The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-15
TIMELY BREvITIES


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Cities of the future will be built of
glass, New York architect says
In one year 1,569 improvements in
the operation of cash registers were
made.
The United States and Russia togeth-
er own about half the hOrseS5n the
world.
The Williamsburg bridge at New York
is equipped with an electrically operat-
ed gate to stop runaway horses.
Deep breathing which draws the
blood from the brain to the lungs, is
one Of the most effective cures for in
somnia.
A commission appointed by five of
the larger German states has adopted
standard system of shorthand for
use in those states.
The amount of carbon exhaled from
a mans lungs each day, if it could be
solidified, would equal that in lump
of coal weighing half a ton.
An enormous pearl, of perfect shape
and valued at $4,000, was recently
found in the Western Australia pearl
fisheries and shipped to England
The last time India took a census
300,000,000 persons were enumerated,
and the result was made known in fif-
teen days, which is claimed to be a
worlds record.
Halifax is the winter port of entry
for passenger ships of four large
steamship companies-namely, the Ca
madam Pacific, White Star, Royal and
the Allan lines.
One part of powdered shellac to ten
parts of strong ammonia, the mixture
being allowed to stand for several
days before it is used, makes a ce-
ment that will bind rubber to iron.
Girl messengers in the London post
office are now on the job. They wear
their ordinary dresses, but later may
have uniforms. Their work is about
the same as that of an indoor errand
boy.
Germany will establish a record this
year by launching six new Dread
noughts. Up to now no more than
five of these monster ships have been
launched by any one country in one
year.
Letter boxes for business buildings
or apartments have been invented
which will deliver mail dropped into
them on the ground floor to their own
ers' rooms, even the weight of visit
ing card setting the automatic elevat-
ing machinery in motion.
The London county council is en-
deavoring to reduce the number of
Charles streets in London. 1t has al
ready brought about a considerable
decrease in the number of John streets.
There are eighteen Charles streets in
the county of London, five of which
are in Westminster.
Havre is the most important fishing
port in France, yet fish costs consum-
ers more there than in the capital
because every catch that comes in is
sent to Paris at once, leaving a search
ty of supply in the fishing port itself.
In five years the price of fish in Havre
has increased so per cent.
A plague of snails on the coast of
Ceylon is assuming serious proper
tions. Millions of snails are TO be
found, and some of them weigh as
much as pound. The snails have
begun feeding on the young cocoanut
trees, and it is feared that they may
attack the young rubber trees.
During the recent visit of the Amer
ican sailors in London the diagonal
breast pockets in their jackets, in
which they warmed their hands as in
a muff, attracted the attention of the
suit that such pockets are now popu-
lar in the womens winter coats.
The number of employees at the
great Krupp plant has increased by
5000 men in the last few years, bring
ing the present total up to 6S,500 men,
The total steam power in the plant
amounts to S9,430 horsepower, and
2,GD0 electric motors have an aggre-
gate output of 50,491 horsepower.
British bull exhibitors have caught
on to the old American trick of mas
saging and brushing and rubbing show
cattle several times a day so as to
bring them to the pink of perfection
sought by buyers of beef. Grooms
spend as much time on steers as they
used to on show horses, and it pays.
Princess August Wilhelm, wife of
the kaiser's fourth son, has set her
self the task Of reviving one of Ger
many's oldest customs, that according
to which newly welded couples i'm
mediately after the marriage ceremony
plant couple of oak saplings side by
side in park or by roadside of their
native town.
A new seventy-ive mile public auto
mobile line, the longest in Italy, has
just been inaugurated between Bolo-
gna and Sampiero a Sieve. With this
line and others projected Italy will
shortly have public automobile serv-
ice covering fully $500 miles, which
will place her at the head of all Euro
pean nations in this respect.
Musicians are often singularly SUI
perstitious. Paderewski once ordered
an expensive apartment in London
and Maid for If tOO but refused tO en-