The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-12-20
TIMELY BREvITIES


1910
The semibarbarous tribes of Austria
LA make use OF telephones connecting
their encampments.
The present demand for French
champagne amounts to nearly 100000
900 quart bottles year.
From seven in 1923 the number of
stockholders on the Brussels bourse
has risen to nearly 1900.
There is being manufactured in Liv
erpool, England, water finding device
designed to supplant the hazel twig.
Canada has completed its census
and finds that the population is little
more than 100000, not the hoped for
100000.
structure in America is to be one Of
the features of the Panama exposition
In San Francisco.
Mrs. John Alexander Dowie recently
J started q new Dowie movement in Chi
cago. 1t is reported that she will es-
tablish new Zion City.
An artificial cliff has been built at
|
: group of power plants which have dis
figured the beauty of the spot.
A Brazilian railroad which found it
could not use wooden telegraph poles
because of attacks by insects is utiliz-
ing old rails, erected in pairs. to hold
the wires.
There is now noxious weed act in
xrybta IIn
to $100 on any persons who knowing
ly SOW. sell or offer for sale any nox-
ious seeds.
From Peking it is announced that
the Chinese government is about to
, drop the troublesome moon from its
| calendar and follow the practice of
western nations in using only the sun.
According to a report to the French
Academy of Sciences, all canned fish
, contain ptomaines, which, however.
do not begin to increase appreciably
until two days after a can has been
opened.
DISCOVERIES of an Egyptian worm
that will eat the cotton boil weevil
) have been discouraged by learning that
it is cannibalistic in it's tendencies and
, will eat it's companions as readily as
, weevils.
The couch of Louis XIV. which is
, exhibited in a gorgeous room in Yer.
sailes, is found to be not genuine.
Only the cover and the canopy are gen
, uine. The rest dates from the time of
Louis Philippe.
LOFT in,
tinue to caution young men in search
of employment from going to that
' country unless they have a good con-
t tract with reliable firm already sign
ed before leaving home
According to a French physician,
short period of rest is sufficient to pre-
pare a person for new exertion after
heavy but not protracted work, while
longer rest is necessary after continu-
GUS work of lighter nature.
There are 500 miles of automobile
roads on Vancouver island, British Co.
, lumbia. The government has built a
seventy-five mile trunk road from Vic
toria to Alberni and a sixty mile scenic
, drive along the Saanich peninsula.
Mexicans know a good show from
| bad one. On the opening night Of a
t we'll advertised entertainment at Vera
Cruz not long ago over thousand per-
sons attended. The following night
! there were only six persons in the the
ater.
= Despite the great acreage devoted to
= apples in the United States, the crop
: seems insufficient to meet demands
Hobart, Tasmania. shipped over $780,
I 600 worth of the fruit to this country
, during the first four months Of the
, present year.
! A will conveying what is said to be
: the smallest estate ever recorded in
t the surrogate's Office in New York city
was filed there recently. 1t is the will
,, of James L. Doyle, and under it's terms
his estate. valued at $5.10. goes to his
r two daughters.
r The clock in the tower of Trinity
church. New York, is 100 years old.
Rust and age have played havoc with
it. 1t is to be replaced by one of mod
o ern make, having four dials, each six
/ feet in diameter with numerals in
D scribed in stone.
= One farm exclusively for opossums
: has been started in Gippsland. Vic
d toria, which comprises 1000 acres of
eucalyptus bush land. Another farm
9 comprising 500 acres has been started
. in southern Tasmania and another of
n $50 acres in New South Wales.
n The Levant Trade Review expresses
= the opinion that American soda foun-
T tains would do a rushing business in
: Turkish cities. So far as known, there
is not a single fountain in operation
!. anywhere in the Ottoman dominions,
: although soft drinks are exceptionally
e popular in those parts.
s The secret of Anna Gould Castel-
+ lanes Duchess de Talleyrand's) pur-
, chase of the famous royal grapes of
4 Fontainebleau came out when she was
+ found feeding them to her two-year-
d old prince The duchess bought many