Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-06-24
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American uhNei OIdllScS are IelhilSu
In Bordeaux, France, at cents each.
The Southern Pacific will use cleo
tric ears on its street railway lines in
Oakland, Cal, instead of steam.
There is not a single qualified prac-
ticing dentist in the English protector
ates Of East Africa and Uganda.
The mining Of manganese is becom-
ing an important industry, S64500,OOo
worth having been produced during
1908
The United States sells annually In
the countries now In the war zone
$40. 10000, and buys from them S72,-
100000.
The mineral products of the United
States, which reached the billion-dol-
lar mark in 1901, were last year
81 ,260, $780, 900.
1t Is estimated that the investments
of the Jesuits in Europe amount to
four billions of dollars. Much Of the
money is invested In German govern
ment. bonds.
The new German syndicate is said
TO control nearly 80 per cent of the en-
tire German steel production under a
limited arrangement which expires
June 80, 1907.
Immense quantities OF California
prunes are handled in Bordeaux, which
is the center of the prune trade of the
world, and after being repacked are re-
exported to the United States
The Standard Oh Company in 1908
supplied 81 per cent of the domestic
demand for kerosene and 80 per cent
of the export demand. Its net profits
for the year exceeded S6O,Oo0ooo.
The life saving globe invented by
Captain Donvlg has been Endorsed by
the Norwegian government 1t is
made of 3-16-inch steel, has seats for
sixteen persons, a sail and rudder.
Measured by fighting strength, In
stead of by tonnage, the American
navy is now really more formidable
than that Of Germany or France, and
therefore, ranks next TO that of En-
gland.
In the famous Bohemian glass fac
tory region glass blowers receive So
to IS a week, working by the piece
cullers get SO to $3.50 a week, engray
ers 81 to SO. skilled painters and GID
ers SO to IS.
Pitsburg Is represented at the
worlds fair by huge relief map of
the mill district. The map was made
from the maps of the United States
Geological Survey, and is accurate in
every detail.
The Italian legation at Pekln has
been provided with a Marconi wireless
teegraphy station. which enables di-
rect communication to be maintained
with the vessels of the Italian feet in
Chinese waters
There is language of hats in Ko-
rea, and the twenty or more styles
have each voice and meaning. If n
man Is In mourning sixteen square feet
Of mating is shaped in a pyramid two
feet high for his head covering.
\ youth OF Buffalo says he has dis
covered method for tempering cop
per-a long lost art IT is said that
he has conducted successful expert
ments in temperlng copper under the
observation of governmental naval ex-
perts.
only saucer remains of the porce-
lain set presented In 1888 to Martha
Washington. This is carefully pre-
served in the Smithsonian Institution
at Washington. In the center appears
the monogram of M. W." for Martha
Washington, and about the edge is the
name of every State which was then
in the Union.
In the British House of Commons.
as soon as the question to be decided
is put from the chair, a clerk at the
table sets in motion huge sand glass.
Familiarity known to members as the
egg boiler" probably because 1t takes
three minutes TO run out. AS the last
sand runs through the glass the ser.
seant-st-arms instantly locks the mas
slVe oak doors OF the chamber, and