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Show Bits of Information. More than $.r)0,000,0000 worth of soap is made and sold in the United States every year. An official estimate places the number of dairy cows in the United States at 21,000,000. More coal is mined by machinery, in proportion to the total output, in Ohio than in any other state. Some varieties of rice open in two months after planting, while others require re-quire up to six months of cultivation. It is remarkable that notwithstanding notwithstand-ing the love and devotion of a Jewish mother there seems to be no trace of a real Jewish lullaby. Those known are of a recent origin. American Hebrew. There is the promise of much cheaper cheap-er ice in New York City next summer, no matter what the natural crop may be, for there will be many more artificial arti-ficial plants in operation than ever before. be-fore. Harry P. Whitney began his business training as a bank clerk at $20 a week. He now has charge of the $30,000,000 estate left by the elder Whitney, and it is said that his trusteeship has increased the family fortune. Subway railroads are good investments invest-ments in New York City. Profits have increased about 17 per cent in the last three months over the same period last year, the gross earnings being $3,321,500, an Increase of $459,400. Frank Wootan, England's best jockey, joc-key, who won sixty-six races in three months early this year on the English turf, is an Australian boy only 15 years old. He won his first race when less than 10 years old. His income is now as much as a cabinet minister's. Stanley Field, son of Joseph Field of Manchester, and nephew of Marshall Field: Rodman Wanamaker, H. H. Rogers, jr., Arlan A. and Clendenin J. Ryan are young men who have avoided avoid-ed the frivolities that too often have stultified the heirs to great wealth and are making their lives significant by work. Menus in New York restaurants are not always what they seem, and apparently ap-parently are frequently dressed simply for appearances. In a large Broadway restaurant menu that looked fair and ostensibly presented ninety-four dishes showed an analysis to give only twenty-seven that could be produced from the culinary department. The Women's Educational and Industrial Indus-trial union of Boston has added expert visiting housekeepers to its department of household economies. For a small fee the visiting housekeepers will drop in and set the machinery of the household house-hold running smoothly by exhibiting new equipment or giving aid and instruction in-struction in whatever branch mistress or maid may need it. Simmons college, Boston, is said to be the only place in this country where women can be trained to plan and manage man-age lunchrooms. The demand for such training is reported to have more than trebled during the last two years, as more and more cities and school boards are realizing the necessity of providing working girls and boys and school children chil-dren with healthful midday meals. Miss Jane Wright of Cincinnati has been elected to take charge of the art library of Princeton university. She was librarian at the Cincinnati art museum mu-seum and resigned to go to Princeton. The trustees of Princeton are said to have allowed the place to remain vacant for over a year because they were anxious anx-ious to get a person who measured up in every particular to the standard which they had fixed. The craze for roller skating, which has spread in such extraordinary fashion fash-ion throughout all classes of society in the British isles during the last year or so. has now caught the sailors and petty officers of some of his majesty's fleet in its seductive sway. During the Thames display the people going around the warships in steamers were amused to see quite a number of seamei. making mak-ing a precarious rink of the deck of a battleship. London News. The effect of the new Canadian law on cigarette smoking by boys is shown in the trade returns. Although 370,000,-000 370,000,-000 cigarettes were smoked in Canada since the first of the year, most of them bing made in the Dominion, the number num-ber shows a decline of 30,000,000 on the figures for the preceding twelve months. The results , are more striking when it is remembered that the law was in force for only eight months of the year. It forbids the sale or gift of cigarettes or cigarette material to boys of 16 or less under penalties of from $10 to $100. The open season for north poles sug gests temperature. Platinum wire electric elec-tric resistance thermmeters are now used in physical research. With these temperatures as high as 1100 degrees centigrade and as low as minus 200 centigrade cen-tigrade are practical. Such a thermometer ther-mometer is electric in the fullest sense of complication and delicacy and few "scientists" could handle it. Absolute zero 263 degrees centigrade, temperature tempera-ture of space. Lowest temperature yet reached 263 degrees centigrade; boiling boil-ing point of liquid air 182 degrees centigrade; cen-tigrade; boiling point of liquid carbolic acid 78 degrees centigrade. New York Press. |