The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-14
NUBs OF KNOWLEDGE.
The inventor of the roller skate made

The inventor of the roller skate made
81, 600 900.
Contrary to popular belief excitement
causes much less insanity than monotony.
Every boy in Germany, from the Crown
Prince to the meanest subject, is Obliged
to learn some useful trade.
There are in Europe Il reigning Prin-
cesses OF manageable age and only AZ
corresponding Princes.
Milan intends TO have worlds fair
in 1904 by way Of celebrating the COM
pletion of the Simplon tunnel
Paris has a burial vault fitted with
electrical Appliances for the detection
of recovery of cataleptic subjects.
In the course of the last decade the
manufacture of cotton goods has become
a firmly established industry in Brazil
The natives of Central Africa kill twins
as soon as they are born, and force the
mother either to kill herself or become
an outcaSt.
Queen Victoria has, at Windsor castle,
the most costly dinner service in the
world. 1t is of solid gold and is valued
at $4,O00,00O.
The Kansas Bureau of immigration
has shipped east samples of corn II feet
high; also tomato stalks six feet high,
with fruit at the very top.
| The sword blades forged at Toledo by
the Saracens could be coiled up like a
/ straightness as soon as released.
| The Italian statlstician, Luigi Bodio,
reports in the Giornale degli Economist
| that the italian railways carried in 1897
nearly 12,5OO.OOO foreign passengers.
An enterprising western firm Is making
arrangements to set up a modern Ameri-
can sawmill in China, where lumber is
l still sawed by the primitive methods of
| a century ago.
Wireless telegraphy ought to have a
future in Spain. Both the telegraphic and
| telephone systems suffer greatly from
| thieves, who cut and carry off the wire,
often in broad daylight.
The authorities in Algeria gave $4,000
toward fighting the grasshoppers. In
one section $500 camels were employed
| to carry the material for burning over
the places where eggs had been deposited.
| In Nelson (New Zealand) If you use
| hte telephone you must not give the
| number: you must name the party you
want, and the exchange girl will cheer
| fully tell you whether he is in or out
If the latter, where he is and when he
| will be back.
A German officer has invented an ace
tylene searchlight which can be carried
| by one man and which will illuminate
| everything within a distance of 100 yards
1t is expected to be of great use in
searching for the wounded after a battle
and In bridge building at night.
| 1t is customary among kafr tribes
when trouble is brewing amongst them
selves or with white races, to skin oxen
alive in order to ascertain which side will
win. A white OK represents the Dutch
red the English and black the natives
| Whichever lives the longest is assumed tC
portend the victor in battle
The French war Office is rejoicing over
a new civilizing influence which may out
do even the English dumdum bullet. II
is a rifle invented by a Captain Daude-
teau. and experiments have proven how
deadly weapon 1t is. At 1000 yards
the bullet went clean through a horse
placed obliquely TO the line Of fire, the
bones in the track of the bullet being
shockingly smashed.