The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-11-21
FACTS III FEW LINES

Asphalt is lounu III urleu up petro-
leum beds.
London cab drivers earn an aggre-
gate of over $4,000 day.
There are about 400 bowling clubs
in Glasgow.
Australia exports 240O0,OoO rabbit
skins Il year. To kill this gigantic
number costs about S325000
Ihn first English work on angling
was The Book of st. Albeens," pub
lished in the fifteenth century.
The court of appeal Mt Client has
just declared invalid an election that
took place twenty-five years ago. The
illegal incumbent, who is a lawyer by
the way, will now, it is expected, va
cate
Camcis, mules and Gonkeys exist in
large numbers and are the only means
of transportation throughout the whole
of Morocco Railway trains and even
carts have yet TO make their appear
ance
Heretofore the only real banner in
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of the commanders of large divisions.
Hereafter every regiment is to have its
flag, as in the armies of other coun-
tries.
4 birds nest containing four eggs
was recently discovered inclosed in the
trunk of large tree cut down at Ciren-
cester, England. The sap rings showed
that nearly century had elapsed since
the eggs were laid.
The city of Ripon, England, celebrat-
ed recently with procession and vari-
Gus entertainments the one thousand
and twentieth anniversary of its in
corporation. Each division in the pro-
cession represented a century.
The greatest monument of the mound
builders not only in Ohio, but in the en-
tire country, is the Serpent mound, in
Adams county. This immense mass Of
earth. probably piled up for purposes
Of worship. has had a curious history
in respect to changes of ownership in
recent times.
A peculiar run of skies occurred in
the county clerks office of Columbus.
o., recently. Thomas Albury-you will
notice SIX letters in each namc-drew
So in fees on Sept. q, 1906. The num-
Der of the case on which the fees were
drawn was 1906, and it was in dock
ct 60. He receipted for it in cash
book No. 6, page 666.
The steamship Goldmouth recently
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from Singapore by the route round the
cape of Good Hope, distance Of H.
791 miles, in fifty-two days, without
once stopping the engines or checking
the generation of steam in the main
boilers. This performance is believed
to be the largest nonstop run ever
made by marine machinery. The YES
sci was burning liquid fuel.
Some of the stores in the towns of
Rhode Island are adopting a new
scheme in awnings. The material used
instead Of being canvas is heavy fur
niture chintz of a very decorative de-
sign. Huge roses growing on tropical
vines seem to predominate in the color
scheme. These awnings have the ad-
vantage of Outlasting the ordinary
kinds. and besides this the colors are
fast and always appear fresh.
Henry s. We.come, the famous
American chemist, now living in Lon
don, has received from the Sudan
government one of General Gordon's
steamers, which he will convert into
Il floating laboratory, the first ever es-
tablished, and with the assistance of
DR.. William Beam, an American, will
attempt to make central Africa habita-
BILE for the white race by extermlnat-
ing millions of malaria bearing mos
quitoes
\ Dane named Knulson is credited
with discovering means of producing
liquid air at the cost of 10 more than
one-sixth of the usual price, and it Is
said that III; process, which is mechan-
ical rather than chemical will ulti-
mately put liquid air on the market at
not more than about cents a gallon.
The same invention makes it possible
to sell oxygen at a cent a cubic foot.
which promises to bring 1t into rather
wide Industrial use.
Many to.s-ists in Switzerland were
astonshed last summer to see villages
in the Rhone valley, near Brigue
'rhlch looked as if they had been bonn
aarled. On inquiry they found that
tic demolished houses were mostly
temporary boarding places for the
italian lnborers who made the Sim
pion tunnel. After their departure
these houses were offered for sale at
$50 each-not. of course, including the
';-5:..::..l on which they stood.
More than 800 buildings in the city
of GuanaJuato, Mexico, which was
built many years ago from adobe
ilocks made of tailings from n primi-
tive smelter, mixed with mud. have
been sold to Il mining concern. 1t was
recently discovered that the walls of
the houses assay from So to $50 in
gold a ton. The company which
bought them will smelt the mixture
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