The San Francisco call., 1909-12-26

Tt has been discovered by the Chinese
ministry of civil office that there are
some $4,000 dismissed or degraded Off
cials who are entitled to reinstatement
by special grace on the occasion of the
new reign.
Germany uses $500, OOO,OOO eggs
yearly, while the German hens only
lay 1,000,00O,O00 a year.
Women in Persia are fast becoming
"Americanized." declares a Persian
writer in a current periodical.
Wireless telephony installed on bat
tleshps works successfully in some
cases, but is unsatisfactory in others.
Electric tramway competition reduced
/ the suburban traffic around London OF
the Great Eastern railway by 3,292.S17
passengers in the last half of 1908.
Thirty women have been nominated
for places on the school board in Phila-
delphia.
A prominent French manufacturer of
glace fruits admits that the cherries
of California are at least as good in
quality as the French varieties.
The marriages in England and Wales
during 1907 numbered 267,421, corre-
spending to a rate OF 1873 persons mar
ried in 1000 of the population at all
ages.
In 40 years 1SSs to 1909 Japan's
foreign trade increased from 10000, 900
yen to S14,000,O00 yen.
A new bible seminary building has
been erected in the Methodist mission
in Manila. Philippines islands.
With four military airship stations
already built on the western frontier,
the German war Office has decided to
erect similar stations on its eastern
borders
In the early days of the British mu-
scum a century or more ago the place
was open for only six hours daily on
five days a week in the summer and
four hours daily during the rest OF
the year.
Some of the moons mountains are
$4,000 feet high.
Electric heating devices are success
fully employed for branding cigar
boxes
1t is figured that a successful ply
sician must have clientele of $50
families or about 750 persons.
By q vote of 81 to 81 the Oregon
legislature has refused to abolish the
whipping post for wife beaters.
1t is estimated that there are 2,000.-
600 horsepower in unused water pow
ers in the state of Wisconsin.
More than quarter of the tobacco
consumed by the Spanish nation comes
from the United States.
German women are taking up box
ing and there are a number of schools
where the art of self-defense is taught
A monument to tile negro poet, Paul
Laurence Dunbar, is to be unveiled in
Woodlawn cemetery, Dayton. O., on
Sunday, June 26, his birthday.
Budapest is to have new bacterio-
logical institute.
The total number of negroes in the
United States in the year 1900 was
/ .000 0OO speaking in round terms and
in 1900 S,S41.000
The New York Press says every out
fit that can't pay its bills seems to be
able to Issue receivers certificates ex-
cept a big family.
The population of Canada is now
about 6,500,000.
The cities of Europe having the low
est. death rate are Stockholm, Chris
tiania. Berlin and London.
Miss Alice M. Robertson of Musko-
gee, Okla, is the only woman in the
country at the head of postoffice OF
the first class.
Mrs. Jeanette M Bradley has been
put in charge of the new legislative
headquarters which the suflragettes
opened in Washington.
After living for more than two
months with a broken neck Percy
Henry Askham, aged 80, died in Scar
borough tEngland) hospital.
The Igorrote provinces of the Phil
ippines have been combined and will be
managed by one governor and sub
governors Bontoc will be the capital.
The worlds yearly record of earth
| quakes is 10000.
The New York park commissioners
would scrape scales and cocoons off the
fronts of buildings near trees.
New Mexico produced nearly 5000, ,00O
tons OF coal last year. with a full quota,
of miners for the first time in several
years.
Hindus are displacing Japanese in
some California orchards.
A 400 pound halibut was recently
displayed in London
During the year 1908 the telephone
was adopted on 2.357 miles of railroad
1t was not until 1926 that govern
ment lotteries were abandoned in
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