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Show BITS OF INFORMATION Statistics show Mint unmarried men, as law breakers, outnumber married men two to one. The United States government declines de-clines to make Itself responsible for damages caused by slides in the Panama Pan-ama canal. When, because of one of these slides, the steamer Newport was sunk at Ha I boa three years ago, the company sued for ?S00,0OO. The slide which sank the Newport displaced 18,000 tons of earth, and hurled two lenvy cranes on the ship. To facilitate rapid writing there has been invented a metal device to b clamped to the little ringer and with a shelf on which to rest the next finger and slide over a surface written upon The Brazilian government has decreed de-creed that products offered for sale as butter must contain at least 80 per cent of butterfat and not more than 15 per cent of acid content. Fifteen thousand Russians from this country will work on Canadian farms Canada is fostering the invention ot machinery to reduce the labor cost o1 flax raisint:. Mrs. Hannah Horry, age ninety-one. of Strafford. N. H.. enjoyed her first automobile ride recently. There are H.t K4 lighted aids to navigation navi-gation in the fniied States. Of these 1.."io are either lighthouses or major-lights. major-lights. The oldest state hank in New York state, the hank of New York, which recently re-cently celebrated its one hundred and j thirty-second anniversary, and which was founded in 17S4 by a group of business men headed by Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary of the . treasury of the United States, occupies occu-pies a site it bought In 1:7. I An Italian scientist contonds that the signals which the nerves carry tc the brain and from the hrain to the muscles are chemirn! in nature. In comparison with ihe other continents. con-tinents. Australia is almost totally fre of eunlmuakes. i |
