The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1916-08-10
THINGS WORTH KNOWING

New York has 900 Chinese laun-
dries.
France is stimulating attention to
gardening.
Britain contains 1900 interned
German prisoners.
Florida's highest point is 800 feet
above sea level.
Sheep dogs are free from tax in
the United Kingdom.
One ton of whale blubber will
yield 200 gallons of oil.
There are 100000 tons of stone
in the pyramid of Cheops.
Pennsylvania mines last year
yielded 46,797,784 tons of coal.
There are nearly 1000 stitches in
pair of hand sewed shoes.
New Zealand has an annual death
rate of less than 1 per cent.
Kern county, California, contains
55,842 acres of proved oil lands.
The Egyptian vulture was the
chief scavenger of the land of
Pharaoh.
An enamel to glaze pottery with
out the use of heat is German in
vention.
A four-year-old child is generally
twice as tall as it was at the time of
birth.
Japanese are said to have invented
matches that will light perfectly
even when wet.
Pennsylvania will plant black
cherry trees in the state reserves to
provide food for birds.
1t requires one ton of musk rose
petals to distill one pound of pure
, altar Of roses.
The average inhabitant of this
earth probably uses more than two
pounds of provisions day.
Swine provided 60 per cent of the
total meat consumed in the German
empire last year.
Kentucky and Pennsylvania pro
duce nearly all the camel coal min
ed in the United States.
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sun goggles is a shade to protect q
wearer's nose from sunburn.
In northern India sheep are used
as beasts of burden. They carry a
load Of twenty pounds each.
Canada's 1915 crop yield is valued
at $500 100000, with wheat heading
the list at more than $312,0O0,OO0.
There are 1920 species of plants
used for commercial purposes. OF
these, 420 are used for perfumes.
The 160-acre farm of the States
Training School for Girls located
outside of Seattle, Wash, is run en-
tirely by women.
French scientists have discovered
new source of vegetable ivory in
the fruit of a small palm tree that
grows prolifcally in the Sudan.
Seventy-fve per cent, of the Wo-
men workers in Germany work ten
hours a day or more and their wages
weary from 10 to Is cents an
hour.
For use in French colonial waters
where rank vegetation would foul
submerged wheels shallow draft
boats have been built that are driven
by aeroplane motors and propellers.
Of German invention is a camera
small enough to be carried by a
pigeon which takes photographs
automatically as a bird flies with 1t
over a place of which information
is desired.
Forestry experts have found that
plant growing luXuriantly In the
Philippines and heretofore thought
weed is used in other parts of the
Far East for the production OF
camphor.
A Brooklyn woman who a few
years ago began making rag dolls
for one retail toy shop now employs
800 girls in her factory and farms
out work to 500 women in anc
around New York City.
New York City has 58,977 chaut'
feurs.
The greatest depth known to have
been attained by submarine is 285
feet.
German is the mother tongue Of
more than 100000 residents OF
the United States.
The famous Trinity church in New
York City was erected seventy years
ago this year.
The first standing army of modern
times was established by Charles VII
of France in 1445.
The island of Nantucket now has
telephone communication with the
outside world for the first time II
her history.
Cambridge, Mass now has a one
man commission to handle the pub
licity and industrial development
work of the city.
Kansas City, Kan, has adopted
the safety zone system for all the
principal streets and busy street ca
intersection points.
One of the largest of the motor
n;cture corporations in America
makes a special feature OF the pro
duction of railroad stories.
The Columbia river bridges, Whlct
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