The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-25
TIMELY BREv|7IES

Egyptian mummi-s sometimes have
teeth quite cleyerly filed with gold
Switzerland, with porulaton of
3.5Oo,o0O. iraports annually $iO,O0N.0O0
worth of reldy made clothing,
Hungary's census shows a popula-
ton of 20s5),T0O. an increase in ten
years Of 1,5o6,c00, CT SD per ce0t.
When you 80 shopping In Burma
it Is difficult to get the proprietor OF
the establishment to show his goods.
BY French presidential decree The
postofires in Madagascar are author.
lied to make use of International re-
ply coupons
Germany imports more Of ItaIy's
products than any other comtry. The
United States comes second and
, France third.
According TO the final provisional
CO sus returns, TIE population Of India
is now 315,00oO0o, an increase or 90
100000 since 1901
Owing to a lack Of demand for it,
grapefruit can be LoUs Int in London
for a fraction Of the price asked for
II IN the United States
Russia contains nearly oue-haf OF
the Jews IN The world and ia the only
country with q larger Jewish popua-
i ton than the United States.
| Shippers AZ Hongkoug claim that the
Chinese peanut il Il better article than
/ that furnished by any other part OF
| the world. not excepting Virginia.
Engineers are figuring on erecting
dam 700 feet high in the Grand Can
Won of the Colorado to impornd sufli-
Gent water to produce 100000 horse
power,
The type used in the government
printing office at Washington last
year if placed end TO end. would en-
circle the world, with about G,G00 miles
4, TO spare.
The bank cheeks passing through
the clearing houses in London and
New York ia one month excel the
value of all the gold and silver coin in
the world.
I The epidemic Of plague in the far
east is responsible for great increase
in the price Of many drugs. Carbolic
acid has advanced 80 per cent in the
eastern markets,
TO prevent explosions Of coal dust
in some German mines water is forced
into assures under pressure, and after
it is pumped out the coal can be bro
ken down with picks without blasting.
OF all the countries in the world
Servia contains the most centenarians,
In that country, which has fewer
than 100000 inhabitants. there are
575 persons whose age exceeds 100
years.
A great figure in literature is brought
nearer to our time when we read that
a very Old woman has Just died in
Scotland who in her girhood knew Sir
Walter Scott and experienced the good
mans kindness
Londoners complain that they cannot
get enough OF the seedIess California
oranges They like them because the
pulp can be removed with spoon and
because they are so large that one is
enough for two people.
Work has begun on the building of
the palace of the future Chinese par
lament at pcking The structures are
modelled after those of the Belgian
parliament. The total cost will be
81 100000 Mr.. Klein, German, is
the architect
What is said to be the smallest per-
feet glass bottle ever blown has been
made by Robert Gillespie. blower In
glass works at Melville, ~ Js The
bottle is not much larger than a ker-
mel of corn but is in every way per.
feet, including ground stopper,
A merchant in the Yukon region has
discovered a way Of making stoves
that yield ut least so per cent more
heat than those COMMONLY sold. lie
uses huge sheet iron drums arranged
in such q way hat the smoke must 90
down one side of it and up the other.
Since Jan T. 1907, sixty-five open
air schools for children afflicted with
or predisposed TO tuberculosis have
been established in twenty-eight cities
according to an announcement made
by the National Association For the
study and Prevention Of tuberculosis
The boring of the nine and 0ne-guar
ter milo tunnel through the Alps,
which will shorten the railroad Jour
ney from Italy to London from two TO
three hours, was finished March 81.
The French contractors who under
took the work were engaged in it four
years and half.
"Parsoa" Davies, the veteran prize
fight promoter, was given his sobri- |
ouet by the late William II. Wander
hilt one night mt Madison Square Gar
den Vanderbilt said, THAT fellow |
looks more like a parson than sport |
ing man" Davies right name, Charles |
e.. has been forgotten ever since.
The pebble industry is making rapid |
progress and Is assuming considerable |
importance in upper Normandy. over |
10000 tons Of pebbles are annually |
picked up on the Normandy beaches. |
Most of il is sent abroad. Those en-
ployed in gathering these pebbles earn
~ onnfs nor ptIhic motor Ctr ~ cubic |