The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-23
WANTS TRUTH KNOWN.
NUBs OF KNOWLEDGE.

Missouri sold s22i,if worth of corn-cob
pipes last year.
The Congo region exports about 3,OooW0
walking sticks year.
OF a thousand persons, only one reaches
the age Of a hundred years.
Denmark claims that there is not a
single person in her domain who cannot
read and write.
For the last ten years there has been
an increase of 1000 annually in the num-
ber of Great Britaln's insane.
Twenty years ago Egypt had hardly
single good road. During the last six
years over 1000 miles of good road were
built.
A Brooklyn man named Frederick
Braun owns a collections of skeletons, IL
Illustrating the craniums of every living
race and many long extinct.
Electric automobile street sweeping ma .
chimes will be used in Paris and the old
clumsy dust machines will be done away
with.
1t is now proposed to construct canal
connecting Germany with European Tur-
key. The financial success of the ktel
canal has given rise to this subject.
The death rate in Syracuse, N. Y, for
five years succeeding the securing of a
the five years previous thereto Il was
lG.S9.
Fewer pensions were granted to soldiers
in the Spanish war than was expected,
the number being 295. There are now
5l9 names of pensioners on the rolls.
The schooner Polly, now lying in the
port at Bangor Me, sound and acaWorthy
in every way, is said to be tho oldest
American vessel in existence which is still
sailing.
Notwithstanding the much earlier dis
cOvery of the principle of the pendulum,
the principle was not applied to clock
making, in England, at least, till the sew
enteenth century.
In the National Museum is woman
who is an authority on manuals, and
one of the most skillful chronological
| artists in the world is n woman en-
ployed by the Bureau Of Entomology.
Some Paris friends of one of the vic
Tins of the Bourgoyne disaster have Of
fers the sum of $1,000 as a reward for any
one who will give an impetus to the dis
| corery of life-saving apparatus.
Natural gas conveyed in bamboo tubes
| was utilized in China years ago and one
| Chinese writer mentions boxes which re.
peated the sounds of PERSONS voices that
were dead-a machine similar to Edison :
phOnOgraoh.
Complaints were made in Seattle
| Wash, recently, that the fire-alarm sys.
| tenn of the city was working very badly
! Investigation of the boxes showed that
yellow Jackets had clogged many OF
them by deposits Of clay, which had hard
| ened.
All our senses do not slumbcr stimuli
taneously They fall into insensiblity
one after another. First the eyelids OBJ
scure sight and the sense of taste is thC
next to lose susceptibility. Smelling
hearing and touch then follow. Touch i.
the lightest sleeper and most easily
| aroused.
Near the town Of Capljna, in Bosnia
archaeologists have eXhumed a new Pom
peii in the form of a Roman camp AL
the walls are well preserved, and some o.
the rooms are decorated with fine paint
ings while weapons, lamps and variou,
other objects have been found in them.
An engineer i'm TuniS invented a deep
sea diving apparatus which has beer
tried without accident at a depth of Il
feet near Cherbourg. The inventor de
| clares his purpose of searching for tn,
hull of the Alabama, which lies wher,
she was sunk by the Kcarsage, off Cher
bourg harbor