Salt Lake Telegram | 1905-01-30 | Page 4 | Odds and Ends

Odds and Ends j Fifteen war vessels are under construction construc-tion in tne docks of Germany. The number of adult women employed in the factories of Germany In 1903 was . The method employed by the captains of the Nile boats to keep the natives away on landing is to turn the hose on them. The University of Pennsylvania now has 33 officers of instruction and 1975 students stu-dents In attendance, or an increase over last year of twenty officers and 283 student. stu-dent. e e The fiftieth year of the regular weekly publication of the sermons of the late Rev. Charles H. Spurgeon has Just been completed. The Jubilee sermon is numbered num-bered 2S96. The Rev. K. W. Wottrott. the American Ameri-can missionary who for twelve years has been laboring In Central Africa. Is visiting visit-ing this country. He works among the people of the Satnameas sect. The American Bible Society has recently re-cently received a number of interesting communications from its agent in Japan, the Rev. Mr. Loomis, who says: "Wo have donated more than 12.000 Testaments and Gospels among the 46,000 wounded Japanese soldiers." According to the Board of Trade returns re-turns Just Issued, 6765 casualties to British Brit-ish vessels were reporUd on or near the coasts of the United Kingdom from July, 1XJ. to June, 1903, an Increase of 447 over the preceding year. The number of lives lost was 624. a lower number than in any of the previous twenty-four years, for which the annual average loss was ltHS. The lives saved from the wrecks of 1903 numbered 2634. e A German review contains sn article by BertsreUl on a new adulteration of coffee. The roasted beans are plunged in a per cent solution of borax and then left to dry. The borax makes them shine and absorbs the water, thus adding to the weight of the coffee. The way to discover this ingenious fraud is to dry the coffee, and If it loses over 4 per cent in weight there has been a fraudulent fraud-ulent absorption of water. London Globe. see In one of the London salesrooms the other day a book was sold for $30,000. it was a Latin psalter of 1469. and the price was the second highest ever given in auction for a printed book. The record price for books printed with . movable types is 124.760. given In the same rooms. December IS, l4. at the Sir John Hay-ford Hay-ford Thorold sale, for another and slightly slight-ly finer copy of the same work, the sec-ondbook sec-ondbook prtntsdwlth the date at the