Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-10-08
TIMELY BREVITIES

Nearly $S0.oO0.0o0 worth of South
African gold was exported via Cape |
Town during the first six months or |
1910.
In the Punjab India, -four is the
staple food OF the people and is con-
sumed In the shape of large cakes
cooked over the open fire.
The peach, apple and tomato crops
this year are the. largest In the MS
tory of the Niagara peninsula, accord
ing to Consul Webster, at Niagara
Falls, Canada.
The last enumeration of missionaries
in China gives their number as 3,2Io
The native church is doubling about
every seven years and the missionary
force every zen years.
Hardly any goatskins are produced
In the United States, although the de-
mand for them is enormous, the I'M
portations of them in the year ended
/ June 80. having cost soc, 023,91
Although the United States has been
exporting $4,000 900 to $So0o.000 worth
! of sewing machines annually, stats
| tics show direct shipments OF only
100000 to the entire continent OF Az
! RIGA.
In New Brunswick there are i'm
mense tracts of hardwood trees-birch
and maple-some of the areas being
twenty miles square. This part OF the
country has been opened up by the
new railroad.
A penal reform league has been es-
tablished In England to obtain and
circulate accurate information con-
corning criminals and their treatment
and TO promote a sound public opinion
on the subject.
Fifteen millions of one cent packets
and letters are conveyed daily through
the British postoffices, 100000 tele-
grams are dealt with, and $1,216,6OO
is daily transmitted by money orders
and postal orders.
rhe number of divorces In France
today, as statistics show. is higher
than in any other country, not except
ing the United States, which has long
had pre-eminence in the number OF
cases of marital happiness.
In Nice. France, water for drinking
and other purposes is subjected to an
electric process purifying by ozone),
with the result that not only are all
the germs in 1t killed, but 1t is impos-
sible to produce any kind Of germ cul-
ture In it.
z Hamid waly the Arab sheik who
! acts as lecturer for the Arabic Ian
!, guage in the Berlin Oriental seminary
r has been awarded the degree of doctor
5 of medicine This is the first time that
: an Egyptian savant has received
b German university degree.
e In Bechuanaland (Africa) paper the
a following advertisement appears: IN
+ B.-That l am preserving all game
U from a quail to koodoo, and that all
\ trespassers, whether persons or dogs
will be shot or prosecuted according to
u law. God save King George"
A student of a school in Shinshu, ia
pan, recently committed suicide by
;, jumping into the crater Of Asama
) yama. The tragedy was not discov
!. cred until three days afterward, wher
some documents left by the suicide
near the crater were picked up.
Lieutenant General Terauchi, Japa
q nese resident general in Korea and ne
J. gotiator OF the convention of annexa
n tion says that no stone will be left un
a turned to make Koreans and the world
p feel that Japans rule In Korea Is
4 beneficent thing for the Koreans.
Is Heretofore Moncton, New Brunswick
6 has had many children working in fac
a tories who never went to school at al
r or received even the rudiments of ar
, education. The new compulsory edu
cation law will send them to school be
!. tween the ages of six and ffteeI
y years.
= g. X. Chesterton. the English essay
q list, says that 1t Is merely a tradition
"a that Americans are vulgar and that
"A on the contrary, they are too refined
a He finds that their salient character
"a istic is a certain high seriousness. al
e. earnest idealism, the must-see-the
pyramids-or-die sentiment"
Within the last FIVE years the per
centage of increase in the cost of food
lie fuel. etc. in France is said to hav
" been: Bread. 10; beef, %; veal ID
IN mutton, rs; butter, IA; cheese. %: fish
" so; fresh vegetables, IS; petroleum, 10
coal, 81 coffee, %. The average in
IT crease on household articles In genera
h has been % per cent.
Or A menagerie of insects will soon
o. installed in the Paris Museum of Nat
e. ural History Cages of glass, instea
re of steel. will be occupied by spiders
10 ants, bees, caterpillars and beetles, In
u stead of lions, tigers, wolves and by
y enas. Then It will be possible for tn
- public to study the lives of ants ur
- foreground and of bees in their hives
- In old Weston. Huntingdonshirt
England. church is dedicated to 81
Swithin. On Sunday nearest tn
saints day the church is strewn wit
10 new mown hay, following a traditio
in that an old lady gave a poor man
n field for charity provided he woul
O. furnish hay for the floor of the churc
,q to lessen the annoyance caused by th
n squeaking of new boots worn by vi
Of layers on Feast Sunday.
as Tuberculosis in Chicago collecte
w $19.350. 900 last year from the state q
ne Illinois In human lives" This is til
IN statement of Chief Sanitary Inspectc
n Ball of Chicago. who uses as a basi
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