The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-09-20
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Window glass was first used in
modern times in 1857.
There are about 100 varieties of
fesh-eating plants known.
The average age at which women
marry in England is 231A years.
! Nearly five thousand miles of
nets are set nightly in the North
Sea.
In the course Of champagne maxi
ing the grapes are squeezed six
times.
1t is said there are two million
women smokers in the United
States.
The BARRIERS of Europe collect a
crop of 100000 pounds of hair
annually.
Only mankind, whales, elephants,
eagles and parrots live to be 100
years old.
There are more than a billion
calls year over the telephones of
New York.
1 The United States has about
eighty-seven telephones per thous-
and of population.
The sun exerts about two-thirds
as much force on the earth's tides
as the moon.
Herrings form the greatest har-
vest of the ocean. More behring's
are eaten than any other fish.
: Canada is making special efforts
to get market gardeners from Eng
land and other parts of Europe.
An effort is being made near Bos-
ton to raise a rubber tree, which
has been imported from Central
Africa.
Americans are now manufactur-
ing between six hundred and eight
hundred monographs a month in
japan.
The fastest anil longest nonstop
railroad run in England is 225%
miles, from Paddington to Ply
mouth, made at 54.S miles an hour
Australian railway ties are being
shipped to America. Seventy thous-
and of them were sent to the Unit
ed States at the end of October and
shipments to follow will bring the
total to 10000.
The tobacco consumption of Chi
ma is very large and is mostly home
grown. The finer grade of leaf
comes from the Philippines, but the
whole situation is controlled by the
Tobacco Trust
1t is estimated that in the Prov
ince of Buenos Ayers and in the
territory of the Pampa Central, Ar
gentine. the loss of sheep from the
effect of the drouth will exceed s.
900, 900 head, or about 20 per cent.
of the fiocks.
One hundred and tifty-two miles
of the government railway lines in
Victoria, Australia, have been re-
laid during the years 190S-1910
with American rails, 142 miles of
S0-pound rails and ten miles of
100-pound rails.
It is announced that the board of
communication of the Chinese gov
eminent is planning TO extend the
merchant fleet of Chinese steamers
of modern build in the immediate
future to the extent of thirty fast
steamships.
The Wisconsin State Food and
Dairy Inspector has announced
that the dairy product of the State
for 1910 totals S7S,OOO,0OO. The
report shows 1928 cheese factor
les, 1,O05 creameries. SO skimming
stations and 10 condensers.
All over the Malay States large
areas of jungle lands are being
cleared for rubber growing. Dense
forests are felled and the trees and
underground burned, despite the
fact that the wood, it is believed,
could be turned into pulp.
In Austria something like a cri-
sis has occurred in the theatrical
profession owing to so many act
resses finding themselves in strait
ened circumstances. The women's
committee of the Stage Society has
taken the matter in hand.
The house in which Thomas Car
lyle was born at Ecclefechan has
been sold to the London syndicate
which possesses Carlyle's house at
Chelsea. and will be furnished to
represent the house as 1t was in
Carlyle's boyhood.
England has $50 young Chinese
attending universities, medical
schools and engineering colleges.
China is becoming westernized, and
railways are building throughout
the land. Newspapers and schools