The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-09
SCRAPS.

Count Zeppelin made his first ascent
in 1900 and attained speed of thirteen
| feet a second.
Naval guns are fitted with small cleo
trio glow-lamps, so that they can be
! utilized at night.
Fines or Imprisonment are the pun
ishments in Prussia for keeping chill
dreI away from schools.
During the course of his aeronautic
experiments Santos Dumont altogether
constructed fourteen airShipS.
English was spoken by %, 100000 peo-
pie at the beginning of the nineteenth
century. Now more than 10O,OOO,OOO
people speak it.
An eight-track swing bridge across
the main channel of the Chicago drain
age canal, near Thirty-first street, will
be operated by electricity.
In Massachusetts tree planting is sys-
tematically conducted along the public
highways. Fifteen thousand trees have
been planted in few years.
The Italian laborers who are con-
structing the electric railway from the
Engadine to the italian lakes get only
go cents a day, and of that they man
age to save something for their families.
Lord Strathcona, the veteran high
commissioner of Canada, has returned
home from London. He is 81 years old
and holds the record as transatlantic
passenger, having crossed and recrossed
more than $50 times.
Before sentencing a man at the Lon
don sessions to eighteen months i'm
prisonment for stealing a dog, the chair
man said if he had stolen the collar,
which was less valuable, he could have
been sent to penal servitude. There
were twenty-one previous convictions
against him, all for stealing dogs.
John Pollen, president of the British
Esperanto association, bearing a green
flag with a single star, which is the en-
blem of the association and signifies
Brotherhood and Justice Between Ma
tions," recently arrived from Europe
and will be entertained by the Ameri-
can devotees Of that language.
Winnipeg, Manitoba. is erecting twen-
ty warehouses, factories and additions,
eleven schools and educational institu-
tions, twenty business and office struc-
lures and twenty-five apartment
houses, several of the latter costing
about 100000. Since the first of the
year about LOO fine residences have
also been erected or are building in the
city.
Students of the Crustacea often find
the cod a useful assistant collector.
Thus the circular crab seems to be a
favorite food of Gods and rays, and it
was chiefly from the stomachs of these
fish that some Of the Oldest naturalists
obtained their specimens. Another hunt
ing ground of the naturalist is the sail
ing ship which has been in foreign
parts.
The oldest newspaper in Belgium is
the Gazette van Gent, which received
the privilege of printing the Gendtsche
Post-Tydinghen on Nov. II, 1866, and
which has existed almost continuously
since the first number was printed on
Jan. 1, 1867. The oldest copy preserved
is No. 81, of Sept. s, 1867. The next old
est newspaper in Belgium is L'Indepen-
dance Beige, in its eightieth year.
Professor Charles Richet of Paris has
devised a means for purifying the air
in rooms. His apparatus is an air filter
which mechanically sterilizes air. Very
fine drops of glycerin are scattered
along the walls of a cylinder contain
ing a suction fan. Each particle of air
drawn in by the fan is freighted with
glycerin and hence tends to drop, there
by carrying with it the germs, dust and
microbes with which it may be laden.
Twenty years ago j. P. Morgan, jr.,
began working as a shipping clerk with
Drexel, Morgan G. Co, Later he became
executive head of his fathers London
house. He assisted in organizing the
London Underground and the Interna-
tional Mercantile Marine company-the
so-called "ship trust" He is a director
of both the above companies, of the
United States Steel corporation, the
Northern Pacific railway, Acadia Coal
and of the North British Mer-
camille Insurance company.
At the conclusion of children's per-
formance at Old Meldrum an elephant
proceeded along narrow road with a
pail in its trunk for the purpose of pro-
curing water from a pump. A little girl
CHANGED to get in the animals way, and,
the road being only wide enough to ac-
commodate his substantial body, the
elephant laid down the pail, picked UP
the child with his trunk and gently lift
ed her to place of safety, afterward
his journey to the pump for
the Observation-Disclosures Gazette.
A recent traveller in that land of dikes
and windmills has been at pains to
make notes of the names bestowed by
the Dutch merchants upon their coun-
try houses. Here are a few examples
Our Contentment," "Jcy
and Peace" Leisure and Happiness"
My Desire is Satisfied" Friends and
Quiet, My Wife and l." Not SoBad"
To say the least, any one of these would
seem to indicate more of the genuine
sentiment of the householder than can
possibly be expressed by the Belle
Vues" and "Cedars' of Suburbia.-I
Westminster Gazette.
One of the latest Photographic inven-
lions is lens by means of which a
complete viey all around the observer
ean be taken at once 1t is known as
l periscope lens, and enables the OBJ
server to see all around the horizon
without moving. Such a. lens should
prove useful on board ship, in aero
planes and in all cases where a view all
around is essential. The result is at
aimed by means Of a circular ring of
glass curved on the outer surface. and
lat inside. By this the light from all
'fdes is reflected down the tube which
.arries the lens. The periscope lens en-
lbles the photographer to take q cir
'ular picture of the view all around
lin. The new lens is a British inven-
ion.
Professor Somerville's paper before
he British association on the timber
supply shows that the world is steadily |
approaching timber famine. Already |
3r1tain pays each year G27.OO0 for |
wood; Germany, with nearly twelve |
lines the area of forest possessed nv |
3ritain, annually pays e12,OOO. 900 for |
timber; and, although the |
United States of America exports wood |
md wood products to the value of |
20 600 600 per aDn1Ip, che 1a- =