Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-10-15
TIMELY BREVITIES


farms OF Mexico.
Uncle Sam leads the world as an ex-
porter of tobacco.
There are 10000 lamas In the state
monasteries of Tibet.
In Germany and Austria there are
$50 cooking schools.
There is one COW to every Eve per-
sons in the United States.
Eggs from the United States are sent
to Europe and the Philippines.
For every person who dies In year
there are two persons constantly Ill.
There are about 200 births annually
on ships trading to or from British
ports.
There are now only $4,000 lacemak-
ers in Belgium as compared with 150,-
| 600 In 1875.
Hail and high winds in France have
reduced the Normandy apples to half
the usual crop.
japanese ships that get 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 62 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 $1,000 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
ers are used by land firemen.
The first export from New York was
tobacco, and now, after about 800
years of the trade. an average of $780,
100000 worth has been shipped an
| nually for the last five years.
Willie Buckmiller, 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
tins.
Although Aberdeen Is the home of
Scotch granite, shipment of $50 tons
recently was exported to that city from
South Carolina quarries to meet de-
mand for a variation in color from the
native stone.
Within the last fifty years 500 tour
lists and guides have persisted on Mont
Blanc, and the body of every one has
been brought down on its slew-jour-
ney of forty years duration with the
glacier on its movement to theses
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-
Professor Stoewer, the marine painter.
While Edgar Pye Of Sebasco. Me-,
was out fishing In a dory a swordfish
rammed the boat. putting its sword
through the bottom. Pye took hold of
the sword and held on to it until help
arrived and the fish was killed. The
fish weighed 400 pounds.
The sardine industry gives employ
ment in the Spanish port of vigo to
$4,000 people, of whom 5000 are wo-
men. The wages of the men range
from so cents to 81 per day and of the
women from % to 35 cents The value
of preserved sardines exported last
year was 81 ,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 Alberts representations to the
Belgian authorities, and these repre-
sensations 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 reward to the finder IL 1t should
be returned, with description of the
manner, time and locality of discov-
cry, to fits owner.
Persia hasn't caught up with the
times enough to provide herself with
a 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.
1t is ten miles long and runs from
Teheran, the capital, to the shrine of
a defunct shah.
Miss Caroline II. Wenzell Of Boston
has the only school In the country in
which the pupils are all street vendors.
The object Of the school is to teach
these street merchants a more musical
way of calling their wares Instead of