Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-12
FACTS IN FEW LINES

1,OOo III TWO years
The Latest cure for nervous diseases,
according to Il Swiss doctor, is tea
made with melted snow.
A project is on foot in Geneva for the
establishment OF aerial excursions to
view the summit of Mont Blanc.
1t has just been discovered that EN-
erson found his greatest inspiration in
the warm glow of cranberry pie.
a large part OF the tropical fruit used
in the United States is raised by the
transportation companies which bring
it.
Milk is now reduced to powder by Il
new Swedish invention. Five quarts of
SKINNED milk yield one pound of pow
der.
An anonymous donor has given ST.
100000 to st. Bartholomew hospital,
London, to buy the land required for
extension.
The new British blue book gives the
average weekly wages of fifteen skilled
trades at $1,000 in London and $1S.7J
in New York.
Eleven sovereigns and five half SOW
ereigns rendered to Dublin cabmen in
mistake for silver coins last year were
given up TO the police.
The sinking of the shaft 40 feet from
the river bottom by the Toronto and
Niagara Falls company occupied but
little more than Il month.
London is supposed to have 10000
inhabitants to the square mile, but on
the east side. New York. there are 345,-
000 TDOulo To no T1iln
\ memorial has been erected at
cost of f130 in Toowoomba cemetery,
near Brisbane, Queensland, over the
grave of Peter Jackson, the pugilist.
American archaologists have secured
a concession from the Turkish govern
ment to make excavations on site to
the northeast of the old city of Baby
ion.
Kerosene inebriety is becoming COM
mon in many cities. The boys climb
upon the tank car, place their noses
over the manhole and thus inhale the
fumes.
There was Il decrease of over 80 per
cent in the exports of cheese from the
United States in the fiscal year ended
June 80. 1908, as compared with the
year preceding.
There are 1O7,S4S dressmakers en-
ployed by firms in London. The high
est wages Obtainable, except in the
case OF about dozen heads of depart
ments, is IS shillings a week.
NJ. Thopiteau, French deputy. pro
poses to tax all games of hazard to the
extent of s per cent of the sums at
stake. NJ. Thopiteau estimates that the
tax would bring in an annual revenue
of $2000,OO0.
Chinese fire fighters beat gongs and
tomtoms and wave banners to drive
the flames away. Old kerosene tins
filed with water are also used, and ut
Picking there are also Il few old hand
power engines.
In the interest of making Australia
"a white mans country Il government
bounty is paid for sugar grown by
white labor. OF the last years sugar
crop of 100000 tons seven-tenths was
produced by Kanaka black labor.
The average annual importations of
foreign corn into France for the past
three years were 100000 bushels. of
which the Argentine Republic fur
nished an average of 4,250,OOO bushels.
Roumania 100000 and the United
States 100000 bushels.
1t is estimated that during the last
five years telephones have been put in
to nearly half a million rural homes.
The farmer finds that with the tvle
phone he can keep in touch with the
market, selling his produce or live stock
when quotations are the most favora-
bic.
Damascus now contains about the
same number of Jews that it had in the
time of st. Paul. In the middle of the
first century of our era some 10000
Jews lived in Damascus and were gov
erned by an ethnarch. The present
Jewish community is computed at
about II 900.
Master Halle ElcO of North Star.
Mich. eleven years old. is perhaps the
largest boy of his age in the state. He
is larger than either of his parents
since he weighs 2461a pounds, while his
father weighs 217 pounds and his moth
er $50. Master Elco stands , feet
inches high, has a breast measure of
40 inches and a belt measure of Al.
1t is not generally known that large
sections of Alaska are suited for farm
ing and gardening. Such crops as oats,
wheat, rye. barley and fax have been
raised, and neutrality-suspicious., tur
nips, beets, peas, celery. etc.-grow in
abundance. The tillable and pasture
land of the territory at a conservative
estimate amounts to 100000 square
miles and will support 100000 per
sons.
The last literary work upon which
the late Richard Henry Stoddard was
engaged was in connection with his
''Recollections, Personal and Literary"
a volume of memoirs covering Il period
of more than fifty years and affording
4 glimpse of many of the foremost
writer's of the last half century, in
Guiding Hawthorne and Thackeray.
Mr.. Stoddard was author of the much
quoted advice, Write If you want to,
but earn your bread some other way"
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