The Cairo bulletin., 1910-06-08
UNFAMILIAR FACTS.

ONFAmtLiRH FAS ..
Ether was first used in surgical oper-
atoms in 1916.
Horse racing in Italy is dead since
the introduction of automobile speed
contests.
The cud is called "quid" in Surrey,
England. Hence" perhaps, "quid"
Of tobacco.
Sheerncss England. though an i'm
p0Itant naval station and town of
nysr 10000 inhabitants, does not pos
cess Q single telephone.
The average value of the foreign
automobiles imported into this country
during the first four months of 1906
was $500.
The title Colonel" is derived from
the Spanish, The name is "coronel"
which may account for the English
pronunciation,
A Paris automobile building firm Is
just about comprising . Ito horsepow-
er gasoline subtnarins boat for the
French navy.
Cherries wers AYst brought into Flu
rope from Kerasunt, on the Black
Sea. by Lucullus, about The year 10
B. G.
The word city was not used in Eng.
land until after the Reformation; be
fore which time the metropolis was
known as Londonburgh.
The earliest known circulating H.
brary was established in Dumfcrm
line, Scotland in It'll. Allan Ram
say started one in Edinburg in 172S
| In Paris the Post Office Department
| is now using several electric mail wag-
ons which are designed to transport
| the mail matter in large quantities and
at a greater speed than the old horse
| drawn vehicles.
Statistics compiled by the various
| automobile trade associations show
! that there are about $4,000 motor cary
! in use in this country. the first cost
Of which aggregated s70,o00,000.
The Blood bible" a volume of the
Scriptures bearing ON 200 pages the
| story OF the sufferings OF Baron Won
! Trenck, written in his own blood dur.
ing his incarceration by order of Fred.
| erick the Great, has been sold at Der
lin for s125.
! A portion of Mont Blanc has been
sold for $4,000, and liz to be broken
into large squares of granite for build
ing purposes. The rock in question is
q world-famous stone which broken of
from Mont Blanc in the glacial period
was deposited in the Rhone Valley al
! Monthey.
Solar activity showed a great IN
| crease during the year ending May 10
| 1905, the Sun not being free from
SPOTS for 9 agi dr. So says TIL
Br9isl Astronomer Royal in his re
port. The group OF sunspots seer
eali. th.- year was the largest eve
| photographed at the observatory.
New Zealand's scenery Is so oeau
tiful and so varied that it has beer
termed combination of swift srlaa
Southern France, Norway, the Tyro
and North Italy.
An enormous addition will be mad
70 the chronological collections in tn,
British Museum by the boqucst O
the late Mr.. A. Fry to the Museum q
his collection Of coleopterous insects
undoubtedly the largest collection 0
the kind in the United Kingdom.
Every japanese barrack has a gyr,
nasium, and the japanese soldiers ran
among The best gymnasts in the Wort
In half a minute they can scale
fourteen foot wall by simple boundin
on each others shoulders one ma
supporting two or three others.
!
The earliest English cemetery. a
distinct from churchyards and BURR
grounds connected with places Of wuI
ship, is that at Kenscl Green, whic
was cOnsecrated in 1882 long aftp
TIC i.-st separate grounds in Amer
ca, The word means sleeping place
Australia has found a new use f.
discarding tramcars. Sydney ladie
have them painted green and whit
hang them with baskets Of flower
train creepers over the roof, and the
utilize them as afternoon tcaroom