The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-02
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eminent expense.
Rhode Island received its name from
what was supposed to be resemblance
in contour of the island of Rhodes il
the Mediterranean.
Platinum, used extensively in electri-
cal work, is only mined in California
and Oregon in this country, the former
supplying So per cent of the American
production.
The adaptability of electrical energy
is only limited by human imagination
to devise new ways to put it to work
New methods of applying it as invent
ed every day.
An instrument that enables the user
to gaze into the human stomach and
watch the digestive processes at work
was explained at the British Medical
association meeting in Belfast.
The city of Naples will soon be
lighted by electricity secured from wat
er power. At Capo-Volturno $4,000
horse power will be generated and car
ried at $4,000 volts to the city, fifty
six miles away.
The eighth satellite of Jupiter. dis
covered at the Greenwich observatory
in January of last year, proves remark
able, not only for being so far from
the planet, but also for its very &c
centric orbit it's distance from Jupiter
carrying from about 100000 to 90
100000 miles. 1t revolved around the
planet in about twenty-siX of our
months.
The National Red Cross has met with
such success in the last two years in
teaching first aid to the injured to the
employees of large corporations that it
has determined to undertake the work
on a much larger scale. 1t will begin
with the United States Steel corpora
ton and will instruct more than twenty
thousand employees of that concern.
That Edison is as fertile as ever in
suggestions appears in his proposal that
the East river, New York, be filled in
and its waters provided with new
channel dug across Long Island at a
point farther east. Good authorities
pronounce the scheme by no means
| chimerical. The real estate value of the
present site of the river would be al
most beyond calculation.
| There is a revival of the tattoo habit
in Germany, according to an article
published in a Frankfort paper. Here
| tOfore, the writer says, it was difficult
| to find a tatOoed subject who had not
been decorated at one of the seaport
towns. The men were sailors and the
few women who had fallen to the habit
were wives or sweethearts of tatooed
lilSll. lie IctlOO llSt HOW Illus WILLIE
subjects far inland, among people who
never saw a sailor or the sea.
DR.. -Hollweg may claim
this unique distinction, mat he is the
first German chancellor to wear a
beard. Bismarck FASTENED to shave off
his when he entered upon diplomacy,
and showed his rivals and enemies a
massive jaw and clearcut chin; and he
shaved to the end, with an interval
enforced by neuralgia IN the early
eighties. AS a soldier, too, Caprivi
shaved, all but his mustache, and so
did Hohenlohe and Buelow. But Beth
mann-Hollweg is gaunt, rugged, hirsute,
pan-Germanic.
AT a garden party concentrating
the twenty-fifth anniversary of begin
ming the work of the National society
for the prevention of cruelty to chill
dren of England, there were exhibited
in a tent some of the instruments of
chidl torture that had come into the
society's possession. No children were
allowed inside the tent. Round the walls
were hung whips, iron rods, chains,
sticks, ropes and other torture weap
ons used in the Ga. 499 cases of i'll treat
ment and assault in the last quarter of
a century.
Congressman Livingston of Georgia
was standing outside the senate finance
committee room when the delegation of
young women hosiery workers from
Philadelphia left that room. after an
audience with Senator Aldrich. Senator
Smoot, who is a Mormon from Utah
and a member of the finance committee, |
left the room in the lead of the young
women. who are al these young wo-
men?" asked man who watched the
procession curiously. "Smoot's wives"
said Livingston, laconically.
Miss Edna Cockrell formerly d
teacher in the Tonkawa public schools, |
is now assistant superintendent of the
girls industrial school at Clarkson, |
Miss. Writing to friends at Tonkawa, |
Miss Clarkson said lately: THE girls |
are from IA to 20 years old. Most of |
them are very poor people, whom |
church people have given money to go |
to school. One poor girl came leading |
a COW, twenty-five miles. She is go |
ing to milk the COW night and morning |
and sell the milk to pay her tuition
Oklahoma News.
Vulcan, an alleged planet, was dis
covered in 1859, only to be effectively
obliterated from the planetary system
fifty years later Leverrier, who acted
as godfather to the new addition, cal
culated a path and found that the planet i
L
day. Yet other observers failed ever to Il
see the planet, and now Professor
Campbell announces that the eclipse OBJ
servations of recent years prove, almost H
that the existence of such Il
a body is practical impossibility.
A human hair of average thickness
can support a load of six and one
fourth ounces, and the average number Il
Of hairs on the head is about 80 1000. A 1
long hair has a total tensile
strength of more than five tons and this
strength can be increased One-third by
twisting the hair. The ancients made
practical use of the strength of human
hair. The cords of the Roman cata-
quilts were made of the hair of slaves.
and It'll recorded that the free women 1
IF Carthage offered their luxuriant
-resses for the same use when their city
was besieged by the Romans
An attempt is to be made to intro
luce the famous Massachusetts and /!
Rhode Island CLAIMS to Maine waters.
and two men from Massachusetts, and
others who are to be sent here by James
Oonohue commissioner of sea and shore
will begin the work about the
st of October These clans are very
arge and have very white shells and |
command much higher price in the
market than the Maine product. AT
he last legislature people interested in
he subject succeeded in getting an an
tiOT from The III