Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-05-23
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known graves.
The general depth OF the Niagara
River at the brink OF the falls is four
feet
There are $50 women commercial
travellers now on the road In Great
Britain
Nearly all business transactions in
| Colombia are based Oh United States
currency.
The records Of the Weather Bureau
conflict with the popular belief in the
equinOctial storm.
In the religious communities where
the use of meat is forbidden appen-
dcitis Is unknown.
The propcllors of the fast auto boats
revolve $50 times IA minute, giving a
speed of twenty-five miles an hour.
The language Of the republic of Hay
ii is French while the language of the
republic Of Santo Domingo. on the isl
and of Hayti. is Spanish.
Municipality owned plants furnish
two thirds Of the electric lighting in
Great Britain and only about per
cent in the United States.
The importation Of raisins. which
formerly amounted TO nearly 2.OOO.OOO
boxes year, has been reduced to al
most nothing by the California crop.
The per capita value Of England's
foreign commerce last year was $3.50;
that Of Germany. $47.6O; France. SAB:
Austria. ST., while that Of Belgium
was $12O.
The Patent Office at Washington
during 1903 granted 1859 patents.
The net balance to the credit of this
office since it was founded in 1886 Is
S.. 1852, $40.
The coral reefs are made up entirely
OF the skeletons Of animals and algae
is proved by borings to depth of
more than 1000 feet in the Pacific ISL
and of Funafuti.
Surveys. which have just been com
pleted for a ship canal across Russia
to connect the Baltic and Black Seas.
miles and the cost $3.50. 100000.
The playing Of golf on Sundays is
practiced to such an extent that in
certain parish in England, it is said.
the hour Of services has been changed
to suit the convenience Of players.
The population of Korea. as shown
by monograph just issued by the
Bureau Of Statistics, is 1900 In round
numbers. Its area about equal to that
Of the State of Kansas, and its foreign
commerce at about $12.OOO,OOO. Of
which imports form about $7.5OO.OOO.
The arbitration law of New South
Wales has been in operation over a
year, and it has been found that so
long as its decisions are In accordance
with the wishes of the employees there
has been no resistance. but whenever a
decision has been adverse to them they
have shown a spirit Of resistance.
Emigrants from Denmark, none of
whom is illiterate, all come to the
United States. Ninety per cent of them
are Lutherans. and nearly all Of them
settle Oh farms The ordinary day la
borer in Copenhagen receives $54 a
year. with board. lodging and washing:
by the day, in harvest time, 30 to 80
cents.
II have not much doubt that the
French in few years will be able to
supply themselves with cotton, princi
pally. if not wholly. from their West
African possessions" says United
States Consul Strickland Of Senegal.
An Italian syndicate. with capital of
100000 will foster cotton growing in
East Africa.
1t can be understood to what a nice
ty the mocha nism of gasoline engine
Is adjusted when 1t Is stated that to
make 1000 revolutions a minute means
that in four-cycle engine there are
500 sprays of gasoline forced into the
cylinder 500 times the electric battery
makes Il spark. and 800 times the es-
cape valve is opened to let the gas out.
1t can be said with reasonable GER
tainty that electricity and magnetism
are StdttS vi uiStuI OdlCtS Ill Tie uill-
versn ether, although the exact kind
Of disturbance cannot yet he defined.
partly because the mechanism of the
ether itself must be sufficiently known
in order to dfferentiate its disturbed
conditions from its normal conditions.
OF the 2.5OO,OOO emigrants of Ger
man nationality who left the father
land during the thirty-three years since
the formation Of the empire. 8O.7 per
cent came directly to the United States.
With all the efforts that have been
made to stimulate emigration to Brazil
and TO the German colonies in Africa
and Asia it has dwindled to a meager
fragment.
The newly discovered tin mines at
Gaffney. S. c.. bid fair to prove much
richer than was at first thought. Shafts
have been sunk to depth Of fifty feet.
and the report is that the deeper the
shaft goes the richer the deposit is
found to be-" One expert expresses
the opinion that the mines will prove
to be the richest of their kind in the