The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-12-15
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

/ Day county, S. D., has produced two
crops of oats this season.
A feather of an eagle shot by Dewey
has been turned into pen by a Cincin-
natl man.
The longest ear Of corn ever seen in
south Jersey was raised this fall 1t is
171a inches in length.
England's Society For the Proven
ton of Cruelty to Children examined
$4,000 cases last year.
Leavenworth, Kan, claims the dis
tinction of being the first American
city in the shipment of apples.
Windmills, though only now becom-
ing popular for pumping water, were
known in Europe so far back as 11O5.
London has 1864 policemen, or 10
to every one of it's 6SS square miles.
! Sixty per cent of them are on night
duty.
England has imported from Spain
this year eight times as much iron ore
as she has taken from any other for
eign country.
In Bolivia salt is sold in cubes about
the size Of building bricks used in the
United States, being pressed into shape
when damp and allowed to harden.
Since the sale of alcoholic liquors in
France has been unrestricted the num-
! Der of drinking places has increased
until now there is one saloon for S5
inha
Only q per cent of the population of
! Bavaria is entitled to vote, and of the
Fl per cent only 80 per cent took the
trouble to vote at the last elections for
the landtag.
The construction Of a cigar box may
seem very simple matter to the
novice, but the box passes through II
different processes before it is ready
to receive the cigars.
The consumption of alcoholic drinks
in France seems to be greatly on the
increase, in spite Of the fact that her
population, if not stationary, shows
but an almost imperceptible increase.
Card playing has increased Of late in
Britain. The number of new packs
brought into use last year exceeded
2,25O,OO0 an Increase of 100000 on
the year before and of 100000 on 1896.
Australia offered a prize of 925,OOO
to any one who would rid the country
of rabbits, but after several people had
tried their hands no more satisfactory
solution was found than that of eating
them.
According to a London journal, the
Of CT in,
world is 1881. England has 131 and
her colonies 3,S43. The United States
has 268 different kinds and the repub-
lie of Salvador 272.
In 1916 the decadence of Ireland be-
gan in earnest and it has kept up ever
since. In that year the population was
S,295,O61, the highwater mark. On the
Both Of last June it was 4,531, O51, the
lowest ever known.
In Germany the capital for carrying
on the pawnshops by the municipal au-
thOrities is derived either from the
city treasurer or the city savings bank,
which is usually operated in connec-
ton with the shops.
AS dieting is considered one Of the
most efficient aids in modern medical
practice, the University of Berlin has
made arrangements with two schools
where medical students can take les
sons in the culinary art.
The car has revoked the law which
since 1865 has forbidden Poles to &C
quire real estate except by Inheritance.
They will still be restricted however,
both in Poland and in western Russia,
to Is hectares for one family.
One of the laundry trade journals re-
Gently noticed new antiseptic which
is intended to sterilize clothes when
being Numbered, thereby preventing
contagion. A formaldehyde solution is
solidified, and this is used by laundry
men.
A new kind Of embroidery used by
fashionable dressmakers is said to be
the invention of the queen of NADIA
gascar. 1t is of many colors on a dark
ground, and it appears to meet with
great approval from searchers after
novelty.
A German Psychologist attacks the
prevalent notion that sugar is injuri-
GUS to the stomach. He considers it
one of the most wholesome and nour-
ishing foods, admitting, however, that
dyspeptics should not eat sweet dishes
in the evening.
Ironcloth is made for the first time in
the United States at Worcester mill.
1t is a great industry in Manchester
and in Germany, but no American
manufacturer has before attempted it.
Ironcloth is used very extensively for
overcoat and ulster Innings.
Under the Belgian law unmarried
men over % have one vote, married |
men and widowers with families have
two votes, and priests and other per-
sons of position and education have
three votes. Severe penalties are i'm
posed on those who fail to vote.
The London poor suffer terribly from
overcrowding. According to The SAM |
tary Record, $3.50 persons lived in
4O57 tenementS with one room i'm the !