St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1910-04-01
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.


Tnere were 4TS persons Killed ana
1,404 injured on Canadian railways n
1909.
Neptune takes over 100 years to
mako one complete revolution round
the sun.
A great electric power generating
station In Germany will make use Of
peat fuel entirely.
The use or waste Of lumber in this
country is ten times as great. per
capita. as that Of France.
During the last fiscal year 3,1l7e
301.b35 fishes and FISH eggs were dis
tributed by the bureau of fisheries.
A grape basket more than sixteen
feet long was made for exhibition in
a recent parade at westfleld, N. Y.
Using electricity. Nome. Alaska, tho
most northerly town In America, 10
one Of the best lighted In the world.
A two-thousand-y -yearold oak tree
stands near Dax, France, the branches
Of which will shelter Ave hundred per.
sons.
Chicago made new building record
for itself In 1909, when the cost OF
building Of all kinds erected made .
grand total Of Ss0.000.000.
London used TO possess the cheapest
journal ever published. It was called
the six.a-Penny; or Penny-a-week
Town and Country Daily Newspaper.
and subscribers OF one penny weekly
had the paper delivered to them every
day. while single copies were sold at
. farthing.
Maurice Maeterlinck. whose liter
ary craft 10 . marvel Of the present
day. and who has Just produced In
London the successful drama, "Blue-
bird" 10 . delightful talker to one or
two friends. When faced by half .
dozen or moro no becomes as shy 40
q schoolgirl and cannot bs driven into
speech.
The names OF at lcast eight Of the
American States will soon become IA
miliar to the inhabitants Of the Lc-
want, for. according to Consul. General
Harris at Smyrna, an American mer-
chant has purchased that number Of
steamboats, from Turkish company
to trade in the Mediterranean. and has
changed the Turkish names TO those
Of American states.
Tho Academy OF Moral and Politi.
cal Science in France has offered .
prize Of S<o0 for tho best thesis on
The right Of suffrage: should II bs
extended to women; In what circum-
stances. and to what cxtentf The his
tory of the movement and Nc applt
cation In France and In foreign coun-
tries." Tho competition 10 open To
both sores and the prize 10 To b
awarded In 1913.
A Bavarian baker ships nvs thou
sand to ten thousand loavss OF black
broad weekly to all parts Of Europa
II 10 three parts rye and one part
wheat, and made BY the old folk 70
csipt. He says black bread 10 more
nutritious and satisfying and quite -
paiatabls ~ white bread. and many
prefer Il to all others. Black bread
bakers In Bavaria make 80 TO el3 .
week; white bread bakers only u -
".
France 10 now n the midst Of .
controversy a. 70 the identity OF the
man who invented machine guns. The
invention has always been attributed
TO Calling and Nordenfelt. but II was
recently asserted on some authority
that the real inventor was Japanese.
In l70l. who was promptly killed for
being too clever. II has now been
put forward and hotly argued that
what. may bs called French patents
existed as far back ~ the fifteenth
century. and some pieces In tho artii-
lery museum are cited as evidence.
Italian biologists have a puzzle to
solve owing to the discovery on Mont
Blame OF the body Of q white bear.
which has been brought TO Aosta. II
was thought at first that the bear must
have died some three hundred years
ago. and must have been preserved
by the ice. since II has always been
held that white bears vanished from
the Alps three centuries ago. But it
has since been demonstrated that
death could only have taken place .
few days previously to discovery. A
this would seem 10 show that there
are still white bears In the Alps. ex'
peditions are to be sent TO test the
theory.
The use Of the gas furnace for for1
ing. tempering and hardening steel 10
spreading among the workshops where
cutlery and tools are made. The odd
"hearths" are disappearing. replaced
By small, clean gas furnaces. which
are not only economical In space ana
cost OF running and comparatively
clean and neat. but furnish uniform
temperature OF any desired degree.
thus avoiding damage to the steel
through burning" or irregularity OF
temperature. The working OF the fur
naees Is economical. because the gas
can be cut OF the moment the opera
tion Ia finished.
King James l. OF England. although
keenly alive to his own divine right.
vet recognized the power OF the house
OF commons. Sir Robert Cotton was
one Of the twelve members to carry
the famous declaration against mo-
nopolies to the king at Newmarket.
When the king caught sight OF them
he called out. "Oh! chairs. chairs;
here be twarkynges comin'." His ma
jesty mounted his horse on one occar
sion to find his usually quiet steed
In q restivs mood. "The dell my
saul, sirrah." said the king to the
prancing brute. "and you be no quiet
Pse send you to the Ave hundred kings
in the house OF commons. They'll
outckIv tame Won /"