The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-03-21
Curious Facts.


Classics goggles for drivers ofmotor vehicles have
thin steel plates in place of the usual lenses There
is nothing brittle to break endangering the eyes
and three ngenouly arranged Sits enable the
to everything in front of him.
The world contains at least four mountains COM
posed Of almost solid iron One is in Mexico,
in the United States, another in India, and a
fourth in Africa, just below the Soudan, and there
have been reports of such mountain in Siberia.
Reports to the effect that electric lights are detri
mental to the eyesght are pronounced unfounded by
electrical expert in the London Times He says
that the trouble arises from too direct exposure of
the eye to the light and that effect would be the
with any other light
A Museum of Cooking is to be established at
Frankfort-on-the Main. The plan is to be carried
out by the International Association of Cooks, and
its execution will cost $4,000. The museum will
contain historical section in which, by the aid Of
models, the visitor will be given an idea of what
a banquet like in ancient Egypt, Greece and
Rome. Other exhibits will show creation of i'm
mortal masters" and the most modern achieve
ments of the culinary art.
Here some figures from lumber camp up in
Greenwood, Maine which give idea as to the
appetite of husky woodsmen. There are thrty-fve
in this crew. and the cook reports that he makes
each day three hundred large biscuits, one hundred
and fifty doughnuts hiry-six PIES bakes six quarts
of dry beans, with potatoes, vegetables etc. in pro-
portion large beef creature is eaten every five
days.
With a total population of 43,659121, the United
Kingdom expended for liquors of all kinds dur
ing 1906 the of $809681,829, an average of
SIS per capita. Of this amount $495,187,316 was
spent for beer, the quantity consumed being $780,,
191 barrels; $253,2O1,812 for spirits, or 393O2,4O2
gallons; $685. 92951 for wine, or 12,328,691 gallons,
and ST. 29975O for other liquors, Is 100000 gallons.
The per capita expenditure for spirits $685. beer
$1135, wine $1.25 and all other liquors 10 cents.
The consumption of beer per capita in England Scot
land and Ireland 314, 9.5 and 81 gallons, re-
spectively; of spirits O8, 16 and 1 gallons; of wine
o. O,3 and OIL gallon, and of other liquors GA
O.OO1 and Oh gallon.
Some time ago typewriter firm in advertising
typewriter with Arabic characters made the state
ment that the Arabic alphabet is used by more
people than any other A professor of Semetic Ian
guages was asked, "How big lie is that?" He
answered: 1T is true" In a certain sense it is
true the total population of all countries whose in
habitants the Arabic alphabet (if they use any
slightly larger than that of those who the Latin
alphabet and its slight variations If, however, the
question is how many people can actively use any
alphabet, system of writing, the Arabic stands
low the list English leads all other langu-
ages in the number of its readers. Three-fourths of
the worlds mail matter is addressed in English.
More than half of the worlds newspapers are
printed in English, and, they have larger cir
cl1latnn than those in other lane11ages. probably