The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1903-12-14
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Three thousand Chinese carpenters
are on strike for better wages at Hong.
kong.
A farthing has been found In the
stomach Of a Goldfish at Eyemouth.
England
Floors of rubber. claimed to be ~
durable as asphalt and cheaper. are
being tried in Germany.
Wisconsin is first In lumber and
timber products, and Minnesota leads
In Touring and grist mills.
Toward a million farthings fund
for the erection OF a church In footing
17.15S farthings (sbout 500 have been
collected.
Irrigation works in British Indls
which cost s12S.OOo.0Oo water 13.OOO.
600 acres and pay Z per cent on the
investment.
By putting aside their weekly penc.
the school children OF Atlanta. Ga.
saved enough to purchase an elephant
for the local zoo.
The post norton inspections OF foot
animals by the government in 102
numbered ~3S,903,625. and 61.960 car.
i OaooC0 y
Heavier SHOWS have fallen the past
winter on the inner ranges of the Him
alayas bordering on the Pamirs than
have been known for twenty-five years.
The growth of the tobacco industry
In South Carolina has been phenome-
nal. The Darlington market alone re-
| ports sales OF more than 7,000.0OO
pounds of the 1902 crop.
There was recently held in Germany
a competitive exhibition OF the work
Of journeymen shoemakers. In the
United States the cutter is the only
skilled workman In the shoe industry.
Three motor cycles have been pur-
chased for the fire brigade at Chariot
tenburg, a suburb of Berlin. They are
to be ridden by f1remen, who will start
off before the engines at the first alarm
of fire.
The attorney OF the Marconi com
pany in London has stated that they
expect shortly to encircle the earth
with wireless messages and hope to
apply his system to heating. to traction
lines and to publishing daily newspa.
pers.
Germans who use retort coke ovens
get coal tar products worth % per
cent as much as the coke and a v
nearly all the 40 per cent OF the vola-
tile elements of the coal which are
lost in the open beehive ovens used
In America.
The companies having steamers in
the Alaskan trade offer to subscribe
for stock enough in the Marconi COM
pany to furnish money for the imme-
date establishment OF wireless tele-
graph plants along the dangerous coast
Of British Columbia.
The mayoress of Bournemouth. Eng
land, turned tram driver one day re-
Gently. In opening the four mile sys-
tenn of corporation tram the wife OF the
first magistrate drove the first car.
which is one specially designed for the
use of the corporation.
The steamship Sierra. which recently
arrived at San Francisco from Austria
liza, reports that while steaming at q
rate of sixteen knots she struck a huge
whale, breaking its back and cutting
into it so deeply that the monsters car
cass stuck fast to the stem.
"Gassing" trees has become so large
a business in California that a Los An
geles man has an outfit for II which
cost $4,000. Tents are used to confine
the gas to the trees and to protect the
operators from the deadly prussic acid
which is liberated from a saucer at the
trees root.
Three years ago some gold rings-
chains and a crown decorated with
Jewels were found In the Dresden
Kreuz Kirche in the grave OF Duke
Albrecht of Holstein. who died in 1919.
They were claimed by Duke Ernst
Gunther. n the courts have now
acknowledged his title to them.
1t is reassuring to be told by our
consuls that, whether overproduction
should result from overstimulation OF
our industries DR. from diminished
home consumption, the foreign mar
kets are becoming more and more &C
cessible to our goods and that In even
the remotest corners Of the earth we
are gaining substantial Roadway.
The kaiser's cigars are about half ~
long again as those smoked by ordi-
nary mOEldiS. lueJ COne lTOm EdNh-
ma, being made there specially for the
emperor. Each bears a Havana ring
ornamented with the emperors por.
trait He pays Is. Sd. to Is. Cd. apiece
for them. Similar cigars could not BE-
purchased for less than 8 shillings each
In Germany. where tobacco In all forms
In cheap, a penny. for instance. icing
the price of a very smokable weed.
As a result of the introduction OF the
Bertillon system by the Zurich police
the town has practically cleared out all
Its bad characters. Even tramps give
the place a wide berth. for az soon asa
person is arrested he is photographed
and his measurements taken. even "
the charge is not serious. OF late the
police have had so little to do that
there is talk of reducing the number Of
the force. So few crimes are commit
ted In the town that Zurich 10 eonsid-
erad IN he the most moral town I'm