Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-11-30
STRANGE FACTS THAT
FEW PEOPLE KNOW

Italy's graphic industries employ
more than $4,000 women.
Edinburgh university has nearly 500
women medical students.
There are approximately 5000 wom-
en- ministers in the United States.
The Basque women OF Spain think
they render themselves beautiful by
shaving their heads.
A lockwood (Me.) man set a trap
for fox which was killing his chick
ems, and got a silver gray fox worth
$1,000.
A college will be established in
China to teach the natives scientific
tea cultivation, special attention being
paid to sanitary conditions
A small railroad in Texas has sup
planted it's steam locomotives by
gearing six-cylinder automobile mo-
tors to the wheels of several boxcars.
Writing motion picture scenarios is
part of the urse in English compo-
sition of eighth grade pupils In some
of Philadelphia public schools.
An internal combustion locomotive
of 1000 horse power that uses crude
oil fuel is hauling passenger trains
experimentally on a European railroad.
A new automobile ambulance re-
SeLlDltS d llluOuSluc WHcH CiOocu, LILO
tire rack dropping to form a step when
the back is opened it's full width.
BY means of a laboratory on ship
board, it is proposed to make an in
vestigation of the ills of the tropical
possessions of America, Great Britain,
France and Italy.
Italian experts sent to investigate
the petroleum resources of the eau
casus have reported that the Batum
wells are capable of producing 100000
tons year.
At a cost of 100000 a cotton mills
corporation of Danville, Va, has erect
ed modern hotel, where several hum
bred of its women employees may live
at an expense of $3.50 a week.
| AS a result of prohibition, a work.
house in Camden. N. j., that brought
the city profit of $4,000 a year from
the work of habitual drunkards sent
there has been closed because of lack
of inmates.
| The striking uniformity of size
among the Japanese is illustrated by
the fact that measurements taken Of
an infantry regiment showed no vari-
atoms exceeding two inches in height
or twenty pounds in weight.
| The Belgian government has just
enacted law prohibiting the manu-
facture, sale. or keeping in stock of
matches containing white phosphor-
U.S. The law provides for the confisca-
ton and destruction Of the prohibited
products, as well as of the apparatus
used in their manufacture.
| There are no road rules nor speed
limits in Chile outside of the cities, but
the speed limit In the cities is rs kilo-
meters (fifteen and a half miles an
hour In the traffic rules of the various
Chilean cities there is a lack Of uni
formity the Valparaiso regulations re-
quiring an automobile to pass to the
fright Of q coming car, while in San
tiago 1t must pass to the left.
| Rice growing was first begun in
Manchuria by the Koreans who moved
into that country. but now the Chinese
are principally engaged in this indus
try. The Japanese are also opening
up wild lands for paddy fields along
| the railways in various parts Of Man.
churia, and the area of rice fields Is
increasing each year. The present rice
corn amounts to about 100000 bushels
annually.
! Italian Libia now comprises the two
provinces Of Tripolitana and Cirenai-
ca and lies along the north coast OF
Africa between Tunis (French) on the
west and Egypt on the east in longi-
ltude from about . to - degrees east.
The extreme northerly point Of Libia Il
at about the parallel Of latitude SO de-
grees north; the southernmost point Il
unknown, ~ the territory runs south
| into the unmapped Sahara indeflniteIv
Miss Ethel Mum. 10 years Ga. Il.
the first woman aviator to accomniish
the feat Of going from one airplane
TO another while both were in motor.
| At Chicago Miss Mum assembled in cns
plane, while another with rope lad-
der attached climbed to a level iust