Show I BITS OF INFORMATION TION I Tho treasures of tho the Louvre Loune are now guarded by watch do dogs s. s Chile Chilo is now exporting nitrate at tho the rate of over tons a year made American made automobiles are popular popular lar in Norway Tho The character 0 of the roads there however make their USG use somewhat limited j Five Fh-e is the sacred number of ot the Chinese Chinese Chi CM- nese who have havo five planets five cardinal cardinal car car- dinal points five virtues five tastes five fi musical tones five ranks of nobility and five o colors British India has miles mites of telegraph telegraph tele tele- graph raph and cable wires in operation Since Sinco 1902 1902 03 03 the annual earnings s of tho the cables between India and Europe show profits of from to Tho The building of the Chicago draina drainage e I canal has been the means o or of so 50 in lug ing the sanitary conditions in that city that the death rato from typhoid and similar diseases has hua been reduced per cent Tho The principal railway line in Korea extends from Fusan on the south sonth to New Now on the Yalu river on the north This his line is of the standard American gauge au c. c and all tho the locomotives locomotives locomotives tives now in uso use were imported from tho United States The British consul at reports that tho total exports of camphor from Formosa in 1907 1901 amounted to pounds of which 2 pounds was sent sont to Havre Havro London and Hamburg Hambur 1635 pounds to America and poun pounds 18 s to Madras Consul Hunter Sharp of ot Kobo Bobo advices advises advises ad ad- vises vises vices that tho value o of the raw cotton imported into Japan during the first three months montha of 1903 1908 was against during tho the same sarno period last bat year Owin Owing to trade trado depression de de- there is is a congestion in stocks Many of tho Japanese porcelain factories fac fac- factories tories are not paying expenses and production pro pro- has been reduced by 30 to 40 per por cent In Tsu Tsu-maki-mura Tsu maki mura twenty eight ht of tho the eighty porcelain factories have suspended owing to the tho decrease in American and Chinese imports Since Sinco the war the great Nitsui Trading Trading Trad Trad- ing company of Japan has done dono an annual an nual business of with ith Europe America Australia and Asia over tho the world tho the company compau has bas six seventy officers and 1300 em em- Tho The company and its business are ara to be bo reorganized to suit tho the chan changed cd conditions During the last winter the twenty one German universities enrolled matriculated matric matric- matriculated women and 2504 female visitors There was an nn increase over the preceding ing ing- winter of 35 matriculates and of visitors The matriculates were divided amon among the tho 8 universities where thoy they are aro allowed entrance as follows Munich Heidelberg 65 Freiburg 53 Leipsig Leipsig Leip- Leip sig 36 Jena 20 9 Wurz Wurz- burg burs 8 Erlangen en 4 I Tho The West Nest I India dia committee circular states that application has been made for a patent for or a process of extract extracting n wax from tho the sugar cane It seems that tho the rind of the tho cane cano contains a certain proportion of wax which has hitherto been lost with tho the refuse B By the new process this wax is now recovered from he the filter refuse and turned to commercial commercial commercial commer commer- cial use bein being very similar in its characteristics characteristics char char- to beeswax Consular Consular Re Re- ports In tho the fiscal year ended Juno 30 1907 the production of cotton seed in th the United States was tons of which tons were converted into manufactured products gal sal Ions of oil and tons of cake and meal as well as vast ast quantities of and hulls bulls were secured The exports exports exports ex ex- ports were tons of cotton seed valued valued val val- at gallons of oil valued at and tons tens of cake and mea meal valued at 17 As a n result of or long experiments made in the tho ministry of ot agriculture ng has been advised that rubber trees can be bo successfully cultivated in that part of i Italy The rubber secured from tho the experimental experimental ex ex- trees has been carefully tested by a Milan manufacturer and has proved to be bo of good quality The official report declares s that conditions of of soil and temperature are equal in Scaly to those in in the tho best rubber raising coun coun- tries Consular Consular Reports Consul Julean H. H Arnold writing fro from m gives deta details Js from reports b by mn the Formosan government experts on o othe n tho the progress made in boring for petroleum petro petro- leum in tho the northern part of that tha t island One Ono company compan has d td ts on developments and has wells well s now producing 1200 to 1500 gallons gallon daB daily Tho The transportation costs being hieb hi j the company plans to construct a 1 I refinery at station to which h I point it ma may be possible to pipe the tho products products products pro pro- ducts of its wells welly Of or a rO revival rOal al of sm in China the North China Daily News says sas II It It is i stated that there thero are a largo large o number of idle persons devoting themselves to i teaching people fencing and boxing in Chenghua K province pro Their r teaching also consists of makin making charms by bJ- which people are supposed to become become become be be- come possessed of power to resist sword cuts and bullets Recently a well-to-do well merchant with official ran rank k also joined the society This step became became became be be- came known to the district magistrate of Chen Chenghua hua and led to the tho mans man's ar ar- rest More fore monc money is invested in cane su sugar ar arI than in any other industry except coal mining mining- in Natal colony South I Africa and it is only short of tho the coal minin mining investment The Thc sugar ar arI I investment is 1300 Tho The 1906 oro- oro was short tons valued at and tho the 1907 production ie estimated at tons worth 68 fl a aton aton aton ton or about 10 per cent of Louisiana's output American sugar mills miUs imported arc are more expensive than those made in England says Consul Edwin S. S Cunningham Cunningham Cun Cun- of Durban Natal |