The Springdale news., 1909-05-21
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Burmah Is to have Pasteur instl- ute
 California's s most successful fruit growers are women
 The number of sugar factories in op- eration last year in the Russian em pire was PTS
 The deposits Ill the government sg {, ings banks in Australia represent $4955 per head of the total population
 Twenty years ago German taught the Japanese how to make shell but tons Now Japan Is exporting shell buttons to Germany. France and other countries.
 All expedition Is being equipped un- der the auspices of the Russian min istry of marine, with the object of dis covering 4 northeast passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
 Doki Indians in Canada are to be made wealthy by the sale of their pine lands. The total revenue from the sale of the lands will approximate Sl, ,ooo, ,Ooo. and some families will re eeive as much as o,0oo
 Owners of even the smallest toy manufacturing establishments In the Nuremberg district, Germany, cater to the foreign trade. Factories employ ing from six te twenty people are no exception to this rule
 In the annual report just issued by the prison commissioners for Scotland 1t Is stated that no female has re. ceiyed sentence of penal seryitude during the past year This is the first time this has happened
 Expectations people have been flock ing to Duttapuker, India, to view a strange date palm, measuring twenty five feet, which stands erect in the daytime. but with the decline of the sun bends so far down that its leaves touch the ground.
 In certain districts of Australia where the ground Is permanently GOV cred with grass or fine sand the horses are shod with leather instead of iron l The superior advantages claimed for the leather shoes are lightness and ease of application.
 The coal supply of the Philippines has been found to be much larger than was anticipated and of a uniformly good character. It Is stated that large vein crosses the entire group of islands and il has been clearly traced in one vicinity for twenty-five miles.
 During the last two decades France has expended $40. 0.o00, 900 on railways In east Africa, and the brigand chiefs who ruled that vast territory now oc- cupy civil and military positions and are amenabe to the authority of off cials appointed by the home govern ment.
 Owing to the irritation many men manifest when being measured by tailors. the leading sartorial artists in Paris have adopted new method. Instead of measuring a customer they photograph him against a screen bear ing lines similar to those on billiard charts.
 Chicago recently launched a fireboat which the city roudly believes to be the most up to date craft of it's kind HI tHS NoIlu. Sut IS the DrSL floating ire fighter to be propelled by cleo trieity and is to be equipped with tur- bine pumps capable of throwing 45OO0 gallons minute
 The Paris mint in 1907 issued 65.- 100000 coins of an average value of about francs 50 centimes. This in- cluded coinage for France, Tunisia, In- do-China and also for Bolivia. which ordered 2,50o.000 nickel coins. For France the twenty franc pieces were easily in the lead
 The leading areas of yellow pine pro- duction in the United States are no longer in the south Atlantic states. but have been shifted to the south west. The states of Louisiana, Texas. Mississippi and Arkansas each pro duced 10 per cent or more of the total cut yellow pine last year.
 The inhabitants of Nantucket call the mainland America. They are a law and kingdom to themselves, though nominallY a part Of Massachusetts.