number contains the names name of graduates The Time Greenwood colliery in tho the Pennsylvania anthracite regions a fire firt which started fifty years ago Is s still raging Water ater has haq no effect on it It II so over o a million dollars ore being spent In fighting the lIre fire with a mL mixture turo o or of i culm and water In Santo Domingo there is a remarkable remark remark- able ahle suit mountain a mass of crystalline crystal crystal- line tine salt almost four miles long Ions sale said to contain nearly tons am and anel to be bo so clear cleal that sized medium prInt can be read with ea ease e through a block a foot thick The herring henIn is more moro largely largel used as asan asan an article of oC food than any other fI fish h. h both Loth In Its Hs fresh Clesh and cured states More than tons of herring are nrc landed landet on the coasts of Great Britain every even year ear rep representing a monc money value of about aboul It Is said that the lie town of Paila PaUa In Peru has not had a drop of rain in thirteen years years- Tho The common Joke about Paita is that people never ne die there The They simply get set tired out There are no fewer fc than twenty loft lofty volcano peaks clustered a about out th the city of Quito the cite capital of Ecuador One of or these Cotopaxi Is the highest active volcano In the world It is ed ot of hold a laborers laborers' exhibition in Paris in 1900 Tho The object ob oh- Feet will be bo to offer orfel a comp comparison rison be between be- be tween the life of or workmen throughout through through- out the world today and that of laborers laborers labor labor- ers In past centuries Measuring seven miles in length and anel si signer signed ned b by persons a petition Is to be presented to the thc British parlament par par- I lament next se session slon asking that a bill be passed for tho the prohibition of oC tho rho vivisection I of or dogs clogs The attorney general of Alabama b has Just decided that It is unlawful for COI fora a teacher leachel to set COI copy for the pupils I or 01 teach them in any other way than S by the use of tho the adopted copybook DurIng its II life Co as a nation the I United States Stales has spent for fOl Its war 9 establishment including pensions the I enormous sum of I A curious scarf carr pin worn b by a Liverpool Liverpool Liver Liver- pool man is a petrified human e eye e A II set In a gold sold frame Time The present o oner ovner o n er of this singular ornament found it t B In Peru while ho was on an exploring tour lour In the lan land of the Incas with a apart part party of or scientists l I |
