Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-13
FACTS IN FEW LINES

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braces 1907 positions.
| An ice boat is now propelled by an
electric motor driven fan.
There is more coal in Montana and
| Wyoming than in Pennsylvania.
The German government operates
| 1920 telephone central stations.
We sell the Chinese about $5OOO,0Oo
year more than we buy from them.
The value of the wheat crop is 81
per cent less than that of the cotton
crop.
Greece has as many people as Michi-
gan and as many acres as West Vir-
ginia.
Dogfish are doing great damage to
the fisheries on the eastern shores of
Canada.
An incubator in use in Australia has
a capacity of 11,440 ducks eggs or
14,0S0 hens eggs.
Roofs over the outside seats of the
tramway cars are being adopted at
Sheffield. England.
To the Liverpool School of Tropical
Medicine the Suez Canal company has
sent Il donation of $3.50.
Sweden exported 10000 tons of but
ter to England last year and ate 10000
tons OF margarine at home.
In New Zealand a government sub
sidy is given the Salvation Army to
prevent suffering among the needy.
fernando de Soto, United States con-
sui at Warsaw. announces a demand
for sticky fly paper in Russian Poland.
Whaley abbey, a delightful residence
near the famous vale of Avoca. in
County Wicklow, has been offered for
sale.
Agitation is on foot in Germany
against Chinese labor in Samoa, where
the first shipload of Chinese coolies has
arrived
Together with the tools that were
stored inside it, an entire house has
been stolen brick by brick near Cassel,
Germany.
Liverpool has decided to try the sug
gestion of its city engineer to build
workmenS dwellings with concrete
slabs made from dust Instructor clink
ers.
The United States gets two-thirds of
both the export and import business
of Honduras. The exports were last
year Sab. 293 and the imports ST.
727,364.
y new process for extracting oil from
olives by a centrifugal machine, such
as is used in sugar refneries, will effect
an enormous saving to the olive grow
ers of California.
The report of the commissioner Of
patents for 1902 shows total of 40, 400
applications for patents. including de-
signs, and that 2T.TT6 patents, includ-
ing designs. We're issued.
Fully 100000 Indian subjects are
now more or less acquainted with the
English language. The language most
spoken in India is Hindoostanee by So
100000 people. Bengal is the tongue of
100000.
There were $500 fewer deaths in
Berlin last year than the year before.
The decrease was largely among chill
dren between six months and one year
old and is thought to be due to the
cool summer.
The recent explosion upon the sub
marine boat lie Francois has revealed
a new danger in this type of craft. The
accident established the fact that in
from the electric accumulators.
Germans who use retort coke ovens
get out tar products worth % per cent
as much as the coke and save nearly
all the 40 per cent of the volatile ele-
ments Of the coal which are lost in the
open beehive ovens used in America.
Among the post offices of this great
republic there are Z Pierces. 10 Roose-
velts, II McKinleys, 20 to % Adamses
and as many Jeffersons. Madisons.
JaclsOns, Johnsons, Grants and Gar
fields, 80 Washingtons, so Monroes, 81
Lincolns and 80 Clevelands.
The mercury vapor interrupter in
vented by Peter Cooper Hewitt will
give the powerful and persistent waves
necessary to the highest success in
wireless telegraphy, and making, as it
does, more than a million waves n sec
ond, it will permit perfect selective
tuning.
DR.. Dempoolff, the head of the Ger
man antimalaria expedition to New
Guinea, announces that he has discov-
cred an aquatic insect which destroys
the anopheles mosquito and that he
proposes to cultivate the creature arti-
nclally In the nope or eXtefmlnatnS
the mosquito, thereby DISCRIMINATING
malaria.
Sixty mastodons have been found in
New York, mostly among certain well
marked belts. Outside these belts the
state is barren. They, therefore, had
distinct feeding grounds, and that, |
too in q not very remote time. They
are usually found resting on the bowl
ders of old streams and in compare
lively thin layer of peat.
The American Iron and Steel ;kssocia- |
ton has received direct from the man
ufacturers the statistics of the produc-
ton of pig iron in Canada in 1902 |
They show an increase of 74,5S1 gross |
tons, or over 80 per cent, as compared |
with 1901. The total production in |
1902 amounted to 319,557 gross tons
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