Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1906-09-06
PEOPLE AND THINGS.


and debosit Of 90 cents.
An English syndicate Is to erect
modern fve.story earthquake,
proof hotel in Manil a to cost
s50OOC9
An ordinary crop n' cotton takes
from the soil, il one acre more
than twenty.six pounds of cheni.
cal salts
The Roman police have cleared
the city Of 5oothsay~rs, who have
beer doing hourishing business
there for years
Beautiful brunzes and alloys can
be obtainei Nv the electric deposi
tion Of metals suitably combined
tnr color effects.
Life insurance was invented by
Pascal, whose theory Of probabin,
ties" and law OF averages still
govern the business.
The highest recorded tenpera.
ture, one OF 5000 degr, es, is obs
tanned electrically. This heat is
requi'pd to nr-lt oxide Of uranium
George Hewlett of Stokenchurch.
Eng, still smokes pipe which
was his sn)aee While he was Il sold.
Ter IN tho Crimean war in 1854 $50
About 5000 iron miners in Lor.
rainp, more than half the whole
number emp Dyed in that region
on the border of Germany and
France, are using aertyleue lamps
in their work
Sir Donald McKensie Wallace
has gone TO Russia on whose histo.
ry and present condition he is a
great authority. He accompanied
the Gar, when as Carowitz, he
made the Eas ern tour in 1890
Senator La Toilette is vegetae
rian His daily menu consists of
fresh vegetables, English walnuts
and milk, and vt is said prize
fighter anxious to get into the pink
of condition would envy him.
In the gold mines of the Trans,
vaal, whore the heat and depth are
great and the natives who make up
most Of the lahoring class are ex-
tremeiy susceptible to tuberculosis
consumption is terribly prevalent.
5oseph Chamberlain says: Il do
not supposethat in the whole of
the United Kingdom there is any
man who is less OF an athlete than
am do not cycIe. | do not
ride. | do not walk when | can
help it. The fact is do not take
any px4reise'at all !"
Tests Of alcohol aud gasolene in
the internal combustion engines
used IN motor vehicles and motor
boats indicate that although alco-
hol hat only 70 per cent. as much
heating power AS gasolene, it can be
used with 20 per cent less opera
ting waste.
Justice Brewer, of the United
States supreme court, says he
spends the whole vacation period
loafng. From June to- Oct. 1 !
am absolutely no account to any
body in the world, saud l don't
make single unnecessary move
from the slime l leave the supreme
court till | get back to it.
| Joseph Salmonson, who calls
himself "Nieva," is exciting much
amusement in Paris, where he ~
rades the streets dressed only in q
flowing white robe reaching to hi:
knees and wearing a gilt circlet or
his head. He declares he is thu
apostle of the simple life Hi
hair and beard have never beer
cut.
The prettiest hands in the WORLD
it is said, belong to Mile De Castel
lane, member of the famous French
family of that name and one o
the reigning beauties.of Paris Tn
countess who gets her title through
the dethroned royal family, lon
ago dropped the family crest an,
went upon the stage, where she i
known by another name.
As a ship was leaving the harbc
OF Athens a passenger approache
the captain and pointing to tn
distant hills covered with sno
asked: What is that white stuff o
the hills. captain?n "That is snoy