The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-13
THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 49,

turned out It's twenty thousandth large
gun for European armies.
Among the infantry regiments OF the
British army are 10 nominally Scotch,
Irish, Welsh and AZ English.
The population of Jerusalem has been
rapidly increasing of late, and is now
about 1000; of these 2S0O0 are Hebrews.
An English statistcian declares that
crime. considered In decennial periods,
bears n constant relation to population.
Western Australia has an act In force
prohibiting the landing Of anyone who
cannot write ont n given passage in Eng
lsh
The house at Fa,kirk, Scotland, in
which Prince Charlie slept before the
historic battle of i7iG, was recently re-
moved.
Women have more favorable chance
of life before reaching their 50th year
than men, but less favorable one after
that period
The genuine "nie!anolestes picipes,"
which name was given TO the mythical
kissing bug" has long but non-pols-
onous sting.
A new Italian gas, said to be 80 per
cent. cheaper than acetylene is composed
OF 80 parts of quicklime and each of
colophony ana calcium carbide
An expedition consisting entirely Of
women has been formed in Australia to
explore the Solomon Islands, the home
OF the fiercest canuihals known.
The latest thing in company promoting
comes from Paris. where a dogs ceme-
terry has been floated, with a capital Of
$4,000. The promoters are ladies.
In single year the value of Canaries
raised In Germany is estimated at $780,
and the greater part of this sum goes
into the pockets Of the very poor.
The 130- year-old vine at Hampton Court,
England, Is reported to be as vigorous
as ever, although it is not now allowed TO
produce as many grapes as in it's prime.
Ecuador produces nearly one-third of
the entire cacao used in the world. The
total is estimated at 5000 tons. The av-
erage crop of Ecuador is about % 200 tons.
Materials for dynamo and motor man.
ufacture have risen in year all the way
from IL per cent for cast steel to 40 per
cent for field copper and AZ per cent. for
brass
The shipment of two wives by express
from lssaquah, Wash, to their husbands
at Dawson City by the Nugget Express
company is something of novelty in the
express business.
Although there are in Iceland 70.327
people they are so free from crime that
only one policeman is kept and such a
thing as a Jail is unknown. Equal suf-
frage prevails in the island
Public story-tellers still earn a good
livelihood in Japan. In Toxic 600 of them
ply their trade, provided with q small
table. a fan and a paper wrapper 10 IL
lustrate and emphasize the points of their
tales.
The Berlin authorities have strictly
forbidden collections among school chill
dren for missionary and other purposes
on the ground that they prove a burden
/ to parents and create i'll feeling among
pupils.
The highest price ever paid in Berlin
for property was a corner measuring two
yards long and two wide, for which a
cigar dealer a few years ago paid $1,000
and which he sold the other day for
$4,000
But very sort time ago a Sicilan ad-
vocate was found guilty of sixty-three
different acts of fraud. For his indus
try and enthusiasm in the cause of dis
honesty he was sentenced to 1S9 years
imprisonment.
The velocity of light is 192, 900 miles in
a second of time. From the sun light
comes to the earth In eight minutes.
From some of the fixed stars of the
twelfth magnitude it takes 1900 years for
their light to reach us,
A Russian expedition will visit the
New Siberian islands next spring, with
the object of finding out the truth about
the mysterious SannikOw Land, which
several travellers assert they have seen to
the northeast OF Kotjelnoi
"Pompeii Alive is the suggestion Of an
Italian arChaeologist for one of the at
| fractions of the Paris Exhibition. He
| would have the forum, theater, temples
| and characteristic buildings represented
as they We're before the eruption of We
suVius.
The Central Association of London An
| glers has passed a resolution against the
| introduction of salmon to the Thames on
| the ground that the proposed experiments
| would jeopardize the rights of the citi
2ens of London to angle freely In the
| Thames.
| 1t is a curious property of the com
| pounds of tellurium that they have a
| putrid and unbearable odor. London
| physicians have taken advantage of this
| fact in prescribing it for feminine pa
| tients whom they wish to temporarily
! isolate from society.
| Housekeepers in Berlin are facing what
| seems to be a crisis in the servant ques-
tion. Recently the ''dicnstmadchen' have
| been seized with a fever for going into
| factories and dressmaking establish
ments, and now those who are left are
| forming a labor union.