LITTLE BITS OF NEWS.
The Pension Office estimates, according to a correspondent of the Public Ledger, that the last soldier of the Civil War will die in 1955. This estimate is in accordance with the results obtained by students of vital statistics. A veteran who survives until 1955 will have lived 90 years after the close of the war. The last veteran of the war of 1812 died in New York a few years ago, after having lived more than 90 years after the close of that war, while the last soldier of the Revolutionary war lived 86 years after peace was declared.
The United States last year imported 153,000,000 pounds of cocoa, the greatest amount on record.
Coffee from the region around Oaxaca, Central Mexico, is said by experts to compare with the best Java.
Olive oil produced in Austria last year totaled 1,609,064 gallons, while the output in 1911 and 1910 was 1,956,921 and 820,787 gallons, respectively.
Honduras has one central university, located at Tegucigalpa, and five normal schools, at Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula, Santa Rosa, Comayagua and Santa Barbara. Over these the Minister of Public Instruction at Tegucigalpa, the capital, has direct control.
Reference has been made to the word cyclone as applied to the storms in the West. We are told by authorities that a cyclone sweeps over hundreds of miles of sea or shore, while a tornado, although having the same whirling motion, is never wider than a mile. The Omaha storm, while destroying a territory 24 blocks in length, confined itself to a width of only about two blocks. Had it been a cyclone of equal strength, we are informed, nothing of the Omaha section would have escaped destruction.
The Cigar Manufacturers’ Association, of Tampa, Fla., proposes a plan, so says the Tobacco Leaf, to obtain legislation giving makers of clear Havana cigars the privilege of making their goods under the supervision of the Government. The plan is to have clear Havanas labeled as such by the Government and mixed and domestic goods to bear labels testifying to their “character.”