The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-29
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
Pawn shops in Chile are under spe-
cial regulations of the general govern
ment, enforced by local authorities.
strong banking house of France 10
opening In Valparaiso, Chile, because
OF the increasing trade between the
two countries.
| 1t !s said that the first hospital
ever built in America was erected by
the Spaniard Cortez In the City Of
Mexico in 1924.
Honduras is erecting two light
houses, on the island of Utila, lying
off the northeastern coast, and on
! Cape Valso, near the extreme eastern
coast.
The foreign debt of Chile Is $780,
220,636 United States gold, and the in.
ternal debt is $15,797,55 The total
debt is s35.40 per capita of the popu.
lation.
A dressmakiug establishment in
Boston almost entirely operated by
electricity has an electric cutter cap
able of cutting out $50 thicknesses of
cloth at once.
Germany forbids the use of boric
acid in curing meats and requires
that all meat picked in salt or brine
must contain at least percent salt
In its innermost part.
Miss Theodore ]. Franksen of Chi
cago, who has been totally blind since
she was years old, has been elected
to the Phi Beta Kappa society in the
University of Chicago. This is an hon
or conferred for high scholarship.
The walters art is serious, clev-
er, bright profession in Germany and
France-seriously studied with ap-
prentice years spent in Paris, Berlin,
London, Rome and New York, in the
great hotels in the worlds great re-
sorts.
Block tin goods are steel goods,
coated. Vessels made of tin would
melt on the fire or fall to pieces i'm
mediately that they were used. Steel
must be used, and ''block" only means
that an extra thick covering Of tin
has been given.
In the vicinity of Conception and
Talcahuano, Chile, there are more
than 80,000,000 cubic meters of soft
coal of fair quality within an area Of
$4,000 square meters, or about 30.t
square miles. The vein is 3.5 meters
or about 11.5 feet thick
Lord Walsingham, whose generous
gift of his wonderful collection of
moths to the natural history museum
will be keenly appreciated by student
and layman alike, shares with Lord
de Gray the distinction of being the
finest shot in Great Britain.
English ship owners and Argentine
cattle raisers have organized COM
pany to ship regular weekly supplies
of chilled meat from the River Platte
to London and Manchester. Work has
begun on nine new Is knot refrigera-
tion steamers to be added to the ves-
sells already at the disposal of the
ship owners.
Experimenting with the boil weevil,
Texas farmer caught a lively one
placed it in water where it would
freeze to death during the night. Next
morning he found the water had froz.
en- solid and the weevil was in the
cake of ice, and the farmer congratu-
lated himself on the discovery that
could kill the weevil. But when the
ice melted the bug walked around as
lively as before freezing.
Schools are being established in ev-
cry part Of the Chinese empire and
are being put in charge of educated
Chinese who have studied in Japan,
Europe and the United States, says
Consular report No. 1886. Popular ed
ucation is strong feature of the new
movement in China for the general
betterment Of the country and its
people, all tending toward limited
monarchy in place of the centuries old