Carbolic acid and aniline dyes are made from benzol, which heretofore has come chiefly from Germany. Since the war there has been a great shortage of this product, and chemists and manufacturers have given much attention to producing it in this country. Recently Secretary of the Interior Lane announced that Doctor Rittman, one of the department’s chemists, had discovered a method of producing benzol from petroleum, and this week he announced that he had made arrangements with a manufacturing firm to use the Rittman method. Rancher Battles with Trapped White Wolf. John S. Sherrod, the rancher near Glenwood Springs, Col., who caught a huge white wolf in his traps near Fruita, was in Glenwood Springs and admitted having experienced a very thrilling time in connection with the wolf, and the near loss of his life in the Grand River. The wolf was caught on the south side of the Grand River, and Sherrod had to cross in a boat. When landing on the north bank, the wolf sprang at the trapper, who grappled with the beast in order to save his life. The strain on the chain attached to the trap was too much with the two pulling on it, and it gave way, allowing the wolf and his captor to drop into the river, which is quite swift at this point. Sherrod was almost drowned in his efforts to keep the wolf’s head under water, but he finally succeeded in besting the animal, which he pulled out on the bank and killed with a club. The wolf’s pelt is worth one hundred dollars, and Sherrod seems to think he earned every cent of it. Some Facts You May Not Know. Among the rare specimens not open to public inspection in the Harvard Zoölogical Museum is what is asserted to be the largest frog in the world. It weighs about six pounds, is twenty-seven inches long from tip to toe, and of a slaty-black color. Its web feet are equal in size to those of a large swan. Only three of its kind have ever reached the United States. The smallest cows in the world are found in the Samoan Islands. The average weight does not exceed 150 pounds, while the bulls weigh about 200 pounds. They are about the size of merino sheep. The Siamese have a superstitious dislike of odd numbers, and they studiously strive to have in their own houses an even number of windows, doors, rooms, and cupboards. There is a tribe of Indians in Mexico whose language is limited to about 300 words and who cannot count more than ten. Next to the United States, Germany has the greatest number of telegraph offices and the largest line mileage. Sugar exists in the sap of about 190 plants and trees. The Chinese pupil reciting his lesson turns his back on the tutor. Warships taking refuge in a neutral port are liable to be disarmed after twenty-four hours. In some parts of Siberia milk is sold frozen around a piece of wood, which serves as a handle to carry it. Herons, which average only four pounds in weight, often have been known to eat more than three pounds of fish at a meal.