Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-03-19
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fin the British isles.
 Sugar is round ill the sap of nearly POO plants and trees.
 Haiti is the American home of AZ. rican serpent worship.
 Australia has but a single beast oi prey, the dingo. or wild dog.
 Sugar to the value of S375,000,O00 is consumed in this country in one year.
 A league has been formed in fan over for the abolition of church bells and clapping hands ill theaters.
 New York city ranks high as a lover of dogs. The sales of canines for the last year amounted to about $65,0o0.
 South Africa now has regular sea- side resort at Durban, resembling those of Europe. The season is in December and January.
 A French physician claims to have Sound many disease germs in medi- cines, particularly in pills, many of which do not contain antiseptics.
 Pigs blood medically prepared is of the highest value in the cure of incipi- ent tuberculosis, according to an an nouncement by Chicago doctor.
 By the use of improved methods the percentage of sugar in beet crops has been increased on the average within decade from 13.50 per cent to 15.35.
 A former head hunter from the sav- age Filipino tribe of Pingulanes has been brought to Chicago by Dr. Fay c, Cole of the Field museum, who has returned from two years anthropo- logical expedition. !.
 Lack of q proper apprenticeship sys- tenn for training boys fourteen to twen-. ty years of age in the different trades is widely held in England to be re- sponsible in large degree for the casual labor," lack of employment and poverty Of thousands
 Switzerland protects one of its great est natural resources by law forbid ding the transmission into foreign countries of electricity generated by water power except upon permit granted by the federal council, revoca- ble if necessary for the public good.
 Mir. J. c. s. Mummery. in a recent speech before the British Royal Pho tographic society, said that painting was the art least affected by the ad- vent of photography. In only one di- rection--the inferior kind of portrait painting had the camera done any material damage to the painter.
 Sir William Wallace, the British resi- dent general of northern Nigeria. has reported to the home government that cannibal tribes owning hundreds of thousands of horses in Nigeria are be ing subdued by peaceful means and that their country contains perhaps the richest tin and copper fields in the world.
 According to the tentative program for the Henry Hudson celebration, the exercises for the first day will take place on Sept. 9. but as the most i'm portant Jewish holiday, the day of atonemcnt, will be observed on that date the Jews of New York hope to have the date changed so that they may take part in the celebration.
 Professor John Garstang, speaking In London of the result of excavations which hc had carried out in Asia Minor during the last two years, said that one of the sculptures was inter esting to ScotsInen. it being the first representation of man playing the bagpipos accompanied by person who was obviously playing the banjo.
 General Booth in the course Of re- cent speech remnrked: People ask what win become of the Salvation Army when I an dead My reply Is, | Don't wcrty; tllc general isn't dead | yet nave deter.4!2el to live as long as l possibly can. ..r.iG,2 ,nents have hee2 'YaLe that as one general steps off the s,a-e of actica auuther will step on"
 l There has been secured by New York state pulp company an option on 100000 cords of sunken pine piling now lying submerged in the Rideau river and lakes back of Kingston, Ont The plllng was sunk about eighty years ago, when the Rideau river was cen ter of commercial activity The piling will be converted by chemical process into the finest grades of stationery.
 The Rev. Dr. John H. DeForest, 6 veteran Congregational missionary at SeIdai, Japan. has been decorated by the imperial government with the Or der of the Rising Sun, the distinction having been conferred in recognition of his services in dispelling anti-Japa- nese misconceptions among Americans. Dr. DeForest has been doing mission work in Japan for thlrty-fi years. | Studies in the open air for school children are advocated by Dr. Alex ander McAli!ster, physician of Cam den, N. l.. for stamping out tubercu- lOsis. q think" says Dr. McAllister. '1t would be perfectly feasible to have the studies of the children take place in the school yards, say, from the lat l ter part of May to the close of the