The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-04-16
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Siberia long regarded as a barren
country, Is now producing a great deal
Of foodstuffs
The streets Of Athens are being
paved with asphalt and tracks are be-
ing prepared for electric trolleys.
Johannesburgs new telephone ex-
change viii serve 24.00O lines There
are now about $500 entering the build
ing.
On one Of the four typesetting ma
chimes which have been installed in
the printing department OF the Vati-
can the Pope has set up 10 lines.
Among the birds the swan lives to
be the Oldest, in extreme cases reach
ing 200 years The falcon has been
known to live over 162 years.
Not less than 10000. 600 yen (si5,-
1000 0O0) is yearly spent by foreign Wis
litors in Japan Some estimates put
the amount at 40.0O0.000 yen.
According to Viceroy Tuan Fang
there are 800 opium shops in the
Shanghai foreign settlement, and he
wants orders from Peking to close
them. Q
Under the new compulsory military
scheme Il is estimated that in eight
years Australia will have 214.000 men
anJ ,apfpra.l for vyar
The impression given at the latest ex.
lpositon IN Berlin Of inventions is that
liquid air will soon enter the field as
a very serious competitor of steam
and electric power,
Electric hauling has supplanted aui.
NAL power in the Comstock lode and
II OF the mules which were brought
to the surface had not seen daylight
for 20 years.
What is said to be the largest pro
iectile ever manufactured was made
at the Krupp works for the Cars gov
lernment IL weightd 1900 pounds II
was made for a gun which is placed
in the Notifications at Kronstadt
Consul Talbot J. Albert. reporting
from Brunswick, says that perhaps
no more striking proof can be given
of the prosperity and the remarkable
economical development of Germany
than the increased consumption of
coal.
The Ccvere drought In Long Island
has produced a new industry-that of
lselling water to the farmers whose
cisterns and wells have become dry.
The farmers are paying ten cents
barrel for water which they have to
haul themselves.
The record power transmission is
that OF the Kern river plant, in South
ern California, where 25,000-hoTse-
power is sent III miles at a pressure
Of $4,000 volts Extensions of this
plant are contemplated which will in
crease the horsepower to $4,000
Mrs Thomas Ryan, of Valdosta, Ga,
was drowned in the Little river as a
result of being pulled overheard by a
catfish which she had hooked on her
line. When the body was recovered
the line was found wrapped about It
and the FISH was caught II weighed
40 pounds. O
A great pageant of Darkness and
Light a series of descriptive repre-
sentations of famous scenes In the his
tory of missions. is being arranged for
! the exhibition of the London Mis-
sionary society. TO be held In London
next June, an affair for which 100000
helpers have enlisted.
Empress Augusta Victoria's magnifi-
cent diamonds, which she wears on
great occasions at the German court,
are valued at s1.25O,OOO.
Among the Hottentotts women hold
a better position than they do any
where else in Africa. The married
woman reigns supreme mistress
The Woman's Trade Union league of
Chicago, supplies medical consultation
and advice to working girls who are
members of trade unions for 10 cents
a year
The measures and weights which
were in vogue In the reign of Kang Hi.
early In the present dynasty, are again
TO be put in force IN China with slight
notifications
London has completed the steel struc-
ture of it's great stadium where the
Z Olympic games are to be held this
! year. 1t is designed to accommodate
J 10000 spectators.
Z The first place of Worship in West
ern Australia was made at Perth by
, soldiers shortly after their drst arrival
In 1923 and was composed almost en-
} tlrely of bulrushes.
Cold weather In Vienna has given
renewed activity 10 the movement for
abollshing the custom Of raising the
hat as a greeting aud substituting the
military salute
At the end OF December. 1907 the
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