The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-20
NUBS OF KNOWLEDGE.

In India orly one male in ten and one
female in 1G0 are able to read.
The value of American exports from
Newport News increased 1921 900 in the
fiscal year of 1897, and $30,OOOOOO in the
fiscal year of 1875.
In ten years American life insurance
companies have doubled their assets. the
amount rising from 1851, 12S,6i2 in 1888 to
s1,9i4, ,9O1, 19s in 1898.
A"Church Army" tea saloon has been
opened at Atlantic City, N. j., with many
of the characteristic decorations OF the
ordinary liquor saloon.
1t is estimated that this year the yield
of the three principal grains will be:
Corn, PIP, ,600,0 600 bushels; oats, I756SO,OO0
bushels. and wheat 5GO,1iO,0OO bushels.
Delaware county contains 2l2 public
schools, 176 of which are graded. This
is claimed to be more in proportion than
any other county in the state. The Bible
is read in every school.
A writer in the German scientific perl
odical Globus denies that insanity is on
the increase, and that the recruiting field
exhibits a larger amount of physical de-
generacy than in former generations.
Cuba and Porto Rico used to buy an
nually 5O00, 600 worth of shoes of Span
ish manufacture, and clumsy article
they were. A much better grade of
American shoes is selling in the island
now for so per cent less.
Senator Depew says he believes that n
course of lectures on the operation of rail-
roads would be a valuable addition to all
our leading colleges, considering the large
part which railroads play in our every
day life and how little they are under
stood.
The total length of railroad in the
world amounted in 1897 to 45i730 miles,
and in the five years from 1893 to 1897 the
total increase was "a, iS5 miles, or SO per
cent. The same year the total length
of railroad in the United States was 1Sl,27S
miles, an increase in five years of sc
per cent. North and South America and
| the West India Islands are credited with
| over one-half Of the total mileage, OF
236.2lS miles.
There are ninety organized counties ir
| Nebraska, but number of these are
counties in name only. Mcpherson coun'
| ty, Neb., cast only 81 votes in the prcsi'
Dental election of 1896 and only % votes
last year. Thomas county cast only IL
votes in 1896 and only 80 last year. Blaine
| county cast IA votes in 1896 and los votes
| last year, and Hooker county cast d
| votes in 1896 and 81 last year. Grant
county cast 1S1 votes In 1896 and l59 las
| year.
| Notwithstanding recent complaints OF
| Cuban journals that the service was over
loaded with Americans drawing high sal
| aries, an official list recently compiled
| shows that there were On May 2, only
| thirty-two Americans, less than 10 pc
| cent. of the whole force. against 2l4 Gu
bans, eghty-four Spaniards and four o
other nationalities. The Cuhans MAKE
up 81 per cent. of the whole number o
employees, and the Spaniards little mor'
than 25 per cent The salary list, base'
upon an annual rate, gives the American
$50 500, or II per cent. of the WHOLE; tn
| Cubans $1S3, $40, or 6l9 per cent; tn
Spaniards s5S7SO, or 1913 per cent, an'
those Of other nationalities 1920. Tn
| Cubans hold the majority of the clerk
ships, and are being substituted for Span
iards where n better Cuban can be foun'
| than the outgoing official.