The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-11-30

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cess at Bradford, England.
In 1914 there were in thi countr.
but five companies undertakjyE to pro
duce analyne dye stuffs. am how Their
are eighty engaged in THU business.
1t is estimated that the gross de.
livery expense of retail grocery store.
in the scountry is over SIS, 0o0,0 900 q
yesr a4aVLlaes
A gasoline engine driven dynamo
that is entirely automatic n its &C.
ton is attracting attention in Eng
land.
The Westinghouse Electric and Man
ufacturing Company employs at the
present time approximately $4,000 peo-
pie. The capital stock is $4,000, 100.
The gross sales last year were APP
proximately 100000, 900, and will be
considerably in excess of that this
year. The plants occupy approximate
ly 100 acres of floor space. The COM
pany controls several thousand pat
ents.
When it is realized that approx
mately three-tenths of / per cent of
a population are typhoid carriers, it
will not be surprising to find that a
large number of cases Of typhoid fe-
e can be attributed to an infection
which may be secured in swimming
pools.
Fowls are young when the breast
bone ends are tender and yield easily
under pressure of the fingers.
1t is said the flies will not stay in
a room where the windowpaaes are
of bright color.
The first farmer settler in Canada
who lived on the produce of the soil
was Louis Hebert, an apotheca4y from
Paris, who landed at Quebec in 1917
with his wife and children, and BIT once
started to clear and cultivate the soil
on what is now the site of Z catne-
dral of Quebec.
In Shanghai newspapers are sold
two and three times over. Collectors
go about gathering up newspapers of
the previous days issues, redistribu
ing them among the lower class popu-
lation. 1t is said that they ate then
further distributed by being sAnt out
to the villages and country dIctions,
where they are sold for a verk small
The whaling brig Viola ifcently
landed a piece of embergris Weighing
121 pounds and valued at $37,0p0.
One of the results of the waf is an
agitation for an abolition Of thk CID
on the railroads Of Eng
land and Canada.
The head hunters Of FormdBa are
it extremely difficult take
,amphor from the forests.
One of the toughest Of wopds is
that of the socalled Usage Orange,
however, is not an ora&ge at
III, but belongs to the nettle family.
Some idea of its strength may De had
rom ar eport made not long dfgo by
he forest service, which shows that a
thirty inches long and Nv inch
IS by two inches in crs
when Lent. breaks under oper Ct ~
There are twenty-three II; Is Tor
removing iron from public wataf sup
plies in New Jersey, according Ito the
latest report of the New JERSEY state
department of health.
If the 10 per cent of fiat rah con
who are using rs per dent OF
the Water pumped should have their
consumption reduced to the sarhe av-
erage rate as 80 per cent, who are US
ing 55 per cent of the water, says ID.
A. Reed, manager of the Duluth water
works, the saving would be 555,2EO,O00
gallons a year. The cost of power
alone thus saved would be $4,000 a
year, which, in four years, would be
sufficient to finish metering theBwhole
city. "A
The ~cocoanut palm is a land-i hker.
The fruit drops from the trees, Which
are usually at the waters edgdS and
doate away, being propelled to distant
places by the wind. AS soon as it
lands, it sends out roots and shoots,
and this is often the birth of ar island.
Not far from lake Victoria Nyanza,
there is to be found a large block of
almost chemically pure sesqui- carbon
ate of soda, covering fifty square miles
which is so valuable that it will prob
ably come in for some consideration
in the adjustment of the war.
The United States Bureau of stand
ards has developed a delicate thermo-
electric test for the purity Of platinum
Labor disputes are often settled in
China by a chamber Of commerce,
and after the award has been made
all the parties concerned take part in
a feast which is paid for by the side
which has won the decision.