Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1905 — FACTS IN FEW LINES [ARTICLE]

FACTS IN FEW LINES

The latest Loudon quotation of radium was $890,000. There are 747 varieties of wood in the Philippine forests. More than 5,000 persons annually disappear in the United States and are never heard from again.

Alkmar, Netherlands, is to have a steam tramway, to be built by the “Noorder Stoomtramwagmaatschapptj.” There are four towns in the Philippines with a population exceeding 10,000 each and thirty-five with a population exceeding 5,000.

Six miles is the length of a jietltlou promoted by the British National Canine Defense league in support of the bill for the prohibition of the vivisection of dogs. It has been found in Victoria, N. S. W., that unscrupulous tanners there have been increasing the weight of their leather by the use of barium chloride, a poisonous chemical. For thirty-seven vacant posts of a minor character in the Victoria (N. S. W.) civil service no fewer than 916 candidates recently presented themselves. The highest salary was SSOO a year. The town council of Neuchatel has unanimously adopted a scheme by which water for drinking, taken from Lake Neuchatel at a depth of 260 feet, is to be conveyed to Paris, a distance of 250 miles. A crow hunt was recently held by thirty-nine hunters of Elgin and Kane counties, IIL, lasting two days. Their record was 1,131 crows, besides 50 butcher birds and 5 hawks. The score of sides was 571 to 560.

In the mountains of Tyrol It is the custom of women and children to come out when it is the close of day and sing. Their husbands, fathers and brothers answer them from the hills on their way homeward. It is said that the people of Tangier received King Edward so enthusiastically because it was valuing on the day of his arrival. The country had been suffering from want of rain, and the Moroccans thought he had brought it. J. W. Thompson of Adams has a number of pictures of a woodchuck which has climbed a tree. This is a very unusual thing for that animal to do and is never attempted except in the most dire necessity. This particular “chuck” did it to escape from a dog. In addressing highlanders who placed wreaths on the memorial cairn at Culloden on the occasion of the anniversary of the battle recently T. Napier said “the Hanoverians” had now ruled for 200 years, and he thought they should “make a graceful bow and retire.” . v What is said to be the smallest electric light installation in the world is to be found in the village of Bremen, near Dormbach, Thuringia. It comprises a single arc lamp installed in a church, the lamp being operated by a small dynamo driven by the wheel of the village mill.

A large bald eagle dropped from Its talons a live lamb in the dooryard of Pearl Martin of Harmony, Me., one day recently. The lamb had a few claw scratches, but otherwise was alive and smart It appeared to be about three or four days old, and Mr. Martin Is raising it as a cosset. At the annual meeting of the parishioners of Farnworth-with-Kearsley parish church, near Bolton, England, It was mentioned that the sexton of the church, George Holmes, had celebrated his Jubilee. He bad commenced his duties when sixteen years of age and has officiated at nearly 10,000 funerals. At Pompeii, Naples, San Martino and other Italian cities tourists could obtain formerly with ease permits to snapshot historic places for a nominal fee, but now the objects Intended to be photographed have to be specified in writing, and a tax, varying from 10 cents to sl, is imposed for every negative. The viceroy of the Twokuang provinces, China, recently put out a proclamation that no pawnshop was to take arms in pawn. Being later himself In need of funds, he sent his own agents with arms to pledge. Five . shops accepted them, and these he afterward fined In the amount of $7,250 each. '

In sawing a huge rock maple which was cut on the farm of C. F. Webber at West Kennebunk, Me., a piece of granite was found Imbedded in the wood. ’ The piece weighed several pounds and Is thought to have been Imbedded in the wood of the tree by a blast many years ago when the railroad was being constructed. One of the most unique canes in existence is the property of Mr. D. F. Beans, paymaster of the Burlington railway. This cane represents SIOO,000,000 in money, 2,250,000 pay checks and 580,000 miles of travel. The cane was made by Mr. Beans himself from part of the pay checks paid out in his fifteen years of experience as paymaster.

There are seventeen mills in Germany engaged exclusively in the manufacture of tissue paper. Germany turns out more tissue paper than any other country’in the world. The exports of German tissue paper, especially those qualities used for cigarettes, copying’ books, artificial flowers, chimney shades, carnival articles, etc., are steadily increasing. Because her husband did not wear a dress suit at a dinner at which she had guests Mrs. Ulysses Craig, wife of a financier of Indianapolis, Ind., sued for divorce. Judge Leathers granted her a divorce and awarded her $47,000 alimony, a house worth $35,000, custody of her four children, S2OO a year to clothe the children and SSO a month to support the children.