The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-08
FACTS IN FEW LINES

/ The fashionable age now for mar
/ rage is from twenty-seven to thirty
| two for women, from thirty to forty
! five for men.
The reduction works at Canso, Nova
/ Scotia. handled 100 tons Of dogfish
/ last year and produced therefrom 1000
! gallons Of fish oil, besides 200 tons of
| fish scrap, which makes a good ferti-
/ lizer.
| Mr.. Beville Stanier of Peplow Hall,
| Shropshire. England, who bought the
| Hawkins collection of British birds re-
Gently, sold the Sheffield specimen OF
| the great aux which it contained fof
| $1,000.
| The colonial secretary of the BAHIA
mas states in his report of the islands
| for 19O5-06 that no complaint Of
error or delay has been received by
the telegraph department for fourteen
years.
The cultivation of rubber is now be-
ing taught in the schools OF west At
RIGA. Every village Is obliged to plant
a certain number of acres in rubber
trees. In the Kongo state 12.5OO,OOo
rubber trees have been planted.
A farmer at Winburg. Orange River
Colony, alleges that In his district
alone $4,000 sheep are stolen annually
by the natives. On this basis he calcu-
lates that 100000 sheep are stolen
throughout the colony every year.
The first secretary of the Chinese ie-
cation in st. Petersburg remarked the
other day that the Chinese government
hoe n CT haId re la y,
the Russian has on its own and that
the Chinese people are less cultivated
and more oppressed.
The oldest Christian structure in Ire
land is a remarkable building. evident
~ very ancient, but wonderfully well
preserved. at Dingle, in County Kerry.
1t is known as 1.-The oratory of Gal
lerus'' and has stood practically unin-
jured for more than 1000 years.
Jerusalem now has a summer resort
at Ramalah. which is situated several
hundred feet higher and commands a
view of the Mediterranean A new no.
tel has been built there for Europeans
by an Arab. Most of the work OF con-
struction was done by women, whose
wages are II cents a day.
The public will be surprised to learn
that the Englishman apparently hasn't
absolute freedom in the choice Of the
name of his own child. An unfortunate
father, registering his baby girl. told
the registrar the name was Coralie,
and he was astonished when he met a
refusal on the ground that there is no
such name as Coralie. He was COM
70 oh
The youngest lawyer that ever ap-
peared before the supreme court of the
United States the other day argued in
favor of the constitutionality of the
North Carolina statute prohibiting the
running Of bucket shops" in that
state. He was Walter Clark, Jr., son
of Chief Justice Clark of the supreme
court of North Carolina, and he has
just passed his twenty-frs birthday.
L. G. Bateman Of Auburn, Me-, has
just come into possession of an ex-
tremely rare and valuable curio for
his cabinet. 1t is an idol from the
ruins of Copan. in Central America. 1t
was presented to him by Charles Ma.
son of Sabatis, the well known gun
maker. Mr.. Mason for many years was
located in Costa Rica and other points
in Central America, purchasing coffee.
Franz Josef, the emperor of Austria,
has a fad for collecting menu cards,
and as his stock is contributed to by
other monarchs it is a truly wonderful
one. His choicest specimen is one used
at the dinner given by the czar to
President Faure. This "card" is block
of the rarest black marble beautifully
painted by a famous French artist, the
names of the various dishes being let
tered in white ivory.
Although the population Of the Unit
ed Kingdom increased by 100000 dur
ing the last six years, there has been q
decline Of nearly 100000 barrels in
the consumption of beer. There is also
steady decline in the use Of spirits,
On the other hand, the 155, 767, no
pounds of tea imported for home con-
sumption during the first seven months
of 1906 mark an increase Of 100000
pounds over the same period in 1905.
The Chinese minister of the board
of education has memorialized the
throne to send all governors of prov
inces to study law in Japan for eight
cen months, and after the expiration Of
this term they shall be reinstated In
their former Offices. He has also advis-
ed their majesties to send all the pres
emit official academicians to Japan to
study western learning, and on their
return official positions shall be allot-
ted to them.
1t is proposed by a German engineer |
to use balloons for railway purposes. |
A stationary balloon is fixed to a slide |
running along a single steel rail. This
rail Is carried up the side of a steep |
mountain. The balloon is moored by
a steel cable to the rail ct height Of /
about thirty live feet above the ground. |
The conductor can cause the balloon to |
ascend or descend at will The lifting /
power is furnished by hydrogen gas, /
and the descent is caused by water
pressure poured into large tank at |
the upper end Of the road.
II. G. Wells, the popular author, has
had varied career. His father was
professional bowler for Kent for many
years and the only man who has ever