The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-15
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.
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The city death rate is generally |
greater in winter than in summer.
Australia has more unemployed area |
In proportion to population than any
other country
Rhode Island received its name from |
what was supposed to be a resem-
plance in contour to the Island of
Rhodes in the Mediterranean
Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman will
start next November a magazine call
ed the Forerunner, of which she will
write the whole contents each month.
The only ostrich farm in Europe is
at Nice. 1t is said to be profitable.
Incubators have to be used to hatch
the eggs, the sun in the Riviera not
being hot enough to do this work, as
it does in Africa.
Mrs. Isabella McCosh, wife of the
late president of Princeton Univer-
sity. has just celebrated her ninety
second birthday. J. w. Alexander has
just finished a portrait of Mrs. Nc
Gosh. which he has given to the uni
versity.
Among the 100000 working WON
en- in this country there are nearly
million widows are nearly 100000
married women whose husbands have
failed to provide for them. Nearly
100000 divorced women are among
the wage earners.
Mrs. Sarah Plat Decker and the
newly formed Public Service League
Of Women, have made a successful
fight against the ordinance which had
been "sneaked through" the Denver
board Of aldermen to permit the feed
ing of brewery swill to mich cows.
Mrs. Chapman Gait PREDICTED in st.
James Hall on Monday that Woman's
suffrage would come las surely as The
sun would rise on the morrow 1t
is only fair to explain that Mrs. Chap
man Gait is from the United States,
and has had no experience of our Eng
lish sunrises.-London Globe.
The Prussian government is to issue
a loan, the proceeds of which are to
be used for the construction and equip
ment of new branch line railroads.
One line of the road is to have cleo
trio traction, for which $4,000 is set
aside. The total amount to be expend-
ed under this loan bill is S55, 753, 900.
Beans, bean cake and bean oil are
the principal products of Manchuria.
The prices of these during the last
season have been higher than ever be-
fore, but how much of this is due to
the ability of Japan, a gold standard
country, to pay more in silver, because
silver has been cheap, can not be posi-
lively stated.
The Korean grass used in the manu-
facture OF grass cloth is grown very
'thickly and is usually cut the second
or third year after planting the roots
The grass reaches a height of four to
five feet, and with a proper start and
under favorable conditions yields, it is
roughly estimated, about 5000 pounds
to an acre.
Hitherto skulls of prehistoric men
have been said to resemble those OF
great apes, but now comes distin-
guished French anthropologist and de-
clares that one which has recently
been discovered is almost an exact re-
plica of that OF Bismarck. Does this
mean that prehistoric men had superb
cranial development, or 1t is Gaelic
fling at M lie Bismarck? New York
Tribune
Mother Francis Xavier Cabrini, SUI
perior-general of the Missionary Sisters
of the Sacred Heart, has just returned
to this country from Brazil. where she
recently opened college for the high
err education of women. This Is the
| fifty-eighth institution established by
the order In twenty-seven years. The
institutions include colleges, schools,
hospitals and orphan asylums.
An electrically wired tablecloth,
upon which ornamental electric light
| fixtures diffuse illumination the mo-
ment they are set down, is one of the
| latest and most interesting illuminate
u,
Popular Mechanics. To the uninitiat-
ed the ability to get light by sim
| ply placing fixture on the table is
nothing less than extraordinary, but
the explanation is simple.
Recent exploration of the Athabas-
ca-Mackenzie region shows that 1t con-
| tains many valuable fur-bearing ami
mails, and it appears also to be the
home of the last wild remnant of the
American bison family. The herds of
bison are not numerous, and they are
being rapidly exterminated by wolves.
| The Canadian musk OK also inhabits
this region, and In the spring, when
the rivers and springs escape from the
frost. great focks of birds. including
most of the migratory game birds of
America, resort thither to breed.
What might be called a tabloid
watch has just been made by watch
maker of Locle, Switzerland, says the
London Globe. The thickness is said
to be only three millimeters, so,
meter being only thirty-nine inches,
one can estimate the thickness of the
watch. Taking the case and a glass 1t
is found the works occupy a space
10 millimeters. The spring is half
millimeter What makes this achieve
ment of the Locle matchmaker more
extraordinary is that 1t is asserted
that the watch keeps time, varying
only five seconds in twenty-four hours.
The Philadelphia Press has won the
first round in its fight to abolish toll
roads and toll gates in Pennsylvania.
A legislative commission has been APP
pointed to investigate the whole SUBJ
ject and report to the next legislature
on the best means of getting rid OF
what the press calls nuisance and
check on commercial progress of the
State. There is much information to
be gathered in regard to these roads,
| for though they have existed since the