The Cairo bulletin., 1911-08-21
TIMELY BREv|T|ES

prepared recently BY The Chinese to fla
cIitate translation.
The most valuable feathers are thQs,
Vt the miras0l.. bird Of Argentina
They are worth about $1,000 Il mound
Russia's standard Of living is beconi
ing higher. although not at the ex
pense Of the savings. which are grow
Ing constantly.
Fourteen Chicago clergymen hav,
volunteered to marry without fees tn,
couples who find no magistrate OF
hand in the county building.
1t costs the liner Olympic $l75.O00 L
make trip between Southampton ant
New York. And on a recent one sh,
collected $325,0o0 in passenger fares.
A Boston woman has introduced tn,
novelty Of answering all her CORE
spondents with engraved letters Sh,
first writes her letters and then ha.
them engraved.
In Barcelona the moving pictur,
shows are so popular that on Sunday,
thousands of people can be seen out
side Of them waiting for their turn t
secure admission.
An English inventor has brought gu
a kind Of steel which resists the cor
rosion of smokeless gunpowder, thu
chief objection to the use of that form
of noxyder for firpa rms
The Chinese produce brokers hay,
established n produce exchange il
Singapore. Such a project has beer
contemplated by the European mer
chants, but has not yet been carried
out
Some Of the new uses for alumni
ium are MS wall paper" ceiling pan
els. trays. finger plates and cooking
utensils. Rapidly increasing quaint
ties are used in the motorcar industry
and for airships
ing liquid to be poured out, but not in
after the can has been officially In
spected and sealed has been intro
duced by the sanitary inspector o.
saloniki. Turkey.
Hammocks are not much used II
Germany. Most families, even in thu
small cities. live in fats. and the vii
las or cottages of the suburbs seldom
have porches or verandas where ham
mocks could be hung.
Out of 100 samples of milk exam
ined in London In three months ion
were tubercuous. and the task o.
tracing this milk necessitated the ex
animation of S,715 cows at l02 farm
scattered over the country.
The king Of italy. is Que of the mos
enthusiastic of royal motorists and tn
only one who has qualified by passing
a severe practical examination in driv
ing motorcar. He is clever me
chanic and can repair his own car a
well as drive it.
The best dressed men are to be foun'
in New York. says a German paper II
an article on the decadence in NAL
fashions, in which the writer lament
the fact that men of the present da,
are content to be clothed and no longe
trouble about elegance in dress
Sawdust is briquetted by severa
firms in Europe for household fuel
Sawdust briquettes. while almost a!
easily ignited as wood, burn much more
slowly. owing to their having beer
compressed so highly in the making
This is an advantage. as the fire does
not need replenishing so often.
OF all peoples in the Balkans the AL
banians are the most uncutured ant
uncouth. They have no history o
their own and up to fifty years ag'
they did not possess even a writer
language. At present they are usin'
three different alphabets, the most pop
ular of which is the Latin one.
With sixty-seven daily papers, thirty
two triweekly, twenty-six semiweekly
sixty-eigh weekly, four fortnightly
one three weekly. one four weekly ant
thirty -four monthly publications to
population Of 552,168 males and 400
500 females, New Zealand may just,
claim to be anything but illiterate,
Next year the English church will
celebrate the one thousand three hun
dredth anniversary Of the baptism o.
the first English king by st. Augustine
The dean and chapter of Canterbur.
still hold land in Essex given by kini
Ethelbert Of Kent. which has been II
their uninterrupted possession since
597.
Birds, 1t seems, rarely Il ever &c
accustomed TO the sound OF electric
bells so as not to be startled at thu
ringing Of one. Knowing this, thu
head master OF an Austrian school ba!
patented an electric scarecrow, IL
which a clock makes the connection a
irregular intervals to electric bells
scattered over his orchard.
To determine whether the phenom
ena Of life could be made to disappea
and be restored. remarkable expert
ments have been carried out by Pro
lessor Paul Pictet of Geneva, witt
startling results. In one case he froz
live goldfish IN water to 20 degree
@. below zero, and three months late
gradually melted the Ice and brough
the fish back 10 life
DR.. Edward Grace. said TO be tn
greatest cricketer the world has eve
seen. who died recently at his home Il
Worcestershire. England, had been &C
lively engag ed in the English nationa
sro ma fnr nnnrlu SIXTY Nnara He xun,