The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-30
TIMELY BREvITIES
The Tyre was irvented 1904 +. {

| Paper was manufactured in China II
the year l05 b. c.
Alaska has the only tin mines of any
| consequence In the United states.
The BARRIERS Of Europe collect 4 cfol
of 100000 pounds OF hair Annually.
OF every hundred pounds Of food wt
eat fourteen pounds consists OF puta
| toes.
The Australian government Offers
| large prizes for The best postage stalnI
designs.
A Japanese army officer has invented
a waterproof knapsack that is made OF
horsehuir.
Manufacturers Ia the United States
exported POSSESSES pounds Of prlnt
ing paper last year
Mexico, Venezuela and Guatemala
are the onlg countries where authors
enjoy the privilege of perpetual copy
right.
Artificial lace is a French develop
ment of celuose aud is said TO wear
better and TO have other advantages
over real lace
The Ink in n fountain pen will not
dry so rapidly when the pen is idle ii
the holes in the cap be plugged to
keep out the air aes
The rocket type OF life saving appa-
ratus has saved the lives of more than
5000 shipwrecked pepsons on the Brit,
iSh coasts since 1870.
Potash may ls derived from organic
sources, as from wood ashes and sea.
weed The giant seaweeds of the Calf
fornia coast contain potash salts.
The term "EurasianN has been Off.
cially discarded by the government of
India. which has decided to adopt
"Anglo-lndian'' in the coming census
Nickel mining is active In New Gale.
donia. European firms are investing
largely in it aud other mining. Some
fair gold discoveries have been made
recently.
Tests In Dubltn have shown that the
wind will carry disease bacteria POO
feet and as high as sixty feet into the
air. even when ihere is a heavy rain.
fall
Louisville. Ky. has a new grand
hotel and it has been named after the
nationally famous and admired editor
of the Courier-Jonrnal, Henry Waiter
son.
On an average there are nearly ten
thousand people more than sixty-tiye
years old dying in New York ever year
This Is the highest proportion of old
folk ever recorded by any city in the
world tr S't s. s
The. Saxon state railways reward
workmen who have been in their sert-
ice twenty-five years and more with
small sums of money, and at the same
time distinguish them with marks of
honor.
There are twenty-eight cocoa and
chocolate factories IN Amsterdam, of
which eight do an almost worldwide
business. Dutch commerce with the
Dutch East Indies greatly fayors these
Industries.
A new llquetied gas invented in Ger.
many and sold to consumers in steel
drums is nonpoisonous gives an in.
tensely white light in mantel burners,
and Is said to be thrice as powerful as
the ordinary city gas when used in
engines.
In Hungary a Junior Woman Suf
frage league has been formed with d
membership OF $50 young men aud
women between the ages OF sixteen
and twenty-four. These young people
are to act as ushers at the meetings
OF the older suffragettes.
Cantllever bridge construction makes
possible some astonishing things. For
the new railroad bridge
across the Pend dOreille river, near
Wash, was built out from
one side Of the stream until the end OF
the span reached the pier on the other
side, distance of $50 feet.
Five tunnels now pierce the Alps.
The boring of the Loetschberg tunnel,
which began in 1907. was finished a
few weeks ago, but the tunnel will not
be ready for railway traffic until 1913.
1t is about nine miles long-the third
longest tunnel in Europe-and il
really supplement to the Simplon
tunnel
Gold-the sovereign and half sover-
aign-is now being largely used in In
dia instead of silver Traders, instead
Of going about with bags of rupees,
have taken to carrying gold in their
pockets. Last year $90000,0O0 in gold
was imported into India, compared
with $35,0o00oo In 1908 and $4,000
300 In 1909.
1t is estimated that the failure of
ais golden voice caused Enrico Caruso
loss of fully $4,000 He missed