South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-03
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Wealthy Russians are buried in
glass collins.
One child in four dies before 1t is
six years of age.
Austria has assumed control of the
Galician oil industry.
Glass windows were first used in
private houses in England in 1880
Landaus were originally made in a
town named Landau. in Germany.
Wisconsin sends out a trainload Of
cheese every day of the year.
The number OF electric light COM
panies In the United States is esti-
mated at 5000.
About 2,735, 600. 900 tons of solid
substances are annually carried by
rivers to the ocean.
Alexander Pope. the poet was four
feet six inches high, and was unable
to dress or undress himself.
Great Britain takes from the North
sea enough fish TO supply 20 pounds
each year to each inhabitant
Paris plans to obtain 500, GOO cleo
trical horse power by damming the
River Rhone at a point 800 miles from
the city.
An ant can carry a grain of corn
ten times its weight, while a man or
horse can carry a burden Of only
their own weight
Spain is building the fourth largest
concrete dam in the world to i'm
pound about 100000, 900 cubic yards
Of water for hydro electric purposes.
More than 90 per cent of the refin-
ing and smelling of Dresses and scrap
metals in the United States is carried
on in the territory east of the Missis-
sippi and north OF the Ohio river
Insulated with a specially prepared
paper, an electric cable carrying TO-
600 volts. In England, was found in
perfect condition after more than %
years of service.
Concrete piles have been patented
with pipes running through their CEN
tiers through which water can be
pumped TO wash away the earth and
permit them TO sink under their own
weight.
The queen of Norway is the most
economically attired queen in Europe.
she spends 81 900 yearly on her dress.
The queen of Spain is the most ex-
travagently dressed queen. Her dress
bills run TO about $4,000 a year.
The guns used in 1882 at the bonn
bardment OF Alexandria, Egypt, were
OF sixteen-inch bore. an inch larger
than the biggest British naval cannon
of today. while four years later that
navy had guns Of 1925 inches calfber.
Fires are so scarce in Holland that
the city of Rotterdam. with a popula-
ton of more than 5000, has practi-
cally no fire department while the
numerous canals offer an ever-ready
water supply to fight any fires which
might occur.
The word hello" has been saved
10 popular usage by the telephone.
and by that alone. Thirty-1ve years
ago there was real crusade against
the so-called slang phrase. and the
great conversational invention came
10 the rescue just in time.
E. L. Smith. son OF the Rev. Samuel
Francis Smith, who wrote the words
Of America" is a clerk In a drug
store at Lamanda Park. Cal. having
refused a competency for the famous
manuscript. and presented II to the
University OF California.
In three days Prest Stanley OF the
Cleveland Railway Co. signed John
]. Stanley" 10000 times TO papers
which will be necessary for conduct
ing the railway companys business for
the next month while Stanley Is at
the San Francisco exposition
Scientists have determined the
cause OF humphack deformity. and
predict the humpback will be curl
osity hundred years from now.