The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-16
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Al, 100000.
Income tax is paid on King Edward
3 private estates.
e The captain of a ship in the British
navy has his meals alone
II In some parts of England there arr
g cookery schools for boys.
= A ferry bridge with a span of twelv,
o hundred feet is to be built at Bordeaux
:. France.
y The electric railway up Mont Blanc il
now open to the public as far as the
p Col de Voza, 5,495 feet high.
S The Daughters of the Confederacy il
:, Tennessee have offered a prize for the
best essay on international peace.
In one year the number of taXicabs
in London has more than doubled, and
the horse-draWn cab will probably soon
=. be extinct.
Most of the cookings of the japanese
cities is done in public ovens, which are
maintained at convenient places at mod
crate cost to patrons.
A botanist in Chile has found plant
on the mountains and tablelands which
yields a good quality of rubber. 1t is
: claimed as a special advantage that ex-
tracing the sap does not injure the
plant.
Where a man sells farm in the
United States to invest his money in
Mexico with the expectation of better
ing his circumstances he is almost GER
tainly doomed to failure" writes Consul
w. w. Canada from Vera Cruz.
Miss Lillian Close, who last year won
the beauty prize offered by the Daily
Mirror, is said to be the most photo
graphed woman in England. Her pic
lures are on sale in hundreds of shops,
and the demand is still so great for new
ones that she spends an hour every day
posing before the camera.
Asbestos houses are much used in
Australia, says Popular Mechanics. 1t
is stated that they are not only fireproof,
but impervious to water, unaffected by
heat or cold, and of high insulating
properties. Still another favorable fea-
ture is the fact that it is not attacked
by white ants or other insects that
| abound in southern countries.
A dressmaking establishment in Bos-
| ton almost entirely operated by cleo
| tricity has an electric cutter capable of
cutting out 250 thicknesses of cloth at
once, a button sewing machine which
puts on three thousand buttons a day,
buttonhole machine ma nikfogur hun
dred an hour, SleeV sewers, tucking ma
chimes, waist and skirt machines max
ing 1900 to $500 stitches minute.
During the last twenty years the lakes |
of Russian Central Asia have shown a |
steady rise of water level, in the entire |
region between the fortieth parallel and |
the trans-Siberian railway, and from |
the Caucasus to Chinese Turkestan |
Within this period, or since 1885, the |
Sea of Aral has risen about six and
half feet. The phenomenon has accom-
panied perior of augmentation of rain
fall, and ]. de Schokalsky thinks that it
has now attained it's maximum.
Maurice Hewlett, the English author,
is a warm advocate of peace. He set
forth his views in a letter read at the
annual meeting of the International Ar
Peace association not long ago.
Il am, as you suppose, peace-at-any-
price man. he wrote "The use of muir
der and homicide as a means of deciding
difficulties seems to me in
I do not, however, believe
that we shall maye any real advance
until war is commonly spoken of in the
terms we now apply to drunkenness or
gluttony, as degrading and disgusting" /
Visitors to the Bronx botanical garden :
may now have the unusual experience of ,
seeing large species of agave in bloom.
The plant is in the court of the public
Range l, and forms part +
IF the collection of American desert
plants installed there during the sum- +
1us object in this collection. From the
surface of the ground to the apex of the !
Drown Towering stem, which has a ba-
sal diameter of about two and half q
inches, it is nineteen feet two inches tall, !
about one-quarter of this length being :
occupied by the infiorenscence.-New :
York Botanical Garden Journal. !,
John d. Rockefeller, jr, is known best r
~ his religious activities, but he has re- i
eived strenuous business training j.
While at Brown university he success -
ully managed the funds of the varsity \
cam. After graduating he entered the :,
'fices of the Standard Oil company, y
where he toiled over the books like any ~
ther clerk. He has the management o
# the great $43,000,000 Rockefeller edu-.
ational fund. He is just past so, but is II
ice president of the great oil trust. a | Fl
member of the boards of directors Of the n
lackawanna railroad and of the Ameri- II
an Linseed trust. He also represents IC
he Rockefeller interests in the United h
tates Steel corporation. ie
A few miles south of Fredericksburg. II
"a, near Guinea station, on the Rich f.
1ond, Fredericksburg & Potomac rail- 81
DAD, is the house in which Stonewall Fl
ackson. the famous Confederate gen. n
raj, died. on May TO- 1862 1t is inter =,
sting to learn that this property is to n,
e preserved as one of the historic land f,
larks of the Confederacy. 1t has been re-
by the president of the Rich m
lond, Fredericksburg & Potomac rail-
Dad, Who it is reported, will transfer 81
to the company, which will convert 81
lie grounds about the building into a W
ark. Stonewall Jackson died a few w
ays after his brilliant flank movement
l Hooker's army at charlottesville in
Finished new evidence of his genius for h;
ar.-Baltimore Sun tb
Stella Josephine Feller of Harris coun- dc
:, Texas, earned $150,00O in a single In
ternoon by marking down two oil
ellis. She has been so successful in ST
scovering oil that she has almost daily he
fers of tens of thousands of dollars IN
fees for special work The $50. 900 o,,
e was paid by ten men, who owned AT
nall tract and had failed to strike oil. W,
ley offered Miss tFeller the $15O,000 if tb
e would discover two productive wells, ha
I'd she selected two spots after a few ho
urs of surveying. Pipes were sunk.
ID in each case a gusher was struck wr
lss Feller also has been remarkably Of
ccessful in discovering sulphur beds. tio
e has made a fortune in oil wells of idl
T own and in fees, and now is ex- ms
nding $500,000 on an orphan asylum in IF
curious experiences occasionally come fin