Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-07-12
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Over one hundred colored men now con trol newspapers in the United States.
 Lacquer is made from the juice of tree the Rhus Vernici fera-which grows lux uriantly in Japan.
 The oldest college dormitory in the United States is that known as south middle at Yale. It was erected in 1752.
 The Russian crown and other ornaments known as tthe crown jewels" are valued at s11 ,0OO,O0O The crown itself is worth S6,000,0OO
 The government telegraph service of Great Britain transmits, it is said, on the average 1,536,27O words a day to newspa- pers alone.
 A cedar stump on a farm in Oregon measures twenty feet in diameter A pho tograph was taken of it showing thirty men and five horses standing on the top.
 The directors of the Provincial Bank of Ireland have issued decree that no clerk in their employ reciving less than a150 a year shall be allowed to marry. A similar rule is in force in some of the principal London banks.
 A mineral oil of a beautiful pink color has been discovered near Bowling Green, Ky. The oil is odorless when cold, but when heated it emits an odor not unlike that of altar of roses. It burns slowly, with a rose colored flame.
 The cane recently presented to President Harrison by Col. A. l.. Snowden, minister to Greece, was made from the oaxen yoke that held the bell on Independence hall in 1776. The gold cap on the end of the stick is inscribed with brief history of it.
 A share company, with a considerable working capital, has been foated in Eng land to work patent for what is called the sterilization of milk-that is, the destruction of the bacteria, through which certain diseases, notably typhoid fever, are spread.
 The biggest edible oysters in the world are found at Port Lincoln, in South Aus tralia- They are sometimes more than a foot across the shell, and the oyster fits the shell so we'll he does not leave much mar gin. It is also said that their flavor and delicacy are proverbial.
 A new Atlantic cable is spoken of, to ex- tend from Claw Bay, in Ireland, to Greenly Island, in the straits of Belle Isle. The comparative shortness of the cable-1 900 miles-is used as an argument in favor of the scheme, although longer telegraph lines will be required than for any of the Eng lish-American cables.
 Opticians and oculists say that belfry and steeple clocks are absolutely useless to at least third of those for whose benefit they are set up. In many instances such i defect of the eyes is unsuspected in chil- dren, and probably hundreds of children earn at school reputation for stupidity when not the intellect but the eye is al fault.
 A New York canoeist recently started on the longest canoe voyage ever undertaken He set out from the Statue of Liberty, il New York harbor, and will end his voyage after 1000 miles of paddling, at the mouth | of the Columbia river, Fort Canby, Wash. He carries with him bottle of water from l the Atlantic ocean, which he will empty l into the Pacific in October next.
 The Rev. J. w. Sproull, of Pittsburg, who is in Egypt, writes of the great Mos lem university at Cairo, founded in 975 which, with it's 10000 pupils and S70 pro fessors, is said to be the largest in the world. The pupils have no benches or chairs, but study, eat and sleep on blan- ket or straw mat. The Koran is the only book used for grammar, law, philosophy and theology. The professors receive nc salary, but are supported by private in structiop, by copying books and by present: from rich scholars.