The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-15
NUBs OF KNOWLEDGE.


In all Spain there are only $3.50 children
In the Sunday schools.
along the sobat river, a tributary of the
White Nile.
London capitalists are interested in the
proposal to lay "a cable from Vancouver,
r. c., to Skaguay, Alaska.
A girls seminary at Auburndale, N. y,
has fully organized cadet corps that
drills with Springfield rifles.
An old man named Anton Kain, who
died recently i'm an Austrian almshouse,
was found to be worth 81, 100000
The Anglo-Indian Empire contains only
125 4S9 square miles i'm Europe, but 1t has
22iS, 47G in Asia, 2.62j,6l6 in Africa, 1866, ,S25
in America and 3,299, 7a in Oceanica
The Gersoppa Falls, on the Sharavatti
river, in South Kanara, India, are larger
and more magnificent than Niagara. The
water makes a clear drop of $50 feet.
The output Of sardines on the Maine
| coast is likely to be increased from 100000
cans in 1898 to 100000 this year in con-
| sequence of the introduction of Il new
| canning machine.
new way of blasting rock is to place
a cartridge of water in a shot hole and
| convert it into steam instantly by cleo
| tricity. This method is especially appli-
! cable in coal mines.
| At Constantinople there is an autograph
| letter which is claimed to have been
written by the hand of the Saviour,
whose authenticity has been stoutly de-
| Tended for centuries.
| The house of commons has met on Sun
| day eleven times on various occasions,
| when urgency demanded it. The first
time was in the reign of Edward Ill,
| the last at the death of George II.
| The military household of the Car is
composed of oS officers of various ranks,
50 of whom belong to the army and il
| to the navy. Nineteen members of the
royal family are Included in this list.
a statistical EnSlishman estimates that
a factory herd earning, say $G.25 a week,
eXpends out of it for food $40, of which
Sl.OG is for meat. bacon and fish, and an
equal amount for butter, cheese, lard and
| eggs.
has promulgated an order forbidding the
| landing of dogs from ireland in Great
| Britain, under a penalty of 20 pounds
This is dCne to prevent the spread of
rabies, which is common in Ireland just
now
Attempts are being made in the coun-
ty of Kent, England, to cXterminatc the
| sparrow. Sparrow clubs have been
formed and money prizes are given to
those producing the largest number OF
heads.
The bee of Mexico does not "improve
each shining hour" As there is very
lists for laying in winter stores of honey
and tho bee is, therefore as lazy as d
| CoCkroaCh,
A published statement that Roman
| Catholics can hold office under the Trans.
| vaal government is inaccurate. A pro-
| vision of that character did exist, but
at the request of President Kruger II
was repealed in 1896
A crank i'm brooklyn recently went
| a ,,p s1f,f
sprinkled it freely with tacks OF the
eighty that finished the run more thar
half had collapsed tires The tacks re-
manned in most of the tires until pulled
| out
The board of agriculture of England
A German firm sent some textile goods
| wrapped in old newspapers to Turkey
| The custom house officers noticed thu
fact, and informed the censor, whC
promptly decreed that the articles had tc
he unpacked and repacked without the
! newspapers, and this was done.
A New York woman who is making Z
study of flowers and their effects upor
| different temperaments claims that yel
| low blossoms afford protection from dis
ease germs, that daisies worn by nerv
Gus women will benefit them, and thai
Violets act as intOXicants or stimulants
upon some people.
The advantages Of closer relations will
Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Phil
ippines are already illustrated by the in
creased sales of the products of ou
| farms and factories to those islands. Al
official statement just issued shows tina
expectations from the United States t.
these four islands or groups of islands
during the fiscal year 1899 We're double
the average annual sales to them durin!
the past three years and considerably il
excess of the very large sales made I,
them during the reciprocity years unde
the Mckinley act, when our markets il
Cuba and Porto Rico were greatly en-
largod, The exports to each of thes
islands show an increase in the tisCa
year 1899 over 1895 and including the en-
tire list amount to $31, OH. 1856, against S1G
1O2, 561 in 1895, $li,7Gl33G in 1897, and $l3,
| 7Sl 127 i'm 1896