The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-08-14
THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW
he rate of production of gold Is ap.


The rate of production Of gold is aD-
proximately a million dollars day.
Since the earthquake and fire at San
Francisco $500 buildings have been
erected and 1000 others remodeled. The
disaster destroyed $4,000 buildings.
1t takes four years to train lion
for exhibition work, and only one aui-
NAL In four is fit for training. A we'll
trained lion is worth five times the
price of one unframed.
London's greatest rush hours are
from 8 to 9 in the morning and at
about 6 80 in the evening. Between 8
and 8 $4,000 persons enter the city,
between 6 and 175,OO0 leave.
AS result of a drought it is now
generally acknowledged in sugar circles
that the Cuban sugar production this
season will not exceed 100000 tons, a
deficit of about $4,000 tons from the
previous crop.
Within two years since the great
earthquake which undid San Francisco,
that heroic city has put $1OO,OOO,OOO
into building operations, Of which, &C
cording to trustworthy statement, all
but 100000 came from local sources.
Since the United States government
began to patronize expositions, down to
the jamestown fair, Congress has APP
propriated a total of $2S, 752,251 for
worlds fairs, of which only $4S5,OOO
has been spent west of the Rocky noun
| tains, at the Lewis and Clark EXPOSE
| lion.
| The new electric Fastnet light, of
Cape Clear, Ireland, is of 10000 can
dle-power. The cost was $4,000. The
focal plane of the flash is $50 feet
above high water, and theoretically 1t
Is visible sixteen miles. The founda-
lions of the lighthouse are twenty feet
*hick.
In Brazil the federal government
owns and operates 1927 miles Of rail-
road lines. 1t also owns four lines of
1874 miles all told, and leases them to
private companies. State governments
own ITO miles. Under private owner
ship and operation are something like
5000 miles.
According to the official figures of the
Russian customs, the importation of
motor cars into that country is increas-
ing very rapidly. The following totals
are given: In 1902. 30 cars. In 1908, 80
in 1904, 1870; in 1905, III, and in 1906
242. For the first six months of 1907
the total was PSF.
An Egyptian paper says that the ma.
tive families pay an average tax OF
$4.65 an acre, or 295 per cent Of the
crop. Foreigners and land companies
hold $4,000 acres. Through their in
solvency and liquidation, and the reds
tribution of the estates formed since
1902, it is probable that large amounts
Of gold may be unhoarded.
Census statistics show that as a PEG
pie we are increasing in violence. From
1902 to 1908 there was an increase IL
; the percentage Of persons who came tt
their end by violence. In 1902 only g..
4 per cent were thus taken off out Of ev
cry hundred. In 1906 it was rs pc
. cent, while the average for 1901 t.
1905 was SO per cent
Since 1860 the Republican party ha
carried every presidential election ex
cept two, the two exceptions being il
1884 and 1892, when Cleveland wa
: elected. The largest number of cleo
d toral votes ever polled for presiden
i. tial candidate was in 1904, when Roose
y Welt received 1886 votes. Since 1872 Ne1
: York has been carried three times b
"a the Democratic party and six times b
u the Republican party.
By the patent act, which recent
} passed the British Parliament and ha
already gone into effect, it becomes net
d essary for foreign holders Of patent
% under British authority to erect an
operate works in Great Britain for tn
h production of articles thus patented
IS Foreign patentees under the old az
ID were protected against competition b
their patent rights, but did not have
le produce in the country which protecte
" their patents.
- No process has yet been discovere
u by which the highly arsenical ore foun
in Cobalt properties can be smelte
e This problem has been the subject I
IL research by many chemists, particula
" those Of Germany, and there is
fortune awaiting the discoverer. Mar
of the smaller properties in the Can
dian silver district have large quaint
ties of ore which is practically usele
at the moment on account Of the pc
~ centage of arsenic which it contains.
- Wall Street Journal.
an There is a trust corporation, Of II
memorial antiquity, at Cairo, known
On the Walks. 1t holds landed proper
In which has been conveyed to it for pho
uses. But this was frequently dew
to secure to the family Of the donor
testator a large share of the annu
proceeds. It's net income last year, &
ds cording to the Egyptian Standard. W
al s2,161 500; and 1t carried forward
balance of 1851 ,070, to be expended
h. new enterprises, presumably of rel