The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-06-05
BITS OF INFORMATION.

The average wage of the working
woman is $272.04 year.
There are more than 500 women
studying medicine at the French uni
versities
A town in north Prussia has decreed
that any woman who promenades the
streets in a trailing skirt will be fined
$3.50.
The rate of divorce in this country
is twice that of Switzerland, thrice that
of France. and five times that of Ger
many.
During the twenty years from 1870 to
1890 divorce in the United States in
creased about three times as fast as the
population.
During the last seventeen years Amer
lean coal mines have killed 22,S40 men,
made at least 10000 widows, and up
ward of 10000 orphans.
OF the 10000 women who have quail
fed for the law in the United States,
less than forty have become advocates
in the federal supreme court.
An effort is being made to bring Irish
agriculture more UP to date by intro
ducing modern machinery. There are
public demonstrations throughout the
country.
Canton, China, merchants at home
and abroad have formed a navigation
association with $4,OOO,OO0 capital, to run
steamers, open a bank and an insur-
ance company.
While $4,000 volts was considered a
maximum tension for transmission lines
a few years ago, they are now using
70 ,000 An S0,000-volt line thirteen and
one-half miles long is now building, and
a line has been built designed for
100000 volts.
Africa produces the worlds supply of
ivory. Its elephants are mammoths,
different in shape from midas tuskless
behemoth, and with ancestors which
are found and preserved in Artic ice,
PROFESSIONALLY true TO today's African
type. The Indian animal has never
been quite the same structurally, has
never grown tusks worthy of the name,
and is a plain beast of burden, more
valuable alive than dead.
Worcester, Mass, has under consider
alton an ordinance against whistling
One of the features of it is that if a man
thinks he can't get along without MAX
ing alleged music he can indulge him
self by taking out a license. The Bos-
ton Journal, jeering at the proposed
enactment, says that a tax for sidewalk
will be the next on the
sons who do not wear rubber heels.
Professor David W. Marks, who died
in London recently, was probably the
only Jewish minister who held place
with the same congregation for sixty
nine years. He was 81 years old, but
was member of the younger class"
having been the first clergyman of his
faith to cast aside, in an English con-
some of the antique usages
and to make the service of the re-
formed kind. He was recognized as one
of the learned men of his time, but was
not a university graduate.
To illustrate the twentieth century
child's ignorance of old-time methods
and to show that as she designated it
there is nothing new or wonderful in
the electric ight-automobile-p hono-
graph era for the youngster of today,
mother told this story: "a piano tuner
was busy putting our instrument into
when our little 5-year-old son
rushed into my room, with wonder
on his face and exclaimed:
Mother think of it! there is man in
the parlor playing on the piano with his
hands, The youngster had been ac-
customed all his life to mechanical mu-
sic makers.
The coal fields of Columbia are we'll