The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-09-08
TIMELY BREvITIES

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other country in the world.
With the exception of Norway, Swe-
den and Iceland more men than wom-
en- lose their sight in Europe.
While Amsterdam is the diamond
center Of the world, these gems are not
generally worn by the natives.
In the kitchens of the United States
Military academy at West Point prac-
tically all the work is now done by
electricity.
The population of New Zealand's
largest cities are: Auckland, 109,7S1;
Wellington, 90,122; ChSistchurch, S5,-
923; Dunedin, 59,s99.
The New York Association For the
Blind is raising $1500O0 to erect the
first modern trade school and settle
ment house for the blind.
A substantial reward awaits the man
who successfully applies to the ex-
haust of the motorcycle a muffler that
absolutely cannot be cut out.
The car of Russia is the largest in
dividual landowner in the world. The
land belonging to him is greater in
area than the whole of France.
There are ten Long Island suburbs
within ten miles of New York city
hall where agriculture is pursued on
fields assessed at building lots prices.
Japan needs nearly 100000 worth
Of nails a year, and the whole supply
at present is imported. 1t is now pro-
posed to manufacture them at home.
Before the end of the year the Philip
pine Islands will have complete par
cells post and money order arrange
ments with all countries and colonies
In the far east.
Beauty doctors in Paris have q sur
prising conception of their sphere of
usefulness. One of them advertises,
for so francs, to insert wrinkles on the
face of bulldog.
Australian farmers have taken to
breeding opossums for their furs by
way Of utilizing timbered sections of
their land which have little value 9th
erwise. 1t has been found that these
animals can be bred to produce white,
gray, brown or black furs.
The United States has floating
court composed of Judge It. R. Lyons
and Fletcher Maddox Iof the treasury
department. 1t travels on the revenue
cutter Thetis and visits the remote
towns of western Alaska to decide
cases which have accumulated since
the preceding summer.
A use has been found for the dog
fish which abound off the Nova Scotia
coast. A rendering factory at Clark
harbor converted 100000 fish into oil
and fertilizer during one month, and
the factory, which was built three
years ago, is to be enlarged 80 that the
capacity will be doubled.
Professor Kennedy of Edinburgh
university describes a hitherto un-
known manuscript of the Old Testa
ment, which he names the Codex Ed
enburgensis. which he has discovered
in the Advocates library, Edinburgh.
1t is said that for size, condition and
! caligraphy it has few rivals among
similar manuscripts in any library in
the world.
| English polo Is to have its Sir
Thomas Upton. The Duke of West
minister is determined to do for polo
what the tea merchant did for yacht
ing. He says he will bear the entire
cost of the team which will try to re-
cover the international trophy. He
thinks the recent defeat of the Hur-
lingham club was due largely to in
ferior horseiesh. The duke himself is
fine poloist.
Because they do not require a de-
positor to have the consent of her
husband when she opens an account,
group of Berlin women who man.
age a large bank all by themselves
have made big success of their ven
ture. The institution is the first bank
exclusively for women, and the only
one in the world that is conducted by
female financiers alone.
The falling off in attendance in the
various churches and the lack of in
terest on the part of young people in
religious matters have had the atten-
ton of the authorities of Bavaria,
where the supreme court has decided
that parents must provide religious in
struction for their children and that
the instruction must be in keeping
with the faith of the parents.
An academic de la mode is to be or
ganized in France for the purpose Of
guarding against the inroads of the
foreign modistes in their attempts to
replace the designs originating in
Paris. 1t is planned to invite to this
organization actresses of renown, mo-
distes, painters, leaders of fashion;
also physicians, in order that hygienic
features may not be neglected.
John Boyce, an Englishman who
became the white king Of the K-ku-
yus, powerful tribe in East Africa,
has left the Dark Continent for the
first time in years to visit in London.
He landed on the coast about ten
years ago and won the good graces Of
the blacks, though he was only SOL
der of fortune. The tribe made him
a blood brother and then admitted
| him into the innermost circle