Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-01
TIMELY BREVITIES


 Count orsini and Herr Tennenbaum.
 The American craze of roller skates Is now in full sway in Malta. But the skating is called. after the British fashion, rinking.
 The American oil product for 1910. aggregating 2o4. 100000 barrels, is more than that of the entire world seven years ago.
 The mortality rate among farmers. according to English figures, is lower than among any other class of men except elergymen.
 In its 7e7.O00 square miles Mexico contains more mines and richer ones than can be cited in any other similar area in the world.
 Flower tea-a tea made of a very small orchid that has a perfume like vanilla-has made its way from Mau- ritius to New York.
 The S7J0.0O0 inheritance tax paid to the state of Utah by the Hartman es- tate will be used in building a new state capitol at Salt Lake City.
 The chief competitor of American apples in Germany is the apple from the Tyrol. which has long enjoyed reputation for quality and flavor.
 A new German letter stamping ma chine drops the stamped letters into locked box so as to detect an employee using his firms stamps for personal mail
 Traffic is suspended on the Peking- Mukden railway in Manchuria owing to dangers from the plague. Serum is being freely sent from Germany and Austria.
 4 portion of an elevated railroad through an exclusive Boston suburb has been covered with concrete fn or der that it may harmonize with it's surroundings.
 This fiscal year ove= $4,O0OOO0 is be ing expended by the Philippine bureau of pubHc works. The work includes some irrigation and nfnety-seven bar rio school buildings.
 Charles A. Cottrill. who succeeds ". F. Drake as collector of internal reve- nue for the territory of Hawaii. is a negro. He entered the government revenue service in 1881 in Toledo. o.
 The government of Jamaica derives a revenue not only from irs postal service. which yielded a profit of S31.- 015 last year. but it conducts a say ings bank which is also a source of revenue to the colony.
 Twenty million dollars worth of soil fertilization material was imported by Great Britain fin 1910 Almost half Of this sum was paid for bones, which have reached the highest quotation for fully a quarter of a century.
 An Englishman has invented an cleo tric clock which projects magniled reproduction of it's face on the ceiling of q room when button at the end of q cord is pressed so that Q person in bed can tell the time without even turning over.
 To enable a person to massage him. self without assistance there has been patented an apparatus to be fastened to a wall. adjustable to any height, in which a wheel with leather covered balls on the ends of the spokes is TO- tated by cranks and suitable gears.
 The women of Austria have present ed a petition to parliament asking that the old law forbidding women and chn- dren to join any political society be repealed The reason for this move is said to be the desire of many progress sive women To form an equal suffrage association.
 The cultivation of cotton in Siam is being encouraged by the ministry of agriculture and is attracting the atteD- ton of capitalists. It has been found that both the soil and the climate of the Menam valley and in the northern provinces are most congeniai to the growth of the cotton plant
 Fourteen hundred and sixty-two men. 321 women and children were found in the streets. on staircases and under arches when the London county coucil. according to a report. took census of homeless persons the other night The total. 1.7S5. is a thousand below that for the census last year.
 Of the 9.043 miles of railroad in operation in Spain. 4.392 miles center in Madrid. and the construction of the direct lines to Valencia. on the Mediter- ranean. and to Bilbao. on the bay of Biscay. which are to be completed within five years. will make it the most important railroad center in the kingdom.
 New York city now has in operation twelve open air schools and classes, and definite prov lsion has been made for fourteen sin1lhr classes to be opened by next fall. according to an announcement made by the National Association For the Study and Pre- vention of Tuberculosis. Chicago has six open air classes in it's schools and Boston has five.
 An electrically lighted pencil for writing in the dark is one of the latest novelties. The case holding the lead is provided with source of electric supply and tiny bulb, which throws circle of light on the paper around the p0iuf The mcneil is adaGted for