Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1903-09-23
FACTS IN FEW LINES
Germany sold Russia S4,70O,OOo worth


The practice Of fencing has been re-
vivcd among young Japanese noblcwo-
men.
Twcnty-thrce acres OF ground are
needed to bury London's dead Of one
year.
All tie blood in Il mans body passes
through his heart once III every two
minutes.
Large numbers of Chinese in Man
churia have already learned to speak
pigeon russian.
The borough authorities of Brooklyn
propose to lay out public park as a
memorial to Henry Ward Beecher
In the Indian Territory 10000 acres
! Of coal lands are to be sold at auction
and the proceeds divided among the
! Indians.
In Southwark, the smallest London
borough, there were more lunatics last
! year than in any other metropolitan
borough
\ 10000 horse power steam turbine
! has been ordered for the Rhenish-
Wcstphalian electrical works at Essen,
Germany.
In Lcipsic. Germany, automobiles are
prohibited in the inner city and limited
| to streets traverscd by electric cars
elsewhere.
The largcst= living thing on earth is
the new found redwood tree in Califor-
mia, which is $50 feet % III and 15G feet
| in circumference.
The ribbon looms operated in st. Ell
enne, the greatest ribbon manufacture
ing city Of France, are now supplied
with electrical power.
More vandalism has taken place in
Licltorfcide. suburb of Berlin, the
colossal bust of Emperor William 1.
being totally destroyed.
Professor Dunbar of Hamburg claims
to have discovered the poison in the
/ pollen of flowers which causes hay fe-
vcr and also its antidotc.
The house Of peers consisted at the
end If last year Of 504 princes Of the
blood and hereditary peers of England,
| Great Britain and the United Kingdom.
In laying" competition Of the Util-
| ity Poultry club at Grove. England, the
four-ycar-old pullets which took the
first prize laid PIG eggs in sixteen
weeks.
The red deer of New Zealand are es-
tiNlatcd to number between 1000 and
$3.50 individuals. the offspring of two
stays and six kinds that were turned
out in 1865.
The German antarctic expedition in
the Gauss has reached the Cape Of
Good Hope after nearly two years Of
effort Every previous We'll fitted eX-
petition has penetrated farther south
than it.
Ethnolog;sts of the Smithsonian in
stitutiou have investi gated the Philip
pines. with results tlat are Of rafc in
tcrcst 10 science. They have called at
tcntion to the fact that in the veins of
the tribes Of the archipelago flows the
ichlcn.i OF ail-the- and varieties of
mankind.
"Gassing" trees has become so large
business in California that Los An
COLES man has an outfit for it 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 Il saucer ut the
! trees root.
The Tucson chamber Of commerce
has given the site and will install
water supply and an electric light plant
for tic Desert laboratory Of the Carne-
gic institution on mountain two miles
west of their city The object Of the
! undertaking is to study the plants
characteristic of arid regions.
On 4 newly erected memorial stone in
Yarmouth appears this inscription: "1n
memory of -. who died Of disease
contracted in South Africa. The Lord
he praised" Wiltshire has this epitaph:
Beneath this soil Il lump of clay lies
Arabclla Young, who on the 9th Of
May began TO hold her tongue
The largest automatic weighing ma
chine is on its way from England to
Natal. 1t has total weighing capaci-
ty Of 100 tons and is fitted with auto
matte indicators, SO arranged that
when an engine is run on to the ma
chine the weight carried by each wheel
Is automatically and instantly eXhib-
tied.
/ Several hundredwcight Of cotton
grown in the Kilwa district Of German
East Africa have just been tested at
the Bremen Cotton Exchange, and
those trials are reported to have result
ed in showing that this cotton is near
ly as good in staple, color, ETC., as the
highly valued Egyptian product, from
seeds Of which it IS grown.
Extended and painstaking expert
mcnts with formaih injections in ami
mails suffering from inoculated septic;e-
mia in the laboratory Of the New York
health department show conclusively
that formalin, the recently vaunted
cure for blood poisoning is more in
furious to the normal blood cells than
to the bacteria whose products arc
poisoning the blood.
! Within the last year an industry Of
much Importance to American paint
manufacturers and dealers has sprung
] into existence near Malaga, Spain. a
rich vein of oxide of iron ore, known rs
hcmatitc, valuable chiefly for the man
ufacturc Of rcd paint for structural
iron work has been developed. The
production Of hematite in the United
! States has been falling off in spite Of
an increasing demand.
An effort Is now being made to intro
ducc sweet potatoes and yams from
Barbados TO the English cook. Great
success has been achieved at Barbados
in growing both Of these vegetables,
and product Of the very best quality
can be raised there \ large commits
sion firm Of Portsmouth IS importing
( rrrr1lnr SuDnlipS and sending about