Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-04-17
FACTS IN FEW LINES

centenarians die each year in Eng
land and Wales.
During the last fiscal year 3,1i7.30i,-
535 fishes and fish eggs were distrib-
uted by the bureau of fisheries.
The eastern states. from Maine to
Alabama. produced gold worth $685.
143 and silver worth $35,070 last year.
The lighthouse of Helgoland has
light of 20OO0,0O0 candle power. At
Nuremberg a lamp ten times as pow
erful has been made.
During the year 1909 the Salvation
Army erected or dedicated properties
from Boston to Honolulu aggregating
in value nearly 100000.
Besides Great Britain. the countries
which have old age pensions are Den
mark, France. Belgium. Germany,
New Zealand and Australia.
In 1887 the wheat crop of California
was more than three times greater
than that of Kansas. Last year the
Kansas crop was seven times greater
than that of California.
In Ireland. owing TO lack of sun
tomatoes must be grown and ripened
under glass The prices are conse-
quently almost prohibitory.
There are few large farms in Ire
land. there being out of the 100000
holdings in the entire island as many
rs 10000 which do not contain as
many as five acres and 10000 which
contain no more than fifteen acres.
The megaphone has been used at
some western army posts for the pur-
pose Of simplifying the volume OF the
bugle, where ii is desired that the calls
shall be heard at a distance greater
than the sound will carry under or
binary circumstances.
The shoe business in Great Britain
is largely controlled by trusts, one of
the chief combinations being known
as the Public Benefit company. This
trust has stores all over England. one
or more in each city and town. Their
goods are British made.
Hubert Latham recently took UP a
moving picture operator on seven
minute trip in his aeroplane to an ele-
walton of eighty feet from the ground.
The operator took pictures with the
lens pointing downward. The appar-
atus weighed 200 pounds, and its op-
orator 1856
In Switzerland clocks are now being
made which do not require hands and
faces. The timepiece merely stands
in the hall. and you press n button.
when by means of the Photographic
internal arrangements. it calls out.
half past D." or five minutes to O."
as the case may be.
One of the last of the old postboys
or positions has died at hartford.
Kent. England. He was John Wilson.
aged ninety-six. who had ridden be
fore Queen Victoria in the early years
of her reign, when she used to visit
the country houses of her friends in
the old fashioned style. travelling by
road.
This advertisement appeared recent
IL in a Bavarian journal: Man want
ed to sweep snow at Friedhof- The
post is excellent. but I am compelled
to resign because / find that it is get
ting too much for me, as l already
hold the office Of town clerk. school
master and Organist No candidates
without shOvels of their own need ap-
ply"
Foreign comment on the Steinheil
case so much impressed NJ. BartbOu.
the French minister Of justice. that he
will propose radical changes in the
trial courts. He plans to take from
the president Of the court the duty
and privilege Of interrogatoire and
confide TO the public prosecutor and
the counsel for the defense the task
of examining the accused and the wit
neSscS.
In half a century the United States
department OF agriculture has grown
from a mere beginning to an institu-
ton with over 1000 employees Con
gress supplies it with an annual in
come for its expenditure in the neigh
borhood Of S1J.OOO.O0o. while half as
much more is spent by the states in
their agricultural experiments. colleges
and experiment stations
A section Of the amphitheater in
King Arthur's round table field In
MonmouthSbire. England, has bce1
partially exhumed- The ArchaeoloS-
fcaI society has made Eve excavations
around the walls. and the searchers
found the main entrance. the sard
which formed the bed Of the arena ard
a cornerstone. From Inscriptions on
the stone they trace the date OF the
theater back to 40 A. D., or l.soo
years
The Baccara france glass factory
has Just produced new class Of glass
which. when heated 10 boiling point
and then plunged into water at freez-
ing point. viii not break The princi-
pai object was the making of safety