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lame Figures That Stagger the Ordinary Mun.

Which country of France, Great

Britain, and Germany, is spending most money? This is one of the questions answered in “German War Profits," where a lable -is given, based upon the expenditure during the Brat three years of warfare. Great Britain spent £111 19|. per head ot population during this period. France comes next, with £88 16s. and Germany next, with £64 10s.

Assuming Germany's financial bur-

den to be 100, France has to bear 188, and Great Britain 174.

An American statistician, writing

in the Century Magazine, carrlol these' figures a. step or two further. }_{e estimates that, if the countries could devote every cent of their in- come to the National Debt, it would ts.ke'France the longest to pay it oil. She would require three and one- third years to do it in. Germany would take over two years. We would take just under two. The United States could settle the job in two or three months!

It is impossible to calculate a

lnation’s income with any degree of exactness, but the following may be taken as approximately correct: United States' income, $28,000,000,- 000; Great Britain’s income, £2,500,-

§- -pls in |23- 1-n l 000.000; G€I‘IllB.I:ly'S income, £2,200 -

000,000; I\‘rance’s income, £1,200,- 000.000. '

When we consider the cost of the

war in the bulk, and compare it with the above' incomes, we enter truly bewildering realms. During the first three years of the war, the Central Empires spent roughly $37,600,000,-

_ 000. or an average of £2,533,000,000

odd a year. The Allies--excluding the war outlay of Serbia, Roumania, Greece, Japan and the United States -spent £13,370,000.000, averaging £4,456,000,000 odd a year!

The helligerents have a credit as

well as a debit account, and Germany has temporarily gained a great deal of potential wealth.

Besides "movable booty," of which

there is a vast quantity, she has se- cured possession of 212,000 square miles of territory in France, Bel- gium, Italy, Russia, Rnumania, Ser- bia and Montenegro. Before the war the value of these vast tracts was estimated at about £6,400,000,000. but probably this figure is too low.

Against this, the Allies have little

more than the German colonies in Africa. These undoubtedly contain much potential wealth, but they do not compare commercially with the gains of the enemy.

' The "I9" Superstition.

The “I9” superstition has arisen

and gained some vogue. The sum of the digits in_ 1918 makes 19. A lieutenant in the French army found time while his regiment was resting behind the 'lilies to work out this:

l “Here are the dates in history on

which the tate of Alsace-Lorraine has depended and in which the issue has turned out favorably for France:

"l. In 1648, the treaty of West-

phalia. which gave Alsace to Francs. The sum of 1, 6, 4 and 8 is 19.

“2. In 1675, the campaign in Al-

sace by Turenne which confirmed the French conquest. The sum again is I9.

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tiers in the east. Once more the sum

- is 19. _

"And that isn’t all. Why are the

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sace-Lorraine? It is because we aa-

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ence, and in what year? In 1783.”

But he pushed it a bit too far, for

! he foresaw peace on the 1459 day of the war, which would be July 30, , 1918. But why not on the 1477th day, or the 1486th or 1495th? They all fall in 1918. Wait and see.

Imitntions of Mahogany.

The name “mahogany” is applied

commercially to more than fifty dif- ferent woods. Psrhapshalf the lum- ber now sold under that name is not true mahogany, tor the demand greatly exceeds the supply.

The tree is native to only the lim-

ited area between Southern Florida and Northern South America. No- where else does it really flourish. But the public will have mahogany. Women want, it for furniture, busi-

| ness men prefer it for oillce fixtures, and teak and mahogany are rivals , in the affections of shipbuzilders. Therefore, substitutes flourish.

lt ls not surprising that the real

wood is so expensive, when rt is learned that it takes from 100 to

‘ 150 years for a mah0gany't1‘ee to roach nierchuntnble size.

Most of the substitutes hear little

more than a general resenrhlame to the genuine wood, but skilful finish- ing makes them very muchialilne. EX- perts can usually distinguish between them by the aid of an, ordinary pocket lens. The efforts ofithe super- ficial, however, to judge the wood by its appearance, weight, grain and color often lead them astmy.

Barnum and Jenny] Lind.

According to the origlnal contract

which Barnum made ‘with Jenny

Lind, she contracted tj sing at 150 concerts in the Unite States and I-Iivvana for $1,000 al concert, the contract providing, holvever, that if Barnum made a clear fproiit of £15,- 000 sterling from this first seventy- ilve concerts, Miss Llnd should for the remaining seventy-tive concerts, receive, in addition tu $1,000 a con-

cert, one-nfth of the profits; but tgslt. on the other hand, it the ilrst ity concerts fell short lot Barnum's ox- pectations, she should have half of the gross receipts mom the remaininl 100 concerts. Befcsre the concerts be-L gan. however, that contract was, at Barnum's instancu, rescinded and a new contract made which resulted in lisa Lind receiving in pronto from the concern whlich she gave under it almost twice as much as she would Eve reoei-ved under the original coa- Katt.

