The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-06-20
FACTS IN FEW LINES

regular traffic in lending engagement
rings.
In 1905 there We're $50 fatal acci-
dents in the collieries of Great Britain
and Ireland.
Only 10 per cent as many children
are born in England now as were born
thirty years ago.
In Surrey, England, the "cud" is
called "quid." The expression "quid
of tobacco" probably comes from this.
Twenty-three hundred million bush
els of wheat are required annually by
the 517,000,000 bread eaters of the
world.
Wire drawing was invented by Ru-
dolph Of Nuremberg In the early part
of the fifteenth century. Wire was
first made In England in 1863.
This country ranks first in the paper
making industry. Germany Is second,
and Great Britain comes third. The
production in America is two or three
times greater than in Great Britain.
A collection Of the heads and horns
of practically every variety Of big
game to be found in northern Rhode
sia has been added to the British South
Africa company's museum in London
Fearing that he would be punished
for spending sevenpence on sweets in
stead of buying fruit for his mother,
schoolboy at ABORT, Saxony, threw
himself in front of train and was
killed.
A bushel of bltuminous coal is differ
ent In different states. In Illinois,
Iowa, Missouri and Kentucky its
weight is eighty pounds, In Pennsylva-
MIA seventy-six pounds and in Indiana
seventy pounds.
A cold storage trust is one of the de-
velopments promised for the near fu-
ture in South Africa. All the ice and
cold storage plants in the "subconti-
nent" will be amalgamated If the
present plans carry.
The federal government has 67e
clerks who have reached the age of
threescore years and ten. In the gov
ernment printing Office there are sew
entyslx printers who have handled
the stick and rule for more than half
a century.
The tulip is the emblem of Hun
garian and anti-Austrian sentiment. A
tulip league has been formed In Hun
gary to boycott everything Austrian.
The members wear badge Of a tulip
in the Hungarian colors-red, white
and green.
In the London mine at Newbridge,
near Bendigo, In Victoria, Australia,
nugget of gold has been discovered
weighing 1856 ounces. The nugget was
found In the Nick of Time Rush. When
cleared of the rubbish the nugget will
weigh about 300 ounces.
In order to keep a newly painted
floor clean western Massachusetts
woman placed newspapers on the floor.
On removing them 1t was found that
she had the news Of the day firmly
printed on the new paint, and 1t has
been impossible to remove the ink.
When the Prince and Princess of
Wales desired to inspect the Golden
temple at Amritsir, in the Punjab, the
Sikhs declined to allow them to enter
the main gate because they were not
Sikhs, but said they could enter by a
side door. The offer was declined.
A court of law Is Renaissance of
the time when justice sat in the open
courtyard, and the dock" is from q
German word meaning receptacle,
while the "bar' is Welsh word.
meaning branch of a tree used to
separate the lords of Justice from their
| vassals.
After being missing for two weeks a
cat belonging to a family In Wiltshire
England, was found clinging to the
side of well thir, ,y-hve feet from the
surface and Just above the water. She
was apparently n0uo the worse for her
experience when she was brought to
the top.
Sea gulls invaded boat load of her
ring at Nanaimo, Wash, while the fish
ermen were away. When the fisher
men returned sixty had eaten so much
that they could not fly away. The fish
ermen lifted them into the water, and
they just managed to swim to the
shore, where they lay down to recover
from their dinner.
Sir Walter Gilbey, whose father was
stagecoach proprietor, has at Elsen-
ham Hall, his beautiful Essex resi-
dence, one of the finest sporting pic
ture galleries and libraries in the Brit
lsh realm. Some volumes date back to
the sixteenth century, and every branch
Of recreation is represented, from fox
hunting to cockfghting.
Blowing wells, sometimes known as
breathing wells, are now being inves-
tigated by the United States geological
survey The best known examples Of
this type Of well are found through
but Nebraska. The force of the air
current in one Of the Louisiana wells
IS sufficient to keep a mans hat sus-
pended above it. Such phenomena are
mainly due to changes in atmospheric
pressure.
Happiness.