Show NEAR AND FAR f lae tween peking and canton is a canal 1200 miles lone long it is possible to travel by canal from astrakhan to st Voters burc a distance of 1434 miles A watch taken to the top of mont wilt will train gain thirty elx seconds in twenty four hours in france out of every 1000 inhabitants aro are more than sixty years old ils a against leventy three in england ind seventy nine in germany although the brain la Is perpetually active yet tha the whole ot it la is never at work nt at ont ona time the two hemis r cheres or halves do not operate simultaneously but alternate tn in action glasgow as a city owns property worth and acres of parks edward VIL rules over more madans than the sultan of turkey over more hebrews than there are in palestine and over more negroes than any sovereign of africa never in the history of the british parliament have all the members been present at one sitting black hair Is to much str stronger nger than blond and the lighter a hair is in color the weaker it is over copper coins aro are issued every year by the english mint moat most of 0 them big heavy two cent pieces in colonial days philadelphia mayors served without pay oti an average tha the river thames Is ts completely frozen over three times a century when this happened formerly a great frost fair was invariably held on the frozen river near london bridge allan lc le roy locke a philadelphia neero negro graduated from harvard university this year has been awarded the rhodes scholarship at oxford anly earsl ty which for 1307 was allotted to the state of 0 pennsylvania between and goo british towns and ana villages have narn namesakes esaies in tho the united states professor G jaeger began running when he waa was a little past fifty he lived near stuttgart germany five hundred yards was hla his limit at first he soon became exhaust ed bathed in perspiration but with practice he was able to run anve miles without expert encini any fatt fatigue gue ue virginia has issued a call for farm arm laborers the state of washington t needa men to work at rail rall road construction construct ln mining and lumbering louisiana Louf slana arkansas and south carolina with cotton going to waste have had to try italian labor and are clamoring for more the practice of administering tho oath appears to be passing away in come some countries germany for instance it tt has already gone during the first week of the salvation ardys bureau at new york more thana dozen persons wera were said to have boen been turned from their purpose I 1 of belf self destruction these had accepted accept ea the invitation to tell their troubles to the salvationists drink drugs destitution disease and aptness were the most frequent reasons given for the wish to die it if old people knew how much younger they could be and how hov much longer they would live if they took strenuous physical exercise a prominent clan declared recently there would be gyms for old folk for grandfathers and great grandea grandfathers t herx all ovar over the country I 1 A report of the united states geo graphical survey says that the production of aluminium in this country haa has increased pearly ten fold in aa ax mail many y yeara years in 1904 the output was 8 goob bounds pounds as compared with M pounds in 1903 and pounds is 1002 the industry dates its be begioni ginni from issa digging Dl egine dusky diamonds under und ernen nead a the sea are the miners of cape brell island nova scotia where coal fc t tak from beneath the waves vii aves fet arc the borc bhore line it is now possible to determine il velocity of a stream chemically A tain quantity of brine is added to water and ani samples afterman aft after erwan ivan i farther down are carefully aej 1 the atlantic ocran ocean lisis has ca w r d depth of 40 tei t |