The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-10-03
PROGRESS OF THE DAY.

Swedish doctors send no bills
The horses of Iceland are shod with
sleeps horns.
Turkey hilds the record for the num-
Der of aged persons.
During last year 29,20S vessels en-
tered the port of London.
A Hungarian washing machine
makes use of electrified water.
AS far as is known at present there
are forty-eight kinds of house flies.
The atmosphere is free of microbes
at an elevation of 1000 feet.
The Dominion of Canada contains
nearly 3,746,OOO square miles.
A hotel is being built at Berlin which
will be the largest in the world
A ready speaker will utter about
$500 words per hour in making an ad-
dress.
There is said to be no record of the
existence of the camel in a wild state.
Great Britain has the longest coast
line of any of the countries of Europe.
About 60 per cent of the gold product
of the world is handled by Great Bri-
tain.
The Australian government will erect
five wireless stations along it's coast
Sixteen ounces of gold would be suf-
ficient to gid wire that would encircle
the earth.
Prison rcords show that more female
prisoners have previous records against
them than males.
The Raffesia of Sumatra is the larg-
est flower in the world. 1t has five pet
ais, each one a foot wide.
In Indian stream, the River Kistnah,
600 feet wide, has the longest span of
telegraph wire in the world.
Only 6 per cent of amputation cases
result fatally at present, owing to the
improvement in antiseptic surgery.
Some of the screws made for the use
of watchmakers are so tiny that 100000
could be placed in an ordinary thin
BILE.
During the last year, Canada drew
upon the United States for 5S.312 immi-
grants. Over 100000 came from the
mother country, and $4,000 from the
continent of Europe.
A typhoid fever survey. to determine
the means, aside from the domestic wa
ter supplies, by which this disease is
transmitted, is to be conducted in Pitts
burg at the expense of the Russell Sage
fund.
In some of the Austrian schools elo-
cution is taught to a certain extent by
the use of the phonograph, through
which the pupils are made familiar
The city of Vienna is now trying to
secure control of mines in Moravia
The reasons given for the purchase are
the high price of coal and the difficulty
o fsecuring a steady supply for the
municipal gas and electric plants.
Brazilian railroads in operation at the
beginning of last year had a total
length of 10,776 miles. In addition,
there were 1902 miles under construc-
ton and 4,177 miles being surveyed or
already approved. making the total
mileage 1886 miles
Forestry in Korea is to be taken up
by the government under new forest
laws. said to have been enacted under
cooperative agreement drawn up by
Japan and Kora. 1t is also reported
that school for training Korean for
esters has been established
A national architectural exposition
will be held September IA to 19-at Mad
ison Square Garden, New York City.
It's scope will include all departments
OF architecture, engineering, painting,
sculpture, the trades, manufacturing
and craftsmanship pertaining to the
construction, equipment and decoration
of buildings as well as landscape and
garden effects.
A school car fitted with signaling ap-
paratus has been in use for a short
time on the Union and Southern Pa
cific lines for the instruction of en-
plOyeS, and in order to ascertain just
what amount of benefit had been de-
rived by the men they were subjected
to series of surprise tests. Eighteen
kinds of regular signals were employed,
besides some Specials including tor
pedoes, fusees, stop flags, reversed