The Caucasian., 1911-11-02
TIMELY BREvITIES

Fifty thousand dollars il the annual
remuneration of the governor general
Of Australia.
The average life of telephone poles
is twelve years, and 2,G10.OO renewals
must take place annually
The worlds largest iodine works are
In the north of Chile, having an an
nual output of 100000 pounds
In Austria, where the production OF
kerosene is Il great industry. large
government refinery is under contem-
plation.
The forestry service is conducting
active warfare against wolves, coy
otes, wildcats and similar predatory
animals.
The investigation of cold storage
abuses started in England is likely to
include all the egg producing countries
of Europe.
The Chinese army advisory board Is
planning Il complete survey of the en-
tire empire for general as well as mil
itary purposes.
The buildings of the Belgian parlia-
ment have been taken as a model for
the construction of the palace for the
Chinese legislative body.
An electric motor with number of
flexible rods mounted at right angles
to its shaft has been invented IN Ger
many for beating and renovating furs.
Telegraph poles have been dispensed
with entirely in one Welsh town. in
which the residents have permitted
the wires to be strung from house to
house.
Three thousand pieces of baggage an
hour can be handled by an electrically
driven belt conveyor recently Installed
on n New York pier TO load passenger
steamers.
A steamship line between New York
and Bermuda has equipped it's vessels
with an apparatus TO take moving pic
lures of their passengers for their
amusement
In Saxony women are doing more
and more OF the labor. though not SO
many of them. relatively, are yoked up
with the COW TO do the plowing in the
field as before.
Bullets Of gold were used by the va
qui Indians in the recent Mexican
revolution Surgeons in the Mazatlan
hospitals say they frequently extract
ed golden. bullets from wounded sol-
diers.
A st. Paul man told his little son
be was going to buy him giraffe.
and when the man got home at night
he found that the boy had sawed Il
large hole in the ceiling for the eiratfe's
head to stick through.
It has been estimated that the NOV
ing picture audiences of the United
States last year numbered more than
2,225. 900 souls per day. three times the
audiences Of all the regular theaters
In America put together.
Minnesota holds the record for swift
est wind The highest velocity ever
reported from any weather bureau in
the United States is 1o2 miles an hour
at ST. Paul. though the hourly average
at that station is but seven miles
The British museum has received the
oldest checkerboard in the world. 1t
was presented by Professor W. Nj. #.
Petrie. the Egyptologist, who found II
In Egypt The board is said to date
from the fourth dynasty, 376e years
b. G.
There is a Welsh colony in Patagonia
established forty-six years ago that
has developed fertile region IN what
was waste before. It Is in the Chu-
but valley, and among its enterprises
are more than 200 miles of irrigating
canals
The new letter boxes to be adopted
throughout the United States are to be
SO constructed chat, instead of the post
man having to open the box and re
move the contents by handfuls. the act
of opening the box will cause the con-
tents to discharge into the collectors
sack
At Brussels a central library. con.
sisting at the outset of 10000 volumes.
is TO be created, and any inhabitant of
any part of Belgium who owns Il post
| Office savings bank book will be en-
titled to borrow from it and receive by
post any book. to be kept for a fort
night.
Baron Estournelles de Constant es-
| timates that the wars during the
| French revolution and the first efll-
| pire reduced the population of France
by 20,000,000 persons Roughly, be-
| tween 100000 and 5.000.00n lives
were sacrificed. and the descendants
of these. he argues wonld now mum
Der 20, ,000.o00
The actual money invested in hotels
in Switzerland is slna1o,9m The
payment of the interest Ell this sum,
the maintenance Of The properties and
a profit gu the enormous hnsiness,
which employs many thousands ef .peo.
pie, are practically all paid by tourists
who 20 to Switzerland In pursuit of
health recreation and pleasure
Aliens. are flooding ENGLAND and do
ing world of dalnage a1ea who
come back after hnving hpen denort-
ed for crime. The Judge "a the Old
Bailey court at London fstsars putting
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