Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-12-18
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Mexico produced last year 100000
In gold and $72, 100000 in silver.
project is on foot in Geneva for
the establishment of aerial excursions
to view the summit of Mont Blanc.
The Pope is the head of over 25O,-
100000 human beings, or nearly one
seventh of the population Of the globe.
A new vocation for women is that OF
X-ray nurses. Courses of lectures on
the subjects are now given in Berlin.
The new British blue book gives the
average weekly wages of fifteen skill
ed trades at 5000 in London and
$1S75 in New York.
It is anticipated that for the deter
mination of longitude the wireless sys-
tenn will eventually take the place of
cable and telegraph lines.
American newspapers every year
pay in wages $S0,O0O,OOO and receive
8O,5OO,OO0 for subscriptions and $685.
100000 for advertisements.
A memorial has been erected at
cost of f13O in Toowoomba cemetery,
near Brisbane, Queensland, over the
grave Of Peter Jackson, the pugiHst-
1t is reported that in view of the
looting of Boer Bibles that took place
during the late war the Bible Society
Is to make a free distribution Of 5000
Dutch Bibles bound in leather.
The British national pavilion at the
Eoiv, mill ho 70
production of the Orangery, or ban
Quet hall, of the Kensington palace,
in Kensington gardens, London.
The atom of hydrogen is the small
est of the ultimate atoms" of the
chemists, but it is 1,780 times as large
as the corpuscles which have recently
been demonstrated as the elements of
the atoms.
M. Thopiteau, French Deputy, pro-
poses to tax all games Of hazard to the
extent of per cent of the sums at
stake. M. Thopiteau estimates that
the tax would bring in an annual rev.
enue of $2OOO,OOO.
In recent newspaper article a Phil
fppine student at Georgetown Univer-
record TO show that there were univer-
stiles in the Philippines before institu-
tons of as high a grade were estab-
Hshed in the United States.
The Bureau Of Labor Statistics at
Washington has put out report which
shows that the average advance in the
prices of food has within the last five
nd hot %1,o
average increase in wages has been
at about the same rate. The increase
in both is less than it has been sup
posed to be.
New Zealand has gone farther than
any other nation in realizing the ideal
state of the Socialists, where the gov
ernment owns all the land, manages
all the Industries, and is the only capt.
talist in the community. About one
man in every six throughout the isl
ands is in some form of government
employ, or is in receipt Of pension
from the government
The statistics Of the petroleum out
put for last year, as shown by advance
sheets of report of the Geographical
Survey, show marked decrease in the
production of Russia, and an increase
in that of the United States, which
gives us the lead. Russia furnished
1914 per cent of the worlds output,
and the United States 1854 per cent.
The Dutch East Indies furnished per
cent.
At the beginning of the last century
, the Royal College of Bavarian Physi-
clans sought to forbid steam railway
travel because 1t would induce delir-
ium among the passengers and drive
the specta tors crazy, while an English
quarterly said that it would as soon
expect the people to suffer themselves
to be tied to one of Congreve's rockets
as to trust themselves to the mercy of
a locomotive going at the prodigious
rate of twelve miles an hour
A new material made of non-poison-
GUS red phosphorus and potassium
chlorate has been bought by the Ger
man government, and is to be substi-
tuted in It's works for the deleterious
and oftentimes more dangerous white
phosphorus. Great gain attaches to
the fact that it does not ignite easily.
hence removing or minimizing the dan
ger from fire. How important this is
appears when one is reminded of fires
caused by the ignition Of white phos-
phorus matches by the suns rays. In
regard to danger to employees, the COM
mission says explosions are practical
ly impossible with the new material.
Is HUMAN LIFE TOO LONG.