Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1904 — FACTS IN FEW LINES [ARTICLE]

FACTS IN FEW LINES

Korean girls over seven are all taught At home by tutors. The pack horses of Nagasaki, Japan, wear shoes of straw. Motor cars intended for desert traveling will arrive at Khartum soon. At the close of 1903 the London police had a collection of 70,000 sets of finger prints of criminals. A motor cyclist in England was arrested because his coat tails hid the number of his machine from a policeman’s view. Betsy Meagher of County Sligo, who died the other day at the age of 125, used to rail at her seventy-llve-year-old daughter for keeping late houfs. The important question. When does a bride cense to be a bride? is deckled by the London Queen, which says she becomes a "wife" at the expiration of six weeks after the wedding. The trade with Brazil last year has never been surpassed except in tlie three record years of 1890, 1891 and 1892. It was $5,950,000 higher than the average of the last ten years. Nelson’s statue at the Royal Naval college, Greenwich, was found the other morning with its nose painted a bright red. The authorities are- making a determined attempt to find the guilty party. Dr. Thorley, a medical town councilor at Bolton, England, calls small bedrooms death traps, and the council is seeking parliamentary powers to prescribe a minimum cubic space for bedrooms. Shepherds started the fire which in the last week of August caused a damage of 8,000,000 francs on the island of Corsica. It lasted three days and destroyed many vineyards, orchards and other valuable grounds. Crowning the German system of industrial education stand the great technical high schools. Their name and fame have gone out into every country where men are interested in the application of science in industry. The Canadian Association of Steam Engineers has decided to petition the Ontario legislature to pass an act requiring every man in charge of a steam engine of over twenty-five horsepower to have an engineer's certificate. The municipality of Relchcnberg, Bohemia, intends to erect a large electric plant to supply light for neighboring small towns and industrial establishments and another plant to furnish electric light to the suburbs of the city.

By means of an accidental short circuit in one of the junction boxes in an electric main in Melbourne, Australia, an alarm was sent in to every fire department station, and 1,500 calls were received at the same instant in the head telephone otfiee. The French government has authorized tlie French West African bank to increase its capital and to open a branch in Monrovia. Hitherto the finances of Liberia have been almost wholly in German hands, though there has been no bank in the republic. The eldest children of two Japanese families cannot marry, for the eldest child must always live at home and so keep tiie family home from passing into strange hands. If a man marries a Japanese heiress he lias to take her family name if he is poor himself. The California grand lodge of Masons, which includes the subordinate lodges of Hawaii, is planning to build In San Francisco a temple large enough to accommodate all grand bodies of the craft within its jurisdiction. The present temple is about forty years old.

A steel girder fell while being hoisted to the top of a San Francisco building and struck a house mover’s wooden roller, which ricoebetted across the stregL-passed through the window of store and swept a fifty foot 'counter completely clear of the bric-a-brac. cut glass, dinner sets, vases, etc., that were upon it. Civet is one of the essential ingredb ents of nearly ail the high class perfumes made, so there is always a ready sale for it in the market. The Abyssinians put this civet in small cattle horns, which are packed in cases. It is sold by the ounce, the price ranging from SI.OO to $3.24 per ounce, according to purity and color. The officers of the consolidated street car lines "'of Oakland, Cal., have fitted up a spacious and thoroughly equipped athletic and social club for their employees, including billiard, pool and card rooms, reading room, luncheon, gymnasium, bowling alley, shooting gallery and baths. The only expenses of the members will be for janitor and other service.

A French firm is about to place on the market a novelty in postal cards. To an ordinary pictorial card is affixed a very thin transparent gelatin disk, on which is impressed a gramophone musical record. A hole is pierced through the center of the disk, and the post card can be placed on an ordinary “talking machine” and played in the usual way. Some boys at Minneapolis were caught trying to rob a* s mail box in a novel way the other day. They had a big grasshopper tied to the end of a bit of thread. They lowered the insect Into the little box, and it caught a letter with its claws and hung on to It while being drawn out. The boys had taken several letters from the box In this way before they were caught. The British admiralty is investigating a nice little naval scandal. It appears that the ship's police at the various naval schools have been aliowlhg the names of men on furlough to remain on the mess books and so draw rations, the value of the rations being appropriated by the men who made the false entries. Th]p has been going on for years and has cost England a large sum of money.