The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-09-06
TIMELY BREv|TIES

| Eastbourne. England, has recently
approved a bylaw forbidding dogs to
bark on the sea front.
The best safeguard against infectious
! diseases is to keep both mind and body
in healthy condition.
Plumage skins or eggs of native
birds of Australia and New Guinea
can no longer be exported
A New York woman wants two years
separation to give her husband an op-
portunity to try to win her back.
Female BARRIERS are numerous in the
prominent cities of Sweden, and many
of them own the shops in which they
work.
The BARRIERS of Paris after they have
attended one customer must wash their
hands before beginning work on an
other.
In the cause of quietness the canton
of Zurich, Switzerland, has prohibited
nll motor traffic between midnight and
8 a. m.
| 1t is estimated that the proposed
ship canal in Scotland to link the
Forth and the Clyde will cost $685.
100000.
Though the bulk of our lumber ex-
ports have not greatly increased in re-
cent years, the valuation shows gigan-
tic strides.
New York's sick list averages $4,000
names each day, or one person in ev-
cry thirty-fve, and within a year
100000 cases of illness occur within
the city limits.
The owner of probably the largest
number Of dogs in the world is Rus
sian, who has $4,000 shepherd dogs to
look after 100000 sheep
Artificial teeth made of paper can
now be obtained. They are said to re-
tain their color and are less likely to
chip than ordinary false teeth.
In times OF peace there are nearly
1,200 deaths in the British army annu-
ally, the rate per thousand abroad be-
ing two and half times that at home.
! The present harbor of Tsingtau, able
now to accommodate thirty of the lar
| SCot oCuSOlhS NCooClSp ID bCllS tAltlu-
, ed, owing to the increased shipping
from that port.
| According to the computation of the
minister of finance for the union of
South Africa, the gold mining industry
Of the Rand still has a life of $50
years before it.
Phenomenally wet weather ON the
northeast coast Of Queensland was re-
sponsible during the first four months
of the year for a total rainfall of just
under sixteen feet.
There are more university students
now than ever in the German father
land. Their number has risen from
2,407 in 1910. to 54,S22 this year, an in
crease Of 4.6 per cent
The figures show that the number of
British seamen employed in the British
mercantile marine is steadily increas-
ing, while the number Of Lascars and
Asiatics of all kinds is stationary.
Far from scorning penniless immi-
grants, the Chilean government has re-
newed it's offer to pay sum equiva-
lent to $15.44 in gold for every adult
who comes to settle in that country.
The government is constructing the
longest lock in the world at st. Mary's
falls at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. The
| dimensions of this lock are to be 1850
by so feet, with low water clearance
of 25 feet.
After Jan. 1, 1913, only white men
can act as pearl divers in Australian
waters. Up to this time the divers
have been chiefly Malays and Japanese,
it being supposed that white men could
not endure the work. ... p
Consul Norton of Malaga says many
Spanish cities have poorly furnished
barber shops. One shop has some
American reclining chairs, which were
imported ten years ago and are still
regarded as curiosities.
The latest returns place the popula-
ton of India at 315,000,000. Yet the
entire area of India is no greater than
that of nine of our western states
Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho,
Nevada, Montana, Arizona, Utah and
! Wyoming.
Alaska's fishing industry, next in i'm
portance to mining, gives employment
to 12,5SS persons, of whom 2,S23 are
natives. In the last five years the ter
ritory has sent us wealth of 43,O00,-
600 in salmon alone. The total output
of fish in 1910 was worth $11, ,1S1, 1888.
A proposed new colliery in Warwick
shire, England, is to cost 100000.
Boring tests have proved the existence
of twenty foot vein S14 yards down
The sinking and fitting of pair of
shafts twenty to twenty-five feet in
diameter will take FIVE years.
AS a result of the observation ad-
vanced by two scientific men, Marie
and MacAuliffe, that the sanest type
of man has the biggest feet, while the
sanest type of woman has the smallest
feet, pedestrians all along the boule-
wards in Paris are taking to the habit
of scanning one anothers feet.
AT a recent ball in Paris one of the
women dancers wore a coiffure more
than six feet high and weighing ten
| hounds. constructed by q Partisan hair