The Springdale news., 1908-09-25
FACTS IN FEW LINES

The fish candles of Alaska are being sent over the world in quantities as curiosities.
 The popular vote in 1904 aggregated over 13.5ooOoo of which Roosevelt re eeived 7,620,000
 Brazil. the finest fruit growing coun- try on the globe. spends S1000,000 an- nually on imported fruits.
 During the reign of William and Mary bachelors and widowers over twenty-five years were taxed shil- ling yearly.
 Tyebaili. an Indian burglar, who has been sentenced at Bombay, boasted that he had committed 125 burglaries in a year and half.
 The deposit of dew is greatly influ enced by color. It will be found thick est on a board painted yellow, but not at all on red and black.
 Holland conducts its famous herring fishery with a fleet of about 750 ships perhaps forty-five of them steam boats-and only 10000 men
 Nearly $100,OOo is spent in the City VI N0Aito SN0is NCCh cli iOliCis l41h cts, and in the same period only about $70,0oo is paid back in premiums.
 Germany contributed 301 per cent of the tourists in Switzerland last sea son, Great Britain 12.5 per cent. France 12.5 and America 6.S per cent
 Under President Diaz the railroads of Mexico have reached 19,0o0 miles, and the government revenues have grown from $15,00O GOO to S115, GOO GOO
 Students who have graduated in Ger many are being engaged for the Han yang (China) iron works and arsenal to improve the quality of the arms be- ing turned out there.
 The demand for roasted peanuts is so great in the United States that not only is the home crop consumed. but $73.631 worth of the nuts were im- ported last year from Marseilles
 Public banquets in renaissance times grew in popularity. Patrician family festivals, marriage feasts. etc. were celebrated in public and al fires co. Each trade had it's favorite eating place.
 Seven years ago an "albergo popo lare," or hotel for the poor, was start ed in Milan. It has been patronized by all classes and nationalities, and similar hotels are now being built in other Italian cities.
 Criminal records kept in New York county for the last six years show that a trife more than one-half of the per sons charged with crimes are found guilty, while expert opinion is agreed that not two out of hundred are in- noeent.
 The Flemish population of Belgium is very careful to preserve it's language and racial identity. It's representa- tives in the bilingual parliament of that country seem indeed to be almost exorbitant in their claims for their na- tive tongue.
 The states of kelantan and Trim ganu, recently taken over from Siam by the British government, cover be tween 5000 and 5000 square miles The region is believed to be rich in gold and tin, and rubber growing has met with success.
 Owing to the application of modern methods Java is able to increase her tobacco yield per acre steadily The supply of labor is adequate, the latest devices for handling the crops are used, and high salaried agricultural chemist is employed.
 Paris paper complains that no journalist has yet been buried in the Pantheon and mentions as representa- lives of the craft who ought to be there Chauteaubriand Benjamin Con- stant, Paul Louis Courier, Armand Carrel. Emile de Girardin and Louis Neuillot
 In the village of Blackwell, Somer- setshire, England, has been revived the ancient custom known as wedding toll This consists of stretching q rope across the road as the bride and bridegroom are returning from the church and demanding toll before they are allowed to pass.
 India would seem to be pleasant land for minor poets, since the rajah of Rampur recently sent out invita- tions to all the poets of India to gathering in his state. About 200 poets accepted the invitation, and some of them recited their own com positions. His highness was too ill to be present.
 Miss Ellen Pain Huling recently re turned from the extreme northern part of Labrador, in lecture before the Boston Mount Holyoke Alumnae asso- citation in the Hotel Nendome declared that since football had been taken up by the women in Labrador the babies, which are carried about in the hoods of their mothers coats, are in peril of their lives.
 The senate passed a bill to give pen sions of S20 a month to Bull Snake and Old Coyote, Crow Indians. who went to the relief of Custer and Crook in their fight with the Sioux Indians in 1876, Both were badly wounded in that fight. Pensions at the rate of SIP were also granted widows of members of the