The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-01-28
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.


The total number OF sailing vessel
To the world is double that of steam
ers.
The average number OF death
through railway accidents In uollan,
! Is one a year
The city OF Milwaukee has almos
abolished the use OF horses In all nll
nicipal departments.
Tattooed portraits OF the last sis
1 French presidents were found on the
! skin OF n burglar named Berth arrest
! ed In Paris.
Two millien dollars Will be spent in
Improvements on the great steel plant
Of the United States Steel Corporation
at Emsley, Ala.
A i,o00-horsepower vertical gas en-
CINE, said to be the largest Of It's kind,
was recently put into operation at Run
corn, England driving an electric gen
orator. Milwaukee Free Press.
The proposed American exposition to
be held In London next year has been
thoroughly organized and special efforts
are being made TO secure exhibits from
the western part Of this country.
Although there are only eighteen flags
used In the international code Of sig.
nais which Is used by warships and
merchant ships all over the world, they
can be made 10 represent no fewer than
10000 distinct signals.
The Welland canal, which connects
Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, Is twenty
seven miles long. II was begun in 1874
aud completed In 1888 Its original di-
nenslous have been greatly enlarged,
and there Is now depth o. fourteen
feet
Prof Frederick Starr, anthropologist
at the University OF Chicago, has been
made an officer OF public instruction
under the French government The con-
sui explained that this was one OF the
highest honors In recognition of his
work In Mexico.
The winter Of 1868 was a hard one
in Europe. Charles Y. of Sweden
crossed on the Ice the Little Belt, the
strait between Funen and the Peninsula
Of Jrtland, with his whole army-foot,
horse, baggage and artillery. The rlv-
ers In Italy bore heavy carriages.
According to the accepted authorities
there are 3,42f spoken languages In the
world today: or, perhaps, II would be
more accurate 10 say dialects. or this
number 9S7 are Asiatic, 5s7 European,
2f6 African and 1924 American BY
far the greatest number OF these be- !
long 20 savage and semi savage tribes
and nations
Frances Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals has taken action
against a cinematograph company for
an act Of unprecedented brutality to
horse. In series Of pictures called
The Lovers Revenge" carriage
drnwn by a horse was seen to rush over
the edge OF cllf and be dashed to
pieces The pictures had not been
faxed. ON old blind horse harnessed
to carriage was really driven over
The edge OF the ellis near Boulogne to
obtain them
The work OF compiling great tech
lical dictionary, which was begun un-
Ter the auspices OF the Association of
Sermn Engineers, has been abandoned
'n account Of the great cost, which. II
was discovered, would be four times
greater than originally contemplated.
There is great need OF just such die
ionary as was proposed IN all the arts.
sciences and crafts, aud the decision of
he German engineer VIII be heard with
'egret by workers all over the world.
The Journal OF the American Medl-
al Association has the following:
Modern civilization furnishes no bet
er example than this of the possible ?
ictory over pestilence and disease,
rhen the warfare Is carried on In the ,
ght OF modern scientific knowledge
he building OF the Panama canal and
he sanitary record OF the japanese In ,
leir war with Russia are the two great
beet lessons OF recent years, demon
Irating that men can neither work nor
ght to the best advantage unless pro- u
'cted from infection and preyentable s.
lscasps"
One of the great railroads to the Pa
&c coast Is perfectlng plans for for Il
It OF eucalyptus trees IN San Diego g
,unty. Calf, from which to obtain y
eady supply OF crosstles, ranch OF
coo acres has been purchased FOR this :,
irpose. aud as a start 600 acres Will y
, planted. IL Is estimated that In r,
ghteen years the company will be able
harvest from six TO eight ties to a
re. ard keep up the harvest thereafter =
At present the system
es about 100000 ties annually. In
ghteen years the company thinks II ca
N be able 10 obtain from It's forest s'
10000 annually
Money circulates la Mexico from G
cket TO pocket Almost every MeM- :
n In professional or business life car-
y on bis person anywhere from 500
$500. Even the poor Indian In his +
anket can more than likely produce
greater sum than the average travel.
II was but few days ago, accord
z TO observers. that one Mexican OF