The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-07-03
BITS OF INFORMATION.

South America had newspaper as long
ago as 1894.
The city death rate is generally great
er in winter than in summer.
Australia has more unemployed area
in proportion to the population than any
other country.
All employees in The Netherlands who |
are boarding with their employers are
entitled to medical treatment for at |
least six weeks.
Rhode Island received it's name from |
what was supposed to be a resemblance |
in contour to the Island of Rhodes in |
the Mediterranean.
Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman will |
start next November magazine called
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. Incu- |
bators 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.
rms. Isabelle McCosh, wife of the late
president of Princeton university, has
just celebrated her ninety-second birth |
day. j. W. Alexander has just finished
a portrait of Mrs. McCosh, which he
has given to the university
Among the 100000 working women
in this country there are nearly 100000
widows and nearly 100000 married wo-
men whose husbands have failed to pro-
vide for them Nearly 100000 divorced
women are among the wage-earners.
Mrs Sarah Plat Decker and the new
ly formed public service league of wo-
men have made a successful fight
against the ordinance which had been
"sneaked through" the Denver board of
aldermen to permit the feeding of
brewery swill to mich cows.
Mrs. Chapman Gait predicted in st.
James hall on Monday that woman's
suffrage would come "as surely as the
sun would rise on the morrow" 1t is
only fair to explain that Mrs Chapman
Gait is from the United States, and has
had no experience of our English sun
rises-London Globe.
The Prussian government is to issue
loan, the proceeds of which are to be. j
used for the construction and equipment
of new branch line railroads. One line
of road is to have electric traction, for
| which $476,0OO is set aside. The total
amount to be expended under this loan
bill is $55, $4,000.
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 before, 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, cannot be positively 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
| fo1 hi IriaI II ic
roughly estimated, about 5000 pounds to
an area corresponding to an acre.
| 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. Does this mean
that prehistoric men had superb cranial
development, or it is a Gallo fling at
IN. lie Bismarck?"-New York Tribune.
Mother Frances 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 a college for the higher
| education of women. This is the fifty
eighth institution established by the or
der in twenty-seven years. The institu-
| lions include colleges, schools, hospitals
and orphan asylums.
| An electrically wired table cloth, upon
which ornamental electric light fixtures
| diffuse illumination the moment they
are set down, is one Of the latest and
most interesting Illuminating devices
designed in England, says Popular
Mechanics. To the uninitiated the abil-
ity to get light by simply placing a fix
ture on the table is nothing less than
extraordinary, but the explanation is
| simple.
Recent exploration of the Athabasca-
| Mackenzie region shows that it con-
| tains many valuable fur bearing ami
mails, and 1t appears also to be the home
/ of the last wild remnant of the Ameri-
can 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 riv-
ers and springs escape from the frost
| great flocks 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 matchmaker Of
Locle, Switzerland, says the London
Globe. The thickness is said to be only
three millimeters, so, meter being only
thirty-nine incres, one can estimate the
thickness OF the watch. Taking the case
and the glass it is found the works oc-
cupy space 1.9 millimeters. The spring
is half a millimeter. What makes this
achievement of the Locle matchmaker
more extraordinary is that it 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
legisla tive commission has been ap-
pointed to investigate the whole sub
ject and report to the next legislature
on the best means of getting rid of
what the Press calls a nuisance and
check on the commercial progress of the
state. There is much information to
be gathered in regard to these roads.
for though they have existed since the
early days of our history they have not
been the subject of official reports and
great ignorance prevails in regard to
Them" says the Press.
The recent death of Frederick Won
Holstein, long in the service of the Ger
man foreign office, was barely men
toned in the cable dispatches to this
country, but in Germany, as we'll as in
Eronco and ENGLAND tha cionifiCa nrn