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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1634, 28 December 1912, Page 6

In nineteen months the number of speoial institutions teach agriculture in the United States has increased from 545 to 875. o rover 60 per cent. Chicago is to some extent eliminating the sm'oko nuisance. Her average locomotive now emits smoke the density of which is only 14.92 per cent., while the percentage three years ago was 23.3. Tlie?e percentages are based on tho supposition that zero would represent no smoke at nil, while 100 per oent. would mean dense blaok smoke alt the time; fcho present condition therefore shows a decided improvement. I Mrs. Malaprop, who, it .will be remembered, once said that a pantry was a place for keeping pants and a' vestry was a placo where vests were made, now shows herself to l>e up with the times, according to an exchange, by .supplying, a questioner with: the information that "an apiary is whero they keep apes and an aviary is where they keep air-ships." At No. '91 in tho Kue Falguiere, Paris, says a writer in "M'Clure's," stands a little building which has been instrumental in reducing by over one-half 'the baby victims of summer disorders in Franco's capital. Tho building is the headquarters of the Foundation Budin, a society which instructs mothers how to care for their little ones during tho critical periods of infancy, and is a memorial to Dr. Pierre Budin, bieneor in the work .si aaviiiK babies in France,