The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-10-21
FACTS IN FEW LINES


| Of wooden hoops on barrels and kegs.
One physician out Of every twenty
one In the United States lives In New
York city.
| 1t Is estimated that In Egypt there
are 100000 people who can neither
read nor write.
| Turkey has more aged people in pro-
portion to her population than any
other European country.
The longest pipe line in the world is
that which extends from the Oklahoma
oil wells to New York harbor.
OF the 4.OOO.OOO,OOO gallons Of wine
| manufactured in the civilized world
every year about 100000 are made
In the United States.
A Philadelphia has patented a de-
vice whereby all the backs of the seats
in a car can be turned by single
| lever in one operation.
/ The largest irrigation plant In the
world will be included in the govern
| ment's plan to reclaim 10000 acres of
land In the Rio Grande valley.
Rainwater is the best to use in
motorboat and automobile radiators.
That from other sources too often
leaves an Objectionable deposit.
One person can use a two man saw
| by stiffening it with bow made Of a
! split sapling or other wood that will
counteract its tendency to buckle.
| The Igorrote provinces of the Philip
/ pines have been combined and will be
managed by one governor and subgov-
errors. BontOc will be the capital.
| A young woman In Vienna whose
hatpin injured mans eye and caused
him to lose the sight of it offered as
compensation to marry him. The offer
! was accepted.
San Diego. Cal. has d wonderful
clock. with twenty dials. which tell
simultaneously the time in all parts of
the world; also the days of the week
! and the date and month.
/ The total duration of bright sun
| shine for week in Aberdeen. Scot
! land. recently amounted to nine hours.
in an English town sixteen hours and
In London but little over quarter
! Of an hour.
The great telescope of the Paris ex-
position Of 1900. which was built at a
cost Of S150.OO0. is now offered for sale
by the receiver of the exposition at
about one-tenth Of it's cost. Its hous-
ing requires building 1870 feet long
The first fossilized peacock found on
this continent has been unearthed near
Los Angeles Cal. Scientific men say
that this proves that peafowl existed
in America before it's discovery by Co
lumbus. something not known before.
! Western Europe is beginning to ship
freight Of the far east over the Sibe
Ran railway which formerly went by
water via Hamburg exclusively. An
increase Of passenger traffic to Japan
and China by way Of Vladivostok is
also noticeable.
Hitherto skulls Of prehistoric men
! have been said to resemble those of
great apes. but now comes a diStin-
guished French anthropOlogist and de-
clares that one which has recently been
discovered is almost an exact replica
! of that of Bismarck.
Hamburg is the principal importing
center in Germany for grain for both
domestic consumption and for trans
/ shipment to Denmark Sweden and
] Norway. Cereals are also forwarded
/ in river barges to Bohemia and at
! times are re-exported via Baltic ports
| to Russia.
] Mrs. John Hay and Mrs Samuel
/ Mather have given money to erect
chapel on the Adelbert campus Of the
i Western Reserve university. The
chapel is to be known as the Amasa
Stone Memorial chapel and is in men,
DRY Of Alnasa Stone. the father of Mrs.
Hay and Mrs. Mather.
! Three boys. the eldest Of whom is
only eleven. have been rescued at sea
from a crazy boat. in which they had
started three days previously for
America from a fishing village near
Brest. France. The children. who had
/ no idea how far Off America is. had
taken very few provisions and had
been without food for ten hours.
A Bohemian tailor at Prague has in
vented a bullet proof shield for use OF
the skirmishers while lying on the
ground The shield. which weighs but
five pounds. is made Of composition
Of wax and felt. in which the striking
bullets are said to stick without pierre
ing. In the center of the shield is an
opening just large enough to pass the
rife muZZle through
That Edison is as fertile as ever in
suggestions appears in his proposal
that the East river be filed in and its
waters provided with new channel
dug across Long Island at point
farther east Good authorities pro-
nounce the scheme by no means Chi
merical. The real estate value Of the
present site of the river would be al
most beyond calculation.
/ In connection with the present activ-
ity with regard to the reduction Of
fatalities In coal mines 1t is Of inter
est to compare the following averages
Of fatal accidents per thousand en-
ployees: Anthracite miners. Pennsyl-
vania. 3.1S: miscellaneous steel and
iron workers. Pennsylvania, 4.30: nut
and bolt workers. Pennsylvania. $40;
railway employees. United States. ESQ.
Credit is being given to Berkeley
(Cal) landscape gardener for having
dovelonod the white Stra wberry but