The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-01-25
TIMELY BREviTl::l,

many for the manufacture Of cheap
blotting paper
The Frieburg silver mines OF Say
Ony have been closed after havl"S
been worked for 700 years.
A big Siberian bloodhound ownt by
a Boston business man is said to b.
the biggest dog in the United States.
Old engines are much sought art,r
by horseshoers of Nantes, France. wh
prize such metal highly for horse
shoes.
About 10000 lobster traps win have
to be rebuilt to comply with the new
regulations in Canada relating to lob
ster fishing.
The equal suffragists in Oklahoma
have translated woman suffrage liter
ature into the Choctaw, Chickasha and
Cherokee tongues.
Clockwork apparatus to automatical
ly light and extinguish gas street
lamps has been invented TO save the
expense of lamp lighters.
Many Norwegian families spend two
months each summer in the mountains
or along the fords fishing and boat
ing. Many use portable cottages
A solution of gum camphor in alco-
hol will remove ink lines from tracing
cloth and leaves it in better condition
than If mechanical erasers be used.
Knives, forks and spoons so shaped
that they may be handled comfortably
only when held correctly have been
invented by a Philadelphia man for
the instruction Of children.
The coal mines on the arctic island
Of Spitzbergen have been sunk to such
depth that it was possible the past
year for the first time for the miners
to work in the coolest weather.
In Holland the average cost of keep
ing and feeding COW for dairying
purposes per year is about $50, the
amount realized from each COW for
the same period being about $9S.
1t is predicted that the cultivation of
the larger haciendas in Spain will be
revolutioniZed by the introduction from
Germany of electric plows, one Of
which does the work of twenty ordi-
nary TWO morse plOWS.
Tolstoy's presentiment of death calls
to mind the fact that his brother Mich
olas had a similar experience just be-
fore his death. Nine hours before he
died he had presentiment of his end
and, asking to be undressed, went to
bed and succumbed soon after.
A municipal councillor of Paris has
introduced a proposal to tax all cats
in the city. The proposal has not met
with popular approval. A large num-
Der of women who own cats have
written to him threatening to make
things unpleasant for him if he per
sists.
While only small percentage of the
population of Mexico is capable Of
purchasing fine and stylish mems fur
nishing goods, in all Mexican cities
there is an increasing number of me-
who dress as well as those in any
country and who demand the latest
styles and best makes
The gospel according to Mark has
recently been translated for an Indian
tribe in Paraguay. The word eighteen
appears as Sohoge-mek- wabethiamok-
sminik-antanthlama Literally this
means, FINISHED my hands, pass to
my other foot, three" for fingers and
toes are used as units in counting
The pensioner Levy, who for fifteen
years stood before the massive front
door which leads to the sarcophagus of
Napoleon the Great, has retired from
his post, being too old to stand on duty
for the seven hours during which the
tomb is open to the public. He was
one of the last of the pensioners of the
Crimean war.
A curious discovery recently made il
Crete leads archaeologists to believe
that Faust and Gutenberg may not have
been the real inventors of printing in
Europe. A disk of clay has been I'M
earthed at Phacotos which bears upon
its two sides the figures of men, ami
mails and trees, not engraved, but most
evidently stamped with a punch or die
The new game ordinance in Uganda.
which came into force last June, has
caused considerable amount of dis
satisfaction among officials in the pro
tectorate and big game shooters in
particular. Formerly a ten pound
license entitled the holders to kill two
elephants, two rhinoceroses and ten
antelopes, while now for this privilege
E40 has to be paid.
In the will of Franz Botor, a rich
bachelor who died recently at Varadin,
Austria, Botor explains that he never
married because modern women are
utterly ignorant of the principles of
cooking. He leaves his entire fortune
to the municipality for the purpose of
establishing a cooking school in order
that young girls may be taught how
to prepare food in a civilized manner.
Emperor Nicholas will present to
Zaandam, in Holland, statue of Peter
the Great 1t was in this village,
it will be remembered, that Peter
learned shipbuilding for the benefit of
his country. The house in which he
lived has long been a place of pill
grimage for foreigners visiting Hol-