The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-23
NUBS OF KNOWLEDGE.

Artificial cotton is being manufactured
in Austria.
Until 1910 New York city had no regu-
lar police force.
About one German woman in every 81
works in a factory.
Spaniards are leaving Cuba in great
numbers for Spain.
The empress of China has over 1000
dresses in her wardrobe.
There is only one sudden death among
women to eight among men.
The estimated value of the worlds
product of slate is S16,60O,OOO
A journal called the Automobile has
already appeared in New York
The lifeboats around the British coast
during the last year rescued $50 people.
Twelve American cities own their gas
plants and lS0 own their electric light
plants.
Many scions Of European royalty hold
military commissions before they are old
enough to walk.
There are 4.2OO species of plants used
| for commercial purposes. OF these APO
are used for perfumes.
Projectles for modern big and rapid
| fire guns require about half their weight
| in powder to fire them
Lightning a few weeks ago fused a
| plate gas window in Chicago into the
! form of perfect cross.
! Thirty-two mayors Of English prov
| ircial towns are said to have signed the
pledge of total abstinence.
| General Ludlow will soon open $50
schools in Havana. These schools will
! accommodate $4,000 children
OF the worlds annual yield of petro-
leum, amounting to 5OOO,OOoOOO gallons,
| the United States produces half.
Thirty years ago there were only two
dozen explosive compounds known to
| chemists; now there are over 1000
The total displacement Of ships now un-
der construction for the British navy
amounts to no less than ass, 900 tons.
According to tradition Arabic figures
were derived from Solomon's seal, upon
which they can all be traced with q little
care.
An analysist has made the discovery
that California roses contain 20 per cent.
more perfume than roses grown else
| where.
A new process introduced in the pro-
poisoning among the workmen over 80
duction Of mirrors has lessened mercury
per cent
| More mail is being sent out of Chica go
| at the present time than ever before in
the citys history. The total Is about Y
per cent. greater that it was at this time
last year.
The department of agriculture is now
sending butter and cheese to six different
ports in the Orient in Japanese ships
and the government is sending whole car
goes of goods in ships which do not fly
the American flag,
There never was so much corn in the
Mississippi valley as there is this year.
In Kansas and Nebraska they are talk
ing of sending a cord of cancelled farm
mortgages to the Paris exposition as Il
sample of western prosperity,
Returns from the several districts re-
ceived at the bureau of internal revenue
show that there was a gain in the inter-
nal revenue receipts of the country in
July Of s207, S02 over those of the same
month i'm 1898, the total receipts last
month being $2S0l22S7.
One of the most fashionable nelghbor-
hoods I'm Chicago is overrun with cater
pillars. A cloud of butterflies descended
there a few days ago Soon they were
everywhere except in the dwellings, and
If the windows and doors were not well
screened, they even invaded houses. The
sidewalks Of Prairie avenue from Eight
eenth street TO Twenty-second street
We're covered with them, Women walk In
the streets 50 as not TO sweep them up
with their skirts. Great patches of grass
! have been eaten down to the ground.