Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-03-18
FACTS IN FEW LINES

of 900 employees.
Alexander the Great when on cam.
pagn ate the rations OF common
soldler.
The passenger traffic over the Eng
fish channel last year was 41S,4sO. an
lncrense Of $4,000 over the preceding
year.
The aggregate value OF Canadian
chcesc and butter exports for 1907 was
about S23, 100000 which Is SG,Oo0,CO0
less than the figure for 1906.
The Times of Ceylon says that the
lottery operated in Colombo ana made
attractive 10y specious advertising Is n
fraud and warns the public against It.
The stamps nj Knlgurli's golden mill.
New South Wales, have produced
gold valued ut 100000. 1t costs SOD
to haul cord OF sngebrush, the mis-.
cradle fuel used at the batteries.
Because the clerk of the license court
Ind lost the key to his Office j. l.. Bar
tholow and Miss Rina NJ. Pcdcock or
Chicago were forced TO climb TWEEN.
ty foot ladder 10 get inside the house
In order to get their marriage papers.
French business interests In the
western Sudan have grown until the
telephone has become necessity. Hun
drcds OF natives are now engaged In
stringlng telephone wire TO the Niger
and down that river to Tlmbuktu.
All the dramatic critics OF Lugano.
Switzerland. have gone on strike. They
refuse to attend the theaters unless
| thnv erft t.t.,
FIRST performance of each new produc-
tlon.
A stamp collector, aged ffty-slx. nj
st. Jossc, Belgium, was so overcome
with grief because his album Ind nc
cidcntally been burned that he commit
tod suicide by sufrocatlng himself with
the half charrcd pages OF the book.
BY the usc OF steam launches In the
rubber industry on the upper Amazon
the town OF Iqultos has risen TO such
Importance that n monthly steamship
service has been established between
that town and Liverpool, only rubber
being carried
Tzn lIsi, the dowagcr empress of
China. Inns issued an cdict giving the
servants of the imperial palace three
months In which to abandon opium
smoking. Any one caught using the
drug after that date is to receive 100
strokes with nn iron rod
A gigantic tray OF solid silver weigh.
ing more than 10000 ounces has Just
been made by firm In London for an
oriental potcntate. The tray Is seven
feet In diameter and Is snid TO be the
largest ever executed. 1t hns been I'm
the hnnds OF workmcn for over year.
Conrad Sknrstcdt. Il prominent Swed-
ish horticulturlst, Is In New York. Inv
Ing come from Sweden with the object
OF attempting TO Introduce into Amcrl-
ca tho llgnon berry. which il similar
TO the American cranberry. The berry
Is ono Of the popular fruits OF Sweden.
md Mr.. Skarstedt believes that II will
prove no less popular In America.
Colonel Edward +. Fox. who has rc.
tired us executive clerk to the governor
OF Now Jersey after continuous serv-
Ice OF more than forty-two years. has
been accorded by the legislature the
unusual privilege Of taking with him
into private life the well worn desk at
which he has laborcd so long and SO
faithfully,
The Santa Veracrnz church. one OF
the oldest and most artistic Catholic
temples OF Mexico, IL threatening to
collapse rs consequence of the dam
age caused by the formidable earth
quake OF April II last. The church was
erected between the years 1920 and
1920, nearly 400 years ago. hut its con.
s,riction Is superb.
| While ii is estimated that there are
III British Columbia approximately
lJ0,000.00u acres of timber lands re-
naming unsold and Unbiased. 1t is also
true that SO far 100000 acres. com
prsing the most valuable aud nccessi
bic portions OF the whole. have already
been staked and generally are In nos
session OF nonresldents, mostly Amer
leans or syndlcates backed by Amerl.
can capital.
Frequently the real estate transfers
in New York remind us that the wife
OF Bishop Henry c. Potter is a woman
of vast wealth. The latest report
shows That she has taken title 10 the
entire block on Washington heights
bounded by Broadway ana st. Mich
olas avenue, One Hundred and Seven
ty-llrst and One Hundred and Seventy
second streets. The block contains
about fifteen lots.
"'lhc Heavenly Twins" is the appel
aton attached to two members OF the
house. They are James Sherman of
New York and John Rothermel of
Pennsylvania. Sherman is Republic
an ana Rothermcl is a Democrat That
seems TO be the only difference he
tween the two. Otherwise thcy might