Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-11-07
FACTS WORTH Remembering.

Inc savings DdUkS III I>eW JOl oSS
hold unclaimed money to the amount
of s9S,135.
Government inspectors admitted
last year 59,15S,149 live animals at
q cost of little over a cent apiece.
Waste leather is no longer thrown
away. Manufacturers use it, in
con pressed form, instead of iron, to
make cog wheels.
Five hundred and seventy-slx mil
lion boxes of matches were imported
into this country last year. Sweden
sent three fourths of them.
Life can be sustained for about
thirty days on water alone. with
only solid food one could live but
one quarter Of that time.
The Ambidextrous society of Lon
don has been formed with the object
of encouraging people to use botl
hards with equal facility.
Ants are the most brainy of all crea'
lures. In proportion to its size, an
ants brain is larger than that of any
other living being.
The bayan tree is remarkable for
the fact that great number of its
branches grow down to the ground
and take root as separate stems.
More than two thousand skilled
workmen have left the French silk
factories of Roubaix and Turcoing,
within year, for the United States.
Glass houses of very substantial
structure can now be built Makers
of Silesian glass are turning out
glass bricks for all kinds of build
ings
The countries that have the larg-
est population, China, India and Rus
sia, are not the strongest nations,
either industrially, commercially, or
in any other way.
1t is a curious fact that in nearly
every street of the cities of Japan
there is public oven where, for a
small fee, people may have '5heir sup
pers and dinners cooked while they
wait.
Five women at Washington, ID. c..
are still drawing pensions as wild
ows of soldiers who served in the
war of the revolution, Which ended
one hundred and twenty years ago.
In proportion to lhe others the most
profitable Of the United States gov
ernnent departments is the patent
office. 4. has a balance of over five
million dollars to its credit
Tibet's six million people have to
support an army of four hundred and
thirty thousand priests, who produce
nothing but beautifully Illuminated
copies of the sacred writings. They
hold all the public Offices.
The number Of timber sic on
the railways of tho world is calcu,at 4
to be about l,494, 100000. and theil
valued is estimated at about 5000 600,
Gee. This item makes serious d9ain
on the timber supplies Of the world.
Though the occaa covers abou,
three-fourth- Of tho surface Of the
earth, it does A0t. in the same propo"-
ton, provide or the vans a man
Il is edstimbated that only about three
per cent. of the people in the world
obtain their living directly from the
sea.
An English naval cadet who, on
his training ship, took eleven first
prizes, and in the first examination
obtained ninety seven and siX-tenths
per cent, was rejected at the medical
examination on account of a small de,
fec, in one little toe.
The development of the dairy in
dustry in the United States is scarce
ly realized by business men. In 1898
the butter haul over the Minn Gapolis
and ST. Louis railroad was four hun
dred thousand pounds. Last year il
was nearly fourteen millions, he ga n
coming wholly from development OF
creaneries along the line of road.
In the U4ited States dfty-three
women have been regularly ordained
and are doing the full work @ min
listers. Forty-tive of them are mar
riad, though some OF them were or
dained before marriage Most of then
have independent parishes, whcr4
the: preach, make pastoral calls, ant
otticiate at marriages and at funerals
Last year coal constituted abou'
fcrty per cent of t5he total tonnage o.
the American railways. To cry a
ton in England from the Yorkshire
coal fields to London. a distance al
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