The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-08-24
TIMELY BREVITIES
A homemade piano can be bought IL

SuTeu.
Saturday half holiday is recognized
in sixteen states of this country and
two cities.
Canada has million and Il nall
than ever before
1t costs less to send dozen pairs OF
shoes from this country to Acapulco
by mail than by freight.
Ten ships, each a century or more
old, are still In active service In the
Danish merchant marine.
The great majority of immigrant ar.
rivals at the present time are coming
from Austria, Russia and Italy.
The Italian vessels used in the Turk.
ish navy are supplied with English
guns, no guns being manufactured ii
Italy.
Within fifteen years, according to
Gordian of Hamburg. the worlds cror
of raw cocoa beans has increased from
$4,000 to 2O0,0O0 tons.
At the close of the last fiscal yeal
the life saving establishments of the
United States embraced 2S1 stations
nearly all of which are on the Atlantic
coast
The German South African diamonds
are as a rule not large, but they pos
sess a wonderful luster, oftentimes
glistening like dewdrops when found
In the sand.
In Nova Scotia coal refuse, which il
would not pay to ship is converted into
electric power at the mines and thus
distributed to nearby cities and towns
to do its work.
Fifteen American consulates In
France report $133,OOO,O0O worth OF
shipments to the United States in
1909 against $91, 100000 worth in 1908
Paris leads with S66,OO0,OO0.
Despite the great demand for it al
home, the United States annually eX
ports more than 100000 gallons OF
turpentine-more than all the rest OF
the world combined produces.
The United States and Mexico, tax;
ing the airship peril by the forelock
are negotiating a treaty, as we are
told, to prevent areoplanists doing Il
smuggling business along the border.
In the colder parts of Japan but one
crop of rice is harvested in the year
but In the south, where the climate Is
much milder and irrigation convenient
two crops are usually grown each year
The fisheries of Lower California, Il
"a
the pearl and shark fisheries, are con,
trolled by one company, which holds
the concession from the Mexican gov.
arnment
AS only 266 pounds of opium were
imported into Newchwang in 1909
Vice Consul C. L. L. Williams says il
proves that the Chinese government
has taken effective steps TO stop the
use of this drug.
A Baltimore dog wears a diamond
collar worth about $4,000. The collar
was made especially for the dog by
a prominent jeweler, to the order of
| the dogs owner. There are 700 dia-
monds in the collar, varying in weight
| from One-siXth to one carat.
The Seventh regiment armory il
| New York city has a drill space OF
200 by 800 feet The armory occupies
| the block bounded by Fourth and Lex
ington avenues, SiXty-siXth and Sixty
seventh streets. In the basement there
is "A rifle range 100 yards in length.
! Dogs as life savers and as aids to the
| In ErDr lTa
that the ministry of war purposes tC
use these intelligent animals to helT
the soldiers on sentry duty at the grea
! powder magazines. There have beer
many attacks made on the sentries a
night by unknown miscreants.
Australians have discovered a fertile
territory in the northern part Of the
commonwealth, heretofore considered
a barren desert, but proved to be suit
able for settlement and capable o.
supporting a large population. This
territory is twice the size of Franc,
and more tran four times the size o
Great Britain.
The first mill in Siam was built by
American engineers in 1858, and since
that period the rice industry has grad
ually increased until at present 1t sup
ports forty-seven rice mills, which, be
sides milling rice for local consumption
furnished milled rice for export to al
amount which has averaged abou
100000 tons yearly for the last fiV'
years.
The popular agitation in India owe
the partition Of the province of Benga
seems 10 t~A subsiding. Some of tn
native papers which violently opposes
the scheme are now admitting that
has proved beneficial. while ex-Judg
Saroda Nhter OF the Calcutta hig
court, an t.,tive Nationalist politician
has declared that there Is no harr
In II.
Robert e Pluribus Unum Smith
an old pensioner in Australia. In hi
. application he added the words, 'othel
wise known as Rowdy Bob" In spit
Of this uncomplimentary second It'll
the local authorities certified his chal
acter as "good." and he had no dlfficu
ty In getting his $40 week from th
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