Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-12-01
LITTLE OF EVERYTHING.

No Russian army officer can marry
before the age of 23.
The United Kingdom spends $4,-
100000 a year on raisins.
The hair of the head grows faster
in summer than in winter.
Nine-tenths of the Holsters packed
in Canada are exported to Europe.
Whalebone nay be easily cut If it
be laid for a few minutes in hot
water.
A. A. AL is a st. Louis merchant
who uses but two letters in signing
his name.
Senator Pettus, of Alabama, is
wearing a pair of eyeglasses he pur.
chased in 1865.
Edward HALEY introduced mercu-
ry as the liquid for use in thermom-
eters in 1850.
Fifty million gallons of petroleum
were produced in Burmah and AS
sam last year.
London has owe thirty King
streets and the same number of
Queen streets or roads.
Liverpool expects a profit of
$350,000 on last years working of
its municipal tramway system.
Africa has nearly 700 languages.
and this fact presents great difficulty
to missionary effort.
The Governor of Georgia receives
$4,000 a yea salary-$500 less
than the Governor of Florida.
The tight-ftting British uniform
is alleged to be the cause of much
neart disease among soldiers.
Floors of rubber, claimed to be as
durable as asphalt and cheaper, are
being tried in Germany.
About 1000 Chinese emigrate to
Vladivostock every spring and return
to Chefoo in the autumn.
On the railroads in Canada it is
necessary to keep over 600 ncw
rlovs in operation every winter
Sixty bronze coins, dating from
1866, have been found in an old
pond at Elemore Colliery, Durham,
England.
In order that a rainbow may be
produced, the sun must not be more
than forty-two degrees above the
horizon.
There are several hundred Boer
prisoners in India who still obsti-
nately refuse to take the oath of al
legiance.
The house in which Robert Burns
died at Dumfries is now let as a
dwelling place at a rent of $65 a
year,
With a gift of $250,O0O recently
to Columbia College a department of
health and science will be esTab-
lished.
The waters of the Dead Sea, where
no rudder has been seen for centu-
ries, are now being piled by German
motor boats.
The broken and distorted foot of a
Chinese lady is called a golden lily
by Chinese admirers of such distor-
lions.
No child, young girl or woman ear
be employed more than sixty hours
a week in Canada, and the law is
strictly enforced.
For riding a bicycle after being
varned, a canon named Stamps has
been suspended by the Bishop of
Assist, Italy.
If great cold turned our atmos-
phere to liquid air 1t would make a
sea thirty-fve feet deep over the sur
face of the whole globe.
BY applying glucose or glycerine
to their roots a French scientist de-
clares that he has been able to slim
ulate the growth of plants.
Considerably more than $1,000
tons Of butter are made annually
in the British isles, and from 100,
600 to 100000 tons of cheese.
In Berlin the "anti-tip society
has been formed, and branches are
to be started all over Germany. The
object is to do away with tipping.
At Swedish weddings, among the
middle and lower classes, the bride
groom carries a whip. This is an
emblem Of his authority in the do
nestle circle.
The fimsy paper called tissue pa
per was originally made to place
between tissue cloth or gold or sill
yer, to prevent its fraying or tar
nishing when folded,
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