The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-06-03
FACTS IN FEW LINES

was over S6O.UOO.OOO.
All the luxuries of railroading have
been introduced into China.
A single cocoon frequently will yield
more than two miles OF silk.
Canadas imports Of garden seeds
and bulbs have quadrupled In nine
years.
The government of Brazil proposes
coloniZing the Indians on public lands
and furnishing them with farm nipple
ments.
The government Of Chile has ordered
56,13O.OOO centennial anniversary post
age stamps from an American house
for use during 1910.
Immigration regulations do not ad
nit paupers. and the immigrants bring
on an average $1.30O,OOO to the port
Of New York each month.
Though New York theater managers
give their customers plenty of foreign
plays, they give two from home au
thors where they give one that is i'm
ported.
While Canada has large forest areas.
its supply of woods is not diversified.
consequently it must continue to draw
considerable supplies from the United
States.
Burglars who broke into the house
Of a police inspector in Paris were so
terrified by the sight of a pair of hand
cuffs on a table that they flung down
their booty and fed
Since the discovery was made in
Canada year or so ago that the
muskrat could be treated and dyed to
initiate seal so nearly as TO avoid de
lection the price of it's pelts has dou
bled.
The United States leads the world
as an exporter of tobacco. having sup
piled over Sal 100000 worth of tobac
co and manufactures of tobacco which
entered international markets last
year.
A model electric engine built by
Thomas Davenport, a poor blacksmith
of Brandon. VT. and operated on u
small circular track in 1884 probably
was the first electric railway in the
world.
Over 1000 potato diggers are used
in the state Of Maine alone to harvest
the crop. IL these were all hooked to-
gether with team of horses to each
it would make procession fifteen
miles long.
The Suez canal has proved to be one
of the most profitable commercial IN
dertakings in the history of the world.
and the Manchester ship canal Is now
accomplishing all and more than was
promised at first.
A committee of the New Zealand leg
islature has just recommended that
telegrapher's cramp be added to the
list of diseases for which the employ
er must compensate the workman who
suffers it in his employ.
Honduras and Salvador are on sill
yer basis, while Nicaragua and Guate-
mala have mixed silver-paper sys-
tenn. AS their paper is not convertible
it results that they have in circulation
only fractional silver coins.
Anticipating ordinances. laws and
regulations in more than fve-eighthS
of the cities and towns of the country
are not enforced as they should be, al
leges the National Association For the
Study and Prevention of tuberculosis
in recent report.
During the last three years there
has been fairly steady increase in
the quantity of natural gas used in
this country for domestic purposes.
decrease in the quantity used for man.
ufacturing purposes and an increase
in the average price.
England is endeavoring to stimulate
egg production. and a missionary egg
train is to be dispatched through
western England and Wales. where it
is said that the egg industry is at a
low ebb. The United Kingdom now
imports nearly one-half the eggs con-
sumed.
| Here is a fish story Of the 1910 crop
| published by the st. James Budget:
while Mr. McRorie. an angler visiting
Loeb Hay. was fishing in the KILN
waters with two rods two salmon took
the bats simultaneously and both
were secured. The salmon weighed
seventeen pounds each"
Industrial insurance against loss by
strikes has taken root in Germany
The bureau of statistics reports forty
eight companies organized. thirteen
strike indemnity insurance companies
twenty-siz employers associations fol
strike insurance and nine in which in
iemnity is from occasion to occasion
granted.
II In Italy the supply of machine guns
is still in it's infancy. BY the end OF
the year. however. every infantry regi
ment and every Alpine battalion is Il
have one gun for training the men. IL
the fall of 1910 beginning Is TO b.
made to give every infantry and cavai
~ regiment one battery of four ant
every Alpine battalion one battery o
two such guns.
In Germany there are seven specia
s,hooIs devoted TO the sole purpose q
| raining s'kSmiih> and blacksmith