Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-08-19
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land showed decrease OF over six
million tons.
One-third of all the tonnage under the
American flag is employed on the
Great Lakes
More than 100000 pounds Of human
hair are exported from Hong-Kong to
this country annually.
The worlds stock of gold has de-
creased about one-half in the last
decade, and doubled in the last quarter
of century.
From July / to Dec. 81, 190S 24,5O0
persons entered Mexico. or these H.
900 were Americans and $500 were
Homecoming Mexicans.
OF the 3,23S fires which occurred in
London in 1908, electricity is said to
have been the cause Of 101. and $50
were attributable to gas.
The death records of the railroads
have been lessened materially recently
as result Of the compulsory adoption
Of safety devices and systems.
There Is union of hatmakers at Le
Mans, France. in which the Offices Of
president, vice president, secretary and
treasurer are held by one man.
The current year book of the Carne-
gle institution shows that during the
last year s636,300 was distributed
among nearly three hundred persons
engaged in conducting scientific re-
search
On the shores of Cape Cod there
were, during a period Of twenty years
following 1881, as many as one thou
sand wrecks Of vessels carrying pre-
cious cargoes of human beings and Of
freight
The first matriculation of women
students at the universities in Prus-
sia has resulted in the admission OF
663 students, including forty-three
from America and seven from the
United Kingdom.
The negroes of this country formed
in 1900 1888 per cent of the popula-
ton; in 1910, 1903 per cent; in 1850,
1858 per cent; in 1860, 1412 per cent:
in 1880, 1911 per cent; in 1890. 1892
per cent, and in 1900, 1859 per cent.
AS against the Al 900 motor vehicles
all told in Germany there are more
than 100000 automobiles In the United
States or twice the number in use
throughout all Europe. In New York
State alone there are about 10000 cars
registered.
The most spectacular fire ever wit
messed in the oil industry was at one
of the Dos Bocas wells in Mexico.
About sixty thousand barrels Of oil
were burned up daily for nearly two
months. The flames rose to heights of
500 to 1,400 feet.
Whalebone cost only % cents
pound half century ago. To-day 1t
costs about s. a pound. The total
product landed from the American fish
cries during the nineteenth century
exceeded ninety million pounds A
single whale may yield up to three
thousand pounds.
The story is an old one of the party
of tired travellers who entered a house
decorated by a peculiar sign and de-
manded oysters. This is not a res
taurant," said the courteous gentle
man who met them; II am an aurist"
Isn't that an oyster hung outside the
door," asked one. mo, gentleman, it
is an ear"
Neck boils come with the sweaty
season. Many people have large hair
pores on the back of the neck The
sweaty starched collar rim Is good
culture soil for boil and carbuncle
germs, which get rubbed into the large
hair follicles or sacks, producing a
painful, sometimes dangerous spread
ing crop.
An iceberg described as two and one
half miles long and 500 feet high
presumably not so high for the whole
two and one-half miles-was passed
about twelve hundred miles from New
York on Monday last by the French
line freighter Mexico. 1t was in lati-
tude 1920, longitude 46:70.-New York
Sun.
More than 1000 New York jewelers..
opticians, optometrists and lens grind
ers have been registered by the Board
of Regents and have exemption" cer-
tificates from the University of the
State Of New York, which are hard for
the public to tell from medical diplo-
mas. The head men say that of all
who had thus far been examined by
the Board Of Regents only sixteen were
able to pass the examination In optom-
etry.
Mrs Anna S. Lashbrook is the first
deaf woman to have charge of a print
ing office. She is foreman of the print
ing Office of the School for the Deaf at
Rome, n. Y. and is also business man.
ager of the Deaf Mutes Register. which
is published semi-monthly. She has
more than twenty apprentices under
her. She is said to be an advocate OF
equal suffrage and was one of several
deaf women who last fall voted for
commissioner OF the Board of Educa-
ton.
A record run of 1854 miles by a mo-
torboat travelling at the rate of 273