The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-08
ODD ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE

There are l."eo vessels which cross the
Atlantic Ocean regularly every month,
some OF them twice a month.
Korean paper is 50 strong and dense that
1t can be used 10 cover umbrellas.
Queen Victoria and the Gar Of Russia
own beautiful typewriters of white enamel
and gold. with keys OF ivory.
The Government OF New Zealand now
sends communications by carrier pigeons
between Auckland and Great Britain
Island, a distance across the water Of
thirty miles. The service Is controlled by
the Post Office Department. The fee TOR II
single message Is | shilling. and "A stamp
for this amount has to be bought at the
post office.
The town TO Westhofen, In Germany. still
enforces an old ordinance which forbin.s any
on. walking In the street with a lighted
cigar.
The latest enumeration OF the animals
known TO science includes no less than $780,
u9 recognized species. The real number IL
believed to be very much larger. IL has been
estimated that of insects alone the earth
harbors 20tp.,sS species. but the late Profess
scr Riley regarded even that estimate as far
too low. According to his opinions. 1e.ce :
go would be moderate estimate of the
number Of insect species.
4 process has been discovered by which
sails of vessels Of all kinds can he made out
Of paper pulp. ana il is claimed that they
serve quite as well a, canvas and are very
much cheaper. They swell and nap in the
wind like tire genuine old-fashiored article,
and are supposed to be untearable.
The hide "f a cow yields about thtrty-!ive
pounds Of leather.
In China there is twenty times as much
Alexandria possesses the largest artificial
hsrhur in the world.
AstrCno u,crs tell is that in our solar sys-
tom there are at least 100000 comets of all
sizes.
The most ancient glass had exactly the
same component parts that OF to-day,
ami tho t,rncessss ,rsad seem 10 have hesu
similar in all times.
Merchants who wish to do a profitable
business with China must always take into
account the tastes. superstiiions and reiis'
iuus ideas of the CHINESE. They always de-
tcct symbols Of luck. wealth. etc. In the
general makeup Of articles. and this will In
hucnce them in buying
The recruiting officers of the French
Army in AigicrS report the probable
| survival Of hill jewellers descended from
! the adventurous vaudals that conquered
| Northern Africa Ice years ago. They are
! bue-cyed. ovai-facsd and appreciably much
more intelligent than their kabyle neigh
, b1rs whose language they have been in
| duced To adopt. The suns of many hundred
! summers have tronZed their hides, hut
dark brown boards unknown among the
F, unmixed SemitesI az. found In every shep-
| herds cabin Of the Algerian Atlas.
| England uses ;1o0o,ocO birds every year
! for decorative purposes. and. 10 provide all
| Europe. l5..coo0l are annually destroyed
/ and when We add America il brings the
| sum total NJ to Sso."o1.pt.
England's first war vessel OF any pre-
| tensions was called the Great Harry. She
| was a double-decker. and was built in 1893
: She had "a capacity of Loo tons, carried 5.
! guns. was iSs ieeL Iohs' - iees peah ana
! cost fii@e.
: The Princess Of Wales has a regular mu-
! eaur, OF tn. hats and bonnets she has worn
during the last thirty years as a leader Of
: London fashions. When the hat has cease
! TO be Of service II is carefully labeled, dated
/ with the season of its use and put away.
I Acetylene shells have been invented t.
| light up the sea at night to enable naval
! gunners to quickly locate an enemy. The
! shell consists of a hollow cylinder filled
: f,N,a q IN FrR. =.
| gun like any other p;ojectile. The moment
! IL strikes the water acetylene gas is gener-
! atcd and Is automatically hShted by an
1 electric spark.
: Oysters cannot live in the Baltic Sea TIE
! reason Is that II is not salt enough. Trey
| can only live in water that contains at beast
| thirty-seven parts of salt in every i,oJ,
| parts of water.
| II IL calculated that the salt and other
| solid matter contained in the ocean would
| be sufficient IN entirely cover the dry land
| with a layer of 800 yards deep.