Connecticut western news., 1910-12-22
TIMELY BREvITIES

Uncle Sam leads the world as an ex. porter of tobacco.
 There are 13,OOO lamas in the state monasteries of Tibet.
 In Germany and Austria there are 150 cooking schools.
 There is one COW to every five per sons in the United States. .N
 Eggs from the United States are sent to Europe and the Philippines.
 For every person who dies in year there are two persons constantly i'll.
 There are about POO births annually on ships trading to or from British ports. # -l.
 There are now only 45,0OO lacemak- CTS in Belgium as compared with 150,- 900 in 1875.
 Hail and high winds in France have reduced the Normandy apples to half the usual crop. -....
 Japanese ships that get a subsidy are obliged to carry more than half of their maximum load.
 The commerce of the port of New York has had a growth of @ per cent in the last ten years.
 Millions of feet of wire have been used for railroad signals for the Penn sylvania terminal and tunnel in New York.
 Of total of 8S,0O0 silk nightgowns exported by Japan in 1909, Great Brit ain called for 44,931 and the United States 25,951.
 Palestine is to. be supplied with plen- ty of cheap electricity from the river Jordan. The water will also be used for irrigation purposes.
 A revolution is pending in the Swiss watch industry. The handmade watch is passing, to make room for the ar ticle produced entirely by machinery.
 Fireboats owned by several of the larger cities are now supplied with masts to elevate the discharge nozzles, on the same principle that water tow CTS are used by land firemen.
 The first export from New York was tobacco, and now, after about 300 years of the trade, an average of $20,- 100000 worth has been shipped an- nually for the last five years.
 Willie Brckmiller, three years old, in New York city fell out of second story window and safely into pillow case tapping on the clothesline. Add this to the list of remarkable escapes.
 German statistics of industrial in- surance show that disease seeks its victims chiefly in the more poorly paid classes of wage earners-the lower the wages the higher the number of vic tims
 Although Aberdeen is the. home of Scotch granite, shipment of $50 tons recently was exported to that city from South Carolina quarries to meet a de- mand for variation in color from the native stone.
 Within the last fifty years 800 tour ists and guides have perished on Mont Blanc, and the body of every one has been brought down on it's slow jour ney of forty years duration with the glacier on it's movement to the sea-
 The German emperor took a holiday the past summer as usual, touring Nor way. Among his companions on the trip were Hans Dahl, the painter; Pro- lessor Unger, the German sculptor, and Professor Stoewer, the marine painter.
 While Edgar Pye of Sebasco, Me, was out fishing in a dory swordfish rammed the boat putting its sword through the bottom. Pye took hold of the sword and held on to it until help avsr vod GcI fish weighed 400 pounds.
 The sardine industry gives employ ment in the Spanish port of Vigo to 23,O00 people, of whom 5000 are wo- men. The wages of the men range from 80 cents to $1 per day and of the women from % to 35 cents. The value of preserved sardines exported last year was $2,2o3, 500.
 Because infected cornmeal is held responsible for pellagra, the Hunga- rian government has adopted strict regulations against the use of corn meal under any other than its own name. The people of Hungary prefer rye bread, however. and are not par tial to the use of cornmeal
 Recent raids on the gambling estab- lishments at Ostend were inspired by King Albert's representations to the Belgian authorities, and these repre- sentations had their origin with his wife, Queen Elizabeth. The king and queen of the Belgians spent some time at that watering place this season. To obtain data regarding ocean cur rents twelve copper globes were set adrift in the middle of the Atlantic from the Campania of the Cunard line. Each globe contained the offer | of a reward to the finder if 1t should 1 be returned, with description of the | manner, time and locality of discov- 1 cry, to its owner.
 Persia hasn't caught up with the times enough to provide herself with real transportation system. Horses and donkeys still constitute the pas senger and freight carrying resources of the empire which once dominated the east. Still Persia has one railroad. It is ten miles long and runs from