The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-17
NUBs OF KNOWLEDGE.

London's omnibus company employs
5000 men. The annual receipts are about
5000, 600.
An English traveller declares that the
least interesting country in the world to
visit to be Korea.
1t is supposed that the average depth
of sand in the deserts Of Africa is from
thirty to forty feet
A syndicate is bolrg formed in Cork
to insure quick and cheap transport Of
Irish dairy produce to the English mar
kets.
Australia has over 1000 900 square miles
of fertile land and could eventually sup
port ut least hundred millions of inhabi-
tants.
In the Sutro baths Of san Francisco,
there are sixty mine shower baths, seven
toboggan slides and dressing rooms for
1877 people.
A set of maps Of tho time OF Ptolcmy,
the geographer, has been found In some
eleventh century manuscripts in the Nati-
can library, according to tho Tablet.
Referring to the recent report that a
Russian florist had succeeded in raising
blue roses, n Slavonian gardener de-
clares that blue roses grow wild In Ser
via.
About twenty-four women in 100 are
the right; women, too, are more fire.
quently equally strong in both arms than
are men.
Old age pensions have been established
| in Korea, but are not large item In the
national expenditure. Old age pensions
| to men over 60 years of age swallow up
total of more than $3.50.
A philosophical statistician calculates
| that I'm the year 1000 there will be 100000, T.
| 900 people who speak English, and that
| the other European languages Will be
spoken by only 500,OO0OOO people.
A new law has just gone into effect in
Massachusetts forbidding the perform
ance of the marriage ceremony by JUS
| tices of the peace, unless they have been
specially designated for that purpose.
| Since January /, ninety colleges, aca-
| denies, and seminaries and eight art
| galleries in the United States have re-
| ceived gifts amounting to S21,012,35S, not
counting contributions of less than 5000.
A curious barometer is used In Germany
| and Switzerland. 1t is a jar of water
with a frog and a little step-ladder in it,
| When the frog comes out of the water
and sits on the steps a rain-storm will
| soon occur.
The authorities at Greenwich observa.
| tory, at Kew, are greatly agitatcd for
fear the construction Of the electric lines
in the neghborhood, which have been au.
| thorized, should disturb the magnetic re-
cording Instruments
The sacred fires Of India have not al
been extinguished. The most ancient
which still exist, was consecrated at Vod.
wada twelve centuries ago, in commemo
ration of the voyage made by the Par
sees when they emigrated from Persia tC
| India.
For the contemplated telephone con
nection between Berlin and Paris, two
lines arc to be constructed, one dircc
line from Berlin to Paris, and the othcl
| by way of Frankfort, so that a complete
breakdown of the service between the
two capitals will be a remote contin
gency.
People marvel at the mechanism of tht
human body, with its 492 bones and sixty
arteries. But man is simple in this re
spect compared with the carp. That re
markabe fish moves no fewer than i3S
bones and muscles evry time it breathes
1t has 1920 veins, to say nothing of ii:
| ninety-niEe muscles.