The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-08-28
BITS OF INFORMATION.

ne Austrian war ONCE has ordered
two large dirigible balloons for the
| army.
Every German army corps possesses
SIX balloons for observation and sig
mailing purposes.
streets of the ancient city of Damas-
Gus.
Russia is the largest producer of bar
ley; Germany is second and the United
States a close third
American plows and cultivators are
turning up the soil in more than sew
enty countries and colonies.
AS general rule roots extend on each
side of tree to a distance equal to
the height of the tree itself.
The theory of gravitation was ad-
vanced by Kepler in 1917, seventy years
before Newton announced his discov-
cry.
An average orange tree produces 20
600 oranges and an average lemon tree
5000 lemons.
Illuminated signs are a feature of
some of the subway cars in New York.
The sign tells the name of the next stop.
More than 100000 acres of land have
been reclaimed from the sea by Hol-
land since the sixteenth century.
Three million dollars will be spent in
building subway for electric cars I'M
der the harbor at Sidney, New South
Wales.
Canton, China, is the coolest place on
the globe for its latitude. the one place
in the tropics where snow occasionally
falls.
Italy each year uses 1860 tons of
orange blossoms and 1000 tons of roses
in the manufacture of perfumery.
Instructions in baby minding" are
given to the students of the London
garden schools. Babies are borrowed
for the purpose.
In Prussia recently a burglar was
convicted on the evidence of teeth
marks in an apple which he had bitten
while engaged in his tflievery.
A. Belgian pigeon trainer has been
experimenting with swallows In the
place of homing pigeons, and saws thew
have the advantage of great speed.
Experiments are being made with
aerial torpedoes in Germany The tor
pedoes are driven by electric motors
and it is hoped to control them by wire
less.
Thebusiest spot in the world is said
to be in the vicinity of Mansion House.
London, where thirty vehicles
pass every minute during the day.
Nearly $500 a year. the city engineer
is received from selling waste
paper collected in London, and last
year &141 was derived from the sale
Of tins found in the city's refuse.
AT recent convention of waiter
girls in Munich it was resolved that eff |
forts should be made to emancipate
themselves from the fee system by in
sisting on minimum wages in hotels and
laverns of % cents to 81 a day.
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker celebrated
MS ninety-second birthday on June 30.
His scientific career began SEVENTY
years ago, when he went out as sur
yeon and naturalist with Sir James
Ross antarctic expedition.
The production of mica in this coun-
ny 1or the last year was valued at a Il
title more than quarter of a million /
iollars Nearly all of this is used in II
he electrical industry, as mica is one II
Il the best insulating materials known h
The volcanic islands known as tbe
3ogeslof islands, of the Aleutian archi
'elaso Alaska, have been ordered set
part and reserved for the use of the
apartment of agriculture as preserve
no breeding ground for native birds.
Moonlight most intense sometimes
auses sore eyes in Cuba, and the ma
ives navigate and perambulate with
nofelia and paraluna. This very OBJ
innate affection is cured by washing
ne eyes with moonlight fallen dew. SO
ne inimitable Frank Steinhart, former
onsul general to Cuba, said. Not so
trange joke and cure after all for
lch deWs have been found to be RADIO
ctive and electric.-New York Press.
During excavations conducted near
5illendorf on the Danube, by the pre-
storlcal section of the Austrian NAT
raj history museum, a chalk figurine
even centimeteres high, has been dis
Vered IN a stratum containing instru-
ents and weapons characteristic of the
one age. The figuring shows traces of
wing been painted and represents y
male figure with remarkable precision n
artistic execution.
West Indian birds need to be con-
rived. according to. Sir Harry John r.
on' who writes in the Geographical =