Arizona republican., 1915-07-18
ODD ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE


 Telephone operators in Egypt arc re- quired to speak English. French. ltal- ian. Greek and Arabic.
 The great glaciers of Switzerland are melting one notable glacier has >hrunk. 1000 feet in the past ten years
 or I4g species of fish in &aine. only 25 are fit to eat, and only r are of commercial value
 The human race is subject to about 1200 different kinds of diseases and ailments. to say nothing of other dang CTS.
 A cotton planter in south Carolina has raised brown. yellow and green cotton and hopes to produce black, red and gray cotton.
 China employs nearly four thousand experts from Europe and America to run her railways, postoffices. etc There are l105 British and I.4 Americans on the job many of the latter in most important offices.
 Before suffrage is granted to women in Indiana. the election law will be re- vised For it provides that the booths shall be SD built that the lower limbs" of the voters shall be plainly visible to the election officers.
 Alft lluHA' liA@ilAlf.N AAit Iii4SiltS AS the theory Of Uncle sam. The naval regulation requiring the band to play while shlrs are coaling i5 based on experiments that show that the crew work g per cent quicker with music
 In China many storekeepers leave their places Of business arranged with prices noted on the goods. SO that if customers arrive they can select what ( rr.l- trust is generally successful.
 Six in every hundred residents ot London are in a chronic state of pow erty. the total reaches 300.000.
 Because four million tons Of potatoes rot in Germany each year. the kaiser sent commissioner to the United States tu inspect the American crop last year The German savant Dr otto Appel. was stranded when the war broke out, and worked for the United States Department of agriculture, rend- ering a valuable potato report
 To cut down the cost of living. public markets have been provided in Los An geles and 25.OOO buyers come with their baskets as in the olden days
 Cattle branding in the west is dying out, and like the ow-boy and the thrill ling roundup. is going to the scrap heap. The fencing of the land is the cause.
 The dogs of Labrador are shod with sealskin, to protect their feet from the sharp ice and enable them to grip the ice and carry much heavier loads.
 judge at Palo Alto. Calf. has ruled that monkey cannot be worked over time. The monkey is question was an organ grinders companion
 After fifty years of service in the treasury department at Washington. Sherman Platt has resigned and will quit the government service He ent- cred the service on the day he was mustered out of the 21st Wisconsin In | fantry.
 The largest flag Of the United States l was recently presented to the city of 1 St. Louis. IL is 150 feet by 7s feet. and weighs 400 pounds.
 Less than 170,O0O. which is one firth the usual number, left their homes in the United States to tour Europe during the last year. The , June exodus. which is generally large. was less than TOGO
 In Germany one man in every 2r3 goes to college: in the United States. one in 200O. and in England, one in l 5000
 Judge w C. Harris recently held court in corn field near Emporia, Kansas. He decided that the farm . CTS connected with the case were too | busy to leave their work The emperor of Japan will receive on his coronation day. in November the first English bible to enter the | imperial palace. It ia to he the gift of 4000 Japanese Christians in America
 1 The exclamation Hurrah" was ori- 1 einallv fighting shout. derived from | the Slaconic "Hurrai." meaning "tu l Paradise the beliet having been that | valiant fighters went straight to | heaven if killed.
 The economic loss to the United States from tuberculosis is $214, 300, ,00 1 according to d report at the Seattle | convention two weeks ago.