The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-11-06

BITS OF INFORMATION.

increase the fertility of the ground in
the vicinity.
Into the trade school at Liege, Bel
gium, there has been introduced
course in cigarmaking fostered by gov
eminent subsidy.
Hundreds of the houses of Minneapo-
lis and st. Paul are equipped with out
door open bedrooms, where the owners
sleep in the coolest weather.
The pounding noise of steam pipes
can be obviated by attaching to the
pipes a small check valve. set to admit
air, but not to release any pressure.
The detailed formula of every patent
medicine has to be filed with the Aus
trian government and other require
ments fulfilled before its importation is
allowed.
Experiments are being made in Eng
land and Germany in cultivating the
soya bean, which is said to be nearly
three times as rich in albuminoids as
oats and wheat.
Researches in Germany show that
given quantity of redhot coke will alb
sorb four times the amount of water
that will be absorbed by the same coke
if cold.
Japan recently completed and placed
in commission the fastest passenger
steamship in the Pacific. Oil fuel and
turbine engines give it a speed of TWEEN
ty-three knots.
The total length of railway under con-
struction or Immediately projected in
India is 1922 miles, of which about one
third is by the British government and
the rest by private companies. The es-
timated cost is over 100000.
Miss Helen Gould has given s150,000 to
the American college for girls at Con-
stantinople. The college is about to
move from Scutari to the European side
of the Bosphorus. DR.. Mary Mills Pat
rick, a native of Canterbury, n. H, is
the president.
A remarkable suspension bridge spans
the Apurirnac river in central Peru. The
ropes of this bridge are composed of
pliable roots and vines, while the planks
are made of branches In the humid
climate of Peru it would be by no
means extraordinary if this vegetable
bridge were one day to start growing.
Miss Ivy E. Woodward, NJ. D., has
been admitted to full membership in the
Royal college of physicians of London.
1t is the first time in its history that
this body has conferred the coveted NJ
r. c. 2. upon a woman, although some
women have obtained the L. r. G. P,
which latter indicates that the holder
has been licensed to practice the medi-
cal profession.
The Daughters Of the American Revo-
luton are taking steps to organize chap
tiers of the society in all the large CO.
educational and women's colleges of the
country. The first and at present the
only chapter is made up of Barnard I'M
dergraduates and was organized through
the efforts of Mrs. William Cumming
Story and Mrs. Donald Mclean. 1t re-
ceived its first public recognition from
older chapters during the Hudson-Ful-
ton celebration.
woman has just been made a judge
in Denmark and the Danish women are
boasting that it is the first time in the
history of the world that such an office
has been given to a woman. The suf
fragists of the United States reply by
pointing to Mrs. Esther Morris of Wyo-
ming, Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCul-
loch of Illinois and Mrs. Mary Cooper of
Kansas. The Jewish women add to this
list Deborah, the wife of Lapidoth, who
not only judged the people of Israel for
forty years, but led their forces to bat
tie because the general refused to go
without her.
In olives Italy has the name, Spain
the game. The cultivation in Spain
covers the largest area of all countries
in Europe, with about 5000, 600 acres, of
which about 100000 are in Andalusia.
Eating olives are delivered dry to the
factories, where they are soaked in
large watts with a solution of caustic
soda until the solution has penetrated
to the stones. After a washing in fresh
water the olives are put into hogsheads
of brine for two months of fermenta-
ton. When they are bottled new brine
&c mead hI1t fbp o11fYo11+ from tho faoto
ries is usually in hogsheads holding 100
gallons.
''Rostand's 'Chanticler' about which
so much has been written and-imag-
ined," writes a German correspondent
from Paris, will be produced at the
Porte st. Martin theatre early in No
vember. The secrecy with which the
play and all about it have been guarded
still continues and the director has been
instructed to exclude all persons, press
and all, from rehearsals. The public
has become so thoroughly excited be-
cause of the methods employed by the
author that 10000 francs has already
been realized from the sale of seats.
Some parquet places for the opening
night were sold for 100 francs EACH
Miss Kate Barnard, state commission
er of charities and correction for Okla
homa, is making a tour of the eastern
states for the purpose of studying social
conditions. She first came into promi-
nence during the statehood campaign
in Oklahoma. Three of the planks in
the state constitution relating to child
labor, compulsory education and the de-
partment of charities, were drafted by
her After being made commissioner of
cahrities she exposed the way in which
the state of Kansas cared for the pris-
oners intrusted to it by Oklahoma, with
the result that the contract was broken
and Oklahoma now has a model peni-
tertiary, with night school and a base