Beware of 'ine truth crushed to

earth. it is liable to rise up later arid take a fall out; of you.

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HE importance of insects in ' the animal world is too, generally overlooked. More knowledge along thoss linss

is certainly desirable in view ot tlie_ fact that of the million abd mpre species in the animal world the larl- est place is held by the insects. Par- haps their slgnlilcancs may be bottal' _realised from the fact that the an- nual loss by insects in the United, 'States is $800,000,000. compared, with an annual tire loss of 8148.- 000,000. _ As over against 7,000 deaths per year due to railroad accl- dents, there are 97,200 deaths each year in the republic to the south of us due to malaria. and intestinal dis- eases, spread by insect carriers. And while in the whole Spanish war only 300 men were killed by Spanish bul-‘l lets, 5,000 died of ily-borne diseases. Yet in the face of these startling facts and contrary to popular belief, the great majority of insects are either harmless or beneiiclal to man, For the damage by insects is done by less than 1 per cent. of the species and a large number of the remainder spend their lives keeping those in|

check. |

Although we are able to determine

fairly accurately the damage done by insects, it is impossible to calculate the benefits they confer. It is true that certain species destroy $29.- 400,000 worth of fruit annually, butv the remaining $147,000,000 worth owes its existence largely to the pol- llnating of the blossoms by insects. Practically no fruits could he formed without the aid of insects and in thei production of a harvest, insects., especially bees, of course, dwarf intov insigniiicance all modern implements in husbandry. lt would be inipos-| sible to get n single crop of red clover without the aid of insects :md the' present scarcity of humble bees, whol usually perform this service, is mall- ing itself felt in the smaller crops' and lower vitality of the clover seed.| The importance in this connection

was realized in Australia and tbe` Philippine Islands, which imported' bumble bees for the sake of their clover crops. Figs could not be suc-' cessfully grown in this country until ' 'a big pollinating insect was imported from the Mediterranean countries. A| great majority of the beautiful iiow- ers depend on insects for the de-i velopment of their seed, only the in- eonspicuous ones being typically pol-

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beneficial insects are those which function in represslng the harmful |i insects by preying on them. The ser- vices of the dragonfly in this citlltwltl’

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are' of the greatest interest and lm- portance. This insect has long been li the_ object ot tear and dislike by hu- man beings, owing no doubt to its heres appearance and rapid, darting motions. Children have been terri-) lied by the superstition that the dragondy, or “devil's darning nee-' die," would pierce their ears, or sew them shut. Yet the dragonily is not only harmless to man, but is one of! his best friends in that he is the deadly enemy of the mosquito _._ that | pest that is one of the most numer-| ous, widely distributed and persist- ent of the creatures that menace tho 1 health and comfort of man. So much l is the dragonfly the mosquito's enemy that he is called the “mosquito hawk"--and anyone who has watch- ed the swift movements and cruel aspect of the dragonfly as he _darts nt his prey will agree that the name is well given. As both the mosquito and dragonfly are semiaquatic, theo warfare between the two begins ear- ly. the young of the dragonfly feedlnr! on the young mosquito, just as the adult dragonfly preys on the _full- grown mosquito.' As serious hood: maladies are known to be trarsmit- _ ted by the mosquito. the dro!0DUY'l service to man is no small onc. At one time, in fact, it was und 'frtalten to breed dragoniles artiilciiiely with* the purpose of extermlnating the ‘

mosquito, but the plan wis found impracticsble and was abandoned. |

Another benencial insect is the var- I

iety ot Australian beetle which was used with brilliant success to save the orange orchards ol' 'he nation. The so-called "Austrian iaily-beetle" was pitted against the destructive scale insect which threatened ruin to the ‘ orange industry. The beetle exterln-- inated the scale. Parasitic wasps at- ' tack caterpillars and sting them to K death, laying eggs in the dead bod-

young, when hatched, may Kind abun- dant and convenient nourishment. The wheat midge, so destructive to th'e grain. is preyed on by several ln-

sects. Rnvenous two-winged fixes 1 seize and carry it away to suck ut f its juices. But most powerful ot its insect foes are its parasites-small. black. four-winged ill_s_s somewhat ro- sembling ants. Their young subsist on the larvae and eggs of the midke, and live therein. As the midge ln- creases in numbers, its enemy in- creases in proportion, for the num- - bers of the ,parasites depend on thep amount of available nourishmsht. , Eventually the parasite overwhelms i the nudge. 'run is illustrates by the. _ fact that often, a year or two aixr an excess oi midges there is a gr t

scarcity of the noxious insect. In_;_'l~» the same way the army worm and 1 (rightfully destructive Hessian ily re ~ constantly kept repressed by thbil'

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