The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-07-31
FACTS IN FEW LINES

i &OO pOuuuS Will ease.
! Silicon is now used in Germany to
obtain pure copper cast and copper
Allegation.
Manchuria's coinage system is to be
revised. with the silver dollar as the
! standard.
American mcnufacturers of well
drilling machinery have a practical
monopoly of the business throughout
the world.
1t has been decided that congress
of the chambers of commerce of the
British empire will meet in Australia
during the year 1909
Nearly all medical men in the West
Indies advise the wearing of thin
| wooden and not cotton underwear
Many persons wear cholera BELTS OF
| flannel.
| Occasional shipments are now being
made from Africa to the United States
/ of the mahogany nut the kernel of
which is sweet and resembles the aim
ond in favor
Consul John E. Jones of Winnipeg
says that fully 80 per cent of all the
/ great business enterprises of that sec
ton of Canada have American CAPT
| talists interested in them.
The annual output of beer in the
United States is between 100000
! and G0,000,000 barrels. At its present
| price. about Sc barrel, this would be
worth between $S42,OOO,0OO and $780,
100000
! India's exports Of lac exceed SILL O0-
I coo year. Lac is a resinous incrusta-
/ ton produced by a scale insect which
sucks and eXcretes the sap of a tree.
/ From the crude article shellac is man
! ufactured.
Fradel Osterwal. one of the many
1 Russian refugees in Paris, committed
/ suicide by shooting himself with a re-
volver. In his room was found card
on which be had scrubbed, please in
form my mother that l leave for
eternity today"
A novel viii has been unearthed at
/ Binghamton. y. Y. dated Feb. 3, 1779.
/ 1t is a long document and was made By
Jacob Blackwell, transferring to his
heirs the property known as Black
wells island. He also bequeathed a
farm where Long Island City is now
situated.
In the country at large about one
third of the single women between the
ages of fifteen and twenty-five are en-
gagged in occupations outside of their
homes and in the cities about 80 per
cent, so that very nearly half of all
the women in the country are at work
Between the ages of twenty-five and
thirty-five about one-fifth of the num-
I Der are so engaged.
There is no nation in the world that
gives greater encouragement and OPP
portunity to its people to become skill
ed artisans than Germany. Municipal.
state and the federal government all
contribute to the establishment and
support of technical and industrial
schools, and there is scarcely a city or
town of any importance where one of
these splendid institutions is not found
The eminent philologist, Professor
Skeat, is counted among the new con-
verts to Esperanto. He took his first
lesson at p. IN. and that evening was
able to appear before an Esperanto So
ciety and translate into English a sto-
~ written in the new language. But
Professor Skeat is an expert linguist
The average learner probably could
not hope to master Esperanto in so
summary a fashion.
No Of Yr1i HO1
turtles that the waters of the river
Gauges are blessed and healing to those
who battle therein. A scientist says.
II have discovered that the water OF
/ the Gangcs and the Jumna is hostile
to the growth of the cholera microbe.
/ not only owing to the absence Of food
materials. but also owing to the actual
/ presence OF an antiseptic that has the
power of destroying this microbe.'
There are about 100000 people in the
District of Columbia. Over 60,000 Of
/ them live outside of the old city of
/ Washington (Which now has no legal
existence, being merged in the District
! of Columbian, in large number of
small towns and villages scattered
! ONGI IAIS ILLS anu VI inc
! tory. About One-third of the popula-
/ ton is colored. the largest number Of
| colored people gathered in any place
in the world.
Professor Felix Adler of New York
will fill the Roosevelt chair for 1908 ut
| the Berlin university, and the German
! scholar who comes to Columbia is
/ Max Verworn of the University of
Goettingen. For 190S-10 the American
| professors selected to go abroad are
! President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of
the University of California and Pro
lessor William Norris Davis of Har-
ward. DR.. Verworn is one of the most
distinguished of living Psychologists.
Taxicabs in London, as in New York,
are q marked success. and the hanson
is being crowded out, reports say. AL
though scarcely n year has passed
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