The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-04-21
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The cost or 81 Peters, Rome, was
over so, 100000.
st. Petersburg is the unhealthiest cap
ital in Europe.
1t is said that fully 100000 persons in
London work al night.
A statue 10 Campbell, the poet, is TO
be erected at Boulogne
A captain In the British navy ranks,
with colonel in the army.
Chinese streets are the narrowest In
the world--some of them are only three
feet wide.
More than two hundred municipalities
i'm England. Scotland and Ireland now
own municipal gas works.
A church I'm London still possesses
an income originally given To IL for the
purpose of buying fagots with which
TO burn heretics.
A Berliner has asked the permission
OF the local authorities 10 establish
q public cemetery for pet animals. He
believes IL would meet a long-felt want.
The grape vine at Hampton Court
Palace. London. which was planted IN
1863. shows signs OF decay IL has
borne as many as 200o clusters i'm one
year.
The Canadian government. in order
to have the movements OF its artillery
made quick and effective, has mounted
many cannon on sleds so that they may
be swiftly drawn over the snowy
wastes OF the country
In the state of Maine there are seven
teen spool factories and the white birch
trees of that commonwealth annually
supply the material for 300. 600 spools
on which are subsequently wound about
30, 600 O00,O O0O yards of thread.
C;uttapercha from the leaves OF the
caoutchous tree is now being used by
French makers of submarine cables. IL
has all the advantages of the product
from inclsion into the tree while being
less expensive and more durable
Somc OF the wooden churches OF
Norway are fully seven hundred years
old. and are still Iva an excellent state OF
preservation. Their timbers have sue
cessfuny resisted the frosty and almost
Arctic winters because they have been
repeatedly coated with tar
II Is said that experience With the un-
dcrground trolley system has devel-
cped the fact that while its initial cost
s larger than that 90 the overhead syS-
tenn, the saving I'm running expenses
and repairs is SO considerable as io
overbalancc the advantage OF cheaper
installation.
As many as - deaths from chloro-
form i'm "a year have been reported In
England. Dr. r.. a. King, however, pro-
nounces IL perfectly safe when properly
administered. pointing out that the Hy
derabad commission of 1880 proved thal
IL has no direct action ON the heart. thu
thing necessary being 10 avoid suffoca-
tion BY properly dIluting me Vapor With
air.
4 new fruit. hose flavor reminds one
Of the pineapple. has been described by
a French hortlculturist. 1t is one and a.
half To two and quarter inches long.
and II grows on q shrub named Fcitoa
SeIloWiuunn. which o. indigenous in Ia
Plata. but thrivcs in Southern France.
The meat uf the fruit is firm. of white
color and sweet taste. very juicy ana
gives OF an extremely penetrating and
agreeable odor
The construction of pneumatic tube
line from London Go Bombay. e distance
~ $4,000 milcs. d. the striking engineer
ing scheme brought forward iu India.
with the prediction that sooner or later
the lire Wil be- an accomplished fact.
When completed mails VIII be trans.
ported betW Drn the two cities I'm q
hours The height of some mountains
to be crossed ln Asia Minor and the
maintaining ~ power houses in remote
places are the chief difficulties forcsecn.
The bacillus of wh1opug cough.
lately captured by Dr Henry Koplik.
of New York is extremely minute. the
influenza germ being the only other ha-
ciilug ua small The Nhu0plng C0ught
bacillus usually 7eWhles % club. After
searching for it fDr fVc years. and nnd-
ing 10 in the Epitum n whOoping
cough patients. the dlsc1vercr az last
succeeded In making a culture of it BY
planting the sputum on human bloo1
serum.