The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-11-21
BITS OF INFORMATION

Germany CONSUMES suar in steadily
increasing quantities.
According to the latest figures. Un
Gle Sans farm hand pay roll repre-
sents s645,612,OoO
Birmingham Englands busy manu-
featuring town, has adopted the open
school idea for children who need this
treatment.
So rare is hydrophobia in Europe
that fewer than a dozen fatal cases
of the disease have been reported In
the last ten years.
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The prince of Wales is the owner of
one of the largest collections of post
cards in the world 1t consists OF
more than 1000 varieties.
The petroleum area of Pennsylvan-
ia covers 1000 square miles and the
gas area is 1880 square miles, in
which she excels all other states.
Chemistry has played an important
part in the industrial history of Swe-
den. No less than twenty of the known
chemical elements have been discover
ed by the Swedes.
North Dakota is the greatest of all
coal fields in this country.
It is estimated that she can supply
i90, $4,000 short tons. Wyoming, Mon.
lana, Illinois and Colorado follow clio.
sely.
New York shows the greatest water |
power development Of any of the stat |
IS, due in a measure to the Harvesting |
If Niagara. The state has 6513 |
wheels generating SS5, S62-horsepower
Where telephone wires are overland
he speed of transmission is at the
ate of about $4,000 miles a second
But when the wires are through cab
es under the sea, the speed is not
more than 5000 miles q second, or
bout half the former rate.
About 200 officers in the army have
made application for entrance into
he military aviation school at College
lark, Md, desiring to learn the art
lying. AS soon as 100 young men
rom civil life have been commission.
ID as officers to supply the present
iced the government is to buy a doz.
m or more additional aeroplanes of
arious types, and most of the appli-
ants will be trained in the new art.
The city of New York owns 943 par
els of land. Nearly all of this land
vas bought before 1850. In one case
parcel of land has increased in val
lie over $500 per cent in sixty years.
n many cases there have been in
reases Of 1000 to 5000 per cent in
he same period. There were ninty |
i've cases in which land had increas.
ID in value 500 per cent and over 300
,ieces that have doubled in value |
ince they were bought.
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1t takes four years to raise a mar
ietable oyster. A piece of rock from |
3ayou Schofield, La. bears fifty shells
zach shell more than four inches long, |
md all grown in twenty-three months |
Six inch oysters have been grown in
Louisiana in two years. The Louisi- |
ma oyster is we'll known and well lik- |
ID in Chicago and over a big part of
he Mississippi valley.
Writing of the strange peoples OF |
ndia, Oskar Kaufman says of the
Jews on the east coast, who II is said |
,ame to India about 1000 b. G., that |
hey have separate colony, and de-
spite the fact that they intermarry |
'how no sign of degeneration. They |
ire sturdy, seem to feel themselves
superior to their neighbors and will |
pose for picture makers. Although |
hey have all the facial characters.
les of their neighbors, they are cas-.
ly recognized. The men wear the
'url lock in front of the ear, as do
heir breathren in Poland.
1t is possible that the peculiar taste
If a cold storage egg, which is some.
hing not easy to mistake, may be
'emoved II experiments now being
made by an electrical company are
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