The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-26
NUBs OF KNOWLEDGE.

America makes 900 false tooth
| annually.
The United States have 100000 work.
| ingwomen.
Oklahoma Territory now claims s25,OoO
| inhabitants.
st. Louis is the greatest mule market
! in the world.
| Tattooing is Just now the popular pas
| time of the leisured world.
Aurora, ILL.,, has had thirty-four mayors
| during the last forty years
over 10000 refrigeratOrs are made an
| nually 10y Fon du Lac, WIS., factories.
| The largest pumping engine in the
| world is In the Calumet ana Hecla mines.
| The money i'm circlation in the United
| States has doubled in the last twenty
| years.
The income from the Monte Carlo gam
| Ing tables for the past year reaches So
$4,000.
There are 1880 central station plants for
| generating electricity in the United
States.
The glmlet-pointed screw has been re-
| sponsible for more wealth than most sill
yer mines.
Nearly one-third of the worlds saw
ings are in the $50 savings banks of the
| United States.
After the recent thunderstorms in Eng
| land thousands Of dead eels were found
near Sandwich, floating I'm the Delf river.
Exports of coal from the United States
| have increased from 2279lS tons. in 1870,
to over 100000 tons during the past year.
"A factory inspector at Paterson, n. j..
has been investigating the mills OF that
city In the guise Of a laborer, wheeling
a barrow.
Chile is going to lit up a vessel with
the products Of the country to be taken
to the principal ports on the Pacific for
exhibition.
| Merchandise imports into France during
July decreased 122OOO,OOO francs from 1898,
or S2i,4O0,000 Exports increased $500, ,OOO
francs, or $lI74OOOO.
Among the Parsees a murderer is pun
ished with ninety stripes on his bare
| back. while n master who ncglects his
dog receives 200 stripes.
France has 97,jOOOOO people, distributed
in this manner: 33,SOOOOO in Europe
23,G0'0OO in Asia, 900 in Africa, 42O, ,OOC
in America and 10000 in Oceanica.
The London underground railroad is
| losing popularity. During the last half
year the falling off in the number Of pas
| sen%erS carried amounted to 300 900.
Two hundred and forty-eight people
have been killed by trolley cars within
the limits of the old city of Brooklyn
since the Introduction Of the electric cars
In the center of the plaza in Lima is
! pretty bronze fountain that was erected
in 1913, n gift from some noble Spaniard
and is probably the oldest fountain IN
| America
The number Of failures from all causes
In automatic block signals as compared
! with the total number of movements OF
each signal does not exceed more than
one in 10000
Stockholm, Sweden, has probably the
| largest number of telephones for it's DO.
pulation Of any city in Europe. There
are $1,000 telephones to less than 800. OOl
| Inhabitants.
The great army of Smiths in the United
States is well represented in the Peerage
of England No less than six Earls
| daughters have acquired the surname OF
| Smith by marriage.
The British Empire has n population
of 100000 900 people; of this number 40 iO5
600 are in Europe. 30S 300 900 i'm Asia, 45.
OO0,0OO in Africa, including Egypt, 71OO, ,O0t
in American colonies and 5,J00,O0O In
Oceanica.
The Belrians are an emincntly com.
mercial people. In Antwerp ten travel.
ing commercial scholarships of three
years duration, with an annual income Of
$1,000, are given to students who most de.
serve such opportunities