The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-12-03
FACTS IN FEW LINES

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third of this
new monthly postal service across
the Sahara has just been established.
The messengers are mounted on cam
els
The old First Baptist church of Kan
sas City. organized in 1855, has been
sold for business purposes. and new
edifice to cost $4,000 will be built
Gelatin dynamiteS are more difficult
to explode than the ordinary brands
and require quatuple force caps or
double strength fuses to develop the
full force
The latest innovation aboard the new
tOrth German Lloyd liner Kronprinzes-
sin Cecilie is a fully equipped photo
graph studio. which has become pop
ular with travellers and is profitable
business.
st. Louis and other western cities
expect to be able soon to feast on Mex
lean oranges every year from the mid
die Of October on, these oranges being
ripe month or so earlier than the Cal
ifornia fruit
Bolivia ranks second among the tin
producing countries. The bureau Of
American republics announces that the
Bolivian expectation Of tin to Europe
and America in 1907 amounted to l5,.
300 tons against 1880 tons in 1906
Some of the old time frigates lived
four times as long as our modern bat
tleships and cruisers. and they were
made entirely Of wood Steel ships
rust out: wooden ships wear out At
ten years our navy is obsolete or prac-
tically so.
The statistics of tourists who stopped
in the hotels of Geneva during the year
1907 show decrease Of more than 80
600, the number having been 26J,5OO
against 29LIS6 in 1906. OF American
citizens the number was 1862 against
lS,0Ol in 1906
The coal supply Of the Philippines
has been found to he much larger than
was anticipated and of IL uniformly
good character 1t is stated that
large vein crosses the entire group of
Islands, and it has been clearly traced
in one vicinity for twenty-five miles
In the last twenty-five years we have
burned up $3,500OOO.O0O worth of prop
erty 0he highest point ever reached In
our national debt. 1896 was only So
133, 3,OOO,00U, we have wiped 100000
buildings out Of existence in the last
ten years and, mark you that is abso-
lutte loss.
A New York inventor has devised a
mechanical attachment for an automo-
bile which on pressing button will
start a watch or clock fastened to the
dashboard. At the end of a mile the
watch stops automatically, thus en-
abling the driver to test his speed from
time to time.
Payment of 80 cents due to John
Nogt, veteran living in Montgomery,
Mo-, because of Il mistake in the set
tIement Of war claim In 1861 was
made by check recently. The check
was for %l.lO, the balance being due
because Of an error in payment when
he was discharged from service as a
soldier.
Eleanora DuSe, the Italian actress has
bought the rights of play written by
young man named Guido Casal who
is in prison for the murder of a bar
rister at Perugia While awaiting his
trial he wrote the tragedy, wherein he
analyses the sentiments which drove
him to commit the crime She will
produce the play shortly.
Moses r. Cotworth Is now on his
home returning way from Alaska to
York. England, full of worry about the
poles, parallels Of latitude and things
like those He estimates the thickness
Of the ice covering Greenland at 10000
feet and says its weight is "lncalcula,
bIe.' He feels sure it is affecting the
earths crust, axis and rotation.
The Austrian government is about to
build hotels near the spring, eighteen
miles from Carlsbad, which has been
found to contain radium. The spring
is considered to have water of high
medical value in certain diseases IL
Is located near the uranium works,
which yield most of the worlds supply
Of radium.
DR.. Lyman Abbott says that the un-
deserving poor should have help along
with the deserving poor. That was the
first Nicholas Longworth's idea too.
| He used to say that the Lords poor
had the Lord and the Lords people to
look after them and that he Long-
worth) was going to do what he could
for the DEVILS poor
A Danish company intends to estab-
lish a line of tugboats to tow vessels
| through the strait of Magellan. Some
5000 Sailings vessels pass around from
the Atlantic to the Pacific yearly, and
some of them require weeks to round
| the Horn, whereas vessels could ordi-
partly be towed through the strait in
thtrty-six hours.
One of the most important additions
to astronomical science in years was
the recent announcement from the
Lowell observatory, Flagstaff Aria,
that the atmosphere of the planet Mars
Is very rich in vapor. This informa-
ton was gained by comparison of the
spectra Of Mars and the mOon. AS
tronomers have been trying for forty
five years to settle the question.
j. NJ. Barrie recently headed depu-
tation representing large majority of
| the dramatic authors of England. who
petitioned the British home secretary
for the abolition of the dramatic CEN
sor. In Introducing the deputation Mr..
Barrie said It represented every move
ment for the better that there had been
In the English drama for the last City
years. Whether dead or alive. great or
humble, English men OF letters had