The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-08-07
Bits of information.


The king of Italy is the only vege-
tartan monarch.
Over large extent of Russian terri
tory German $ the commercial Ian
gua9e.
In France and Austria provision for
rescue work in mines is made Compul-
sorry.
The price of a gondola ride in Venice
mas been increased from a franc to a
franc and a half.
For the year ended March 81, 1903. the
municipal gas department of Birnina
ham, England, was able to Contribute
$347,754 TO the reduction of city taxa
ton.
The London Lancet says 600 children
of leprous parents are being educated
by the Mission of Lepers, and the chill
dren show no signs of leprosy.
By the will of Mrs Mary E. Jones CT
Knoxville, ILL.,, $25O,OO0 has been left to
that city for the erection and mainte-
nance of a home for aged women.
Death from fright III the first stages
Of ether and chloroform before con-
seriousness is lost is best avoided by
letting the patient hold and inhale the
stuff himself.
The seaweed known as Irish r;oss is
user to some extent as a food Ly the
peasantry along the coast, also as a
Jelly for invalids, and as a stiffening for
calico in the printing process.
German manufacturing, exporting
and financial circles. are keen1y alive to
the growing custom of establishing in
foreign cities department stores to
serve as channels for supplying Ger
man merchandise.
DR.. Roberts suggestion ir 1851 of
~ he
ceived as a joke. DR.. REIN of Germany
in 1897 got the first recovery from heart
wound. Altogether there have been six
teen such operations, with seven amaz-
ing Tecoveries.
Bermuda producers are beginning to
find it more profitable to meet the
wants of the increasing influx of Wis
itors than to compete with the gulf and
south Atlantic truck farmers in the
New York markets.
In answer to the question, What
passages in Holy Scripture hear upon
cruelty to animalS?" one boy said ::
Cruel people often cut dogs tail and
ears. but the Bible says, Those whom
God hath joined together let 10 man put
asunder' christian register.
DR.. Wurtzen has had great results in
many cases of smallpox, quick cures
and no pitting. He keeps the patient in
total darkness, and finds Finsen's red
light treatment uncertain. No white
light is allowed, even for a second, but
red lamps are momentarily used to eX-
anime patients.
There are 1880 Young Mems Christian
associations in Germany-only 1889 in
America; yet where the German asso-
Citations have but III, 00U members, the
American associations have 900. And
German association properly holdings
have value of S2400,000, contrasted
with a value of $4O,O00,0OO in America.
Although the young Oriental under
stood ordinary methods anV occurrences
very well in his new California abiding
place, he occasionally found q puzzle.
Japanese boy pretty smart when he
can speak American in year." he said,
but Missouri boy he speak good after
he has been here only six months"
In commenting on and gloating over
the ocean breezes which tear in from
the eastward over Massachusetts bay a
Boston paper rubs it in by saying:
What an experience it is to read the
Cincinnati Inquirer's vivid account OF
the general suffocation in the Ohio and
Miami valleys, and then call for an ex-
ira blanket and go to Sleep
The wooden front corsets of George
dies, as shown in Hogarth's portraits
| The doughty warriors of Gustavus
Adolphus wore corsets to a man. Cath
crime de Medici loved small waists and
poison. She introduced the ruff and g
| thirteen-inch waist. This monster in
vented a steel corset. No wonder the
portraits OF that day look SO solemn
New York Press.
Devil fish weighing up to 200 pounds
are sometimes caught in Japan. These
fish are amphibious; they are often
seen webbing on their tentacles like
giant spiders in search of patches tt
sweet potatoes. The natives kill them
with clubs. In the water they are
caught in jars lowered to the bottom
which the octopus enters thinking them
a good retreat from which to catch its
food.
Whalebone was first used by Queer
Bess. James, after her, compelled al
men and women courtiers to have wasI
waists Terence, $50 B. c., speaks Of
town ladies who saddle their backs
and straight lace their waists to make
them well shaped" May "a, 1865. Item
For nine ellis, Paris measure, for SUM
mer robes, corsets and cloaks for tbs
same" from diary of Eleanor, countess
of Leicester. First mention of corsets
There is wave of fear in some parts
of Scotland that the spread of the tenn
perance movement will cause Il marked
decrease in the consumption of Scotch
whisky, with. corresponding loss to al
who are interested in its production
"Dynamitars,' as naphtha drinkers are
called. have reapeared in Edinburgh
This "naphtha" is a milky colored com
pound of great staying power" and is
composed of alcohol mixed with enc
tenth of its bulk of methyl alcohol un6
three-eights of 1 per cent of petroleum
with as little water added as taste calls
! for. 1t kills quickly.
This is a story told by commercial
traveller after trip through southern
Canada: Being impatient to get out o.
a sleepy little town, hurried to the sta
ton. After a while an object slowly
emerged from the distance and skunk VI
alongside. I boarded the solitary coach
and, after a tedious wait, the engine be-
gan to gasp feebly, the old coacI