The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-01-04
FACTS IN FEW LINES

education.
Deep lying sediments of the ocean
are often exceptionally rich in radium.
The postal business of the world is
increasing at the rate of : per cent
per annum.
In the list Of the imports OF this
country bananas stand twenty fourth
In point Of value.
According to government report.
26OO.OOO cattle die every year in this
country from disease. exposure and
neglect.
To aid in the study Of high voltages
a short experimental transmission line
has been built in Sweden adapted to
operate at 100000 volts.
The Japanese are beginning to APP
preciate American dentistry. All OF
their most expert dentists got their
training in this country
Ecuador exports about 10000 tons
of vegetable ivory annually. of which
Germany takes about one half and the
United STATES one-fourth
Ireland exports annually approx
mately $20OOD.O00 worth Of eggs. and
if the exports of live and dressed
poultry are added the sum reaches
25.O,tOn00
Smyrna has about $4,000 inhab-
itants. almost half of whom are for
eign. the bulk being made up of
Greeks French. Germans. English
and Italians
Standard time in Belgium. Holland
and Spain is the same us in Great
Britain Ii is one boar faster in Ger
many. Italy. Austria. Denmark. Ser
via and Sweden
There is Il process in use in England
whereby Il metallic ribbon mile long
can be turned out in about the same
travel mile-tha is. one minute.
Denatured alcohol has been success
fully manufactured from fax straw
at the North Dakota Agricultural col
lege. The yield Of thirty-five gallons
a ton does not make it paying
proposition.
One of the requests for patent re-
ceiyed in the patent office of Ger
many was for device for making
ones own matches. With the aid Of
it any one can. by five hours work.
save or cents.
All places of any size in South At
RIGA have town halls well equipped
for giving lectures or entertainments.
which can be hired at reasonable
rates. The seating capacity in most
Of the theaters and halls is GOO to
1000.
Contrary to the general impression.
the American Indians have increased
by about 10000 in the last twenty
years, according TO government fig
ures. The total number Of red men
in the United States is now about
100000.
Bavarians drink most Of the beer
they make. OF product Of nearly
half Il billion gallons last year only
100000 gallons were exported. The
home consumption is PAS quarts
year for every man. woman and child
in the Kingdom.
The main lesson Of leprosy is some
what philosophic. All Europe for cen
turtles was covered with it. but the
quick. strong. reactive blood Of the
white race strangled the germs Of
death SO it is doubtful If whites could
ever be pestered much again.
When steamers first came into use
very little attention was bestowed
upon the consumption of fuel. 1t was
not until the Cunard steamers were
started crossing the Atlantic that re-
liable records of fuel consumption be-
gan to be kept Systematically.
Although in most Of the mines in
Japan the various operations are car
ried out by the ordinary labor Of men
and cattle. il seems from n report on
the mining industry In Hokkaido that
at three coal mines and at one gold
and silver mine electrical machinery
is employed.
In a quicksilver mine near the town
Of Konia. in Asia Minor. which is
now being worked by an English COM
pany. there were found not long ago
the skeletons Of fifty men. victims of
an accident which. as a writer in En-
cheering and Mining points out. must
have occurred some 1900 years ago.
A Cincinnati man asked for di-
vorce because his wife was irritable,
high tempered and used exasperating
language. But the judge held that
woman who had had the care Of four
small children and no domestic help
had right to have temper and to
also use language that expressed her
feelings.
A recent Chinese newspaper states
that the law of nationality. consisting
of twenty-four articles. has been de-
cided upon. BY this law any person
who has lived in China over ten years
and is above twenty years Of age. of
good moral standing. being helpful to
China. may be allowed to assume Chi
nese nationality il asked for.