News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1911-12-06
TIMELY BREvITIES

The novelty business of China is
drifting into the hands of the Japa-
nese,
Fifty thousand dollars is the annual
remuneration of the governor general
of Australia.
The average life Of telephone poles
is twelve years, and 2,G50,00O renewals
must take place annually.
The worlds largest iodine works are
in the Dorth of Chile. having an an
nual output of 100000 pounds.
In Austria, where the production Of
kerosene is a 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 IL
planning a 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 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 it's 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 a New York pier to load passenger
steamers.
A steamship line between New York
and Bermuda has equipped its vessels
with an apparatus to take moving pie
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 "
with the COW to do the blowing in til
field as before.
Bullets of gold were used by the Va
uui Indians in the recent MeXiCHL
revolution Surgeons in the Mazat,aD
hospitals say they frequently extract
ed golden bullets from wounded SGT
diers.
A St. Paul man told his iittio "'"
he was going to buy him a gira t..
and when the man got home at mint
he found that the boy had save
large hole in the ceiling for the girahe's
head to stick through.
1t has been estimated that the nov
ing picture audiences of the United !
States last year numbered more than I
1926, 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 102 miles al 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 word 1t |
was presented by Professor W. NJ. f.
Petrie. the Psychologist, who found it
in Egypt. The board is said t. date
from the fourth dynasty, 1856 years
B. C.
There is a Welsh colony in Patagonia
established forty-six years ago that
has developed a fertile region il what
was a waste before. 1t is in the Chu-
but valley. and among its enterprises
are more than 200 miles of irrgating
canals.
The new letter boxes to be adopted
the United States are to be
so constructed that, instead of the post
man having to open the box and re-
move the contents by handfuls, the act
Of opening tile box will cause the con-
-ents to discharge into the collectors
sack.
At Brussels q central library, con-
sisting at the outset of 10000 volumes,
S to be created. and any inhabitant of
my part of Belgium who owns post
office savings bank book II be en-
titled to borrow from it and receive by
post any book, to be kept or fort
hight.
Baron d'Estournelles de Constant es-
mates that the wars curing the
french revolution and the first en-
ire reduced the population of France
" 2O,O0O,O0O persons Roughly, be-
ween 100000 and 100000 lives
we're sacrificed. and the descendants
f these, he argues. would now num-
'er 20.O00,O00.
The actual money invested in hotels
n Switzerland is $160,000OOO The
ayment of the interest on this sum,
be maintenance of the properties and
profit on the enormous business,
which employs many thousands OF peo-
lie, are practically all paid by tourists
rho go to Switzerland in pursuit of
ealth. recreation and pleasure.
Aliens are flooding England and do
lg a world of dana se-men who