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Show BITS OF INFORMATION ' Woodland (Oil.) Jail Is empty, i I. os Angeles' birth rate Is one an hour. 1 .Joe Costa, thirty-seven, native of ', California, recently visited San Frn-i Frn-i visco. l.'irst visit to any city. ) Isaac Miller of Myerstown, Pa., has 1 '(intlnuously taught Sunday school for fiO years. j Since the war the number of Jews l In Palestine has been reduced two-)Wrds two-)Wrds by hunger, sickness and distress. I Philadelphia mint Is to produce 3,-' 3,-' 000.1HX) pennies daily for awhile. J A parachute for aviators that has i been Invented In England Is compact enough to be worn in a helmet, ready for Instant use. A Oillforuiau is the Inventor of a registering device to be attached to a hen's back to record the number of eggs she lays. A method has been invented in Europe for treating old hops so that they can be used as an acceptable substitute sub-stitute for tobacco. ! Philadelphia may bar German language lan-guage teaching in public schools. A member of the English Parliament has started a movement to prohibit smoking by girls under twenty-one years of age. The census bureau finds that hundreds hun-dreds of American girls In every 12 months are married at fifteen. Thousands Thou-sands annually are married at sixteen. A holder has been patented for safety razor blades to enable them to be used by tailors or dressmakers for ripping seams. |