The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-10-04
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

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Tho German empress when she trav-
els uses the name Of Ravensberg.
Australian bushmen are being offer
ed farms free Of cost In Rhodesla.
The latest quotation for a chicken In
Manila is Sl.25 and for beef $3.50 n
pound.
More doctors, it Is claimed, are kept
busy In Australia than In any other
country.
Child labor in North Carolina mills
has decreased 80 per cent in the past
three years.
More than 100000 acres Of peat are
said TO be available in the Canadian
province of Ontario.
Two British ships, each OF them over
a century old. were still a6oat and gail-
Ing the seas last year.
The present season Is reported TO
have been the finest for rose growing
in England for many years.
York castle, England, where many
famous trials have taken place, is to
be turned into n military prison.
An inquiry has brought out a state
ment that there IS not building in
Chicago but is erected Illegally"
Two-thirds Of the public schools in
Belgium have savings banks for the
reception Of the boards Of the pupils.
To prevent obstruction 70 traffic in
the main streets Of Boston in the day
time all the repairs are made at night.
Damages Of $1,000 are asked by n
Kansas City baker from n woman who
spread n report that he kneaded his
bread with his feet
4 pair Of Louis XIV Seyres porcelain
table candlestlcks from the art treas
ures Of Sir Charles Welby sold in Lon
don recently for Sl2,075.
A girl shoplfter stole clock in q
store i'm New York the other day, but
the alarm went off before she reached
the door, and she was arrested.
British farmers and dalrymen are
today milking over 100000 cows and
producing annually in their dalries
go. 600 900 worth OF milk, butter and
cheese.
4 motor car has been designed for
towing canalboats. At a recent trial 1t
towcd a heavily laden barge at the rate
Of three miles an hour with the great
est ease.
The winter and early spring are usu-
ally considered the best months to visit
Sicily. but a German author declares
that Taormlna and Etna are really at
their best in May, June and July.
The Times, published in Victoria, Il.
C.. SAYS that the Yukon country Will be
filed with a contented population long
after the name of Cape Nome as min
eral producing region has passed into
oblivion.
4 burglar in New York was bafied
and put to flight by a family parrot
that greeted him with a volley OF
oaths. What added greatly to the des-
perado's terror was the fact that the
oaths were IN German.
A bright boy In the business district
Of New York has n long list OF Gus
toners whose pencils he keeps sharp
ened and who also patronize him for
new pencils. He has a patent sharpen
or and goes from store TO store and Of
Gce to office. and he makes between
81 and 81 a week working four or five
hours q day.
Eight different natlonallties were
represented In the graduating class OF
the American College For Girls In Con-
stantlnople this summer. They were
Greek. American, Hungarian, German,
Austrian, Armenian, Bulgarian ana
Italian. A French play given by the
graduating class was one of the fea-
lures Of class day.
Since 1871, when troops were with
drawn from the garrison at Quebec,
the Notifications there have been going
steadily to ruin In spite OF feeble ef-
forts of the Canadian authorities. The
sudden collapse recently Of a large Sec
ton of one Of the walls has aroused
general attention, and 1t Is now expect
cd that the entire face Of the famous
old bastion will be taken down and re-
built.
Mr.. Hograth has opened up the Die
tean cave in Crete where Zeus was
nursed by the goat Amalthea. After
blasting out the limestone that block
ed the entrance q cave was found full
Of offerings, consisting Of bronze weap-
ons terra Gotta statuettes and the Ike,
all of Mycenman times. A shaft 100
feet deep led to lower stalactite cave,
where offerings were found finer than
those In the cave above.
While repairing a music box some
years ago Ernest Wallace Of Indian
apolls broke a spring, cutting his hand
and scattering the machinery all about
him. He recovered every piece except
a small cogwheel. The wound in his
hand healed up, but began to pain a
few days ago. He went to a doctor,
who, on investigation, found that the
little cog had imbedded itself In the
mans hand, where It had remained
| ever since.
six turtles, each Weighing from 400
to 450 pounds and said to be about 25O
years old, were recently shipped to
Walter Rothschlld, NJ. p, for his pri-
vate geological garden in London.
They were captured in the Albemarle
island, south sea- Mr.. Rothschild
now owns "a tortoises Of various ages
and sizes. He has been collecting them
for years from all over the globe. En-
route the tortoises received a whole
cabbage day for food.
Plans are now being made for the
erection of a gigantic dam 220 feet high
I'm connection with a reservoir for Den
ver's water supply. The dam Is to
cost 100000 and is to extend across
the steep canyon Of the South Platte
river some so miles from Denver, max
| ing a great reservoir that will hold