The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-02-03
TIMELY BREvITIES

agricultural and mechanical school.
Out of 1000 German families lT3
keep servants as against POT In Eng
land.
An international exposition Of inven.
lions will be held at st. Louis the Sec
ond week in April
More than thousand students IN
Toronto university are in Bible classes
for systematic Bible study.
Within the last six years 200 lives
have been lost through accidents In the
Submarine branch of the worlds navies.
The United States leads all other
countries in the manufacture Of ashes
tos. but has to depend altogether on
Canada for the raw product.
Uoder new ruling in Ceylon opium
may be imported only by the govern
ment and dispensed under the super
vision of the civil medical stores.
Chlnas new coinage will resemble
that Of the United States in that 1t will
be based on a unit of the value Of a
dollar and fractional parts thereof.
Contrary to all expectation, especial
ly after its disastrous fire, the Brus.
sells exposition closed with an actual
profit for its promoters and stockhold-
ers.
Brillat-Savarin, the patron saint of
gourmets, is to have statue, not, as
might be expected, in Paris, the center
of his cult, but in his birthplace, Bel
ley, France.
The sewers of the largest 157 cities
Of the United States, If laid end to
end, would provide seven subways un.
der the Atlantic linking New York
and London.
James Mansell, an employee OF the
Hastings (EnglnnO corporation. has
just received his medal for taking part
In the stormDg of the Tabu forts more
than fifty years ago.
There are 305 art museums and So
cietles in the United States, forty
seven art magazines, not including the
many publications containing art de-
partments, and ninety-two summer
schools that teach art.
The Japanese government subsi-
dies the horse racing sport and sets
up cups to be contested for and, in
short, does all In its power to promote
the sport The horses are run. how
ever, for the sport Of the running only.
No betting Of any kind is conducted or
allowed.
The theatrical managers Of Berlin
are attempting to perfect an arrange
ment that Will regulate the number of
first performances to be given on
single night As, however, Saturday
Is the Berlners' traditional night for
premlercs the attempt Ia not expected
to yield the desired result.
The burgomaster of Vienna, DIR. Men
mayer, promises ''vigorousactio against
the deplorahle evil" of long hatpins and
at the request of a municipal councillor,
Herr Philip, has instructed the police
to do what they can to protect the eyes
Of the public. Herr Philip AYERS that
'the follles of fashion now go 30 far as
to menace public safety"
II Is said that kerosene or illuminat.
Ing oil Is rapidly becoming mere by
product; the profits are made on the
gasoline and the fuel oils. Both these
find an ever and rapidly enlarging
market; fuel oil especially will have
an enormous field of employment In
the railways, the navies and the mer-
camille fleets of the world.
In the Dominican Republic favorite
breakfast food Is plantaln meal, eaten,
Ike our cereals, with cream and sugar.
The meal also makes bread which
many Domlnlcans prefer to loaves made
Of wheat -four. The plantalns are dried
In the sun and then pounded In wood
en- mortars, the result being n rich,
creamy meal, redolent OF orris root.
II IL demonstrated by the census re-
turns that the closest estimates on the
population of the cities of the country
and their rate of growth had been
made by the telephone companies. In
preparations for prospective business
the statistics and engineering depart
ments of the telephone companies
must have figures as nearly correct us
provision can make them.
The gross receipts of the Oberammer.
gau peasants from last years Passion
play amounted to nearly half million
dollars. The net profit Is given as
1924 100. Something over 100000 OF
this Is placed in the village treasury
and the remainder divided among the
eight hundred odd players. The most
highly paid OF the latter receive about
$25 for their summers work.
The Scandinavian cavalry has In
recent years taken up the winter sport
of skiing, partly for diversion and
partly rs sort of drlll. Skiing is re-
gnrded as n possible means of trans.
port for troops maneuvering In winter
over the deep SHOWS, and the ability
to use skis easily would give the north
ern cavalry an immense advantage
over an enemy not so prepared,
Philadelphia's police have taken
steps to guard against knockouts and
fatalities In so called boxing bouts In
that city. The director Of public safe.
ty has ordered that hereafter ply
sicion must be present ut the ringside
whenever fight Is pulled Off. II will