The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-11-02
TIMELY BREyITlES

tina. even in the unsettled parts. is
rapidly rising.
The largest paper factory in the Ear
east is In the Hokkaido, Japan. II
cost S3.500,O00.
The CunarN line collects subsidies {"
the amount of $S25.O0O from the Bvi
ish government.
Newly devised methods of municipal
bookkeeping will save New Iork city
half million annually.
China holds the worlds record IN
the way Of executions. There are OF
least 1900 legal executions yearly.
Cold storage plants of the United
States have total refrigeration ca
pacity In excess OF 200,o00.o00 cubic
feet
Only thirty years ago Japanese sol
diers wore huge Rrotesque iron mask
helmets in order to frighten the en-
emy.
A very expensive effort was made
by Spanish capitalists about forty
years ago to popularize bullfghting in
London.
Machines are used In Sicily for ex-
tracing the oil from lemon rinds.
Each machine Is capable of dealing
with 5000 lemons a day.
The baby that is born in Buenos
Aires has q better chance of living
than If it had been born in any other
of the worlds large cities.
Besides Great Britain. the countries
which have old age pensions are Den
mark, France. Belgium, Germany.
New Zealand and Australia.
1t would take nine and a half days
for the armies of Europe to pass a
given point, marching five abreast,
efteen inches apart. at an eight mile
kait.
Coal vessels from Wales can reach
Rouen, in France. discharge cargo, re-
turn to Wales, loal and reach dock
again at Rouen in a period of eight
days.
Emigration from Ireland is increas-
ing again after the low record of last
year. For seven months the move
ment has included nearly 5000 per-
sons a month.
is expected to occupy six years in ali
and TO increase the annual value Of
the Egyptian cotton crop by between
S15,OO0,00O and $20.O00.O00.
The manufacture of steel tubing has
grown until today such tubes consti
tute one OF the large divisions of fun
damental forms comparable with rails.
plates. structural shapes and rods
At present only 80 per cent Of the
population of Turkey under the most
fattering estimate can read and write.
About per cent of the total number
of boys and 1 per cent Of the girls in
the country attend school.
India is the greatest cane sugar pro-
ducing country in the world. The an
nual crop exceeds 100000 tons. Most
of it is consumed in an unrefined
state because Of its adaptabilty for
native sweetmeats and native cookery.
Nagasaki is the Oldest port in Japan,
where the first foreigners, Portuguese
merchants, landed 326 years ago. 1t is
one of the five most important ports of
the country. The largest vessels in the
Dor.
The consumption of coal in the Unit
ed States is more than twice as great
as that in any other country and near
ly equals the combined consumption
of the United Kingdom. Germany,
France and Belgium and is. actually
, greater per capita than in the United
Kingdom.
Mrs. Lillian Stone in a suit against
her husband for the support of their
child testified in Chicago court that
, $50 week is the proper cost for q
seven-weeks-old baby. Her husband
is worth half a million. All the law,
yers present were bachelors, and after
court they promptly formed a bach
. elors' club.
, 1t was proposed at the recent meet
, ing of the international cremation con
, gress in Brussels to work for laws tC
, establish a crematorium on all ocean
passenger steamers. The cremation
movement was started in Italy IN
1876, and now there are 1873 cremato
= RUINS in the world. In 1909 13,OOC
+, bodies We're cremated.
/, Not every creature can swallow an
other bigger than itself, but there is {
little water snake at the New Yorl
, aquarium that does this handily. This
| water snake is a foot and a half Ions
| and about as big around as big leaC
| pencil, say a scant five-siXteenth of al
inch in diameter, but it will cornel
. and capture killiefish an inch aud {
half long and close TO half an inch IL
diameter and gulp it down whole cas-
fly.
When the Cincinnati authorities in
vestigated the premises of Edwart
Flynn, a seyenty-six-year-old hermi
living near the city, they found fou
horses that he had kept as pets, tw,
Of them thirty-three years old. Nom
Of them had ever been In harness
One horse has never been out Of tn
stall that It was born in seventeen
years ago. The humane officers dc
mand that the horses be allowed Z
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