Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1900-03-17
FACTS IN 4 FEW LINES.

business failures in Great Britain
during S . were 5000, against $685. il
1898.
Pens to the number of 3.5OO,oOO ars
used throughout the world every day
in the week.
The percentage of ~recoveFies in *
Milwaukee Hospital For the Insane
last ear vas SO.
The Bank of Spain has outstanding
$40. 100000 less in loans than it re
ported a year ago.
American and Australian butter is
rapidly crowding the German article
from the English market. J.
The arrests for drunkenness in Bos
ton last year averaged 80 per day, or,a
per cent of the population.
In Michigan i7at Your A-7-c.9- ec Z
refs ofsalf wer1 manufactured. d
crease of 5s7.337 over 1898.
The New fork Press blames an
teur photographers for a large POI
centage of the water waste in Brook
Ign.
More interest than ever before is be-
ing aroused in New York in the quds-
ton of the preservation Of the Hudson
Palisades.
The A1lgemeine Deutsche Sprachver-
Elm has offered a prize of 1000 marks
for the best study of the slang used
by seamen-
The new German postage stamps
represent the values of 8. 5. 10. 20. %.
SO. 40. so and so pfennigs and 1, 2, 3
and > marks.
Hickory nuts are an American prod
uct, and we export them in large guam
titles To Europe. Pecans belong to the
hickory family.
During last year 1.465 persons were
i~noculated for h~ydrophobia at the Pas
teur institute in Paris. and of these
only three died.
Coal mining is developing rapidly in
Canada. In Nova Scotia both the areas
worked and the number of mines SHOW
a great increase.
Spiral armlets of copper form good
protection for the arm in battle. and
the king of Dahomey uses his as de
fensive
The Canadian government has final
" completed the great ship canal be
tween Lake Erie and Montreal at a
cost of STD,o00.oDo.
The Swiss cabinet consists of a fed
tral council Of seven members. each of
whom draws the moderate remEner~
ion of $500 per anuum.
The estimated vaiue of the Industrial
product of the United States for the
past year is $500. 900. 900. or more
han 500 for each inhabitant.
The supreme court OF Connecticut
has decided that a furnace is personal
property and may be removed from a
building by due process of law.
DR.. j. j. Henna. a native Of Porto
Rico. now in Washington. says that
there are 2SS.0o0 beggars out of a pop
ulation Of 100000 in that island.
The horses of the Scots Grays. now
have been dyed khaki color in order to
render them less visible to the enemy.
Citizens of ChiIlicothe. Mo-. will erec1
in the city square a handsome monu-
ment to the memory Of Nelson Kneass.
who composed the music to Ben
Bolt"
New York's fashionable society has
been enriched several hundred mil
lion dollars within the last five years
by rich men who have gone from the
west to reside there.
An association has been organized
by the business men Of AshevilIe. n
C, to preserve a large part of thar
still well forested region from the
ravages of the lumberman-
Tashkend is a big city to find liz
the heart Of Turkestan- 1t has a pop
ulation OF nearly 10000, Of which per-
haps one-fourth may be credited to the
Russian quarter and the garrison.
The warden OF the Jail at Chicago
is about 10 set the female prisoners to
~culuvating roses. He believes
that eventually their cultivation win
raise the moral standard Of those who
them
German emigration has fallen OF
In 1881 there were c20.900
emigran1s from Germany; in 1887. 1o4--
80: in 1891. 10000: In 1895. 37.49o. in
1895. $3.50; in 1897. 24.630. and las;
year. 2o.96o.
Nearly all Of the pure olive oil" i'm
into this country ia cottonseed
oil made in the southern states. sent
and there refined and return
to US as the pure product of the
Mediterranean olive. &
Two decades ago the south produced
annually but 100000 tom Of bitu-