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Show BITS OF INFORMATION. A shadow fifty mil 8 long la thrown on the ix-ean by the peak of Tenerlffe. 1Huile lHland, In Scotia bay, is tho southermost Inhabited in the world. Of all the world's production of 3,747 tons of quicksilver last year, the United States produced but 773 tons. An attachment for ordinary elevators eleva-tors has been patented to raise lire Iioho quickly to any floor of a building. build-ing. Automatic valves which sound a whistle when an automobile motor becomes overheated are a New Yorker's York-er's invention. To lessen the labors of a window cleaner a Massachusetts man has invented in-vented a long handled brush with a magazine for soap on its back. Combining two household conveniences conven-iences In one, a Washington Inventor has made an ironing board serve as the back support of a st pladdor. A combined silencer and bayonet for rifles has been invented to save a soldier carrying laitb implements and having to change one for the other. To a rennsylvanian has been granted grant-ed a patent on a nail puller, the jaws of which have a graduated scries of serrations to engage nails of different size. An Iowa inventor has patented a bedstead that holds a mattress on rollers and pivots so that It can be turned around or over with a minimum mini-mum effort. As a rival to the usual type of motorists mo-torists goggles an Oregon man has patented a face shield that may be attached to a cap and with a large opening for the eyes Instead of two small ones. A man In Pennsylvania ran for the office of mayor on the promise, If elected, to emu pel all women to wear harem skirts held up by suspenders, and fine all women wearing a dress that has a train. Vy official record the men serving n the union army and navy during the civil war numbered 2.213.265. T'ero are now on the pension rolls ! ;2!.SS4 of thU number. 'Tho deaths I -uron? them last year were M.'M. i The average ai;e of the survivors at tho present Is seventy years. i - |