The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-04
NUBS OF KNOW LEDGE.


There are. 1t is estimated, about 5000
doctors in London.
OF the 600 clerks employed In Cuba by
the postoffice department fully 500 are
Cubans.
The Kimberley diamond mines pay
$lOOOO,OOO a year profit, on a nominal cap
ital OF double that sum.
London has 1854 policemen, or 10 to
every l of its 6SS square miles. Sixty
per cent. of them are on night duty.
Another of the periodical attempts to
produce universal language is contem-
plated In connection with the Paris EX-
position of next year.
There have been more than $500 sui
cides in this country during the last
twelve months, which breaks the record
for this or any other country
The Klondike Nugget is a semi-weekly
paper, the subscription price of which Is
s4 per year; single copies, 25 cents.
Rough lumber is advertised at 500 per
1000 feet.
1t has lately been reckoEed that NJ.
Paderewski is the quickest pianist on
record. He has been known to strike
as many as 1,03O.3c Lotes in twelve hours,
thereby outdoing all rivals.
Thanks chiefly to the use of the serum
treatment, the mortality in Prussia from
diphtheria has been reduced from a rate
| of l55 per 1000 in the years 1SS5-1S9i, TO
| 7.6 and 6.2 in the years 1896 and 1897.
Already a half dozen American engi-
neering plants have been established
in Europe, and some twenty more Amer
lean firms have the matter of building
| European plants under consideration.
Australia offered a prize of G25,O00 to
any one who would rid the country of
rabbits; but after several people had
| tried their hands 10 more satisfactory
| solution was found than that of eating
| them.
| According to a London journal the
number of stamps now current in the
| world is 1851. England has l3l, her
colonies 3Si3. The United States has
2S6 different kinds, the Republic of Sal
vador 272.
| Under the Belgian law unmarried men
| over 25 have one vote, married men and
| widowers with families have two votes
and priests and other persons of position
| and education have three votes. Severe
penalties are imposed on those who fail
| to vote,
The admission fee to the Paris Expo
| sition will be before 10 a. m, francs, or
about 40 cents, TO the entire exhibition;
| between the hours of 10 a. m. and p.
M. on week days, francs, while on
| Sundays the fee Is not to he raised for
the evening hours
One of the most curious dresses ever
| Il
| at q ball at Baltimore, 1t being entirely
covered with postage stamps The stamps,
1000 in number, were pasted on thin
| foundation and represented the postage
of every civilized country
With all his inventive genius and per-
| feet machinery, man can move in train
at an outside speed of sixty miles an
hour. and that he cannot keep up for
| great distances. Yet the swallow ties
eighty, the duck 1OO the gray crow
| (when migrating) l0S the swift $50.
| Important deposits of rock salt have
| been found in Louisiana, and prepara-
| tions are being made to develop the mines
on a large scale. The deposits occupy
elevations of from SC to $50 feet above
the sea level, and are known as Stands,
being surrounded by low marshes.
California promises to become one OF
the leading manufacturing states in the
union. Its backbone, the Sierra Noun
tains, is the home of innumerable
streams, which are being harnessed tC
generate electrical rower thirty to forty
miles for light and power purposes.
II is the opinion of German occulisl
that the use Of the ordinary states by
school children tends to produce short
sightedness. AS n substitute he recon-
mends pen and ink or an artificial white
slate with black pencil. The latter have
been introduced Ia some Of the German
schools.
An odd monument was desired by ar
elderly maiden lady who died a few
years ago In Athlone, Ireland, She left
fortune of 200 to be spent in the
erection of a church, provided that hel
body should be converted into ashes anC
used In making the mortar for building
the edifce.
A correspondent in New Zealand reports
strange dislike to the medical profes
sion among the working classes there
They never apply TO doctor until al
other means have failed, and then as
sume a hostile attitude, refusing TO givt
their symptoms and expecting the docto