The Western news., 1904-11-16
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There are 100000 Films in the Unit
ed States.
Bolivian railroads are after Ameri-
can capital.
The parcels post will soon be extend
ed to Japan.
Frances literary output last year
was 9,674 works.
The gondOla Is doomed. The munich
pality of Venice has resolved to pur-
chase electric motor boats.
The longest continuous stairway in
the world is that which leads to the
tower of the Philadelphia city hall. 1t
has 59S steps.
Sir George Newnes, member of Par
lament, is having built for him at
Newcastle-on-Tyne a 1.3OO-ton yacht Of
the turbine type.
Snakes eyes are never closed. Sleep
ing or waking, alive or dead. they are
always wide open. This is because
they have no eyelids.
Straw, pressed into blocks and made
hard enough to use as pavement. is in
use for this purpose in some Of the
streets of Warsaw, Poland.
The 22-ton bell at the Sacre Coeur
Church in Paris is. tolled by electricity.
A single choir boy can do the work
which formerly took five men.
1t has been estimated that an oak Of
average size, during the five months
it is in leaf every year. sucks up from
the earth about 1913 tons of water.
Jews anywhere In Japan excepting at
Nagasaki. The synagogue there was
built by a Japanese woman who had
married Jew. When he died she
built the synagogue in his memory.
The Kaiser will give as a prize for
this years military maneuvers a COM
plete field equipment for an officer in
cluding cooking necessaries. knives,
forks and spoons, revolver. Topographic
cal survey appliances and cigar and
cigarette holders.
Though adopted no more than six
or seven years ago. the whole of the
German quick-firing field artillery has
been condemned as 'obsolete" and 10
to be replaced by shield-protected guns
recoiling on their own timber. This Is
the Japanese type Of field gun.
A joint pastoral will be issued short
ly by the Roman Catholic bishops of
England. dealing with church music.
The pastoral will prohibit entirely GER
tain masses belonging to what may h
called the operate school, and will
deprecate strongly further employment
of women singers in church choirs.
At present patents are granted in
Great Britain at the inventors risk:
but new act provides for a search of
the Patent Office for fifty years back to
see whether the applicant for a pat
ent has been forestalled In his ideas.
This will make British patents worth a
good deal more than they have been.
A Londoner lent a street bookmaker
his watch. SO that the bookmaker
might be sure that he did not take bets
on a race that had already been run.
The bookmaker kept the watch and
the lender sued for 1t. The court de-
cided that, as 1t had been lent for an
unlawful purpose, it could not be re-
covered at law.
The last OF the old-time convicts
transported from Great Britain to Aus
tralia has just died. His name was
E~n<3 Amt1 II In Wlyn hos In,
Yorkshire in 1929 and was sent to Tas-
mania under ten years sentence In
1847. Between then and his death he
received sentences amounting in the
aggregate to eighty-five years and sew
en- months for bush-ranging, bank rob-
bing and other offenses.
The first installment ($26 1000 of the
$25O,OOO In gold souvenir dollars for
the Lewis and Clark Exposition has
been received by the First National
Bank. of Portland. Ore, from the gov
ernment mint at Philadelphia. The
coins are a tribe smaller than a dime.
Each is inscribed on one side with the
legend, Lewis and Clark Exposition"
and ON the other appears the words,
UNITED States-One Dollar" Each
coin will be sold for 81. A purchaser
of five will get one extra.
Probably In no nation under the sun
Is smoking a more prevalent habit than
in Turkey. 1t is now chiefly in the
form Of cigarettes that tobacco is con-
sumed, and as Turkey produces some
Of the best kinds Of the weed for use
in the dainty tubes we may expect the
cigarette to become increasingly popu-
lar. Strange as it may seem, cigars
are in many parts Of Turkey cheaper
than cigarettes. and this naturally
causes an increased demand for these
goods.-Cigar and Tobacco World.
QUEER PENNSYLVANIA FARM.
Where Crops Were Raised Never to Be
Sold or Even Used.
The death not long ago Of Isaac