The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-02-26
FACTS IN FEW LINES

England by death.
An international botanical congress
win be held at Brussels In May.
German drill has superseded British
methods Of training In the Afghan
army.
The number Of foreign students In
the United States Is constantly in
creasing.
Switzerland has over eighty cooper
alive cattle associations. besides joint
stock diaries in every village.
For every twenty males who marry
under age In England and Wales there
are about seventy women who do so.
The salmon output of Alaska equals
the combined catch of British Colum-
bia, the United States proper and ia
pan.
Brazilian scientists have succeeded
In developing a new variety Of coffee
with unusually large, fine berries
which ripen early.
The Shoshone irrigation dam in
northern Wyoming, which will be $40
feet high, will be the highest masonry
dam in the world.
Norway has a permanent pharma-
copoeia commission, consisting Of three
proprietors of pharmacies and three
professors Of medicine.
England is building a floating dry
dock with a lifting capacity Of 1900
tons, which will be lowed to Bermuda
for use of naval vessels on this side Of
the Atlantic.
Brazil will employ fifteen inspectors
on substantial salaries to report on
crop conditions, soils, water supplies
and every other subject that pertains
to agriculture.
To commemorate the organization Of
the first modern foreign missionary
society a tablet has been placed in
front Of the house in Kettering, Eng
land, where the first meeting was held.
lit years ago.
One of the most important needs Of
China today is wireless telegraphy. 1t
is considered practically impossible to
establish the ordinary land lines
across the great deserts between Pekin
and the extreme northwest.
The blue lake Of MaerjeIen, situated
on the TANKS of the Grand Glacier
Aletsch, at height OF 17,7OO feet, I'M
der the Eggishorn peak, has burst
through the glacier and emptied its
waters into the Massa stream.
A well which has been driven to a
depth of fifty-four feet at Westhamp-
ton, N. Y, is yielding water Of tenn
perature Of 50 degrees, and continual
pumping does not lower the tempera-
ture The we'll was driven near an Ice
plant.
Cement makers itch, one of the lat
est diseases due to occupation, Is an
intense itching, resembling true itch,
but instead Of being caused by para
site 1t results from some chemical or
mechanical action on the skin not yet
understood.
A new electrical alarm clock uses
dry batteries to ring bell, supply
small incandescent light with current
and start fire in an alcohol lamp with
platinum wire, all by completing
circuit when the hour hand touches
third hand set at designated time.
A curious method of sterilizing the
air In rooms has been tried in Paris.
Glycerin in small drops is scattered
along a cylinder containing a suction
fan, and the air pumped in it is thus
charged with fine glycerin particles.
which fall to the floor, carrying all
dust and germs with them.
A woven basket, so small that it is
necessary to use magnifying glass
to appreciate the skill of the workman
ship, is claimed to be the smallest
in the world. 1t is a trifle over one
eighth on an inch in diameter, hardly
large enough to hold a drop Of water.
and every stick is perfect.
Accessions Of almost priceless value
form a part of the 1851 volumes
which were added during last year to
the library Of congress, making the
total number Of volumes In that great
library 1,7O2,635 The valuable ad-
ditions include set Of the great Chi
nese encyclopedia given by the Chi
nese government.
A notable addition to the monu-
ments Of Vienna will be that Of Jo-
ham Strauss, which is rapidly ap-
preaching completion at the studio of
Professor Edmund Hellmers. 1t will
be In the form Of a pergola, in the
center Of which there will be statue
Of heroic size of the "waltz king"
holding his violin.
In a new form Of electric arc lamp
the carbons are formed and supplied
as consumed. The lamp is provided
with two receptacles, in which the
plastic material is placed, and this is
fed through tubes to form the two
electrodes of the arc. The ends Of the
electrodes are baked by means of cleo
trio heating coils. and the process is a
continuous one.
Chicago housewives have won a vic
tory in the highest court In the state.
The supreme court Of Illinois has de-
cided that no more inflated, short
weight loaves of bread may be sold in
Chicago. The court upheld Chicago
ordinance requiring that the weight
Of loaf Of bread be plainly marked
thereon and that all loaves weigh one
pound or multiples or fractions there
of.
While Europe is filling up the United
States with immigrants, Americans