The Cairo bulletin., 1906-08-21
FACTS IN FEW LINES
Japan gets $4,000 recruits yearly for

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only thirty Q ght per 100000 inhab
itants sixty years ago there were l50,
900 children at school in India. Now
there are over 100000.
Postmaster Carrier OF East Litch-
field, Conn, has been obliged TO erect
high fence edged with barbed wire
! 10 protect what is left Of his garden
from the deer which abound in that
/ vicinity.
| III the latitude Of England the ground
twenty five feet below the surface Of
| the earth does not reach It's highest
| temperature Of the year until Novem-
Der or December The coolest month
that far down is May.
During the digging OF Il cellar in
MontoWcse, Conn. the men came upon
a huge rock which wlthstood all at
tempts to break it up. II is dark
metallic substance, and 1t has been de
termineu that the mass is meteor.
JcwSharps are made principally IN
Borcorio. the seat of the Industry since
the sixteenth century good work
man can make seven dozen in a Gay.
Simple as the little instruments are
twenty different kinds Of tools are used
In their manufacture.
The late Hendrix Ibsen was once
asked his idea Of Americans. We'll,
said Ibsen, smiling, ii is my idea that
the average American baby five or six
months old sits in his mothers lap and
eyes his own cradle to see If lie can't
invent better one or at least suggest
some Improvement"
Mrs, James Ryan Of Lyndon, VT has
a curiosity In pillow tick which filed
with turkey feathers, had lain in the
attic for several years Upon opening
the tick the inside was found to be a
handsome gray plush. the featlery
part Of the feathers being snuGly inter
woven into the cloth by moths.
A South Carolina farmer made Sill
eco net on farm of thirty five acres
in one year The crop was potatoes,
the average production being a fen
barrels more than loo per mere. The
potatoes sold Tor - Il barrel total II
S175O0 Il cost ~ per barrel 10 pat
them on the market or S35oo leaving
Il net profit Of $4,000.
Lord Woiseleys spirit was character
istlc. At the end of 1854 in recognition
of his services in the Crimean war he
was gazettei as captain, but ii was
discovered that he was little more
than twenty-one, and II was Cancelled.
The young man protested 50 vigorous
~ that the cancellation was Cancelled
and the captaincy restored
4 train at Rrattlebora, Vt, picked UP
a bulldog at one Of the crossings. The
dog sailed upward TO the height OF
about fifty feet and came down with Il
thad upon its back in a mud puddle.
He picked himself up, looked at tue
passing train with an indignant growi
Of defiance and then trotted off nncop-
ceruedly. apparently unhurt.
one Of the fishermen to hold out
against the motor boat for fishing is
Samuel Tohey Of Kittery, Me. He
still uses sail and oars for his fifteen
foot dory. feeling that to change st
this time of life would lee foolish.
Tobey is cighty-seven years Old, TIE
oldest fisherman in New England, and
is still very active in the business.
one Of the largest expenses connect
eli with the government printing Office
is that for paper. nearly Sl,000.00o be
ing spent for the 10000 tons used ey-
cry year. There are 100 different KINDS
Of paper used Nearly $4,000 is real
lied from the sale Of the waste paper.
consisting principally Of sheets spoiled
in the various processes Of manufac-
turc
While Captain John f. Barrett, one
of the assessors Of Milford. Mass, was
making a trip through the town on
business be left bis assessors books
on doorstep while he went into the
house During his stay a dog came
shifting around The pile Of books and
suddenly made of with one. On inves-
tcajion after rccapture the book was
found 10 lie the dog record Of the
town.
The first million dollar life Insurance
policy ever written was bought by
Gcor-e W. Vanderbilt In ls97 He was
thirty-hve years old at the time and
agreed 10 pay $4,000 year for TWEEN
~ years. According 10 the Worlds
Work II DE had taken out this policy
twenty years ago he would have paid
in Boy this tine S7ooo0o, which at per
cent compound interest would have
amounted Co nearly Stloouo0
4 remarkable invention for prevent
jng railway accidents has been tried
with success on The western railways
Of France IN, invention is placed on
ana engine II the driver for any cause
passes an adverse danger signal the
apparatus blows "a whistle ou the en-
CINE continuously and also throws up
small Ugh, under the engine drivers
nose. This win render an accidents
cErcpi vIlluI ones, impossible.
James a. Putnam. while NJ work in
his garden at Rutland. VI. picked up
q brass button about an inch IN diane
ter. when il was cleaned it was found
10 be military button in good
state of preservation. II is fat with
the words "NasSachusctts Artillery
around tile edge of the face. In tbs
center in relief g. n cannon mounted