The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-27
NUBs OF KNOWLEDGE.
Kansas has 2,75O,OOO cows.
1t cost $4,000 to float the Paris.

Kansas has 2,75O,OOO cows.
1t cost $4,000 to float the Paris
Exports for the wear ended June S0
1899, were Sl,227, 7,iiS,i25; imports S697O71,-
SsS.
The value OF all the precious stones
found in the United States i'm 1898 was
SlGO,92O. as compared with Sl3G67j in 1897.
Within the past year diamonds have
a iVanced iva value at least rs per cent
The United states last year imported
$50 900, 900 worth.
All but of Kansas 113 counties laYo
railroad lines. Yet the total mileage Of
the state is decreasing, owing to Popu-
listlc legislation against ra'i' Dads.
American printing presses have APP
peared in Edinburgh, and the only ad-
verse criticism made is that they turn
out papers faster than is necessary.
1t Is now estimated that the loss oc-
casioned by the recent flood in Texas
amounts to 100000, one-thrd of which
sum represents the cotton destroyed.
Russia's %, ass miles of railroad already
built and the 1900 miles now building
will be equipped throughout with West
inghouse air brakes, an American con-
tract worth sl2,O0o000.
Henry Watterson believes that the best
way to deal with the Baker-Howard ven
detta in his own state is to withdraw the
soldiers and let the two families fight it
out until they shall have exterminatcd
each other.
The number of stamps, stamped en-
velopes and postal cards issued by the
Post Office department in the fiscal year
ended June 30 was 5162, ,02O. .525, valued at
1872 $50, 167, an increase of 552 i0l, sos In num-
Der and S. 466, 720 in value compared with
the previous fiscal year.
It is likely that the mascot of the Co.
lumbia will be Billy Terror, the goat
mascot of the battleship Massachusetts,.
This remarkable animal Chews tobacco
and spits like a native, and is by long
odds the smartest goat in the navy. lie
also mascotted the monitor Terror in the
war with Spain.
Lightning caused the death of 567 per-
sons in the United States last year. and
property loss of Sli4l, $50. Few of the
deaths occurred in cities. The annual
number of thundcrstorms at given locali-
ties in this country averages between
thirty-five and forty-five. The maximum
is In the Southeastern states.
A volume of clippings valued at $500
is to be presented to Admiral Dewey upon
his arrival. The book contains between
its solid silver covers q wealth of print
the admiral to humorous poetry regard
ing him, and from the comments of the
president and cabinet down to the jokes
| of street gamins.
The chair of anatomy in Edinburgh
| medical faculty is probably the most
valuable of any professorship in the
| world, being worth about $4,000 a year.
One of the professorships in the Univer-
| sity of Berlin is worth $4,000, but there
I
| deal to do with his compensation. In
the United States the college faculties
| receive from $3.50 to $1,000 d year.
All the personal paragraphs and society
news that appear in the London papers
| Is paid for except that which relates to
| the royal family, the nobility and the
| diplomatic corps. If an ordinary citi-
! zen gives ball or marries off his daugh-
| ter or entertains the prince of Wales at
| dinner he is compelled to pay for his
/ glory. Sometimes the report of ball
or a wedding costs $500 or $500 for every
newspaper 1t appears in.
From Sunnyside, a new town just
| founded in Utah, all women are to be
| vigorously excluded. The scarcity of
water from which the new town suffers
| is not, as might be supposed the cause
| of this regulation. 1t is due to the fact
| that the managers of the town have not
vet acquired clear titles TO all the mining
| ground in the vicinity, and they fear that
| If the miners are allowed to bring their
| wives in complications might arise
| through taking up OF claims by families.
| The Montreal Street Railway company
has at its own cost insured all its en-
| ployes against accident or total disable
| ment to the extent of $1,000. A substan-
tial increase of wages has been granted
| to all motormen and conductors who have
| been in service of the company for two
years, while free uniforms will be sup
piled to those of five years standing.
| These concessions, which have been
| granted by the company of its own voli-
| tion, will mean the payment of about
$4,000 extra per annum to the men.
Each dispatch from General Otis costs
| the government about 1925. The cable
toll sare $2.25 a word, and Otis messages
average about 100 words in length. At
S2,25 a word, the weekly telegraph bill
is $4,000; in a month it reaches $1,000,
and for the period since the beginning OF
actual hostilties $22S 900, these estimates
being approximate. Cablegrams from
Manila are relayed IS times in transmits
| sion from Washington. The relaying
points are as follows: Washington to
New York: thence to Canso, Nova SEQ
tia; thence to Valencia. Irish coast;
thence to Plymouth, England; thence Ia
Lisbon, Portugal; from there to Tan
| giers, Morocco. north coast of Africa
thence to Malta, in the Mediterranean
sea; thence to Alexandria, Egypt; thence
| to Port Said; thence to Suez; thence 10
Alden, Arabia; thence to Bombay; thence
to Penang; thence to Singapore, Malay
peninsula; thence to Labuan, Borneo
thence to Hong kong, and from Hong
| Kong to Manila. The time required 10
make this circuit, in ordinary cases, is
three hours and 20 minutes The dis
tance Travelled is approximately 1906
miles. II there were a cable from Sar
| Francisco via Honolulu the distance
would be only 5000 miles