The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-07-24

having been in the courts 1O2 years.
Among the objects found in recen
excavations in Egypt was a Who'll,
company of wooden soldiers 16 inche.
high.
A Harlem N Y, shop has this ove1
the doorway Buildings constructed
torn down and removed on shor
order"
London food inspectors have found
as much as 154 grains of boracic aciC
in single pound of meat imported
from America.
| Many important drainage projects
are under way in the marsh land OF
Louisiana which will ultimately make
it great agricultural country.
Nearly 100000 is spent in Mexico
City every week on lottery tickets
and in the same period only about
$4,000 is paid back in premiums
1t is estimated by mining experts
at johannesburg that the amount
of gold still to be mined along the
Rand Reef is to be valued at $5,0O0,-
100000
Twenty per cent. of the population
of Canada earns it's living in connec-
ton with the country's carrying trade
Railroad employees alone number 1884,
900.
The bark of the mesquite tree is
furnishing an excellent tanning ma
terial for the small tanners in North
Mexico, who state that it is as Salts
factory as oak bark.
In Germany the vaccination of
cattle against black leg, a fatal dis
ease, is becoming general and very
effective, as only three losses in five
years are reported.
Covering the mirror when there is
death in the family originated in the
superstition that COLLINS, sprites, elves
or other uncanny creatures would
crowd to the glass to look on.
A Boston paper has discovered that
a large amount of horse meat is be-
ing sold in the markets of that city,
some of the restaurant keepers buy
ing horse meat for beef stews.
During the year of 1907 the total
number of vessels arriving at New
York from foreign ports was 4,749
of which only 726 were American, while
2,039 were British and TO German.
Boston walters and other unions are
making an effort to have the license
commissioners make a rule that wo-
men cannot be employed to serve liq-
uor in any licensed place in the city.
New York City is making a mar
velous growth in the direction OF
cheap amusements. There are now
400 one-cent, five-cent and dime
places of entertainment, where there
was not one ten years ago.
All the trade of Zanzibar and Penn
ba goes through Zanzibar and these
two islands produce, according to re-
cent estimates, IS per cent. of the
cloves used in the world, and the
Glove crop for the last two years was
excellent.
In Oregon now candidate for
public Office cannot ask friend tC
vote for him, cannot treat a constitu-
ent on election day, cannot give a
campaign button to his friend, can
not say untruthful things about his
opponent.
The timber output of Maine last
winter was 9O0,OO0,00O feet, and the
indications are that these figures will
be about equaled this year. The scar
city of labor prevented operations to
a large degree.
Sleeplessness is often caused by
the head being exposed to the cold
while the rest of the body is warm
In nine cases out of ten, if the head
is covered with a silk handkerchief il
will induce sleep.
The Vienna Academy of Sciences
has spent nearly $4,000 in working 10
tons of uranium ore for radium. The
yield was three grains of pure radi-
um-the largest amount ever secured
at once, the value being 100000.
Armed robbery is still rife in the
Kwellin district of China, despite the
efforts of the authorities to suppress
it. Over 400 executions of offenders
for this crime have taken place in this
district alone during the last IL
months.
Science so far has failed to fur
nish any explanation of the mystery
of seedless fruits. They are not the
out come Of the work of man. Man
perpetuates them; he does no more.
The seedless orange was found in a
state of seedlessness.
An incandescent lamp in It's green
shade will when turned upward to-
ward the ceiling, spread soft and
pleasantly diffused light, plenty
strong enough for room where no
one is reading. When the lamp is so
used no shadows are cast.
About $4,000 different kinds of ami
mails are known on earth-that is,
warm blooded, milk-giving creatures,
like our common domestic animals.
To avoid confusion with other Great
ures one ought to call them mammals,
meaning milk-giving animals.
Great pressure is used in manufact-
uring the new shingles of asbestos
fiber and Portland cement, and they
absorb only per cent. of their weight
of water. Hydration and gradual
capitalization on exposure on roofs