The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1889-11-30
BITS or INFORMATION.

Each time a 1l0-ton gun is fred.
81 300 goes out of the Treasury.
Ambulances first appeared in 1897,
and military hospitals soon after.
About three hundred thousand ,ele-
phones are in use 10 the United
States.
Several million persons are en-
ployed in the cultivation Of the vine
10 France.
Nearly one-half Of the 467 doctors
of medicines IN Boston University are
women.
The estimated population of Utah
is 100000, an increase of $4,000
since 1880.
There are $4,000 Mermons in
Utah's total population of 100000
Washington Press.
The American Bank Note ComPa-
ny prints 10000, 900, 900 postage
stamps per year.
Settlers ia the Bend country,
Wash, have to ride 40 miles to get
their mail and 10 vote.
There are about three thousand so
licitors In London and sixteen thou
sand in the provinces.
II Is said that the population of
Norway exhibits the highest known
percentage of light eyes.
The jetty of Fort Stevens, Or, is
three miles long and wide enough for
four railroad tracks.
The first power looms for making
rag carpet have just been designed by
a German carpet weaver.
The Oldest bank notes are the " fly
ing money" or convenient money
first issued in China 26e7 b. G.
There is a religious sect for every
1888 persons in Victoria, Australia,
or 80 denominations for 100000
people.
About 5000 Dakota Indians will
become full fledged citizens as soon
as lands are allotted to them in sever
atty.
The Argentine Republic possesses,
roughly speaking, about 100000
head of horned cattle aud about 130,-
600, 900 sheep.
Two million cents are about to be
coined. This sounds big, but how
far will they go among the ten million
boys of this couptryf
1t Is said that there are over ak
hundred thousand regular opium
eaters in this country There are
over twenty thousand in Chicago
alone.
The population of Kansas as re-
turned by the assessors one year ago.
was I 1,51s,552; for this year the same
returns make the population cf the
State 1,464,9l4, loss of 53,6Ss, or
ga per cent.
In transmitting q message from San
Francisco, Cal, to Hongkong, China,
via New York. Canso, Penzance,
Alden. Bombay, Madras, Penang and
Singapore, about fifteen minutes are
consumed.
The man who invented the roller
skate made 81 900, 900 out of it, and
probably does NOT care now that there
is enly one roller rink open in this
country, small one in little Kan
sas town. Fl Chicago Times.
In East Turkestan, As well as IN the
extreme north, there are almost no
thunder storms. The northern limits
of thunder storms are Cape Ogle,
northern part of North America, lce-
land. Novela Semelja, and the coast
of the Siberian ice sea.
Five men of every hundred cannot
be trusted with other peoples money.
This is what the English surety COM
panies have learned from their exper-
ence. In the United States the busi.
ness Of furnishing bonds for fidelity
il too recent tn warrant any such de-
ductions.
w en- the bark from which quinine
Is made was gathered from wild
trees iu Central America, the price of
the drug was 50 an ounce. Now that
the trees are planted and cultived, the
supply of bark has increased and the
price of quinine has fallen to 30 cents
an ounCe