Alaska sentinel., 1908-12-03
THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW
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Germany now has five commercial high schools at Lelpsic, Ak, Cologne, Frankfurt and Berlin.
 Bolivia ranks second among the tin producing countries, with an output of 15,300 tons in 1907.
 Johannesburg's new telephone ex- change will serve 24,OOO lines. There are now about 6,50O entering the build ing.
 In a cemetery at Middlebury, Vt. Is a stone erected by widow to her loy- ing husband, bearing this inscription: Rest in peace-until we meet again."
 A French caddie said that the Eng fish way of counting from one to ten was "one, two, three, four, five, six, d-n, eight, d-n, ten."-LOndon Out look.
 The linen industry Is the greatest manufacturing industry Ireland pos sesses. There Is invested in it some thing like f1550O,OO0, and 1t gives em- ployment to 10000 people.
 Uninjured mammoth remains are among the vast natural resources of Si- berla awaiting exploitation. For com mercial purposes the skeletons are more valuable than the best Indian | ivory.
 The present power requirements of Tokio represent 4S,OO0 horsepower, and hydro electric plants calling for 10000 additional horsepower are in course of erection. These figures do not include the electric railroad from Tokio to YO- kohama or the elevated road under con struction by the government in Tokio.
 I've are all potential criminals was the startling statement made by Dr. Albert Wilson to a deeply interested audience at the Sociological Society last night. If we had had the hered ity of some of these poor people (pris- ment we should have done the same as they."-London News.
 | In order not to expose his ignorance, the school boy gave an ambiguous re- | pIs Nutl dSheu III eAdllIludlloI (Which was the greater general, Cesar or Hannibal?" The boy answered: If we consider who Cesar and Hannibal were and ask ourselves which of them was the greater we must unhesitatingly answer In the affirmative" Exclusive of warshlps, transports and vessels under fifty tons, the ship tonnage entering and leaving the port of Singapore, Straits Settlements, in | 1907 was 100000 tons. Singapore Is the trade clearing house of the East, with free labor, military protection, su- perior banking facilities, and magnitt- cent harbor soon to be improved at a cost of S5,0O0,OOO.
 Sandwiches derive their name from John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, says the Girls Own Paper. This nobleman was an inveterate gam bier, and as he did not wish the game to be interrupted by the necessity of rising for his meals, he used to have slices of bread with ham between brought to him at the gaming table, to enable him to go on playing with out intermission.
 In a communca ton to the Royal So- ciety of Queensland, Douglas Ogiby records the discovery of one new genus and seven new species of fish. New, Among these are slender dog shark, IIowes needle fish, long peaked gar fish, the somber leather jacket and others. The ladyfish (albula macro- donta) Is recorded for the first time in Australian waters.
 The richest man in King Charles II's England could not get so good q dinner as tens of thousands will sit down to today. Cattle were of a far poorer breed, vegetables were few and bad, and the commonest conveniences of the table were unknown. Fish knives, for instance. are hardly con sidered an eXtravagant luxury, but MT. Gladstone could remember when they were not to be found on any table, London Telegraph.
 Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, of the Uni versity of Colorado, describes a we'll preserved specimen of wasp, belong ing to the genus Paratiphia, found in | the shale rocks of Miocene time at | Florissant, Colo, which exhibits a De- culiar venation of the wings, exactly as 1t appears in the same genus to-day. The most striking peculiarity is char acteristic imperfect vein in the wing, which persists il the same insect at the present time.
 On the Danish island of Sjalland there Is an electric lighting system which Is driven by windmill. The wheel Is forty-six feet in diameter, and Is supported by tower forty three feet high. The area of the blades exposed to the wind Is 3i0 square feet, and u,itb n u,ipJ hlouipu ot tho rata nf