The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-19
NUBs OF KNOWLEDGE.

The latest hiding place for microbes Is
in mustaches.
Germany's iron imports increased
S. 900 900 in 1890.
President Krugers ultimatum is the
first that has ever been received by Great
Britain.
The total number of paid employees of
Is 3S.000
Efforts have been started In Brooklyn
to give the Gospel in some direct form to
every adult during 1900.
The longest span of telegraph wire IN
the world is that over the river Kistha,
in India. 1t is over 5000 feet long.
In the number of locomotives the Unit
ed States comes first with total Of 3s,746.
Great Britain comes next with 1862.
There are about 1850 persons on the
pay roll of the city Of Boston, and esti-
mated population of the municipality is
5JOO 900.
For a finger nail to reach its full length,
an average of seven.twelfths of an inch,
from 12l to 1888 days of growth are nec-
essary
London is twelve miles broad one way
and seventeen the other and every year
sees about twenty miles of new streets
added to 1t.
Publishing firms state that the rise in
the price of Bibles is caused by the ad-
vance in paper and not by desire to
form Bible trust.
An agent of Coils p. Huntington is in
London with a view to buying some Of
the most priced pictures In the exhibit
at the new gallery.
Khartoum may now be reached from
Cairo by boat and rail. and hotel with
room for sixty guests has just been COM
pleted at khartoum.
An editor In a Tennessee town. who
I, al, hat bn ttIc "
would begin Jan. /. 1901, was ridden out
of the town on rail-.
The number of waves required to pro-
duce the sensation of red as they break
upon the eye be 39 900 In an inch and iH,-
OOO, 200 100000 in a second.
The total expenditures by the United
States government during the war with
Spain and as result OF 1t up to the
pesent time are $3a5, 100000.
Returns of Prussian incomes by the
income tax bureau show total OF
ST. Sl9, 900 In 1899, against $l,6S3 100000 In
1898 and 81 .693, 100000 In 1887
Russias Asiatic possessions are three
times the size OF Great Britain's. but
hold only % 600 900 Inhabitants. as COM
pared with England's 297.0000O0 subjects.
The strength of the various sections
! of the Methodist church by recent returns
| shows that throughout the world there
| are 1857 churches, with H59S ordained
ministers.
Blackpool, England. a city of 10000
population, owns and operates her street
| railways. IL transports passengers for
Ia cents per fare, lays by sinking
fund. pays interest and taxes, and makes
| a profit
More than 13.0OO Michigan farmers
| raised sugar beets for the first time last
| summer, the result being a crop large
| enough to keep ten factories busy and
it Is expected that the state will soon he
| able to produce all the sugar 1t needs.
| IT Is estimated that at any given time.
In Germany alone, 100000 persons are
afflicted with consumption and 100000 In
America have II at all times. Professor
| Hirsch pronounces II emphatically a dis
ease Of all times, all countries and all
| races.
According to a London journal tho
number of postage stamps now current
In the world Is 1851. England has 1871.
her colonies 3,Si3. The United States
has only 26S different kinds. while the lit
tie republic of Salvador finds u use for
| as many as 272.
III Adam had worked 300 days each
year from the day he was created to the
present time at a salary OF $50 a day. he
| would not have earned by this time as
much property as IL owned today by
Rockefeller or Vanderbilt" said DR..
] Wright. Of Det'