Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-06
TIMELY BREvITIES

S~ne So'Vp cancer experiments are made every year in England.
 During last year New York city con. tuned 51,0o0Oo0 pounds of poultry.
 Farming is an occupation in which more people are interested than in any ether.
 Of the 100000 tons of salt pro dnced in the world each year the Brit. tsh empire provides 3,5o0.O0o tons.
 The mills of the United States every year export more flour than all the rest of the mills in the world produce.
 Engiishmen are making considerable progress in Siberia, especially in es- tablishing abattoirs and refrigerating plants
 Some predictions of our future popu- i2tion have placed 1t much higher than 1oO,ooo,o0o for 1850. one making it as high as 2Oo.Oo0.oo0
 German hotel keepers would rather see an American arrival than one of any other nationality. They have the reputation of being the best spenders.
 American exporters handicap them selves when they give a merchant or agent in the City of Mexico the exclu- sfve right to sell their products in that country
 The Uniied States patent office is as sembling i've models of the first ideas along seveHu lines of invention. such as the first telephone. first sewing ma. chine and first photograph.
 The village of Aumone. in France, Is said to be the healthiest place in En. rope. It has only forty inhabitants. twenty-three of whom are over eighty years old, and one is over 100
 The once famous fresh water pearl fisheries in the White Elster. in Saxo- ny, are threatened with extinction. Last year only six good pearls and seventeen of second quality were found
 The Danish government has granted S2915.000 for the announcement of agriculture. and the 115 local agri- cultural societies. with s4.5o0 members. received subventions amounting to S50.OOO
 A Birmingham chemist has invented way to convert gasoline or petrol into stiff white jelly. It is done by adding 124 per cent of steatite and al- cohol. An economy of 30 per cent is claimed for the solid form.
 In five counties of Ireland the aver age pay of hired men on the farms is less than S2.43 a week, in all Ireland it is S2.74, in Wales and Monmouth shire 1t is S4.3s. in England it is SAG. and in Scotland 1t is S4.76
 Consul Horace Lee Washington transmits the plans for the enormous dock to be constructed at Liverpool. to cost $2,43OOO0, as a portion of still larger plans which contemplate the ultimate expenditure of S15,573.3 .3S4 in dock improvements. During the past twenty years the lakes of Russian central Asia have shown a steady rise of water level. Within this period the sea of Aral has risen about six and half feet. The phenomenon has accompanied a period of augmentation of rainfall
 In New York city in 1910 2.4S3 per sons met deaths by violence, and there
 
 increase of seventy-fve over 1909. In sixty-fve of the 1Sj eases there were no arrests, and only seventy-seven of the 120 persons arrested for killing were held for trial
 4 one wheeled jinrikisha on the monocycle principle is being introduc- ed among the Chinese of the Malay states It is said to be safe and to have many advantages over the old fashioned vehicle. The wear and tear is reduced to minimum, the work on the puIlers reduced and speed in creased
 Practically all of the 5000 dogs which were exiled from COnstantinopIe last summer to an island in the Mar moran sea have died on the barren rocks of disease and thirst Bread was sent each week from Constantinople. but it was so bad in quality that the dogs preferred 10 eat their dead com panions.
 1t is announced from St. Petersburg that Professor Rosing of the Techno- logical institute has discovered an ap- paratus, which Is called 3he electric ere. which permits one to see objects at long distances If within the rays of the instrument For example, the l manager of factory, it is said. is en- abled to see all that is going on in the various workshops. The citizens of the little town of Or son, fin Sweden, have no taxes to pay. The railroad is free to every citizen of :he town. the telephone service is free, and the schools and libraries cost | the citizens absolutely nothing. The l towns expenses are paid out of tNs | money obtained from the sale of luT Der cut in the municipal forest. The viennese authorities are consid- efing the advisability of the addition l Of a subway to the city's systems Of public transportation The road will l not be built by the municipality, how l ever. but by a stock company. which | uurposes. fn case a charter is granted, | to charge a fiiEher fare than that of street railways on account of increas- ed rapidity of transit, eighteen and 9