Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-04-17 | Page 13 | Facts of Interest

1 Facts of Interest 1 The tall c cocoanut palm tree tre helps supply ma mankind kind with buttons buttons buttons but but- tons soap c candles cand candy sugar butter paper rope baskets brushes mucilage and many articles To the savage it supplIes supplies supplies sup sup- plies all early needs building ma ina materials ma- ma trials fuel todd food sleeping mats drink and medicine The or shipworm which does great damage to ships piers pier and wharves has in its he head hea d small hard rard shells which form rm a adrill drill powerful enough to bore into the hardest woods Monks of the Benedictine ordeIn order orde In England are rebuilding the tab tab- ab abbey bey of in Devonshire o othe on the exact sp spOt t where it stood tood when it was destroyed 1000 years ears ago These monks monks' are noted beekeepers beekeeper Shoes fitted with safety garters garters garters gar gar- that slip u on over the toe an and sole a and d will wUl not slip off durIng durin the wriggling foot movements o othe of the Charleston are becoming popular popular popular pop pop- ular in London A portrait of King James I carved on a plum stone Incased In a crystal and framed In gold golc has hs been presented to the chapter ch I of ot cathedral If the housewives Of et the United Unite States were paid for their home horn service at the t rate tte of 15 11 IS a week the payroll would amount to 17 17 yearly early The first kindergarten In Amer Amer- lea Ica was started at Watertown Wi bv bj Mrs Carl Sch Schurz tz Butterflies not only to live when th their lr h heads ads are cut off but a actually survive those not de decapitated de- de Natural steam arising arising- from front geysers gey gey- sers has been employed in ill Japan to turn wheels which generate elec elec- tl Diluted add acid carried across the river rivel in fumes from pottery pottery pot pot- tery k kIln kilm Is causing tie magnesium magnesium magnesium magne magne- limestone of hi the house of ot parliament parliament par par- gradually lIy to turn to epsom salts The building has lost more than fhe thirty to tops tons s of coping ant am sculptured parts In the last few years During 25 1924 the of ot India spent less n 10 cents cent per capita for education As e early as B. B C. C the Chinese used fingerprints as as a means of ot identification After their messenger do dog h had hac d been serl seriously burped burned In carrying orders order from on one Sector of ot a forest foresi fire to another California forest orest rangers made an asbestos s coat for him The largest larget shoes in the United States army are those thos worn oth by a a toot foot to t 7 Inch soldier at Pt Ft Sherl- Sherl dan dab Th They y are re size alts 12 2 The p petrel trel which obtains Its food by apparently running u al along ng th the surface of or the se sea is named after St. St Peter wh who through g f tried to walk on the theSe Se Sea of Galilee During 1926 the United States deported de do- ported alIens alien allenC foUnd to be un- un awfully vf within its Us limits More lore han thab 20 were vere d debarred barrell before t they 1 y were able abie to enter the the country The Oreg Oregon n ball held each year yearn in n County Cork Jr Is sponsored spon spon- cored Bored by a group which Insists that th h he state of ot Ore rt In the United States was n nam named d after an Irish Explorer O tegan who dl discovered oV- oV ered ed it 1 t. t The The Tha Chinese are as a rule beard beard- l ess ss and th the razo there is used sed for cu cutting Ung th the hair The cassowary grows to a height of ot 6 feet In New G Guinea an and with it its ts powerful legs mind and rid sharp claws claw can defend itself against of Its ts enemies les Many tan of tho the salmon in order oi-der to spawn spa In th the rivers ri of of the theSa Sa tooth Sawtooth of Idaho trav travel ravel t a thousand mils miles from the sea The Tho cassowary lays from six to sight eight eggs ggs and these are incubated ted solely by th the nal aIsle T The e eggs es are aregO arego areso gO so large that one will furnish a meal for or several persons The longest Successful forward forwar jass ass Jass made thade b by Brick Drick Muller of the he University of California In hi 1920 van ilS seventy yards ards Workers in Brazil art are compelled by jy law to take an annual vacation of fifteen n days das