The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-03

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flights.
Nearly thirty nine thousand persons
visited Shakespeare's home in 1909
A ten-year-old Glove tree will pro-
duce about twenty pounds annually.
The dated sandwich is an innovation
| in the railroad station restaurant
service.
The number of foreign students in
the United States is constantly In
creasing.
Nine of the eighteen expeditions in
search of the south pole have been OF
English origin.
OF all European countries, only Hol-
land has a lower rate of infant NOR
tality than Great Britain.
When telegraphs were first employed
the speed of transmission was only
four to five words minute.
A Cincinnati man has patented an
electric air heater for BARRIERS use.
compressed air passing through cyl
Under containing a resistance coil.
From eight thousand to ten thou
sand coal slack and pitch briquettes
are manufactured and consumed in the
city of Belfast, ireland, each year.
A building which, 1t is believed,
holds the record in this country in
antiquity as a Presbyterian church
is still standing at Southampton, Long
Island Its erection was begun in
1907 and it was dedicated as church
in 170S.
Bendigo Australia, has started re-
form movement to stop the Ginning
and striking of all-night public clocks.
the city being moved thereto by Mme-
Melba. The prima donna passed q
sleepless night in Bendigo owing to
the din of clocks and she has threat
ened never to visit the city again.
The complaint has been discussed by
the Bendigo city council and 1t was
decided to silence the clocks from mid
night to a. m.
Switzerland has a, total population
of 100000 and there are 1884 perl
odicals in the country. or one publica.
ton to every 2,715 persons OF the
publications giving special attention
to news and politics. 472 are printed
in German, 101 in French, Fl in Ital-
ian and but one in Romansch. The
religious publications include 60 Ger
man Protestant, 40 French Protestant,
"a Catholic, Missions, Jewish and
8 Free Thought. The Swiss newspa-
pers have limited telegraph service.
as compared with newspapers in other
countries, but they are, as rule. well
edited.-Consular Report
At thirty-three NAPOLEON was en-
peror of France; Phil Sheridan rode
on foaming steed twenty miles.
seized his retreating army and, hurl-
ing it upon Early, snatched victory
out of the jaws OF defeat, sending
him, with his hosts. flying up the
valley of the Shenandoah; Wolfe
scaled the Heights of Abraham at Que
bee. dispossessed the French Of their
possessions in Canada and gave two
provinces to England; Correggio had
produced his three world-renowned pic
lures. THE Assumption of the Vir-
gin" "Ecce Homo" and The Penitent
Magdalen"; George Stephenson made
his first locomotive; Edison had har-
messed electricity to the uses of man:
Gray wrote his "Elegy"; Poe his "Ra-
ven." and Thomas Jefferson the Dec
laration of Independence"
A fine cure for the whooping cough
is made of offerings of hair, In Sunder-
land The best way there is to shave
the crown of the head and hang the
hair on a bush. or small tree, prefer
ably. and as the birds or wind carry
away the hair. the cough will dis
appear still more potent remedy
for whooping cough is had In the
Northumberland idea, which is that
the cough can be cured by putting the
head of a live trout In the patients
mouth and letting the fish breathe
into the latter. A still more strenuous
way is to pass a hairy caterpillar
through the mouth, after which the
worm is to be put into small bag
and tied around the victims neck
The cough ceases when the caterpil-
lar gives up this earthly life. The
whooping cough is not so bad after
all, is it?-Chicago Tribune.
There is no city on earth where the
tip system is more deeply rooted than
in Paris; and yet. if we are to be-
lieve NJ Jabosynat, secretary of the
Chambre Syndicate Ouvriere des Ii
monadiers, the cafe and restaurant
walters desire nothing better than to
see the abolition of the pourboire.
when that day arrives" he says, our
comrades will realize the necessity OF
grouping themselves together for the
purpose of obtaining fixed salary
from their employers To-day We re-
ceive no salary, only the pourboire,
and not always that. Some employ
ers. finding that we make too much.
deduct as much as 40. so and even 60
per cent of our tips. / could tell you
| of one cafe where eighteen employees
hand over to the house over f2,400
year. Most employees are paid for
working; we others pay for the priyi-
lege."-The Caterer.
The statistics of trade and industry
for the year recently closed, made pub
lie by the Canadian government, shows
| that Canada has recovered in a strik-
ing manner from the depression of
two years ago The bank clearings
reached the enormous total of S5,lS9,-
994,363, an increase of 20 per cent
| over 1908, while the new buildings
i conr.ora 20