Arizona republican., 1905-12-18
FACTS FROM ALL OVER.

| A San Francisco woman who found
 cd an institution for destitute women
 in 1869 has lost her money and en- tered the home.
 | A French explorer has found in the
 interior of Borneo a singular and grew
 some wedding gift. It was the skull
 of a Negrito- Papon, carved by the Dayaks.
 Six miles is the length of a petition
 promoted by the British National Ca
 nine Defense league in support of the
 bill for the prohibition of vivisection
 of dogs.
 The mikado of Japan is a good hunt
 CT and fisherman and an excellent shot with a rifle. His devotion to lawn ten- his is marked, and he is an excellen. wielder of a raquet.
 Mrs. John F. Spencer living in Mar ion county. South Carolina, is a living daughter of a revolutionary soldier, Captain Stephen Godhold one of Mar ions men, and was born on October 2S. 1892
 A Plymouth Rock hen belonging to a woman in Weston w. Va, has pro- duced new monstrosity in the egg line by laying an egg which is of normal weight, but as round as a billiard ball. The worlds diamond production summed up shows that India has pro- duced 10000, 900 karats; Brazil, 12,O0O,- 900; Africa. 57,OOO.OOO. All the dia- monds in the world uncut would have value of $540,O0O,0O0
 The original photograph was invent ed by Thomas Edison in 1877. The grooved drum was covered with tin foil, which received the impressions made by the needle fixed on a delicate vibrating plate of metal.
 There are four towns in the Philip pines with a population exceeding 10,- 900 each, and thirty-five with a popu- lation of 5000. Manila is the only in corporated city in the islands, and its inhabitants number 219,92S
 Several British shipbuilding firms have been asked by the admiralty to bid for an experimental torpedo boat destroyer. having a speed of thirty-six knots (forty-one and one-half miles) an hour. At the present moment the Velox, speed 33.64 knots, is the fastest boat in the British navy.
 In Spain drug stores are permitted to sell drugs all day on Sunday, but to deal in perfumery on that day is unlawful. Candy cannot lawfully be sold later than II o'clock in the fore noon unless no clerks or assistants are employed. Proprietors may keep open all day if they do the work themselves.
 Chatham has the distinction of being the first city in Canada to build a pub lie heating plant. The exhaust steam from railroad companys power house is used by the heating company. About mile of mains has been laid, and sev- eral churches, schools hotels, office buildings, as we'll as business houses and private residences, are connected with its mains.
 It is calculated that in London alone about 4,000 persons regularly make a living by begging; that the average in come of each amounts to $750 a week. or together, over $1,500, 900 a year Last year about 2.000 persons were arrested for begging in the streets of London, and many of them were possessed of considerable sums of money and even of bank books showing handsome de- posits.
 Mrs. Sarah Noble, a widow of Gin cinnati, O., feeds 1000 canaries in her luxurious home in that city. During one of her trips abroad many years ago she purchased and brought here the ancestors of these birds at a cost of s1,O00. They lived in seventy large cages. It costs Mrs. Noble $65 a year to feed her birds, and the most expens- i've heating and ventilating arrange ments obtainable are provided for them.