Wallowa chieftain. [volume] (Joseph, Union County, Or.) 1884-1909, 1909-01-07
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.


In point OF geographical elevation
Madrid is the highest city in Europe.
Much Canadian lumber goes to China
largely for railroad construction.
A decided reduction of tariff rate.
goes into effect in Denmark, January
The total number Of sailing vessels
In the world is double that of steam.
ers.
The average number of deaths
through railway accidents In Hollnnd
is one a year.
The city Of Milwaukee has almost
abolished the use of horses In all mn.
nicipal departments.
TattoOed portraits of the last sir
French presidents were found ON the
skin of burglar named Bertin arrest.
ed in Paris.
Two million dollars will be spent in
improvements on the great steel plant
of the United States Steel Corporation
at Emsley, AlG
A 1,0O0-horsepower vertical gas en-
gine, said to be the largest of its kind.
was recently put into operation at Run
corn, England, driving an electric gen
erator.-Milwaukee Free Press.
The proposed American exposition to
be held in London next year has been
thoroughly organized and special efforts
are being made to secure exhibits from
the western part of this country.
Although there are only eighteen fiags
used in the international code of sig.
nails which is used by warships and
merchant ships all over the world, they
can be made to represent no fewer than
10000 distinct signals.
The Welland canal, which connects
Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, is twenty.
seven miles long. 1t was begun In 1874
and completed in 1888. Its original Ill.
mensions have been greatly enlarged.
and there is now a depth of fourteen
feet
Prof. Frederick Starr, anthropologist
at the University of Chicago, has been
made an officer of public instruction
under the French government. The con
sui explained that this was one of the
highest honors in recognition of his
work in Mexico.
The winter of 1868 was hard one
in Europe. Charles X of Sweden
crossed on the Ice the Little Belt the
strait between Funen and the Peninsula
Of il tland, with his whole army-foot,
horse, baggage and artillery. The riv-
ers in Italy bore heavy carriages.
According to the accepted authorities
there are 3,424 spoken languages in the
world to-day; or, perhaps, 1t would be
more accurate to say dialects. OF this
number 937 are Asiatic, 5S7 European,
2T6 African and 1,G24 American. By
far the greatest number Of these be-.
long to savage and semi-savage tribes
and nations.
Frances Society for the Prevention
OF Cruelty to Animals has taken action
against cinematograph company for
an act of unprecedented brutality to
horse. In series of pictures called
The Lovers Revenge" carriage
drawn by horse was seen to rush over
the edge of a cliff and be dashed to
pieces. The pictures had not been
faxed. On old blind horse harnessed
to carriage was really driven over
the edge Of the cliffs near Boulogne to
obtain them.
> The work of compiling a great tech
nical dictionary, which was begun un-
der the auspices of the Association Of
German Engineers, has been abandoned
on account of the great cost, which, it
was discovered, would be four times
greater than originally contemplated.
There Is great need of just such die
tionary as was proposed in all the arts,
sciences and crafts, and the decision Of
the German engineer will be heard with
regret by workers all over the world.
The Journal of the American Mell-
cal Association has the fol. owing
Modern civilization furnishes no bet
ter example than this of the possible
victory over pestilence and disease,
when the warfare is carried on in the
light Of modern scientific knowledge
The building of the Panama canal and
the sanitary record of the Japanese in
their war with Russia are the two great
object lessons of recent years, demon
strating that men can neither work moi
fight to the best advantage unless pro
tected from infection and preventabIt
I diseases"
One of the great railroads to the Pa
cific coast is perfecting plans for for
est of eucalyptus trees In San Dieg,
county, Calf, from which to obtain
steady supply Of crossties. A ranch O
5000 acres has been purchased for thi
purpose, and as a start 600 acres will
be planted. 1t Is estimated that II
Peighteen years the company will be ab
Ito harvest from six to eight ties to
Itree, and keep up the harvest thereafte
continually. at present the system