The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-19
FACTS IN FEW LINES

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400 pounds with 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 y nufacturers of well
drilling machinery have practical
monopoly Of the business throughout
the world.
/ 1t has Eeen decided that congress
of the chambers Of commerce of the
British empire will meet in Australia
during the year 1900
Nearly all medical men in the West
Indies advise the wearing Of thin
woolen 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 flavor.
Consul IOhn Z. Jones of Winnipeg
says that fully 90 per cent Of all the
great business enterprises of that sec
tion Of Canada have American capi-
talists interested in them.
The annual output of beer in the
United States Is between 57.O0O,O0O
and G0,0OO.OO barrels At its present
price, about So a barrel. this would be
worth between $342OOO.O0O and $780,
100000
lndia's exports of lac exceed $l1 .OOO.-
900 year. Lac is a resinOus incrusta-
tiOn produced by 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
Russian refugees in Paris. committed
suicide by shooting himself with a re-
volver. In his room was found card
on which he had scribbled, please in
form my mother that leave for
eternity today"
A novel will has been unearthed at
Binghamton, n. Y, dated Feb 5, 17T9
1t is 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
pf fffaan and tyx-antV Hyn a po
gagged in occupations outside of their
homes and in the cities about so 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-tive about One-fifth of the num-
Der are so engaged.
There IS no nation in the world that
gives greater encouragement and op-
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. III. and that evening vas
able to appear before an Esperanto So
ciety and translate into English sto-
ry 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 fashion.
Natives of India have held for CEN
turtles that the waters of the river
Ganges are blessed and healing to those
who battle therein. A scientist says,
II have discovered that the water Of
the Ganges and the ,Tumna 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 10000 Of
them live outside of the old city of
Washington (Which now has no legal
existence, being merged In the District
of COlumba), in large number Of
small towns and villages scattered
over the hills and valleys of the terri
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 I'LL the Roosevelt chair for 1908 at
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-
fessor William Morris Davis Of Har-
ward. DR.. Verworn is one Of the most
distinguished of living psychologists,
Taxicabs in London, as in New York
are marked success. and the hanson
though scarcely a year has passed
since these swift moving carriages ap-
peared, the capital already invested IN
London taxicabs is $10,Q00,000 There
are T5S taxicabs Gu the streets, 1900
taXicabs on order and 1,T00 licensed
drivers. There are eight London taxi
cab companies, the average days
earnings of cab being $11.20, The
average cost is S1,703.
Camille Flammarion. the astronomer,
declares that from actual figures re-
Gently obtained he has become certain
that the temperature Of Europe has
heen falling lNranca has haeO suffar-