The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1910-04-15
ODDS AND ENDS.

An uncut u1dmOnd looks very muCn
like a bit of the best gum arabic.
a 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 100000
acres, is forest land.
The annual wheat crop of Great
Britain amounts to about 100000
600 bushels.
The number of horses in the Uni,
ted States January 1, 1900, was,
nearly 100000.
About 5000 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
a year at very low cost of pro-
duction. Wages are 16 cents 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 37A BUSH
els an acre, which is nearly five bush
els an acre better than that of Great
Britain.
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 Massaohu-
setts, will be placed in commission
May 2. The Indiana will be placed
in full commission May 10.
For removing incandescent lanDs
from sockets in inaccessible places
| there has been invented a pole with
| spring steel fingers on one end, a
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
Pacific Ocean, near the New Zealand
| Coast, at depth Of four and one
quarter miles under a pressure OF
four and one-half tons to the square
inch.
A cue-chalking device invented by
an Ohio man for billiard and poo
| players consists of a 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 te
about 100000 tons, and also a large
quantity of soya oil from China anG
Japan. European markets welcomed
this new supply, which has prevent
ed a further rise in lower grade!
of vegetable oils.
Consul Cornelius Ferris, Jr, ad
vises that information has been re
ceived in Asuncion of the success O
DR.. Kemmerich in the organization
of the Paraguayan Meat Extrac
Company, in London, with a capita
of 100000, for exploiting the bee
extract industry in Paraguay.
The reported purchase by al
American sugar syndicate of owe
pines for sugar and other interest
is considered as encouraging for tn
agricultural development of the isl
ands. Millions of acres of valuabl
lands still lie under tropical sun
untouched.
In 1886 a Cairo firm saw the ad
vantages of Alden for manufactur
ing cigarettes, and since then 81
firms making cigarettes for eXpor
and more than 100 firms manufac
turing solely for native use hav
been established.
Information of all kinds regardin
possible landing places for aeris
craft is to be issued in the form c
a handbook by the Aerial League
Regent Street, London.
A German student preparing to b
doctor needs about $3.50 durin
the five years involved in medice
training. At an English universit
the cost would be about $4,000.
Recent statistics of the Germa
Army show that neurasthenia is thre
and half times prevalent among tn
soldiers as it was decade ago, Will
hysteria cases are twice as numerous
For removing incandescent lamI
from sockets in inaccessible place
there has been invented a pole wit
spring steel fingers on one end,
coiled spring below them providin
| universal joint.