The Democratic advocate., 1908-06-12
ODDS AND ENDS

ODDS AND ENDS
The soap consumption of India is
one ounce a head year.
There is a successful fox farm OIL
Prince Edward Island. SKINS III tnell
green condition are valued at !roin
5000 to $3.50 each, one or two reachlns
$3.50.
The average cost of supplying l.
900 900 gallons of water, based on the
report of % cities, is $92. This sum
includes operating expenses and III
terest on bonds.
Hemp is a Philippine natural mo-
nopoly. It cannot be grown pront-
ably in any other part of the world.
The United States is the largest con-
sumer.
Fifty-nine pear trees in Washington
on less than an acre produced nearly
l 900 boxes of fruit and netted over
So, 800 The trees were the AnJou
variety.
At a public demonstration given at
the Marconi wireless station at Glace
Bay a message was sent to Cllfden,
ireland, and a reply received within
five minutes.
Consul Clarence A Miller, of Mata-
moras, reports considerable activity
in the exploitation of bat caves in
that part of Mexico for utilizing the
guano deposits.
A leading Swiss scientist declared
that the Roentgen rays can be SO ap-
piled that white horses become black.
He is now experimenting on old gen.
tlemen's boards.
Bees frequently fly three miles in
search Of honeymaking supplies, and
sometimes, when compelled to do so
through scarcity of material, they
double this distance.
immigration into Canada last year
numbered 277,376 persons, an increase
of 1,434 over the previous year. The
number from the United States was
56,551, a decrease of 1921.
Orders have been posted in the
shops of the Pennsylvania Railway
system prohibiting swearing among
the men while at work. The penalty
will be an enforced vacation.
1t is said that the method of pro-
ducing anesthesia by means of cleo
tricity, discovered by Professor LIE Due,
of Nantes, France, is applicable to the
painless execution of criminals.
The night hawk makes no nest at
all, simply laying it's eggs in a slight
depression in the ground. The eggs
look so much like small stones that
they pass undetected by the searcher.
Three hundred Berlin streets are
planted with $4,000 trees, which are
said to represent a value of $4,000.
Nearly q thousand gardeners and as
sistants are employed to take care of
them.
Under the usual system of pearl
fishing the industry is something of
a lottery. Bushels of shells sometimes
yield but a few gems or possibly none
at all. After two years the shells lose
the pearl within and unless opened at
the proper time no treasure is found.
One primitive method of getting
water for irrigating vegetable gardens
in China is to dig hole in a shallow
river bed and carry the water to fields
in American coal oil tins. The we'll,
of course, is lost the next time the
river RISES
The coal supply of the Philippines
has been found to be much larger than
was anticipated and of a uniformly
good character. 1t is stated that a
large vein crosses the entire group of
islands and it has been clearly traced
in one vicinity for 25 miles.
The Primitive Baptists of Georgia
have split on the use of organs in
churches. In one district four
churches were recently expelled for
using such instruments. Another
point of contention is taking out in
policies of any kind, the anti
organists condemning such things,
too.
The savings banks of Germany have
some 100000 pass books out and
their deposits amount to 13,500,000,000
marks 213,OO0,O0O). These de-
posits are practically all guaranteed
by the various municipalities of the
empire, and the condition forms a bull
wark of confidence in the security of
private wealth and earnings that can
not be shaken by hard times, panics,
bank failures, etc.
Major j. R. D. Graham, retired Of
ficer of the British Army, arrived at
New York May II on the American
liner st. Louis on his way to Canada,
where he will look over the oil fields
of the Dominion. He says that oil
will be the fuel of the future on war
ships of all classes, as it can be han
died better than coal and takes up
much less space aboard ship.
The Matchmaker.