The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1891-01-31
SCRAPS OF INFORMATION.

There are over a hundred railway
stations in London.
A ton of tomatoes as they come from
the field, it is estimated, will fill from
400 to 450 cans.
There are in European Russia two
hundred aud twenty-three sugar fac
tories producing sugar from beets.
A French writer has recently called
attention to the fact that English lace is
frequently charged with white lead.
Over three hundred thousand dollars
to Constantinople yearly for the ladies
of the Turkish harems.
In minute an express train goes a
mile and a street car 80 rods; the fast
est tr0tting horse l4S rods and an aver
age pedestrian has got over l6 rods.
The salary OF the president of Japan's
congress or diet is four thousand dol
lars. and he holds cfIice for four years.
The vice. president gets two thousand
dollars.
The latest article to be manufactured
from corn is soap. Experiments have
shown that bushel of corn with the
proper amount of alkali will make 200
pounds of soap.
A bushel of peanuts subjected to very
high pressure yields one gallon of oil
In some countries the peanut, castor oil
bean and sunfiower are grown exien
sively for oil alone.
The Metzger Zeitung, ,one of the mos
popular journals OF Luxembourg, has
been suppressed for six months because
il contained recently articles rejecting
upon the new grand duke.
There are only about twenty really
great diamonds i'm the world. The most
famous of them have come from Col.
conda and Brazil but the largest are
from the South African fields.
A rapid penman can write so words
in minute. 10 do this he must draw
his quill through the space of rod
| l61 feet. In 40 minutes his pen travels
a turlong, and In FIVE hours and third
q mile.
According to the reports of the ex.
else commission the crop of tobacco in
European Russia amounted this year tC
4, ,406.4 pools, of which the provinces
OF Little Russia yield l.7S5,S6 and
those of the southwest l0S, ,6l3 poOds.
So serious has the plague of rabbits
become in New Zealand that mercan
lie company connected with that coun
try is paying seven shillings six penc
apiece fer stOats to certain agents II
England, delivered alive and in goo
condition.
In every tobacco factory at Key Wes
there is "reader." Cubans and Span
iards can not talk without gesticula
ton. In order to keep them from talk
ing and dropping their work in orde
to use the hands person is employed
to read aloud during working hours.
The Japanese census shows that tn
population u year ago was 40,072,O20-
20245, 1886 males and l9, ,S25 ,6S4 female
7,S4O.S72 inhabited houses, 3d. 1925 mobiles
,993,6S7 shlZuku, or members of tn
old military class, 3S,O74 ,55S "commol
people, and 7 AS, ll9 married couples
Ninety public sanitary inspectors Wis
tied the crematorium at Woking. Th
carcass Of a sheep was cremated I
show the working of the system
takes all hour To reduce an adult huma
body to ashes. which wuuld measur
from half to three parts of a gallon.
1t is estimated that water leakin
through hole just large enough to pas
needle through, during twenty-fou
hours, al IA pound pressure, woul
be sufficient to supply a house tor
day. The waste through a one-iuc
pipe under the same conditions woul
be | .l40 gallons.
The greatest meat eaters in the worl
are the people of America, whose ave
age consumption is 10 pounds pt
annum. The English come next, wit
an average OF a little over 40 pounds
Tho French eat only half as much me,
as the English, and the people of Gel
many, Austria and Italy still less.
Castor gloves have had quite a his
s tory, The word indicates the skin
3 the beaver, but the best French caste
t gloves were formerly made of thin de,
l skin, and were soft, durable and eA
a pensive. Shaved lamb or sheep ski
h were displaced by American casio
y made of antelope skins from our ives
= ern plains.
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