Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-02-24
FACTS IN FEW LINES

between Argentina and the continent
of Europe.
Cotton growing is being resumed in
Palestine. An extensive suitable area
is available.
There are In Constantinople some
400 pharmacies to an estimated popu-
lation of 1.125,000.
In England in 1884 a penalty was
imposed on 1ockmasters who kept
above 1000 sheep.
Ice breakers are of Importance in
Russian ports. Riga is to have new
one costing nearly 100000.
Canada's first great electric smelling
plant for the treatment of ores is to
be erected at Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.
1t is estimated that 20 per cent of
the products advertised In the street
cars Of Canada are of American man
ufacture.
An average of thirteen persons day
who use the railroads of the country
for footpaths pay for the practice with
their lives.
Operators on the sewing machine In
south China are paid So a month for
working nine hours a day seven days
in the week
The swamp areas of the United
States If combined would cover the
New England states. New York and
New Jersey.
During the last ten years $750,000
worth of property has been cast ashore
on the coast of Ireland. including twen-
ty-six steam vessels.
W. E. Cummings Of Albany. Me-.
felled on his farm a spruce tree that
was 175 years old and measured near
~ four feet across the stump.
For every man. woman and child In
this country there is manufactured
each week more than twelve pounds
of finished iron and steel products.
Though hydrophobia has been stamp
ed out of Britain, it is still rampant In
Germany. where every year over $500
dogs and cats afflicted with the disease
are destroyed.
When George Osborn, a jeweler. of
New Haven. Conn, took apart an old
clock brought to him to be repaired, he
found a green wad of $3.50 tucked in
the back of it,
One Scotch casualty insurance COM
pany is offering policies to aviators.
while another will extend all future
policies to cover the risks of aviation
and ballooning.
West Australian flowers inclosed in
block of ice sent by the governor.
Sir Gerald Strickland. to Joseph Cham
berlain recently arrived in London In
the orient liner 0phir
All the grade crossings on the Mon
treux-Berne-Oberland electric railway
are guarded by automatic gates or
bars which close when a car approach
es and lift when it passes.
Despite the disadvantages of a tenn
perature of 80 below Zero the gasoline
engine of Lieutenant Shackletons mo-
tor sleigh used in his antarctic eXpedi-
ton worked with scarcely hitch.
The Lincolnshire EnglandD county
court ordered man who was owing
800 to money lender to pay the debt
in installments of 2 cents a month. at
which rate it will take 1865 years to
pay off the sum.
There are not less than 800 moving
picture shows in New York city, and.
figuring on the capacity of each and
on the basis that each house is filled
twice a day. they give amusement to
100000 people a day.
The Swiss climbing season of 1909
will long be remembered as black
year for accidents. At least 150 climb
ers were killed outright or died from
the effects of the injuries they sus-
tanned In the mountains.
Cork cut into very thin sheets and
chemically treated to remove all resin.
Gus matter is being used in France
for hats. shoes and waterproof gar
ments, in the last instance textile ma
terials being coated with it.
The failure of the experiment of hir-
ing Japanese laborers on the coffee
plantations in Brazil is explained as
being due to the unwillingness of
Brazilian planters to allow the Japa-
nese laborers to adapt their own sys-
TENS of work to the industry in which
they are engaged.
Paris is having much trouble with
the moving picture craze, and the cam
era operators now even invade the
cemeteries when the funeral of some
well known person is being held. The
government had to forbid the photog-
raphers from attending executions. as
they wanted to even make films of
these.
For many years the Mexican dollar
was current at and In the vicinity of
| the Chinese coast and river ports. but
now Chinese dollars are coined at the
provincial mints at Tientsin, Nanking.
Wuchang. Hankow, Canton and else
where, but the mintage of one province
Is only accepted at discount in an
other province.
The Women's Industrial and Educa-
tional union of Boston has started the
work of introducing the system of
savings bank. life insurance and old
age annuities among the settlements
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