Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-11-07
NEWS ODDITIES

First women preachers were
Quakers.
Venice, Italy. is built on 70 islands.
The Palace of Versailles cost $780,
600, 900.
Twelve hundred Of the 1000 miles
of the Yukon River are navigable.
India has $4,000 square miles OF
coal fields.
Harmless snakes destroy more ro-
dents annually than poisonous ones.
Aluminium dust is highly explosive
when mixed with air.
Canals of France have a total
length of more than 5000 miles.
Tungsten. metallic chemical els-
men;. was discovered in Sweden in
1891.
Pear trees when left alone some
times attain the height of go feet.
In manufacturing French perfume.
six ounces of ambergrls is used to
one gallon Of perfume.
InveDtitn of bells is attributed to
Bishop of Nola, in Cam
pania, about the year 400
Largest rain drops measured are
30 inches in diameter and fall at the
rate from 10 to 25 a second.
The wren builds more sham nests
than any other bird, before making
the real one.
Black Friday, May IL. 1855. was
20 named when a panic in financial
,.rcles made II necessary to suspend
he Bank Charter.
Yellow clay. at the bottom OF the
Yellow Sea. which is very shallow,
gives the water the color that is re-
ponsible for its name.
The school of sculpture was opened
It Athens in 56S b. c.
oysters attain the size usually
aten in about is months.
The fan palm is the only European
pecies.
Lichens, algae and MOSES are the
lmplest forms of plant species.
All compounds of copper are
oisonousI
India rubber from Para Central
.merica Is said to be the purest.
Iron in the perfectly pure state is
ractically unknown.
Early Roman money was coined
rom copper.
Plants and animals cannot exists
/ chemically pure rain water.
X-Rays were discovered by Pro-
essor Rontgen In 1895.
The first library donated by Car
egie was in Homestead Pennsyl-
ania.
University OF Leipsic was founded
n 1409.
The official residence of the
Prime Minister of England has been
n Downing street London since the
lme Of Sir Robert Walpole.
To see the Hopi Sake Dance, which
lsts about as minutes. one must
lake a trip of eight days from ALL
N. NJ. I
Penny as applied 10 the size of
ails IS believed to be corruption
. the word pound; thus a four
emmy nail Is one such that 1000 !
-elgh four pounds.
Cow-tree is an evergreen OF Cen
al and South America, whose sap
.osely resembles milk and is drunk
y the natives.
Flames pass from molecule to
lolecule in a gas explosion but are
by means OF minute par
cles of dust in the dust explosion,
is said.
Finely ground cork mixed with
nseed oil and then placed on fab
c coarsely woven, is a universal
,or covering called linoleum.
Gray parrots are found in Africa,
zen in South America, and the
ngle species, the Carolina para
,et, in North America.
The Great Chinese wall was be-
In about 210 B. c.
The name Yokohama, means
lcross the strand"
United States has 25.961 jewelry
ores.
Cremation of human bodies was
'acticed by the early Aryans
Nall manufacture by machinery
arted in 1910.
Mufi is an Arabic word and sig
hes an expounder OF the law.
The first ball game is said to have
zen played in Egypt.
Average depth of the ocean is
bout five times the average height
land.
Perugino, founder OF the Roman
,hool of painting. and who taught
aphaei, was>born an 1446.
Paper car wheels were invented I
1869 by Richard N. Allen. a loco !
lotive engineer.