Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-07-28
FACTS IN FEW LINES

creased i'll thirty-iive years from zoo
900 To 100000
In the Oudtshoorn district. Cape Colo
ny, there ARE 100000 ostrchcs. Tho
annual value OF the feathers yielded
by cnch bird Is $50.
Students OF Pennington seminary.
Pennington. y. j.. found skeleton IN
the ruins Of nm ancient building, with
pot of coins by It's side.
Professor IIelbcrg. the Danish phllol-
ogst. has uncarthei now manuscript
of Archmc,lcs ut the Convent OF the
Holy Sepulchcr mt Constnntlnoplc.
The United States has more ncwspn-
pcrs than any other country. Every
week day there are 1o.G00,000 copies
issued. and OH Sundays the number Is
100000 copies.
The proposed iron bridge TO be erect.
ed ut Yaulanman. near Canton, China,
Is TO he / 90 feet In length and 40 feet
In breadth. The capital OF the company
is TO he $l,000,OO0 in 100000 shares of
$40 each.
At present the population OF Cyprus,
after Sicily aud Sardinia the largest
island In the Mediterranean. Is more
thnn 100000 as against 23T,053 In 1900.
three four,hs being Greeks and the
rest Mosicms.
III Tasmania no person under thlr-
teen years of ngc Is allowed 10 smoke
In Il public place. Nearly everybody
smokes in japan. The girls begin when
they are ten years of age and tho boys
year earlier.
To his collection of more than 800
relics Captain John Ryan of West
Newton, Mnss., veteran of several
wars, has recently added cane the
materials OF srhich represent three
wars in which he participated the
Mexican, civil aud Spanish-Ancrican.
Traders now pass freely between
Calcutta and Tibet The masses OF
Tibet arc eager TO trade with tho
white people," snys Consul General
Michael OF Calcutta. The important
products of Tibet nre borax. inter, rock
salt. iron. silver. copper. gold tur-
Quoisc, lapis lazuli. musk. etc.
The india rubber tree grows freely
In gardens as nm ornamental shrub In
southern Italy. mud steps are being
taken TO make IN Industrial business
Of growing IT, Professor Dozzi of the
Palermo botanical gardens exhibited
specimen at Milan recently containing
rs much ms So per cent OF rubber.
Surgeon General Rixcy has called at
tentIon to the curious fact that the
navy. unlike the army, has no regular
corps of trained nurses. aud Mt the
next session of congress he will urge
the necessary appropriation for the
organization Of n nurse corps With
1900 he feels that he can make re-
spectacle beginning In the organization
Of the proposed corps.
Italy's trngcdian, Tommaso Salvini,
has got ready for himself n mngnifi-
cent walnut wood coffin. Salvini has
Just been to Florence To nssst In VAR
nlshIng his coffin. which after his death
will be sealed inside IN enormous solid
block OF marble In the family mauso-
lcum at the Porte Santc cemetery, In
Florence with the simple epltnph,
"Tommaso Snlvini, nineteenth century
actor"
To be worth S3,0o0.OOO or S4,oOo,Ooo,
WIN lthh't III
place and peers and ambassadors for
neighbors. that Is the lot of Henry Ar
thur Jones. the richest and most sue
cessful of living drnmntists. He has
literally ''held the stage" these thirty
years, ever since he produced the little
one act piece, IT'S Only Around the
Corner" nj the Thcnter Royal, Exeter,
as FAR back as 1878
General Louis Botha, the Boer leader.
while recently In London learned that
famous military chaplain, Mr.. Col
Inns. wns Ill In the Niillbank Military
hospital and every day sent the sick
man an exquisite bouquet. Mr.. Collins
was the chaplain who from Spion kop
and Pieters hill reported manfully the
great humanity and fairness of the
Beers and their leaders IN those sangui-
nary engagements OF the South African
war
The French government Is providing
instruction In problems of aerial navl.
CATION in connection with the military
establishment and the ncronantical
clubs. The most important military
post Is ut Chnlais- Meudon, between
Paris and Versailles, where La France
the first diriglblc balloon ever built.
was tried by Colonel Renard twenty
three years ngo. Aeronautlcal work. II
is said. has been carried on Mt this post
for more than century. 1t being n
combined arsenal and experiment sta
ton.
A fund is being raised at Mnble-
thorpe. Lincolnshire, England. to re-
pair the bclfry and bells of the old
parish church. In all there arc five
bells, pitched in the key of f. No.
treble bell Is undated. No. bell bears
the date Of 1924, the third bell dated
1924, is badly cracked; the fourth bell
is also dated 1924. while the tenor bell,
which weighs LOO pounds, needs
bands to'prevcnt further cracking. Tho