The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-06-03
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.


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OF ten dyes used for Easter eggs,
four were found 10 be poisonous.
The pawnbrokers Of Great Britain
issue over 1870 million pledges a year.
The popular belief that a drowning
| person rises to the surface three times
is unfounded
Life insurance returns show that
more suicides take place on Tuesday
day and Thursday than on other days.
In Nantes. France. a city of 100000
population, there Is not a single mod
ern steam laundry. The washing is
done on boats,
The most valuable pipe in the world
Is the state pipe of the shah of Per-
sla. It is set with precious stones.
and is worth 100000.
At the close Of the last fiscal year
the life saving establishments of the
United States embraced 2s1 stations,
most Of them on the Atlantic coast.
In addition to the s172.OOO,OOO worth
of merchandise, there was received
from Alaska S18,OOO,OOO worth of gold
of domestic production during the last
year.
Copenhagen is plagued with rats
and It has been made a criminal
offense to breed rodents for the pur-
pose of securing the bounty offered for
rat tails.
In memory of Professor Tyndall,
one of the English ploners of the
Swiss Alps, monument will be erect
ed this summer by his widow on the
Bel Alp (6,735 feet) a little above the
professors former residence, Villa Lus-
gen, which is a short journey from
Brigue. NJ. f. Correvon, of Geneva,
has designed the monument which con-
sists Of a tall block of rough granite.
London Standard.
There is just one other great cod
bank in the world besides those off
Newfoundland. It lies off Cape Agul-
has, which is the southern tip OF
Africa, and south of the Cape of Good
Hope The Agulhas plateau is said
to be almost a duplicate In size and
richness of the north cod banks. But
this is too far off, so there is little
promise of It's appeasing the hungry
appetite of the world for cod.
Londoners are considering with in
terest the scheme Of Lady Edward |
Cecil by which a number of families
living in the country might club to-
gether to retain the services of two
first-class teachers to conduct classes /
at one of their houses. The teachers |
are to be paid extra to provide their
own board and lodgings. In the case
she furnishes as an example, the cost /
amounted to about S1,100 a year for a
class of six children.
One of the great English railways
is installing a compact railway ticket
printing machine. When ticket for
a certain station is required, the clerk
touches an indicator which carries the
name of the station, slips blank into
slot turns a handle and the COM
pleted ticket drops out At the same
time a record of the sale is printed on
continuous strip of paper, together
with the fare and all information re-
quired for bookkeeping.
Japan's police force was originally
the most aristocratic body Of the kind
in the world It's establishment was
almost coincident with the emperor's
decree forbidding the wearing Of
swords. By a stroke of the imperial
pen the samurai we're deprived of cher.
ished weapons by which the gem
tlemen of Japan had been accustomed
from immemorial times to advertise
their rank. So they went into the
police, where it is still possible to
carry a sword; and very formidable
weapon it was, being Of the two-handed
variety.
Hyperbole Gassaway went from here
to a little town in southern Califor-
mia for his health. In two weeks he
wrote home that he felt ten years
Some days later he wrote
again that he felt twenty years young
err. Then his family heard no more
from him. They telegraphed the may ,
or of the California town for informa- '.
ton about their Hyperbole Gassaway
and got this answer: Il regret to in :
form you that your beloved husband I,
and father, after a months residence
here, died from cholera infantum" ,
Nearly forty years ago the British
colonial office, through the agency Of
the Kew Gardens, introduced speci
mems Of the Hevea rubber tree from {
the Amazon into the far east, with a
the result that it has become accli- t
matized, particularly in Ceylon and d
The federated Malay states. During a
,he last year nearly ten million pounds
II plantation rubber was exported from l.
Jeylon to Malaga at prices higher than ?
we're realized for any other rubber in S
he world, for the reason that it was
marketed in a cleaner condition than |,
he forest" rubber shipped from Para. Il
Casters Magazine for May.
King Gustaf of Sweden has gone to z
Vice to consult Professor Schwenin- 0
,er, who was Bismarcks 'banting," u
IT fat reducer, and his body doctor
or many years. Schweninger was the
doctor whom Bismarck had
onsulted-the ninety-ni1th having