The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-21
FACTS IN FEW LINES

United states toward various pnllan-
thrOphies totaled last year more than
$2sT, 100000
The races of the world are numbered
at seventy-two. making use Of 1000
different tongues. There are about
1000 religions.
Fishguard, the new Welsh port Of
the Great Western railway is lis
miles nearer New York than Liverpool
and ffty-ive miles nearer than Plym-
outh.
The brigand chief Andreas, leader
of the band which kidnapped Baron
Won Heemstra, near Smyrna, is re-
ported to have died from wounds re-
ceived at the time of his capture.
Switzerland is beginning to feel the
unrest now prevalent in many parts of
Europe, and in many of the strong
Protestant cantOns the separation of
church and state is being vigorously
agitated.
A pied piper" is wanted in the val
ley of Aghili, in Corsica. where great
damage is being done by plague Of
promised to any one who can suggest
an etticaciOus remedy.
Middleton island. in the gulf of
Alaska, near longitude 14G and not
far from the entrance to Prince Will
liam sound, is becoming known as a
garden spot. Last winter there was NO
snow. and grass was green every
month.
A party of sixteen Swedish police,
comprising one inspector. one sergeant,
two detectives and twelve cOnStables,
sent over by the chief police commits
sioner Of Stockholm, are in London to
study English police procedure in all
its branches.
A hole in the front yard Of Mrs.
Mary TrOW of Goshen. y. H., was dis
covered recently, and upon eXamina-
tiOn an Old we'll twelve feet deep and
nearly full of water was found. Mrs.
Trow, who has lived on the place for
ffty-twO years, never knew of the
well.
Potato growers in north Wales are
warned by the board of agriculture
and fisheries to destroy at once any
plant infected with the disease known
as "back scab." 1t is a disease Of
recent introduction and passes in the
iSA4sAt.=Sass LssGanH-t1S noIsin&eetieas- winter
stage to the highly dangerous sum-
mer stage.
The new custom house at New York,
which has cost the government some
$8,0O00O0, is seven stories high and
stands facing Bowling Green on the
site of Fort Amsterdam, built in 1926
and Of Government House, built for
President Washington in 1870, where
| George Clinton and John Jay after
| ward lived.
Excavations at Wareham, Dorset
shire, England, brought to light the
foundations of the castle. Destroyed
by the Danes in S1G, 1t was rebuilt In
| lila the Earl of Montgomery, condemn
ed to Imprisonment there for rebellion
| against Henry L. starved himself TO
] death. The castle and town were, seiZ-
( ed by Robert de Lincoln in 1888. All
| trace of the castle had been lost for
| centuries.
| The first original description Of
| America ever written has Just been
| discovered. 1t was penned by DR.
| Diego Alvarez Chanca, physician to
the second feet of Columbus and was
dated at the Port Of Isabella. Santo
Domingo. in January. 1494 DR. Fer
nandez de Ybarra Of the New York
Academy of Sciences, with the Smith
sOnian Institution of Washington aiding
and abetting. uncovered the document.
| AsbestuS hOrSeshOcS are an invention
of Honolulu blacksmith. There has
long been demand for such an arti-
Gle, it is said. Visitors to the volcano
near Honolulu usually ride from the
Volcano house down into the pit and
across to the Halcmauman pit on
horses But the heat underneath the
floor of Kilauea has been increasing to
such degree that the horses feet suf-
fer; hence the need of nonheat conduct
ing shoes.
When the king of Italy was told
that son had been born to the wife
Of Lloyd c. Griscom. the American
ambassador in Rome, he exclaimed:
81 had always believed that ambassa-
dors were blessed only with grand
sOnsw Ambassadors, as well as SEN
ators, used to be old men, but this all
seems to have been changed. Am
bassadOr Griscom is only thirtyfOur
years old, and it will be many years
| before he is a grandfather,
For seventeen years the Ladies' Aid
society of Sedalia, Mo-, has acted as
Betsy Ross for the NJ, X. and T. railway
system. The katy" company furnish
es all the material. and the women are
paid cent each for making the flags.
Many shipments of hundred dozen
have been made. There are four styles
of these flags. Red signifies danger.
white a clear track, green that sec
Ond section is following and blue that
an engine or car in the yard is under
going repairs.
College graduates seem to be about
the cheapest things going in New York
city. A publisher doing business there
Is quoted as saying that the easiest
kind of help to obtain at SO week
is the recent college graduate. A lead
ing lawyer of New York goes even
further by declaring: "It is appalling
to find the number of college graduates
of long standing who are today filling
clerical positions at $40 or SO per
week. For many years it has been pos
sible In New York city to employ at
from $40 to $12 per week large num-
bers Of lawyers of over ten years
standing who were graduates Of both
college and law school"