The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-04-14
ODDS AND Ems.

An uncut diamond looks very much
like bit of the best gum arabic.
horse eats nine times it's weight
in food in a year, sheep six times.
Eighteen per cent. of the entire
area of France, or about 23,000,00O
acres, is forest land.
The annual wheat crop of Great
Britain amounts to about 400, ,O00,-
900 bushels.
The number of horses in the Uni
ted States January l, 1900, was
nearly 100000.
About $500 trademarks are reg
istered during the course of the year
at the Patent Office.
The $50 registered trade unions
of Great Britain have a total men,
bership of 1,973,560.
Alden makes ten million cigarettes
year at very low cost of pro-
ducton. Wages are 16 cents a day.
All the large match factories of
Germany have pooled their issues
under an agreement binding until
1920.
In the United States the percent
age of railroads which are not en-
gagged in the carriage of mails is
very small.
Ireland's wheat yield is 81 y BUSH
els an acre, which is nearly five bush
els an acre better than that of Great
Britian.
The first bituminious coal mined
in the United States was found near
Richmond. Va, early in the eigh-
teenth century.
Two vessels of the Naval Academy
Squadron, the Iowa and Massachu-
sets, will be placed in commission
May 2. The Indiana will be placed
in full commission May 10.
For removing incandescent Iamps
| from sockets In Inaccessible places
there has been invented a pole with
spring steel fingers on one end,
coiled spring below them providing
| universal joint.
Forming part of the breakfast
menu of the members of the Council
OF the Royal Geological Society of
| Ireland, at Dublin, recently, were
some eggs brought by Sir Charles
| Ball from China, which were laid
over 40 years ago.
Animal life has been found in the
Pacinc Ocean. near the New Zealand
| Coast, at depth of four and one
Huoi tVi tiiicS unutT pressure OIL
four and one'half tons to the square
| inch.
A cue-chalking device invented by
an Ohio man for billiard and pool
! players consists of tube to be in.
serted in the wall of the room. q
| spring holding the block of chalk
near the opening.
Diamonds are almost perfectly
| transparent to X-rays.
shipments OF soya beans from
Manchuria during 1909 amounted to
about 100000 tons. and also a large
quantity of soya oil from China and
Japan. European markets welcomed
this new supply, which has prevent.
ed a further rise in lower grades
of vegetable oils.
Consul Cornelius Ferris, Jr., ad.
vises that information has been re.
ceived in Asuncion of the success OF
DIR. Kemmerich in the organization
OF the Paraguayan Meat Extract
Company, In London, with a capital
of 100000, for exploiting the beef
extract industry in Paraguay. =.
The reported purchase by an
American sugar syndicate OF over
10000 acres of land in the Philip.
pines for sugar and other interests
is considered as encouraging for the
agricultural development of the isl.
ands. Millions OF acres OF valuable
lands still lie under tropical suns
untouched.
In 1886 Cairo firm saw the ad-
vantages of Alden for manufacture
ing cigarettes. and since then six
firms making cigarettes for export
and more than 100 firms manufac.
turing solely for native use have
been established.
Information OF all kinds regarding
possible landing places for aerial
craft is to be issued in the form OF
handbook by the Aerial League.
Regent Street. London.
A German student preparing to be
doctor needs about $500 during
the five years involved in medical
training. At an English university
the cost would be about $4,000.
Recent statistics OF the German
Army show that neurasthenia Is three
and half times prevalent among the
soldiers as It was a decade ago. while
hysteria cases are twice AZ numerous
For removing incandescent .lamps
from sockets In inaccessible placer
there has been invented pole with
spring steel fingers on one end, Z
coiled sprfng below them providing
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