Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-05
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Tattooing is now done with a needle
| driven by electricity.
In New York city schools 1000 chill
! dren have trachoma.
The typewriter is more largely used
in Mexico than in France.
More than one-third of the inhabit-
ants of st. Louis are of German blood.
The United States imports of tropical
and semitropical fruits $1,OOO,O0O a
day.
In Sweden bricks are laid in zero
weather by heating the sand for the
mortar.
The density or relative population OF
| Cuba is nearly the same as that of the
United States.
Thirty-seven per cent of the Amerf-
can people now live in cities of more
than 1900 inhabitants.
Panama ranks fifth in population
and seventh in area among the states
| of the Colombian republic.
The longest telephone wire span i'll
the world is 5000 feet from pole to
pole, spanning the Susqushanna at
Lancaster, Pa.
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one pounds, be forty-one and one-half
inches in height and have chest girth
of twenty-three and One-half inches.
A small fraction of an ounce of radi-
um, properly employed, would provide
good light sufficient for several rooms
and would not require renewal during
the present century.
The bashi-baZOuks are guerrillas from
Asia Minor, are transported by the
Turkish government to scenes of trOu-
BILE and are then expected to make their
own living from loot.
The German state gives to one uni
versity more than the British govern
ment allows to all the universities and
university colleges in England, Ireland
and Scotland together.
In the absence of horses both Il plow
and mower were used, tied behind
his automobile, by Mr.. Raser, an Ohio
farmer. The machine was geared too
fast to give the best results.
White farm labor is producing an in
creasing proportion of cotton, and the
dictum that the negro is absolutely in
dispensable for cotton culture is fast
becoming a wornout tradition.
Maximite, the composition of which
is a government secret, is about three
times as powerful as ordinary gun
powder and is a powdery substance,
melted by heat and poured into she'll.
While one room tenements in London
have decreased from 172,502 to 149, 524,
or IA per cent, three room and four
room tenements have increased 16 per
cent, 10 per cent and 81 per cent re-
spectively.
Some flowers appear to change their
scents at different times. The common
jasmine flowers, when first opened,
have a delicate fresh perfume which
after a time becomes grosser and at
tracts bluebottle flies.
Advance reports indicate that the re-
turns of the recent census of the Phil
ippines, when tabulated, will show a
population of 100000, exclusive of
the wild tribes of the mountains, which
are estimated at less than a million.
The coal handling machinery at a
Boston wharf recently lowered the
worlds record by raising coal from n
steamer ninety feet to storage pockets
at the rate of 800 tons an hour. The
capacity of the shovel was two tons.
The thin coat of black oxide left OH
iron after rolling is the most permanent
form of iron oxide, and slight amount
of rust does not prevent paint from adj
herring to iron. Therefore the theory
that iron must be cleaned to a white
surface by sand blast or otherwise be-
fore painting seems untenable.
The Prussian war department finds
that in every 1000 young men arriving
at the age of military duty seventeen
are suffering from heart disease. Strick-
Ter, who has been studying the subject,
declares that the cause of the great
prevalence is the increasing degeneracy
and nervousness of the youth of the
land.
The German empress has expressed
the desire that for the future all pieces
intended for representation at the court
theater shall be submitted to her first,
so that nothing may be played of
doubtful morality or likely to shock
the audience. Her majesty reserves
the right of vetoing any play she may
choose.
The most wonderful bird fight noted
is the migratory achievement of the
Virginia plover, which leaves its north
ern haunts in North America and, tax
ing a course down the Atlantic, usual
" from 400 TO 500 miles east of the
Bermudas, reaches the coast of Brazil
in one unbroken fight of fifteen hours,
covering distance of 1920 miles at
the rate of four miles n minute.
The great state universities make the |
acquiring of an education possible to
any boy or girl who has sufficient ambi- |
ton to apply it. Excluding the charges |
for technical and professional depart
ments, Indiana and Kansas universe |
ties require no fees. In Missouri there |
is an entrance, laboratory and Incl |
dental fee of So Michigan, besides |
matriculation and diploma fees, i'm
poses an incidental fee of $50 a year; |
Wisconsin, an incidental fee of $50; |
Illinois, $24, and Iowa, $25.
The new statistics show that we sold |
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