The sun., 1897-12-12
FACTS IN 4 FEW LINES.
Kansas City has university up stairs
and a college in "a basement.


through the Suez canal 81 are British.
Compressed air is to be the motive
power of wooden mill at Almonte,
Ont
If we'll could be dug to a depth of
46 miles, the air at the bottom would
be as dense as quicksilver.
Exports of the United States to Co.
lombia increased from $2,7S5,0OO in
1894 to $3,3S3, 600 in 1896.
Alaska has a seacoast Of &c, 900 miles,
exceeding that of the remainder of the
United States nearly az times.
A Massachusetts man 72 years old
was recently sent for two years to the
penitentiary for stealing three hens.
The silver peso of Cuba is equal to
9212 cents of United States money, and
the gold doubloon is equal to $5.Ol1.
The Amazon has !, 100 branches or
tributaries. Its principal tributary is
the Maranon, navigable for 1868 miles.
Out of every 100 young men called
out for military service in Italy III 1855
90 We're excused for physical untitness
Or other reasons.
The United States now buy from
Venezuela annually about $4,000, 900
worth of products and sell to her only
$4,000, 600 worth.
France enjoys the largest share of the
commerce of Colombia. This is owing
doubtless to the large French outlays
for the Panama canal.
There are only three negro telegraph
operators i'll this country, but they are
all first class. Somehow black people do
not take kindly to electricity.
"Closed ON account of sickness till
Monday. l am not expected to live,'
was the notice found recently OH the
door of a small laundry in Utica, N y.
Newfoundland is remarkable for its
lakes and pools. They are of all sizes,
shapes and depths, from tiny pools to
immense sheets of water over so miles
in length.
1t will surprise some people to know
that during the busiest time on the At
lantic cable, between 10 and ~ o'clock
in the forenoon, an average of 900 mes
sages pass each way every day.
Travellers in Sweden report that tho
street cars in that country seldom stop
for passengers. Both men and women
jump on and off while they are moving,
and accidents are scarcely ever heard Of.
Birmingham, England, turns out
every week 300, 600, 900 cut nails, lOO,
600, 600 buttons, 1000 miles Of wire Of
different sizes, 5 tons of hairpins, 500
tons Of nuts and 2O,0 pairs Of spec
tacles.
A runaway team in Gloucester the
other day ran into big telegraph pole,
breaking the neck Of one of the horses.
The shock Of the collision set off the fire
alarm box on the pole and called out
the department.
Plants growing near the sea have
thicker leaves than those growing in-
land. Apparently the sea salt is the
cause Of this phenomenon, as plants
cultivated i'll artiticially saltcd soil
yield thicker leaves.
Not long ago professor Of the Uni
vcrsity Of Chicago advertised in morn
ing paper for information concerning
hcXadactylous, Or six fingered, people.
lie received lj5 answers from six tocd
or fingered people.
The cod fisheries Of Newfoundland
have been followed forncarly 400 years.
They greatly exceed those Of any other
country III the world. The average rX-
port Of cod il about 1850, 600 hundred
weight per amUn.
st. Georges lay, Newfoundland, con
tains an iMmr nSc cOalticld fully 2Umilts
il length and 10 in breadth. 1t has been
estimated that if the output were to
reach *J0, GOO tons per alnum the coal
beet would not !r exhausted in o. cen
tury.
At the present time there are about
40 lighthouses and IracunS erected aud
maintained by the Newfoundland GOV
Ulmcnt. There are also fog signals and
bill huoys at the most dangerous points
round the coast. These warnings cost
about SO, 600 IL year.
\ perfect skeleton Of the extinct Irish
elk has been discovered at Bcllulough.
in tn" is!c Of Man. 1t was found in
standing position ten feet beneath the
surface" he Irish elk was the contc,n-
porary i'll Britain Of the mammoth and
Of the wuolly rhinur,rus
Sir Algcmon West declares in Tho
Nineteenth Century that $50, OGO per-
sons land in England every year at the
channel ports. All their luggage is ex-
amin"d ly Il large star # customs off
Gers, with the result )iitt no duty is col.
lrctcd worth speaking Of
Tin mining in East Cornwall is re-
ported to be virtually an extinct indus
try. There are many properties which
WITH Il little tcyclui Mcnt would in or
dinaly times BE- valuable. hat i'll the
present state Of the market investors
will make no advances. Many good
mines III the western district are also
closed.
Mr.. Elus s'chwcnk Of Gratcrsford.
Montgomery county, whose land bor-
aers on the Perkiomrn, has in his arlno- .
ry two tlintlock guns and two muzzlc
loading percussion cap guns One OF
the f1lntlock guns is il very old London
product and is 6 feet inches long from