The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-09-25
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More than $4,000, 5000 worth of soap
is made and sold in the United States
every year.
An official estimate places the number
of dairy cows in the United States at
| 1000 600.
More coal is mined by machinery, in
proportion to the total output, in Ohio
than in any other state.
Some varieties of rice open in two
months after planting. while others re-
quire up to six months of cultivation.
1t is remarkable that notwithstand-
! ing the love and devotion of Jewish
mother there seems to be no trace of a
real Jewish lullaby. Those known are
of recent origin.-American Hebrew.
There is the promise of much cheap
er ice in New York City next summer,
no matter what the natural crop may
be, for there will be many more arti-
fetal plants in operation than ever be-
| fore.
Harry P. Whitney began his business
training as bank clerk at $50 a week.
He now has charge of the s30,000000
estate left by the elder Whitney, and it
is said that his trusteeship has increased
the family fortune.
Subway railroads are good invest
ments in New York City. Profits have
! increased about II per cent in the last
three months over the same period last
year, the gross earnings being $3,321, 500,
an increase of 1859, 400.
| Frank Wootan England's best joe
key, who won sixty-siX races in three
months early this year on the English
turf, is an Australian boy only 10 years
| old. He won mis- first race when less
| than 10 years old. His income is now
as much as a cabinet minister's.
Stanley Field. son of Joseph Field of
Manchester, and nephew of Marshall
Field: Rodman Wanamaker, II. H.
Rogers, jr., Arlan A. and Clendenin ].
Ryan are young men who have avoid
ed the frivolities that too often have
stultified the heirs to great wealth and
are making their lives significant by
work.
Menus in New York restaurants are
not always what they seem, and ap-
parently are frequently dressed simply
for appearances. In large Broadway
restaurant menu that looked fair and
ostensibly presented ninety-four dishes
showed an analysis to give only TWEEN
ty-seven that could be produced from
the culinary department.
The Womens Educational and Indus
trial union of Boston has added expert
visiting housekeepers to it's department
of household economies. For a small
fee the visiting housekeepers will drop
in and set the machinery of the house
hold running smoothly by exhibiting
new equipment or giving aid and in
struction in whatever branch mistress
or maid may need it.
Simmons college, Boston, is said to be
the only place in this country where
women can be trained to plan and man
age lunchrooms. The demand for such
training is reported to have more than
trebled during the last two years, as
more and more cities and school boards
are realizing the necessity of providing
working girls and boys and school chill
dren with healthful midday meals.
Miss Jane Wright of Cincinnati has
been elected to take charge of the art
library of Princeton university. She
was librarian at the Cincinnati art mu-
scum and resigned to go to Princeton.
The trustees of Princeton are said to
have allowed the place to remain vacant
for over a year because they were anX-
ious to get person who measured up
in every particular to the standard
which they had fixed.
The craze for roller skating, which
has spread in such extraordinary fash
ion throughout all classes of society in
the British isles during the last year
or so, has now caught the sailors and
petty officers of some of his maiestys
fleet in its seductive sway. During the
Thames display the people going around
the Warships in steamers were amused
to see quite number of seameL MAX
ing a precarious rink of the deck of
battleship.-London News.
The effect of the new Canadian law
on cigarette smoking by boys is shown
in the trade returns. Although 370,000.-
600 cigarettes were smoked in Canada
since the first of the year, most of them
bling made in the Dominion, the num-
Der shows a decline of 30.000,000 on the
figures for the preceding twelve months
The results are more striking when it
is remembered that the law was in force
for only eight months of the year 1t
forbids the sale or gift of cigarettes or
cigarette material to boys of Is or less
under penalties of from $40 to $500.
The open season for north poles sug-
gests temperature. Platinum wire cleo
trio resistance thermmeters are now
used in physical research. With these
as high as 100 degrees
centigrade and as low as minus 200 CEN
tigrade are practical Such a Their
mometer is electric in the fullest sense
of complication aud delicacy and few
scientists" could handle it, Absolute
zero-263 degrees centigrade. tempera-
ture of space. Lowest temperature yet
degrees centigrade boil
ing point of liquid air-182 degrees CEN
acids degrees centigrade.-New York |
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