Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-07-30
TIMELY BREvITIES

vegetable richest In iron. 1t is lettuce
cabbage.
Last year 222.I55 people left Great
Britain for Canada. the United States
and Australia.
Life insurance has made great prog
ress in japan. ana there are already
forty-two companies operating there.
Englend's imports since the middle
Of last year have averaged S266.OOOO
monthly against $243.O0o,Ooo a year
ago.
A French German dictionary has
been recently issued from Vienna.
printed In Braille type. for the use or
the blind.
Ii Is on record that a mass of gold
weighing fifty pounds was taken from
a Bolivian mine In former times by
Spaniards.
The proposed international exhibit
ton at Biboa, Spain. in 1912, Is now
practically certainty. 1t Is TO cost
$l.2S0OO0.
The air is clarified effectively by
keeping the blades OF ventiiating
fan moistened with water. This col
lects all the impurities.
For every person who dies In year
there are two people constantly III.
Each persons loses on an average thir-
teen days year by Illness.
All the carcasses OF dead animals In
New York are removed To phosphate
factories of Barren island and con
verted into fertilizing material.
The banking power OF the world is
estimated at SIS, $50, 100000. Of which
ST., C42. 100000 Is In the United states
and S4,553, 400. 600 is in the city of New
York.
The record attendance at q football
match in the United Kingdom is 12l,-
49, ut the England versus Scotland
contest Of 1905 at Hampden park,
Glasgow.
The legislature of Prince Edward Is
land has unanimously voted not 10 re-
peal the law making It penal otfense
to run any kind of motor vehicle In
the province.
After a hard fight with the board or
education Mrs. Ella flagg Young. SD
perintendent OF schools OF Chicago,
has succeeded in having adopted rule
that hereafter all applicants for prin-
cipalships must be college graduates.
What Is said to be the biggest bean
field In the world is in Santa Ana. Cal
OF the H. 900 acres In the field 1900
are planted with limas and 5000 with
black eyed beans. The field Is owned
by one company, but let out on leases.
An enterprising American Snowman
has recently been reaping a golden har-
vest by exhibiting moving pictures In
the cities of Arabia. One or the ex-
hibitions was given in the palace OF
the sultan OF Oman. The sheiks cheer
fully paid the prices of admission-0J,
80 and 10 cents.
The Chilean government after n care
full study OF the relative cost, of the
two systems of telegraph between San
tiago and Punta Arenas has decided
that the wireless IS the most practical.
as it will cost less for upkeep. us most
OF the route is through wild and
rough country.
A bird expert has returned to Europe
from the West Indies with over 2c0
captives. He boiled down tree sap into
a thick. sticky mess and put 1t ON
shrubs and branches at places where
birds took food and drink. Once they
grasped the sticky perches they were
fast and could not fly away, says the
expert.
An odd error was made in the in
scription on King Edwards coffin. The
last line OF the inscription read Reg
pique Sui IX.'-that Is. and in the
ninth year OF his reign" Edwards
reign began Jan %. 1901, and the ninth
year was completed Jan 81. 1910; con-
sequently be died In the tenth year OF
his reign.
The Journey from Buenos Aires to
Valparaiso by way OF the all rail route
through the new trnnsandean tunnel Is
now made in about thirty-six hours,
including a layover IN Los Andes or
twelve hours. The first class fare Is
$GS. ID. and the charge Is a shilling per
kiiogram for baggage, or $l-22 for each
eleven pounds.
]. Waldo Smith. chief engineer OF
New York city's project Of bringing a
gigantic supply " water To the city
from the hear Of the Catskill noun
tains. 100 miles distant. is carrying out
a plan which calls for the expenditure
OF $l62o0o.Oc0. This IS civic enter
prise second only TO such feats rs the
building Of the Panama canal
In the Spanish city OF Valencia the
continual tendency Of the Butchers as
sociaticn and combinations OF butchers
and cattle statesmen to increase prices
is met by the municipal authorities es-