Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-01-23
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 Arranged in a straight line, the rail ways of the world would reach to the moon and back again.
 Pupils in the Philadelphia public schools are being taught to board and 'alight from street ears in a safe man ner.
 Forty thousand yards of bunting were used recently on the Madison Square Garden during the annual electrical show.
 Ten years ago the Standard Oil com pany refined 90 per cent of the oil pro duced; now it refines only 80 per cent.
 New York has followed the example of Philadelphia and established free permanent exhibition of building ma terials.
 One of the newest automobile tires, a Pennsylvanian s invention, consists of number of rubber blocks to be mount !. ed in steel channel and reversible, so that n new surface can replace worn one.
 Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria and his empress once attended the per formance of play which abounded in political allusions. On leaving the the ater he remarked, good-naturedly: We may congratulate ourselves on having seen the piece at all, for | am sure that it will be speedily forbidden. v
 In 1860 we stood at the bottom or the list of the four great manufactur. ing nations namely: The United King dom, France, Germany and the United States. Forty.nine years later we stand at the head of the list, our manuta~' tured product equalling that of the other great nations combined.
 Last vear's American cotton 'rop was valued at S6s3, 100000, and If the value of the seed be added, the aggre. gate revenue from the crop was very close to $500, ,000, 900. If the present prices for the staple hold, the value of this year s cotton crop including the seed will mount up very close 10 sl,- 900 ,O00, GOO, at any rate to more than s9OO ,OOO,OO0.
 The Toronto Monetary Times has been investigating American invest, ments in Canada and finds them to be at least $236, 900. To collect the necessary information certain forms were sent to every United States firm having a branch in the dominion, in ad. dition to letters and forms sent to more than 800 correspondents. From the data received it appears that in British Col umbia mills and timber Americans have invested $50,000,000, and in mines, so0,' GOO, 900; in Alberta in land deals, SlV,' | O00. GOO; and in lumber and mines, SoO,- | 600 .0OO; in the dominion proper, S5,. 100000 in packing plants and s4,o0O,' 1 GOO in implement distributing houses In British Columbia in land deals, S2, | 0O0. GOO. In addition Americans have l6s companies with an average capital of S6OO,00O, aggregating slOO,sOO,00o
 During a period of political agita tion stranger arrived in Magdeburg where, on applying to the authorities he obtained permit or ticket of resi denee. He had not been long in the town before he realized his steps were being dogged by man in blue uni form. lie bore il for days, but at | last said to the spy: 'Why do you pursue me in this wayln {" m a de ! tective and my instructions are not to lose sight of you, was the quiet an. swer. Why, what fault have the po- lice to find with mel'' shouted the stranger. My passport is in order, here is my ticket of residence; l am a citizen of Berlin; why do you follow me aboutin '" Ii states in your passport, was the reply, "that you were going to reside here for pleasure; that looked suspicious, as it was the first time any' one came 10 reside in Magdeburg for nleasuYp v