Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1905 — FACTS IN FEW LINES [ARTICLE]

FACTS IN FEW LINES

Oile Parisian earns a living by skimming grease off the Seine. Licenses are required for baby carriages in Berlin, and the vehicles are numbered.

Tlie new Japanese loan was the first International loan ever placed in London. New York and San Francisco Jointly.

Salt Lake has planned for an extension of its water supply that will cost $1,000,000 and make the supply ample for a city of 750,000 individuals. The United States has the only genuine horse marines. Twelve marines have been mounted at the navy yard, Mare island, California, and regularly patrol the island. The invasion of Tibet by a British force was a “mission.” The army of 2,500 men now being sent into the Nyam-Nyam country, central Africa, is officially a “patrol.”

The Wisbech Cemetery company was unable to pay a dividend last year, “owing to the low death rate in tin' town.” Wisbech is an English town of 12.0(10 population. The international committee of anarchists, which recently met at Barcelona, decided to establish a nyw center of anarchists at Tangier, where the cause can lie earned on openly. Pennies are soon to be introduced into South Africa. Heretofore the “tickey” lias been the smallest coin, and it is worth about 0 cents. The penny will be of copper and worth 2 cents. The music of the triumphal march in Handel's “Judas Maccahaeus" lias been adopted by the Imperial College of Music at Tokyo as a Japanese air entitles! “The Victory on the Yalu.”

The coal measures of Coahuila district are being extensively developed. They are the only extensive coal mines in Mexico. The minimum daily output Is 3,000 tons of coal and 1,500 tons of coke.

It Is stated by the Frankfort Gazette that General Bobrikon, the murdered governor of Finland, after ordering the suppression of a newspaper published in Tornea, discovered that the town was in Sweden. 7,

It has been discovered that the wild silkworm produces a silk with more luster than does the pampered worm of captivity. Those who are up on silk culture claim that the tame worm has lost much of its power because it is taken care of so well.

A prisoner recently confined fn Washing county (Vt.) jail soon returned for another term. On being questioned regarding his anxiety to go back he said, “Well, you see, I liked the board, and, besides, I got interested in a novel they have at the jail, and I wanted to finish it.”

A side light on Chinese immigration or importation into South Africa is cast by the following remark in the South African Press-Bulletin: “Quarrels and fights with drawn knives between Kaffirs and Chinese are of almost daily occurrence in Market square, Johannesburg.”

The 700 shoemakers' shops at Canton, China, employ 8,000 men and 20,000 women, who work from daylight to dark. Kerosene lamps were recently introduced into the shops so the hours could be lengthened. Tlie workers get from $2.50 to $5 a month and rice and salt fish for food.

Tlie corporation of Birmingham, England recently pulled down 141 workingmen’s dwellings for street widening, forgetting the law that requires other dwellings to be provided before tlie old ones are demolished. So now it finds itself liable to a fine of $2,500 for each offense, a total of $3(50,00u. Mexico is making big strides in tlie manufacture of goods for home consumption, such as shoes, cotton and woolen goods and dynamite. None of these are exported, as they bring better prices at home and are inferior to the goods manufactured in the United States. Nearly all the better class of Mexicans wear American shoes and clothing.

Five pensioners are on the roll on account of the Revolution, 1,116 on account of the war of 1812, 4,374 on Recount of the Indian wars and 13,874 on account of tlie Mexican war. The great bulk of the roll is as follows: Civil war, invalids, 703.456; widows, 248.390; Spanish war, invalids, 9,200; widows. 3.662; regular establishment, invnlids, 9,170; widows, 2,938.

A Budapest scientist has made a calculation of the energy expended by earthquakes. He finds that an amount of work equal to the raising of the mass of the earth through a little less than one-fiftieth of an inch was done by each of the 200 world shaking earthquakes registered during the eight years from 1.895 to 1902. The work done spasmodically by these earthquakes represents 75,000,000 liorse|>ower work ing continually night and day. The pan-Celtic congress, in sessioc at Carnarvon, Wales, recently, is a conglomeration of several gatherings, chief of which is the great Welsh eisteddfod. Ireland has two annual Celtic gatherings, the Oireachtas aud the Feis Ceoil. The highlands of Scotland have a Mod, and Brittany also keeps its Celticism aflame at an annual assembly. Manxland has no such assembly. but the study of the Gaelic is being encouraged in various ways. Professor Charles Gayiey of the University of California says: “There are many employers in San Francisco who for the last fifteen years have complained to me of the horrible English used by our graduates employed by them. They say there are very few indeed who can talk and write correctly. The main trouble lies in this—that the students are ‘railroaded’ through college in their study of the professions and very little if any of their time has been spent on tbe study of English expression and literature.”