Miscellaneous.

Lake County Press, Issue 2390, 24 August 1911, Page 7

Miscellaneous.

i \o fewer than 541,020 spectators atjndecl the displays in the first round f the English cup-ties, and the Kate- J toricy aggregated £17,810. Silk cocoons to the weight of about I tons, and worth nearly £22,000, re exported from the British island i Cyprus in the course of a year. One of the largest and most cumberome forms of money is found in ,'enlral Africa, where the natives use cruciform ingot of copper oyer ten iichcs long. It is heavy enough to ie a formidable weapon. Baccarat, fiance, has the honor of uoducing the first glass that is unireakable. The new # process has >een successfully applied to the raanuacturc of lam]) chimneys for use in :oal mines containing much fire-damp. I'he glass-makers of Baccarat have ils.) succeeded in increasing the elasicity of the glass. This they aeon; plish bv adding magnesia and oxde to the ordinary crystal glass. In a single block in New York here are i4oo*people of twenty disinct nationalities. There are more han two-thirds as many native-born rish in Boston .as in Dublin. With heir children, mainly of pure Irish blood, they make Boston indubitably lie leading Irish city in the world. \'ew York is a larger Italian city tolay than Koine, having 500,000 ltal.lll colonists. It contains no fewer han 000,000 Jews, mainly emigrants from Russia. Thus it is almost the orrrnost Jewish city in the world. 'ittsburg, the centre of the iron and ;tcel industry, is another Tower of label. It is said to contain more of [hat out-of-the-way people, the Serbians, than the capital of Servia itiClf. SCIENCE AND MARRIAGE. The Stale of Indiana has passed a aw which requires all male applicants or a marriage licence to present a rertiheate of good health signed by a ihvsician. The minority in the Legslaturc argued that marriage should )e ruled by romance alone, and not >v science. The law passed by fif-y-onc votes against thirty-three, ?ixcen members of the House refusing 0 vote. *IEW WAY OF CHOOSING A WIFE. Ma'.ha is the chief town of the ar ondissement of Saint Jean d'Angely. iome days ago the serenity of the ilace was disturbed by the crier with as trumpet, which, by the way, has eplaced the drum, making the folDwing announcement: —"Two young nen desirous of an early mlinage, ilarc themselves at the disposition of he girls of the town of an age to marv. The young men arc now at the 'afe , and will be pleased to meet ,'irls desirous of marriage, and will five all particulars concerning themelves." MADE OF OLD CUNS. Several of the monuments erected to anions British soldiers have been nade out of the gun-metal captured n their victories. The most famous if these is the equestrian statue of he Duke of Wellington at Allershot. The Guards' Crimean Memorial, erected on the open .pace between the United Serice Club-house and the Athenaeum • lub. was cast out of cannon taken it Sebastopol. The statue of Whillcs, in Hyde Park, erected by he women of England to Arthur Duke if Wellington and his brave companons in arms, was cast from cannon aken at the victories of Salamanca, .'ittoria. Toulouse, and Waterloo. The .ipital of the Nelson Column is of I'onze. cast from cannon recovered i.;n the wreck of the Royal George. AMERICA'S RICHEST CIRL. Miss Catherine Barker, of Chicago, igej fourteen, inherits £0,000,000, the ■mire fortune of her father, John iarker, constructor of tram and railvay cars, and a highly successful investor, wlio tlied in December. She s now described as the richest girl n 1 lie country, being worth .just louble as much as Miss Helen Gould, i\ New York, and three times as mu'h as .Miss Jennie Crocker, oi ■>an I'Tancisco, the two young ladies learesl her in worldly possessions, atherine lost her mother last June, ■;; d is now in charge of a governess. One oi the late millionaire's prejuiices was a hatred for cigarette smndng. lie urged Nelson Barnes, a oung broker ol New York, who was hen 1 ngaged to his favorite ncicc, to it cigarettes. His urgings were in vain, and at !a~t he said: ••Barnes, if hi throw away that cigarette, and ,!eilee your word of honor never to -.moke another, I'll give you ten housand pounds." "Done,'' said '•unes. who gave his word, and 'ihuith replaced the cigarette with igars. BTRANGE HISTORY OF THE WEDDING RING. There are plenty of theories about he origin of the wedding ring. An authority now gives us one that is litle known. Before the lime of minis md coinage, the gold money in Egypt .\ as worn in the form of a ring and usually worn on the finger, as conven'.enl method of carrying and safe keeping. The men and women, therelore, had all their gold, or wealth, nade into ring-, and for the majority of people these rings were no larger than tin- plain gold bands of tolav. Whim the groom placed the ring en the bride's linger, therefore, he meant exactly what the modern service makes him say —he did literally endow his bride with all his worldly ;eods. LIGHT AS A BURCLAR EXPELLER. Some lime ago one of the engineers of a large 1 electric lighting company devised a system of emergency lighting for residences, by which the turning of a master swifch at the head of ,he be .1 turns on thf lights all over ihe house. These- lights mav be ordinarily operated bv their respective

vitches in the usual way. but in case c master switch is turned on. they innot be turned off bv means of the dividual switches. This means, of lursc, that once the master switch ,s been thrown, any intruder in the use must beat a retreat. £EA OF SODA IN THE HEART OF AFRICA. This wonderful deposit occurs in uit fascinating corner of East Afn--1 which acknowledges the suzerain•of the British Empire—the East AfLca Protectorate. Majadi is situaed between the monster extinct volano Kilimanjaro, and the escarpment hich forms the boundary of the main lateau, and from the heights of the ltter eminence the depression of the arth's surface which has permitted he formation of the great stretch of lkali beds can be seen to glisten on he horizon like an ice-bound lock that ia s wandered from northern regions o the vicinity of the Equator. The noximitv of the great (fame reserve c'ds to the attractions which surround be traveller, whose good fortune eads him to explore the delightful and aried scenery throughout the limits I" the protectorate. The pioneers )f civilisation have already here done nuch work in the country, and the ipening up of the great commercial isset here depicted will still further ■dvancc the prosperity of a colony so happily placed in a unique position in he centre of the world's interests.