The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1903-08-18
Told in Brief
Short, Punssnt Paragraphs Of Interest
to Everyone

The price of labor in Alaska Is A'S'
to $3.50 day, with board.
Hot weather is no more dangerous to
fat people than to lean.
More than l5o books on the war II
south Africa have been published.
The Baldwin locomotive works al
Philadelphia employs l5,ooO men, with
weekly salary of $4,000.
One wishing to buy hippopotamus
must have government permit to buy
and another TO land him.
servia has the population of Wiscon-
sin and the area of Massachusetts, and
Vermont.
We must remember that, today. OF
our 100000 miles of tracks only 2S'ocV
miles. or one eighth is equipped with a
block signal system of any kind.
However numerous may be the op-
portunities of life. they are never dis
covered by those who keep their eyes
shut and permit their hands to be ldie'
self-reliance Is good capital in any
business, and the young man who mas
this to start with, together with unlinl-
tied energy. is bound to succeed.
A boy working in the clay pipe fac
Tory at Magadore, Ohio, can make leVcO
pipes a day. Its pipe dream where
they all go.
Alaska natives have developed a
great fondness for bacon, hard bread
canned beef and other foods OF ike
nature.
Truth crushed to earth will rise again,
How strange that people try
This little trick most all the time
But never crush lie.
Nearly all the safety matches. which
are safe against friction ON sandpaper,
stone, wood. or brick. ignite readily
from quick rub on glass.
with 10000 remedies known to med
ical science, it does seem mighty queer
how long it takes the doctor to fix US
nm all right again when We get to feel
ing tough.
The railroad car will carry as much
as 20 teams of horses could haul and
the great oce IN steamers will transport
as much as 400 railroad cars can carry
Excluding Egypt and the Soudan'
Great Britain owns 2,5S5,oOo square
miles Of Africa, an area equal to more
than fifty Englands and inhabited by
about i5,OO0,0oO people.
Manila has a population of something
like 100000, about 10000 beingAmericans
and European born. The American
poItulati IN is estimated at 5000.
If people could turn X-rays on their
poor, overworked stomachs and see
them laboring to digest things that
shurad not have been eaten in warm
weather, they would leave said things
alone.
An electris motor for unloading
bananas has been introduced in New
Orleans which handles 15.O00 punches
an hour, working at three hatches,and
the fruit is protected from the slightest
lsruise.
We are told that the emperor of
Japan is having some trouble with the
Japanese diet. We don't know just
what it consists Of, but hope it is some
thing more paiatable than they are
generally credited with eating.
The life of the modern leather, made
by the use Of sulphuric acid, is but Is
years. This makes it necessary for the
British museum to spend $4,000 year
In renewing leather book binding.
The Baldwin locomotive works has
remarkable record. They hire 1900
men, never had strike, no trade union
among employees was ever organized
and they have been running 72 years.
The worst pauperism in the world is
the poverty Of mind and soul. Pity the
man or woman whose mind is barren
Of those high and noble possessions
which reveal the soul and distinguish
man from the brute.
Idleness Is the progenitor Of crime.
Laziness is a disease that should re-
ceive early treatment. Teachers and
preachers should make it their duty
to convince young men and women of
the wickedness of doing noting.
Probably the largest can factory ln-
the world is that OF the Standard OIL
Company & Long Island City, at which
70,OO0 five gallon cans are made from
Welsh tin each day for the export ker-
24,OOO cans in one day.