Evening journal., 1907-03-12
FACTS IN FEW LINES


a process for making rubber from
wheat has been invented
In ancient Rome all conveyancing
was done on brass tablets.
In Wales a measure called a blue"
holding two-thlrds Of pint, is still in
use.
The average valuation OF the paper
money printed daily by Uncle Sam to
tails over S3,0O0,OOO
There were 363 stock and 234 mu-
tual Ere insurance companies in the
United States Jan. i, 1907.
OIL painting was an art thoroughly
understood by the ancients. but was
lost sight Of and only revived about
the end Of the thirteenth century A. d.
A boy ten years old has been com
mitted for trial at Kimberley, South
Africa, on the charge Of abducting a
girl Of fifteen. The pair were stopped
as they were boarding the mail train
] for johannesburg.
BY whom the game OF chess was in
/ vented or when It was FIRST played is
not known. Its earliest history can be
traced as far as the beginning of the
history Of India, one Of the Oldest
countries in the world.
Copra oil used to go into the soap
! industry exclusively, whereas today
several Of the most important mills in
! Marseilles are converting this oil into
high priced domestic grease sold com
monty as a substitute for butter.
A Spanish laundry has a stationary
tub in It, but this increases labor in
stead Of tightening it. for unless rain
has filled the tub, which is out Of
doors IN the courtyard, water has to
be drawn from the well TO fll It.
A German biological periodical pub
fishes the result Of investigations which
indicate that among the bacteria found
in bottled beer there is one which
seems TO occur nowhere else. It has
been named Pseudomonas cereyisiae.
An international motor boat exhibi
ton viii ne held from June 10 to 30
next IN ISiel. under the patronage OF
Prince Henry OF Prussia, and support
ed by the imperial navy. the German
Sea Fisheries union and other bodies.
The British South Africa company is
said to have offered the Salvation AT
my 100000 acres Of land in Rhodesia
free Of charge for colonization pur
poses. oil the land TO revert to the com
pany in case the colony should not sue
ceed
Though the name Of Siberia is still
popuarly accepted as q synonym fol
all that Is arctic and sterile, it is be
coming clearer every year that few
regions Of the earth are more capable
OF producing immense stores Of human
food
Probably the oldest carriage in ex
istence today In this country is tina
which belonged TO General Henry Knol
OF Thomaston, Ne. The vehicle is aboui
125 years old, but is still used occasion
! ally by its present owner, Frank B
Hills.
A London medical journal inveigh'
against the curse Of presents In hospi
tals. There are cases where a youns
nurse in training must spend abou
two months salary in giving holida,
J gifts to matrons, mattresses, porter
and postmen.
1.-THE dreaded nat butterfly is appear
ing everywhere In Bohemia, threaten
ing the devastation Of the forests. Tn
neighborlng woods Of Saxony and Sile
sia are also threatened. The minlstr!
OF agriculture has named commission
to investigate
A man who was summoned TO a Lon
don court by his wife for alleged per
slstent cruelty said the woman ha'
: painted on her body facsimilies o
pictures from a medical book and ha,
represented that they were bruises
The summons was dismissed
A firm IN saxony has established
process by which they combine pape
Z and cotton and make 1t into a servicea
a bic cloth. Paper and cotton and pape
d and wool are so combined that suits
n Jackets, shirts and many other article
q OF dress wear are now being produced
S Some teeth are valuable, even whe
g no longer useful. One OF Sir lsaa
l. Newtons teeth sold for S3,4OO an
q $4,000 was offered FOR one Of the teet
' Of Heloise at the time her body wa
a exhnmed. A tooth said to have bee
. drawn from Napoleon's mouth wa
y sold for $3.50.
-Four hypotheses for telepathy hav
:, been suggested: That telepathic CON
munications may be due-first. I
- some kind Of vibration. etheric or otf
IS erwise. emitted by one brain and i'm
o pinging on the other; second. by direC
n action OF the mind on another's brai
in such way as to evoke the desire
v thought; third. by insight Of the rs
al ceiving mind into the brain when th
p thought arrives (clairvoyance). oi
4 fourth, by some direct and incOmprC
n hensible communion Of mind wit
p mind
j. Lions OF east Africa are becomin
= greatly interested in railway oper,
tions The Uganda railroad has thii
I. ty-nine small stations In the 5S4 mile
between the Indian ocean and victori
~ Nyanza, and in the last year the an
81 mails have frequently visited thes
y lonely places especially Simba. whic
has only station building. with a W;
ter tank and a side track. One llo
passed several successive nights at th
Simba station, walking about, scratcl
ing at the office door and sleeping 0
the platform.
= Hiram n Lathrop Of Boston. the ne