The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-08-18

the ties.
Engineers and scientists are making
exhaustive studies of the recent floods
in Paris, to devise a system which will
prevent a repetition of the disaster.
The present officially estimated pop
ulation of Great London is 7,s34,I96.
The German emperor has IS titles
and the King of Spain az.
Mountain air is initiated for the use
of invalids.
The automobile industry is responsible
for scarcity of leather.
The rats sight is not good, but its
sense and smell and locally is without,
parallel. q
Acetelene torches for use in cases OF
dense fog have been supplied to The
police stations of Paris.
The King of England, the most inn
'has the shortest title.
Pellagra and malaria, which are much
alike, are being successfully combated by
the government of Italy.
The son of Hetty Green, a very en-
ergetic Texan, raised and sold $4,000
worth of American Beauty roses last year.
Despite the, prevailing notice to the
contrary, corn is superior to oats for.
horse feed.
The cheap labor of Japan has been
found to be costly in the operation of
some industrial establishments.
There is a great area of oil in the
Gulf of Mexico, said to emanate from the
Texas oil fields.
1t is said that under favorable con-
ditions the olive tree lives to be 1000
years old.
Rats steal eggs by passing them along
from one to another like the bucket bril-
gade, and in this manner they can trans
port them safely up and down steps.
Porto Rico is the largest purchaser,
of American goods.
Nuremberg shipped to the United
States last year toys to the value OF
$I,9o3,375.
Only ten per cent of German school
-oys, it is said, go in for atheietics, as
against IS per cent of British.
A London halter says that mems heads
grow appreciably up to the time that
their owners are IS years old.
In certain districts of Florida excel,
lent highways are made by covering sandy
roads once year with the leaves of
the long-leafed pine.
The wealthy Chinese are very fond of
mechanical instruments. and may fire.
quently be seen carrying two or more
watches and wearing foreign glasses.
California capitalists have bought for
about $I2s,ooo about 100000 acres on
the Bayano river, Republic of Panama.
The tract is said to be rice in timber
and others resources.
Sweden and Spain have the fewest
alien residents.
Old age insurance is compulsory in
Germany.
Infants foods form considerable item
of importation, $4,000 worth in 1908.
A watch ticks Is7,6So,ooo times in a
year, and the wheels travel 1858 ga miles
AS general rule, a mans hair turns
gray FIVE years earlier than a woman's.
More women marry between the ages
of 20 and IS than at any other time of
life.
During the year 1909 the London dog
catchers caught $4,000 and dispatched
2I,253.
A rose bush in garden at Freiburg
covers 50 square yards and bears 10000
buds.
In pistol duel with a policeman in
Charleston, S. c., Sadie Miller, a white
woman, was badly wounded.
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France isitfreatehed with serious floods.
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The president of the Santa FeI'faifroad1
takes very optimistic view of businessj
conditions insethis1 sc6nhtfys baa ssa2l
fy4e AnlI l-llL-l4 kSssii lis t1oest
Sixtesn hundred laborers employed byl
the American Sugar Refining Company
10 New York are out on strike.