The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1902-10-03
FACTS IN FEW LINES

hOTCSSlcT, MISS, HAS d lie"
scum.
Natives in the Punjab have taken to
pingpong.
A skeleton dug up in Texas has an
eight inch jaw.
A young white thrush with pink eyes
has been caught at Ipswich.
Eight samples of lemonade analysed
at Leeds, England. have been found to
contain lead poison.
Two perfectly formed chickens have
been Matched out of double yoIked
egg at Saltash, Cornwall.
OF London's $1,000 hansoms 1,295
had a slip of some kind lasl year. The
method of road watering is blamed.
| Mosquitoes have appeared at Hack
! ney and ClaptOn, London, and many
children and adults have received pain
full stings.
There will be delay of seven or
eight months IN the opening of the
Simplon tunnel, which was originally
fixed for May II, 1904.
Dunedin. New Zealand, now pos
sesses public house trust organized
OH similar lines to that established
by Earl Grey in England
Ceres games. instituted in 1914 to
celebrate the return of the Ceres men
from BannUckburn, We're celebrated re-
Gently in Fifeshire, Scotland.
A bowling green provided for by the
profits of Gothenberg system public
house (salOOnD at Kelly, Fifeshire,
Scotland, was recently opened.
When the millionth visitor passed
through the turnstile at the Dusseldorf
exhibition, he was presented with a
valuable gold watch and chain.
Prince Charles tartan cloak, which
he wore during the rebellion in 1T45,
is now being exhibited in a tailor's
window at Pitlochry, Perthshire.
Several collins and a large quantity
Of human bones have been unearthed
in the plot Of land outside Kings Col
lege hospital, Llncoln's Inn. London.
An apparatus which when attached
to any kind of tirearm does away with
all noise, flash or smoke on its dis.
charge has been invented by a French
officer.
Tailors in Pretoria are so busy in
consequence of an unusually brisk de-
mand for frOck coats that they cannot
take any more orders for immediate
delivery.
Burnt ale" the liquid refuse from
the manufacture of Scotch whisky, has
been used with great success in the
Glenlivet district this year as a soil
fertilizer.
An authority on the orchid says an
amateur cultivatOr often fails not so
much through want of attention, but
through overattention and disregard
Of nature and her laws.
Georgia Is the peach state of the
Union, having 100000 peach bearing
trees. Next is Maryland, with 4,015,-
600; then New Jersey, with 100000,
and Delaware, with 100000.
The final estimate of the wheat crop
Of India for the season of 1902, re-
Gently given out by the statistical de-
partment of the government of India,
gives the yield as 6,00O,OO0 tons of
2,240 pounds
Lily Langtry will visit Nevada some
time this year to look after the devel-
opment of valuable mining property
she owns there. She is said to own
one of the richest gold lodges ever
found In the west.
A reduction by 41.000 OF the total
number of cattle i'll Great Britain is
not, on the total herd of nearly 7,G00,-
600, of much statistical Importance,
but it gives the first check to the prog
ress year by year since 1894.
The agricultural book of the North
west Territories shows that in four
years the production of wheat has in
creased from 5,542,47S bushels to T.
S0S,4 bushels. and of oats from
3,04O.307 bushels to GIG, 1872 bushels.
The latest report of the British reg
istrar general shows that the natural
increase in population in the United
Kingdom during the three months end
ed on March 81 last was 95,011. The
death rate during that quarter was
1879 per loo and the birth rate 2S.1.
For inventiveness the town Of New
Britain, Conn.,, is ahead Since the
United States patent laws have been
in existence !, HI inventions have been
patented by 344 New Britain citizens.
For ten years one patent was granted
annually to every 367 inhabitants of
the town.
New York paper has been investi-
eating the Four Hundred and prints a
number of receipted bills of the last
century showing that a StuyVesant
sold handkerchiefs a Depeyster beans,
Rhinelander hats Brevoort pewter
spoons, Beekman molasses and
Roosevelt lampblack.
The green fly and also all kinds of
pests that eat the leaf, termed chew
ing insects, may be destroyed by
drenching the foliage. both the upper
and under side, with a solution Of par
is green. Add Il level teaspoOnful to
a large pail of water and keep well
stirred while applying it. small por-
ton Of the poison is sufficient
The Glasgow corporation has decid-
ed to carry out the extensive water
scheme at Loeb Arklet, so as to secure
that 10,000,00O gallons of water shall
be emptied into Loeb Kathrine, from
which Glasgow gets its water supply.
The water commissioners were en-
powered recently to borrow in the first
instance S2.500,000 in connection with
the scheme.
In the region of the upper Nile is
district known as Walamo, which is
said to be infested with devils. An
American, Mr.. Whitehouse, and an
Englishman, Lord Hindlip, have or
ganized an expedition for the explora-
ton Of that region and of Abyssinia,
and the American. with true Yankee
pluck, intends to spend some time in
Walama to see if he cannot find out
why the natives believe that the dew
lis are there.
To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take Lax ative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Al
druggists refund the money If II fails to cure
TS W Grovr'- signature Is on each boz 2Sc
South African Diet.
AIillet and maize constitute the staple
diet of the South African native.