The Springdale news., 1908-01-03
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Gold may be beaten until one ounce Is spread over 146 square feet
 The population of Paraguay has in- creased in thirty-tiye years from 2e0.- 000 te 100000
 In the oudtshoorn district Cape Colo- ny. there =are= 1o0. oeo ostrfcbes The annual value of the feathers yielded by each bird k $35
 Students of Pennington seminary. Pennington. N !, fapud skeleton in the ruins of an ancient building. with pot af coins by its side
 Professor Heibcrs the= Danish phiiol= ogist. las aAearthed new manuscript of Archimedcs at the Convent of the Holy SeeHleher at Gonstantaople
 The United States has Mare new>Ra== pers than=aa other country. Every week aaa there are =1aGe4eoo copies iSSued and on Sundays the number k l1,3aa.aeo copies.
 The proposed iron bridge to# be erect cd at Yaulauman. near Canton ChinaZ k to be 1 20 feet in length and i0 feet in breadth The capital of the company k to he Sf .eee 0o0 in 16aeda shares of SIC each
 At present the population of GypfHs. after Sicily and Sardinia the largest island h the Mediterranean. k more than 2aa.ooa aS against 2z577.e53 in l9oa. three -feurthS being Greeks and the rest MeSlems.
 h Tasmania no person under thiT teen years of age k allowed to smoke in q pnblie place. Nearly everybody smokes i'll Japan The girls hcgiu when they are ten years Of age and the boys ayear earlier
 To his collection of more thaH sea relics Captain John Ryan of West Newton Mass. veteran of severn wars. hts recently added i eatt tae materials ot which represent three wars a which he participated tHe Mexican. civil and Spanish American
 Traders now pass freely betVeaH Calcutta and Tibet he Htas~e. ai Tibet afe eager to te.ae with @tae white people, ssAs Consul General Michael ot@ Calcutta Inc important proda x nf sfihat ale harax. uiter roe1z salt tfetf. silver copper -.9d t0r quoise laniz tazul. musk efe.
 Thc fudfa rubber tree grows freely in eatsitf, aS au ornamental shrub IL southern ltaly. and stepS arc heinz taken to make an industrial huSiue~s of growing il, Professor Bozzj If t4e Palermo botanical gardens eXLibifod I specimen at Milan recently containing as much as s5 per cent ot rubber
 Surgeon General RlXey has called at tentoa ta tho curious fact th1t tht. navy. unlike the army hts no regular corps nf trained nurses and at the next session of congress he Will u9se the necessary appropriation for the organization of q nurse corps With : 45,0oo he feeis that he can make re speetable beginning iH the organization r of The proposed corps
 Itaiy'S traeedian. Tommaso Salyini, E has got ready for himself a magnif cent walnut wood coffin. Salyul has just been to Florence t0 assist in var nishns his coffin. which after his death will be scaled Inside an enormous solid block of marble in the family mauso lt'uI iA lAltt Fi it sNaAAAA= A3ttfIli'At'l LII Florence. with the simple eptaph, l "TomMas5 .S8l4inl. Hiffefttifth century actor
 To be worth S3.00oo9o 9r StooQo00. with palace in fashionable Portland place and peers and ambassadors for neighbofs that iS the lot of Henry Ar thur Jones the richest and most sue eeSsful af living dramatists He has literally held the stage these thirty years ever since he produced the little one act piece. Its onlY Around the Corner" at the Theater Royal. Exeter. as far back as 1S7s
 General Louis Botha. the Boer leader while recently in London learned that famous military chaplain Mr Col lins was iii in the Nillbank 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 msnfully the great humanity and fairness of the Boers and their leaders in those sangui- nary engagements of the South African war