Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1910-05-19
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Rhubarb Is grown extensively in
China.
Ozone ventiliating machines are now
common in many large buildings.
The first automobile show for west
ern Canada will be held in February
1911.
In Spain the old style charcoal bra
zier is still IN use for heating pur
poses
England's newest vessel OF the
Dreadnousht type, the Neptune. has a
displacement OF 2O,250 tons.
The American system Of Office towel
service has caught on in several Eng
fish cities. including London.
For lack Of a market and transpor-
tation facilities large quantities Of pine
apples. lines. mangoes and bananas
go TO waste on Mexican plantations
Counterfeiting is still considerable
industry in Calabria. II is good form
In Naples TO bite all silver coin before
accepting it in payment or in change.
The Paris street with the longest
name is La Rue DIES Petres-Saint-Ger-
main-r Auxerrois. In Brussels it is Ia
Rue de In Neutrality-suspicious. Po-
tageres.
The windows in the streets along
the line Of the route OF the funeral pro
cession OF the late king Of the Bel
gians fetched as much as 5000 for a
single balcony.
II is estimated that there are about
1900 professional thieves in New
York city. Those who steal only when
the opportunity is offered have not
been estimated.
Up TO 1880 the chief water works
Of New York city were in Chatham
street. now Park row. The water was
carted about the city in casks and
sold from carts.
Port Arthur. Ont, has the largest
grain elevator in the world. The
structure has 4 capacity of 100000
bushels, and four trains can discharge
their grain in the house simultaneous
ly.
Under the new law for buildings in
New York city the number Of dark
rooms i'm tenements has been reduced
from 2JO.00O to 101.1l7. Let there
be light is the motto OF the board OF
inspection.
New Zealand is sahl 20 have the lar
gest national debt of any country in
the world This does not seem 10
worry the New Zealanders. who Dor
row the money at per cent and make
c per cent.
In Germany thirty-seven cubic feet
Of timber per capita is taken annually
from her forests; France is able TO get
along with but twenty-five cubic feet.
while In this country the consumption
is 20 cubic feet per capita.
Uranium is found commercially in
only two minerals in the United States.
pitchblcnde and carnotite. Pitchblende
occurs in quantity in the United States
only ia Giipin county. Colo. where
there are four mines that produce ii.
Wages are not excessive IN Japan.
OF skilled operatives the highest paid
are spectacle and precious stone work
crs. 81 q day. Shipbuildcrs receive 80
cents % day masoIs 20 ccuts. hreworl-
crs and carpenters 60 cents. Printers
receive cents.
One hundred dollars iu gold for the
best story Of the road is one Of The
purses offered in competitions by the
Commercial Travellers club Of Spo-
kane and the Inland Empire Retail
Dealers association NJ their joint car
nlral in Spokane during the first week
in June
1t is remarkable fact that in spite
Of the opening out 81 the country by
railways ana roads and the clearing
OF jungle tracts the number Of per-
sons killed by wild animals in Brit
ish India does not show any decrease.
IN fact. last year the figures rose to
21GG. an actual Increase Of 200
Jacques Lebaudy. better known as
the emperor OF the Sahara" has writ