The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-06-07
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at over 4,O0O000 pounds.
Bananas and potatoes are very much
alike in chemical composition.
Juvenile smoking is said to have in.
creased rapidly abroad in the last few
years.
There are now about 1,250,000 more
females than males in England and
Wales.
The United States, Germany and
England last year turned out four
fifths of the worlds new pig iron.
Jewish immigrants are steadily flow
ing into Palestine, and in their ancient
capital, Jerusalem, there are now no
fewer than 10000 Jews.
Something like one in every five Of
Great Britain's population is a depos
ltor in the postoffice savings bank, the
average deposit being about $40.
Deposits of sulphur in commercial
quantities have been found in Lower
California within fifty miles of the in.
ternational boundary at Calexico.
Chinese jade is so successfully imi-
tated by German manufacturers that
experts Of the far east frequently mis-
take the artificial for the genuine
In Germany there has been patented
a machine for grinding steel balls
which is claimed to retain ball with
in it until it is perfectly formed and
sized.
n n 10 hnf low al
oped by which the fur is removed from
a skin and placed ON an artificial base,
and then the skin is utilized sepa-
rately.
of electric wires in a network that
forms burglar alarm surrounding the
new money vault in the treasury at
Washington.
1t is suggested that the Chinese bus
tard be domesticated in America. 1t
weighs from fourteen to eighteen
pounds, and the meat is said to be
very well favored.
Plumage skins or eggs of native
birds of Australia and New Guinea
can no longer be exported, this having
been prohibited by the Australian COM
monwealth government.
At Ballarat. Australia. has peen
found a nugget of gold weighing lit
tie less than thirty pounds. and ex.
perts say it will turn out at least tif.
teen pounds of pure gold.
Fireboats owned by several of rhe
larger cities are now supplied with
masts to elevate the discharge noZ-
zles, on the same principle that water
towers are used by land firemen.
Having been tossed about by the sea
for more than eleven years, life pre-
server from the steamer Portland
wrecked in 1898, was recently picked
up in fair state of preservation.
In Denmark there has been discov-
cred a deposit of clay from which
may be made bricks that are light in
weight, yet so tough that nails may be
driven into them without cracking
them.
Foreign ships have all the coal trade
between Philadelphia, Baltimore.
Hampton Roads and the Panama
canal zone, Tampico and Vera Cruz.
about 100000 tons a year. They bring
back Cuban ore.
The foreign tourists who visited ia.
pan during the last year totaled H.
283. including 3,161 Englishmen, $3.50
Americans and $3.50 Chinese. This
shows an increase of some 200 as com
pared with the preceding year.
The United States leads the world a>
an exporter of tobacco, having sur
piled over $41 100000 worth of tobac
co and manufactures of tobacco which
entered international markets last
year. In the expectation of manufac-
tured tobacco Cuba is at the head of
the list.
London doctors interested in the M
tritive value of foodstuffs have issued
document in which they recommend
the use of whole meal in making brcu
instead Of fine white -four. 1t is main
tained that there are in the whole mea
two and one-half times the amount of
mineral substances that nourish the
body.
The department of agriculture has
proved through experimentation that
$50 worth of denatured alcohol can
be produced per acre from the fruit of
four years growth Of the cacti (tunas)
This means that a quarter section of
now arid land can be made to yield
gross income of $4,000 almost perpet-
ually.
Eugen Sandow, whose feats of
strength and system of bodily training
have long made his name familiar, has
been appointed professor of scientific
physical culture to King George of
England. For twenty years Sandow
has been England's foremost advocate
of physical training. He is a man of
considerable wealth.
Lotteries are operated in all impor-
tant towns and cities of the Dominican
Republic. In many of the larger cities
there are from two to five. practically
all under municipal supervision. Sew
enty per cent must he given in prizes,
8 per cent goes for streets and roads,
and the rest, less expenses, Is divided