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Show Bits of Information. Filipino prisoners in Bilibid, both men and women, are now allowed a certain cer-tain number of cigaretes a day at government gov-ernment expense. Rhode Island received its name from what was supposed to be a resemblance in contour of the island of Rhodes in the Mediterranean. Platinum, used extensively in electrical electri-cal work, is only mined in California and Oregon in this country, the former supplying 85 per cent of the American production. The adaptability of electrical energy is only limited by human Imagination to devise new ways to put it to work. New methods of applying it as invented invent-ed every day. An instrument that enables the user to gaze into the human stomach and watch the digestive processes at work was explained at the British Medical association meeting in Belfast. The city of Naples will soon be lighted by electricity secured from water wat-er power. At Capo-Volturno 16,000 horse power will be generated and carried car-ried at 45,000 volts to the city, fifty-six fifty-six miles away. The eighth satellite of Jupiter, discovered dis-covered at the Greenwich observatory in January of last year, proves remarkable, remark-able, not only for being so far from the planet, but also for its very eccentric ec-centric orbit, its distance from Jupiter I carylftg from about 10,000,000 to 20.-000,000 20.-000,000 miles. It revolved around the planet in about twenty-six of our months. The National Red Cross has met with such success in the last two years in teaching first aid to the injured to the employees of large corporations that it has determined to undertake the work on a much larger scale. It will begin with the United States Steel corporation corpora-tion and will instruct more than twenty thousand employees of tiat concern. That Edison is as fertile as ever in suggestions appears in his proposal that the East river, New York, be filled in and its waters provided with a new channel dug across Long Island at a point farther east. Good authorities pronounce the scheme by no means chimerical. The real estate value of the present site of the river would be almost al-most beyond calculation. There is a revival of the tattoo habit in Germany, according to an article published in a Frankfort paper. Heretofore, Here-tofore, the writer says, it was difficult to find a tatooed subject who had not been decorated at one of the seaport towns. The men were sailors and the few women who had fallen to the habit were wives or sweethearts of tatooed men. The tatoo artist now finds willing subjects far inland, among people who never saw a sailor or the sea. Dr. Bethmann-Hollweg may claim this unique distinction, mat he is the first German chancellor to wear a j beard. Bismarck hastened to shave off his when he entered upon diplomacy, and showed his rivals and enemies a massive jaw and clearcut chin; and he shaved to .the end, with an interval enforced by neuralgia n the early eighties. As a soldier, too, Caprivl shaved, all but his mustache, and so did Hohenlohe and Buelow. But Bethmann-Hollweg is gaunt, rugged, hirsute, pan-Germanic. At a garden party commemorating ( the twenty-fifth anniversary of beginning begin-ning the work of the National society ! for the prevention of cruelty to chil- , dren of England, there were exhibited in a tent some of the instruments of chidl torture that had come into the society's possession. No children were allowed inside the tent. Round the walls were hung whips, iron rods, chains, sticks, ropes and other torture weapons weap-ons used in the 64,499 cases of ill treatment treat-ment and assault in the last quarter of a century. Congressman Livingston of Georgia was standing outside the senate finance committee room when the delegation of young women hosiery workers from Philadelphia left that room, after an audience with Senator Aldrich. Senator Smoot, who is a Mormon from Utah and a member of the finance committee, left the room in the lead of the young women. "AVho are al Ithese young women?" wo-men?" asked a man who watched the procession curiously. "Smoot's wives," said Lavingston, laconically. Miss Edna Cockrell, formerly a teacher in the Tonkawa public schools, is now assistant superintendent of the girls' industrial school at Clarkson, Miss. Writing to friends at Tonkawa, Miss Clarkson said lately: "The girls are from 14 to 20 years old. Most of them are very poor people, whom church people have given money to go to school. One poor girl came leading a cow, twenty-five miles. She is going go-ing to milk the cow night and morning and sell the milk to pay her tuition. Oklahoma News. Vulcan, an alleged planet, was discovered dis-covered in 1859, only to be effectively obliterated from the planetary system fifty years later. Leverrier, who acted as godfather to the new addition, calculated cal-culated a path and found that the planet revolved around the sun in about twenty day. Yet other observers failed ever to see the planet, and now Professor Campbell announces that the eclipse observations ob-servations of recent years prove, almost conclusively, that the existence of such a body is a practical impossibility. A human hair of average thickness Can surmort a load of siv nnri nno. fourth ounces, and the average number of hairs on the head is about 30,000. A woman's long hair has a total tensile strength of more than five tons and this strength can be increased one-third by twisting the hair. The ancients made practical use of the strength of human hair. The cords of the Roman catapults cata-pults were made of the hair of slaves, and iti s recorded that the free women of Carthage offered their luxuriant tresses for the same use when their city was besieged by the Romans. An attempt is to be made to intro-! intro-! duce the famous Massachusetts and L Rhode Island clams to Maine waters and two men from Massachusetts and others who are to be sent here by James Donohue, commissioner of sea and shore fisheries, will begin the work about the 1st of October. These clams are very large and have very white shells and command a much higher price in the market than the Maine product. At the last legislature people interested in the subject succeeded in getting an appropriation ap-propriation from the state. It will probably prob-ably be two seasons before the results of the work can be known. Lewiston (Me.) Journal. The ancient Romans excelled in making mak-ing pottery. They possessed regular muffle ovens and even a sort nf ducer gas oven. Attempts to produce the beautiful soft gloss peculiar to old Roman pottery have not yet attained complete success. The best result, says the Scientific American, is obtained by Fischer's mechanical process, in which the ware, before it is fired, is coated with a paste of clay and pigment, and is then polished. Fine imitations of ancient an-cient pottery are thus produced, but the study of the defective portions of the genuine Terra Sigillata ware shows that it was made by, a different process the gloss having evidently been pro' duced by the application of a superficial superfi-cial glaze, without mechanical polish- |