Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-03-20
FACTS IN FEW LINES

The first piano factory in the Aus tralian state of Victoria is in course of erection at Melbourne.
 The number of men, women and children who received poor law relief in Ireland during the year ended March 31. 1908, amounted to 219,220. After stealing money and lot of sil- yer and clothing from James Burnell of Bayonne, N. J., burglars nearly sue ceeded in taking the piano out of the house before the occupants awakened Near vailenar Il gold mine has lately been discovered from which ore has been taken that contained 200 ounces of pure gold per ton of 2,000 pounds. This Is In the old gold mining region of Chile.
 The foundation for the recently com- pletcd Harbor of Refuge lighthouse, Delaware bay. is solid block of con crete eighteen feet deep, forty feet in diameter at the base and thirty-six feet at the top.
 ] As illustrative of the cosmopolitan conditions in New Hampshire it is re- ported that in Somersworth recently an Englishman carried an American flag in company of Hibernians at French funeral.
 I With the completion of the transla- ton into YIddlsh on which Professor Louis Harrison of Worcester, Mass, has been working for three years the nfl>lo ba Aa t>ls In language in the world.
 At service of thanksgiving for the harvest of the sea the walls of an Eng fish flshermens church were draped from end to end with fishing nets and the window spaces occupied with lob ster pots and packing barrels. When the Simplon tunnel was made In Switzerland the old road over the pass was no longer kept free of snow in winter. This. however. resulted in | so much inconvenience that it has been decided to keep the road open All the year round again.
 | The Whistler house in Lowell, Mass, the old fashioned three story dwelling in which James Abbott MacNeill Whis- tier. the artist, was born July 10, 1884. was dedicated recently as memorial to his work and as a permanent club house for the Lowell Art association.
 A farmer of Goliad. Tex, who used green willow posts at the corners of his barn. found after year that they had taken root and raised his barn floor some three feet He now has put in new lower floor and expects to have a three story barn in the course of time
 Doors that swing of themselves are the latest. At the Hotel Astor. New York. the attendant who stands at the main entrance merely has to press a bulb and the door, which is operated by electricity. revolves. This plan has the advantage of keeping the speed uniform.
 An invention which. it is said, will Il revolutionize the curing of meats has been perfected by Cleveland men. Electricity win be used to cause the salt to penetrate the meats and thus | PlCpoiC thCni AoA tuN III Ouc- quarter the time the present method requires.
 In scene of balloon race, repro duced in a New York moving picture show, +. J. Mailer saw his younger brother, whom for three years he had been unable to communicate with. and writing to the officials of the club con ducting the race, was able to obtain ais address.
 All the German joint stock com panies engaged in the herring fishery have now entered into m agreement for regulating the selling prices of their catch. The consumption of sea fish has greatly increased among the Ger man population owing to the very high prices asked for meat.
 Mrs. l.. E. Bishop of Chicae 70 offered $100 prize for the best verses favorable to votes for women in Chicago. and some of them were certainly funny One of the poems" tells the men vot- CTS that 1t Is a burning shame that they should shoulder all the cares when we are willing to be your help CTS and the mayors"
 l Suicide among children in German schools seems on the increase. Some startling figures are published officially showing that in Prussia from 1880 to 1903 the average number of suicides or attempts at suicide among pupils of the higher schools was II per annum Since then the figures are: 1904, g.; 1905. IS; 1906. 16; 1907. 20; 1908. g.
 Harry Barrato. who died the other day. was one of the multimillionaires of whom the general public knew and saw very little. Some years ago his fortune was computed at f12,002000 His savings alone amounted to scv- eral hundreds of thousands of pounds a year, for to great extent he lived I frngaliy. his one luxury being good cigars, which he smoked incessantly.
 State railroad commissioners repre- rescnting Illinois. Indiana. Ohio. Wis consin and Michigan at recent meet inc in Chicago took action toward less