Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-12-12
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Great Britain owns more land OF
North America than the United States
The number of persons to the square
mile in this country is II. while IN
England it is 48o.
The length of the foot should be one
sitxh the height of well-formed per-
son.
Los Angeles has over thirty-five wo'
Hen who are earning their living as
BARRIERS
Fhere are now upward of 400 punches
of grapes on the famous vine at lamp
tn Court Palace, England, which Is
1873 years old.
The mines of the world employ o.
600, 600 persons, and more than one
third of them are in the British En-
pire.
When the telephone wires are over
land the speed of transmission is at
she rate of is, 900 miles second when
the wires are through cables under the
sea the speed is only 5000 miles a Sec
ond.
Berlin now has over 6, 900 cabs with
taximetres -dials indicating the dis
tance traversed and cost to the pass
enger.
There are no paupers in the Gold
coast Colony, and there are neither
lunatic asylum, refornatory nor poor
house.
Ten carloads of Christmas trees,
number, 10, 900 trees, arrived in Pitts
burg on Tuesday from Vermont. About
10000 more will be shipped to the
smoky city.
Experiments made in Germany show
that butter keeps best if mixed with 3
to 8 per cent. of salt. II the percent
age of salt is over the result is less
satisfactory
The Australian government gives
her aged citizens pension OF nearly
81 so per week.
Emperor Francis Joseph, Of Austria
is said to be one of the finest lingu lists
in Europe.
BY the birth of the little son and
heir to Prince and Princess Alexander
Of Teck, the number of unmarried
English princes is now increased to
eleven.
Dewet, who so stoutly led the Boer
forces in their final resistance, has
now assumed the role of Cincinnatus.
being minister of agriculture in the
Orange Free State.
The governments new blue book
shows that 306, 900 persons are now
employed in the country's civil SER
vice.
Flour orders from the Orient have
to go to Manitoba because of the in
ability of the Pacific Coast flour mills
to fill them even at an advance in
prices
In Lewiston Me-, there is young
woman cobbler, and in New York
state blacksmith shop is run by
three women.
In his half hour private talk with
Secretary Taft the Russian czar COM
plimented American sanitation on the
Isthmus of Panama.
Walking arm in arm on the Penusyl-
vania railroad tracks west of Home
wood, Beaver county, ON Sunday night,
Robert Freed, aged 90. and Miss Ray
back, aged l8 years, who were shortly
to be married, were struck and in
stantly killed by a passenger train.
Another couple who were with them
escaped by jumping from the track.
Mrs. Caroline McKahan, who sued
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad COM
pany to recover 100000 damages for
the death of her husband in grade
crossing accident at Clay yille, Wash.
ington county, year ago AS been
awarded So, 000
Saturday was the fifty first wedding
anniversary of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
B. Scott. Of Butler, Mr.. Scott spent
the day serving as grand juror. A
year ago the golden wedding celebra-
tion had been planned but did not
come off owing to the serious illness
of Mr.. Scott at the time.
The new law and order society of
Schuylkill county claims to have evid-
ence to prove that there are over $50
saloons in that county where liquors
can be procured on Sundays, by giving
particular raps and specified pass
word at a rear door, while the front
doors are kept closed.
The Salvation Army of Milwaukee
is going to furnish shoes for 200 chill
dren on Christmas and fill $50 baskets