The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-17
FACTS IN FEW LINES

The San Gabriel forest reserve,
southern California, Is to be stocked
with 100 two-year-old elk from Yellow
stone park.
Japanese have been caught circulat-
ing counterfeits Of gold coins in Taco
ma. The molds and batteries were
made at Hiroshimi, Japan.
Preliminary arrangements for hold.
ing British South African exhibition
In London early in 1907 have been
completed by Captain BAN, member
Of the Cape parliament.
There are In all fifteen ladies in per-
sonal attendance upon Queen Alexan-
dra, the first being mistress Of the
robes, then the ladies of the bedcham-
Der and maids Of honor.
Out Of the many thousands Of pas
sengers arriving at Dover from the
continent since the English aliens act
has been In operation not one has fail
ed to obtain permission to land
Dredges used in taking gold bearing
sand from the beds Of rivers are SO
economically operated that they can
be made profitable when or cents
worth Of gold is obtained in a ton of
gravel.
Felix Weingartner, the noted COM
poser-conductor, in commenting on
American orchestras attributes their
great success to the fact that they are
cosmopolitan in personnel, whereas
European orchestras, excepting possi-
bly, those Of England, are largely ma
tional.
Ranching and farming is carried on
In great magnitude in the part Of Tex
as lying between Simon and Browns
vile. One Of the most noted ranches
of this region is that owned by Mrs.
King. The ranch comprises in all
100000 acres, and the railroad line
continues through it for eighty-four
miles.
John s. Parsons Of Beverly, Mass,
accomplished novel feat in order to
get ahead Of the Salem city govern
ment, which had refused to allow him
to move some buildings from Salem to
Beverly. Not to be undone, he sawed
up his house into pieces and carried
1t as lumber to its destination, where
he had it set up as good as new.
When the water of the Canton river
Is low the Chinese catch the gobies
which lie on the mud. They use
board four or five feet long and a foot
broad, slightly turned up at the front
end, where piece of wood is provided
for a hand rest. They rest one knee
on the sledge and propel themselves
along the mud with their other foot.
A woman applied to an PASSPORT
{Me) overseer Of the poor for assist.
ance recently, but as she had been a
steady beneficiary the Official said she
would have to enter the poorhouse or
further aid would not be Forthcoming.
me enter the poorhouse!' she indig.
nantly exclaimed. Never! I'll work
first!' And out she went In high
dudgeon.
A net bonus of $175 per head is
given by the Canadian government to
every emigration agent in Great Brit.
ain sending out emigrants to settle the
land. To the continental agent a gross
bonus of S. is paid. As a matter of
fact, each British agricultural emigrant
averages total Of $13 to the Canadian
government, and each continental emf
grant costs S..
The requirements of height at West
Point for new cadets will be changed
so as to keep out Of the military serv.
Ice boys who are understood. The min
imum height is slightly increased so
that candidate for cadetship must
not be less than five feet four inches at
sixteen years Of age and not less than
( five feet five inches at the age of eight.
cen and upward.
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, the dis
tinguished painter. is a strong believer
in the luckiness Of numbers. His wife
declares she was seventeen when he
first met her, the number of the house
he first took her to when married was
the same. his present house bears the
same number doubled, the first spade
was put to work on Aug. II, and they
took possession on Nov. II.
Recent experiments show that the
crystals of alum form in saturated
solution with so much force that they
are not repressed in their natural
growth by heavy weight. In. like
manner the crystals of pyrites forming
In slate rock have been known to split
layers Of slate without in any way
changing the form of the crystals
which exert the separating force.
The hundredth anniversary of the
birth Of Johan Snellman, who devoted
his life to the advancement of the
Finnish language, was the occasion of
q great celebration in Finland in oppo-
sition to the efforts of the ruling classes
to force the Swedish tongue on the
people. To the number of $4,000 they
honored the day by dropping names of
Swedish origin and assuming purely
Finnish patronymics.
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