Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-10-09
TIMELY BREvITEES

Pearls cost three times as much as
they did ten years ago.
Russia supplies the greatest part or
the grain imported by Germany.
The Germans are making substi-
tute for celluloid. calling it cellon.
China uses 40O,OOO.O0O pounds OF tei
a year and exports 2OO,000,OOO pounds
Nearly 1000 Indians were located
on reservations by the Chilean govern.
ment last year.
a new high record in the annual pro
duction of tale or soapstone was made
by the United States last year.
A Boston professor refers to educa-
tors as poor old college owls, aca-
demic barnyard fowls and wornout
sickly school bats"
A life insurance company in India re
quireS its agents to answer the Ques-
ton. HAS the applicant ever suffered
from any fatal disease!"
With the cutting of the cue many of
adopted western ways, and they now
use shaving soap and razors.
low many people are there III The
United States over hundred years
old? The census makes the number
1900. of whom $500 are women.
The clerical staffs Of many of the big
insurance companies have of late years
been considerably reduced by the en-
ployment Of mechanical calculators.
BY an order Of Secretary Nagel of
assignment Of salaries of employees to
loan companies is prohibited.
There is Il movement on foot to wild
en- and keep open the channels of the
rivers in Bengal to promote the cheap
er transport and delivery of merchan-
disc.
TO save the loss of box lumber be
cause of knot holes a man in Califor-
mia has invented Il machine to saw the
holes ont to II uniform size and cut
plugs to be fitted into the holes.
The percentage of women breadwin-
ners in this country has increased Al.
while the percentage of men has in
creased only l.3. Pennsylvania leads
with 4 higher percentage of 4.J of
women.
The king Of Portugal leet much vc.
liable jewelry behind him when he left
Lisbon. The minister of public works
appraises the value of such articles
found in the vaults of the palace at
$7,5OO.OOO.
At a cost of $1.5OO,OOO there has been
built at Calcutta an elevated water
tank which is the largest of it's kind
in the world. 1t covers an area of two
gallons of water
Australia has cows enough to give
each man, woman and child jim the
island continent three apiece. while the
Argentine can do even better. There
are five cattle to each inhabitant in the
big South American republic
Like almost every other great cathe-
dral in the world. the Cathedral of ST
John the Divine in New York is not
to be finished according to the plans
of its original architect. The Roman
esque fashion in church building is
waning; the Gothic is reasserting it.
self.
Some months ago school of thirty
seven whales was stranded on the
coast of Tasmania. A company was
organized to take advantage of this ac-
cident, but in the meantime most of
the oil escaped. The promoters, how
ever, sc uytd $4,000 worth of amber
girls.
Nearly $30o0.O0O was accumulated
last year at the New York custom
house in fines, penalties, offers in com
promise and forfeitures. The duties
rollei ted on passengers baggage were
a little less than the above amount.
No previous year shows Il record ap-
preaching these figures.
Englishmen are supposed to be the
most horsy people in the world, but
they are far behind many other coun-
tries in rc-2"d to the number of horses
per head of population. In this re-
spect Australia leads the British EN-
pre-, lncfe nV!ll% lOrty-llNc HORSES 10 eN-
Try hundred people.
Multitudes in Japan live upon diet
If rice and fish. To vary this bill of
fare whale diet is becoming very |
popular. Hundreds of tons of whale |
meat are sold in the Japanese markets |
today. The flesh is said to be very
coarse tasting something like venison,
out with n flavor all its own.
Cotton seed. once nuisance, value
less and despiSed, carted away from
mills, dumped into streams or burned !
to get it out Of the way, is now scru-
cared for and sold every
where to hundreds of eager cotton oil
mills and is there turned into products /
valued ut $100.000,000 annually.
Recently the sweet toned bell cast by |
Paul Revere. the famous old patriot. |
in 1916, which has long hung in the |
over of the First Methodist church of |
Lynn, Mass. was cracked while bein" !
.ung. 1t is now silent and may per
l,n M five