Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-10-13
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One-seventh of the territory of
France is composed of forests.
The house fly makes 80 strokes a
second with its wings; the bee $50.
1t is said that an earthquake occurs
somewhere in the earth every hour.
Nearly 5000 pieces are required in
the construction of a modern locomo-
tive.
Cigars are given to soldiers in the
Italian army as part of their daily
rations.
Cuba has twelve varieties of mos
quitoes and three hundred varieties of
butterflies.
Matches have not yet displaced the
Undertook in certain rural districts of
Spain and Italy.
1t is a sign of rain when cattle
stretch their necks and snuff the air
for long time.
Over 800 tornadoes occurred during
the twelve years from 1871 to 1883 in
the United States.
There are ten volcanoes in Mexico.
One-fifth of the whole of the African
continent is a desert.
There are twenty-seven republics,
twenty kingdoms and fourteen EN-
plres on the earth at the present time.
1t Is asserted that a healthy baby
should cry at least three or four times
day, in order to give Its lungs the
needed exercise.
Iron has for ages been a favorlte
medicine. Over 100 different prepare
tons of iron are now known to the
medical chemists.
The apricot is very widely dlffused
In Asia. The Perslans, in their figura-
tive language, call the apricot of Iran
the "seed of the sun"
The red-and-white crossed flag of
Denmark Is said to be the oldest ex-
listing national color, having been in
use since the year 1919.
The Arabic vernacular furnishes n
singular Illustration of the popularity
of war In the East. 1t has more than
fifty names for the sword.
marks was known in England as early
as 1910. A cube of it half an inch
square cost at that time 10 cents.
The farther north the more injurious
to the human system is the use of cof-
fee Greenlanders have found it nee
essary to prohibit its use by the young.
Only one marble statue of the human
figure with eyelashes Is known. 1t is
the sleeping Ariadne, one of the gems
of the Vatican, which was found in
1903.
The slowest breeders of all known
animals, pair of elephants would be-
come progenitors of 100000 ele-
plants in 100 years, If death did mot in
terfere.
The use of sights on cannon for aim
ing did not commend itself until the
beginning of this century. In 1901
Nelson's opinion was unfavorable to
the invention.
Kansas editors excel in the selection
of eccentric names for their papers.
The Prairie Dog, the Astonisher, the
Paralyzer and the Thomas Cat are
conspicuous among others.
The largest library in the world is
the National, at Paris. 1t has 2,0O0,-
900 bound volumes, and 100000 mami-
scripts. The British Museum has
library containing 10000 volumes.
A statistical genius has worked out
the problem of how much gold there is
m 40 10 ba OF
1924 100000, 00,000,000 but he is
quite silent as to how it is to be got
out.
Very cheap are the summer resorts in
the mountains of Japan. There are
mineral springs there to which peas
ants bring their own bedding and rice,
paying only three cents Il day for
lodging and use of the water.
II the inhabitants of the fixed stars
had powerful enough telescopes to see
us. they would not see us as we are to-
day, but as we were fifty, one hundred
years, or even longer ago, for it would
take light that long to travel to them.
There is nothing Scottish about the
bagpipes, except the tune, the sheep
skin of the bag and the tartan. The
wood-ebony or cocus-wood-
from Africa and Jamaica; the ivory
from Africa the horn from Australia;
and the cane for the reeds from Spain.
The orthodox plate or bag will not
do for collection among African ma
tives. In an address at Cape Town.
the Bishop of Znluland stated that, in
response to one appeal, there We're
offered SO blankets of mealles. seven
head of cattle, one horse, some sheep,
and number of chickens.
There are many theories given to ac-
count for the name Rotten Row of the
thoroughfare in Hyde Park, London.
Probably the correct is that it original
~ came from the name Route du Roi-
the Road of The King or the Kings
Way-for only the carriages of the
sovereign were permitted on this road.