The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-08
NUBs OF KNOWLEDGE.


Eighty-four per cent. Of Idaho is pub
lie land
Hawaii is said to have more telephones
IN use in PROPORTION to the population
than any other locality in the world
In 1900 Duluth will be able to handle
42,OW,OOO bushels of grain, and will be,
probably the biggest grain elevator CEN
ter in the world.
twenty-five years ago there were 500
lady doctors in practice in the United
states; today there are 4,50O-one In $1,000
of the population.
A Vienna journal declares that a local
electrician named Pollack has inventec
way of telegraphing 10000 words per
hour over a single wire.
Ihere are seven young lady ConduC-
tors on the electric cars Of Chillicothe, o. ,
and five at Vincennes Ind. They work
nine hours day and receive 81 a week
1t is probable that in century or so
the housekeeper will think no more OF
turning on the cold on a hot summer day
than we think now OF turning on the
heat.
Japanese theaters have their boxes so
arranged that the ladies can change tn hair
dresses, as it is not considered stylish
Tor lady to appear an entire evening in
one dress and with the same ornaments.
About 100000 tons of iron ore will
make up the shipments from the Lake
Superior region this year, as compared
with 1900, 90 tons last year and yet
there will be scarcity of ore for the
winters use.
Three thousand five hundred and three
vessels of all kinds passed through the
Suez canal last year. and OF this number
2,2!0 carried the British flag. The receipts
Tor 1898 were larger than in any previous
year since the opening of the canal.
During the Dewey land parade it is es-
timated that 100000 people used the Brook
lyn bridge cars; the Sixth and Ninth ele-
waited roads alone carried 1876 900 passen-
gers; 80 900 used the Pennsylvania Rail-
way and ferries, and 100000 in all saw
the parade.
In Belgium organ grinders are conf
PEELED by law to play each morning be-
fore the police magistrate. who must he
satisfied that their instruments are in
| tune. An organ which is out of tune
must be put in order before a license is
issued to the player.
1t ia not generally known that the re-
mains of all the Cars Of Russia since
Peter the Great lie in a memorial chapel
built on one of the islands Of the Neva.
All the cenQtaphs are exactly alike, each
| being a block of white marble, without
| any decoration whatever
Adrian. Mich, enjoys 3-cent street car
tickets. The management has long sold
100 tickets for 81. Single fares are a
nickel, but any one can buy 100 tickets for
S3 And the company makes money by It,
for people ride five times where they
would once were the tickets s cents
a manufacturing firm of Ohio shipped
tho equipment Of one of the finest paper
mills in the world. 1t was sent to No-
kohama for the Japanese government.
| and was loaded on % cars. Japan has
decided to make its own paper, as some
OF her state documents have deterIorated
| with ape.
| A pet so tiny that it can be carried
| in a womans muff is the pocket mon
| key" This little creature has a face
| the size of l0-cent piece, with small
even teeth, which he displays when ut
| tering soft birdiike sound called forth
! by excitement or fear His body is only
few inches long, but his plumy tail
| Is long and he curls it around his neck
| when sleeping.
In Switzerland a death is attended by
| n custom which calls upon all charitable
and Christian people TO show their SYM
pathy, A notice edged with a wide black
line appears in the daily papers setting
forth the day and hour when sympathiz.
! ers must assemble before the house of
| the deceased. At the time named little
/ cloth-covered table supporting n good
| sized Jar is stood before the hOuse--table
| cloth and jar all being of the same som.
| ber, ebony hue--and into the latter small
mourning cards bearing the name and
address Of their owners are deposited.