The free press. (Southern Pines, N.C.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-04
The Fact Dispenser.

chess.
The Pittsburg Dispatch places the
annual cost of smoke in that city al
$5,000,OO0, to say nothing of the dis
comfort.
The state historian of South Carolina
estimates that the state furnished a.
900 men to the service OF the Confeder'
acy.
Since 1875 Hamburg has added to its
population twice AS many persons as
Boston, and Leipsic has Overtaken St..
Louis.
The salaries Of the burgomasters in
Prussia are: $500 in Berlin, $4,000 in
Breslau and Cologne, $4,000 in Eber-
field and Kassel, and so on down to
Erfut. $1,000.
Debtors in Siam, with three months
in arrears, can be seized by the credi.
tors and compelled to work out their
Indebtedness. Should debtor run
away, his father, his wife or his chill
dren may be held in slavery until the
debt Is cancelled.
Afghanistan has a regular army of
about 10000 men.
There are in the German empire 490,-
600 persons belonging to other coun-
tries.
In Berlin the Emperor is always
spoken Of as "Mr. Lehmann," SO as to
escape an indictment for les majesty.
Figures relating to 1851 cases Of
diphtheria in Russia show mortality
of "a per cent. where old methods of |
treatment were used, and only 146
where the serum treatment was ap- |
piled.
MOritz ,Franski, who as child was
exhibited as mathematical prodigy,
recently tried to commit suicide by
jumping from Vienna bridge into the
Danube His power 10 add figures
was failing, and be had learned no 9th
er means Of earning living.
1t is said that the proprietors of the
London Times have cleared $150,000 by
their publication of the Encyclopedia
Britannica.
The right hand which is more sensi-
tive to the touch than the left is less
sensitive than the right to heat and
cold
London and Liverpool are both at the
level Of the sea- Glasgow is 30 feet
above it; Manchester is so feet, and
Birmingham 80 feet.
Poetic composition seems to be at a
low ebb in Belgium. There were sixty
three competitions for the last Flemish
prizes, but none received 1t.
The largest workhouse in the world
is at Liverpool, and it las accommoda-
tons for no fewer than $4,000 inmates.
1t is not however often filled.
of 10 |
ly declared that red-haired people are
far less apt to go bald than those who
are possessed of other colored hair.
A Swiss village is to be constructed
at Paris for the exposition at cost
of 100000.
According to the latest German esti
mate there are 100000 telephones in
the United States.
The gross annual output of the fifty
watch and clock manufactures in the
United States is about $12,00O,00O.
The Gillian Minister of Finance de-
clared the other day that not another
by that country. F..
Mrs. Harriet r. Stafford of Cottage
City. Mass, owns the flag which flew
from the masthead of the Bonhommie
Richard in Paul Jones fight with the
Serapis..
DIR. Calmette, director of the -Pasteur
institute at Lille, France, has endowed
that body with $250,000, the profits of
)ne Of his inventions at the distiller1es
1T Seclin.
The army of Germany boasts eight
women cOIOnelS
The Bank of France is four times as
arge as the bank of England.
In China, to salute any one by taking
,ff ones hat is deliberate insult
The highest mountain is Mount Ever
,st, in Thibet. 20,002 feet, or FIVE and
miles.
All students Of the laboratory courses
n the University Of Heidelberg are re-
Iuired to take out life insurance pol
cics.
The Lakes Superior, Huron, Erie, On
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