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Show BITS OF INFORMATION' Statistics show that 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 Balboa three years ago, the company sued for $800,000. The slide which sank the Newport displaced 1S.O0O tons of earth, and hurled two heavy cranes on the ship. To facilitate rapid writing there has been invented a metal device to be clamped to the little finger 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 SO per cent of butterfat and not more than IS per cent of acid content. Fifteen thousand Kussians from this country will work on Canadian farms Canada is fostering the invention ol machinery to reduce the labor cost oi flax raising. Mrs. Hannah Berry, age ninety-one, of Strafford, N. H., enjoyed her first automobile ride recently. There are 5.004 lighted aids to navigation navi-gation in the United States. Of these 1,500 are either lighthouses or major-lights. major-lights. The oldest state bank in New York state, the bank of New York, which recently re-cently celebrated its one hundred and 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 1707. An Italian scientist contends that the signals which the nerves carry tc the brain and from the brain to the muscles are chemical in nature. In .comparison with the other continents. con-tinents. Australia is almost totally fre of earthuua kes. |
