The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-22

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MUCH IN LITTLE.
Half a million grous and nearly hal
a million partridges are killed yearl!
in Great Britain.
Worms bring to the surface year,!
as much as 10 tons of soil to the acrt
on grass and cultivated land.
Yiddish is feature in the pro
gramme Of the London County coun
Gil for certain evening schools in the
East End.
During a harvest festival at the fish
ing town of Puneknoll, Dorset, Eng
land, mackerel, hung across the chan
Gel. formed part of the church decora
lions.
The building Of St. Panl's cathe
dral, London, is solid, it appears, not
wlthstanding its age, but the whole
mass is gradually sinking about hall
the thickness of sheet of note paper
every three years"
Several headmasters of schools ir
the Botherham CYorks) districts have
adopted newspapers instead of read
ing books. 1.-THE scholars" they say
gain more general knowledge from
the newspapers than from the books
During, the Esperanto conference
wireless messages sent out from the
Marconi station at Pollhu, Cornwall
to passing ships were received also
at the wireless station on the summit
of the st. Gotthard. in Switzerland.
In the first half of the year 1906
Scotland produced an amount of ton
mage from her shipyards unprecedent
ed in the history of shipbuildlng. In
these six months the shipyards put
into the water no less than 2O7 vessels
Of all sizes, with an aggregate tonnage
of SGO,4S9.
People who wish their rings to last
well should not wear them under
gloves. The constant friction Of the
gloves wears the tiny points that hold
the stones in place, and the result
Is that the stones fall out unless they
are closely loked after.
Very numerous are the patents that
have been issued to women on novel
ties in furniture. One piece, which
appears to be a school desk, also con
talns an organ. With simple manipu'
lation an innocent-looking sofa is con-
verted into a bathtub.
New York City boasts the oldest
structure on the hemisphere. 1t is
the Egyption obellsk in Central Park,
first erected as an offering to the sun
god by Thotmes III. Moses saw it
when it was old, for it was construct
ed more than 1000 years before the
Christian era.
That there is an abundance of lions
in Central Africa is proved by these
kilograms, said to have been sent re-
Gently by a railway station master to
his division headquarters: please
send further police protection. Men
very brave, but less so when roaring
begins
A Berlin writer states that a wire
less signal station is now in course OF
erection at Norddeich for the German
postal authorities, which
will have an effective radius of a32
miles, equal to the distance from Ma
ples to St. Petersburg. The station
consists of four iron towers 2lS feet
high. Regular operations were hoped
for early in October.
Consul A. L. Smith. of Victoria,
writes that sealing in British Column
biar waters in 1905 was more pros.
porous than for many years-not thai
the catch was so great, but because
the price of skins rose from 81 to $40
each. 1t is estimated. that because Of
the war between Russia and Japan,
which withdrew those countries from
the business 10000 fewer seals were
caught than in 1904.
The new Pure Food and Drug Law