The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-09-05

division In the procession represented
a century.
An old woman on the witness stand
at Bel1inzona, Switzerland, gave her
age as 1o2. But is was ascertained
on cross.examInation that she was 106-
She explained that she was ashamed
Of being SO old"
The proposed cable TO Iceland is to
be laid from the Shetland Islands to
Thorsbavsn, in the Farce Islands.
From the latter point there is to be
a land limo to Reykjavik The cable
cable is not. expected to be completed
until the autumn.
A few years ago road dust was an
almost insutterable plague on windy
sun1ner days in Southern California.
Now the roads are sprinkled with Pc
tro1eum twice a year and even an
automobile raises no dust.
According to French and SWISS pny-
sicians, it is dangerous for elderly and
weak persons to visit the higher al
titudeg OF the Alps. They assert that
assert that for ouch persons to do so
is to invite cerebral apoplexy, cardiac
lesions and pulmonary embolism.
In London child Is born every
three minutes, and death is recorded
every Ave minutes. The city contains
700 railway stations, 5000 omnibuses.
1000 hansoms, $4,000 cabs, and 1000
tram cars. Daily 100000 persons
travel on underground railways.
The ltqufdator appointed by the
French Governmen tt moanage the
property OF the Carthuslan monks.
sold by auction on June 80 the trade
mark Of tho Grande Charteruse, to-
gether with the right to reproduce the
form of the bottle. The trademark
realized a25,1G4.
Peoria, ILL.,, claims the most remark
able blcycltst in the world. consider
ing his advanced age. This man,
Thomes w. Davis, is now in his nth
year and has ridden over 10000 miles
He received from the Century Club
Of America the first prize for the 1902
mileage record.
The Wochelmer railway, from As
sting to Trieste, which was opened by
Archduko Franz Ferdinand Of Austria.
July 10, passes through a portion OF
the Alps and has AZ tunnels and 72S
bridges. One Of the bridges has the
largest stone arch in the world. Its
span is over go feet.
one Of the few bells cast by Paul
Revere now in existence is to be taken
from the belfry OF the old Baptist
Church in Warren, r. l., to be recast
at Troy, N. Y. A member of the church
Will oversee the job and will write
m account of the undertaking for his
torical purposes.
Berlin University is the most numer.
ously attended seat of learning in the
world. 1t contains T,774 matriculated
and 1880 non-matrlcu1ated students.
All the States Of Germany, and every
country in Europe, from Norway to
Sicily, from Ireland to, Russia, are
represented in It's cTassrooms.
one point in the Queen OF spaln's
future life seems to have escaped gen.
eral notice. She will have to live I'M
der the same roof as her mother-in-
law, her auntin.law, her husbands
brother-in-law and the three children
Of the Kings dead sister. the eldest
Of them being heir to the throne.
Miss Cecilia inflow, who came to
this country from Sweden three years
ago to gather information about work
with stree boys, has been successful
in organizing such clubs in Stockholm
that a philanthroptst has guaranteed
her a life income so hiatt she may con-
tlnue this work throughout the knig-
dom.
st. Louis is favored by place in
The Paris salon through the efforts of
Gustav Wolf, known in st. Louis as
a sign painter and bill poster, but in
Paris recognized as an able painter
Of landscapes, whose genius has been
rewarded by the admission of two Of
his landscapes in the present Paris
salon.
sixty per cent Of the London police
are on the night service, which they
prefer to day service because there is