The Afro-American advance., 1900-11-10
CURRENT Topics.


The Philadelphia street railways are
10 have smoking cars.
Kiddville, Right Angle and Log Lick
are Kentucky post offices.
Twelve million one hundred thou
nnd tons of timber are cut every
rar.
Danish lighthouses are supplied
nth oil to pump on the waves in
ase of a storm.
The first treaty with China, which
opened it's ports to foreign trade,
was signed in 1s42.
Nearly one eighth of the popula-
ton of Canada gain their living from
the timber industry.
II the earth's surface were level the
water of the oceans would cover it
TO depth of 600 feet.
The furnace of an Atlantic liner
will consume no less than 100000 Gu
bic feet of air an hour.
Cairo is the largest town in Africa.
which $4,000 are Europeans.
Coal is worked so easily in China
that in Shanghai it sells at less than
shilling per ton at the mines.
1t has been calculated that the tele-
graph wires in this country would
reach 40 times round the globe.
Satinwood, used chiefly for veneer
ing, comes from both India and Bra
al. 1t is of lovely yellow color.
About ten persons are every year
robbed and murdered in Russian rail-
ways, and the murderers are seldom
caught.
There are close upon 10000 pas
sengers carried on every week day
in London by public conveyanees of
all kinds.
The quantity Of fresh beef carried
on one trip by an Atlantic liner of
900 tons would keep family of five
us years.
Japanese workmen bathe the whole
body once. a day, and some of them
twice. Public baths are provided in
Every street.
All big vessels are provided with
copper lightning rods, which run
from their mastheads down 10 the
copper sheathing,
The warrior ant makes raids
against nests of the small. yellow turf
ant. These. II knows by experience,
make the best slaves.
There are more than 100000 pu-
pills in the schools of this country.
About 100000 babies are born in
10 the world every year.
The nearest approach of q comet
TO the earth observed was IN l77o,
when one approached to within l.
100000 miles of our planet.
A model of the human heart, work.
ing as in life and pumping blood
through artificial arteries. Is the
work of a continental physician.
Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty is in
deplorable condition and an expen-
titure of from $4,000 to 100000 will
BE required to put in proper repair.
The inhabitants of Media, Italy, are
convinced that their fields were
iaved by the 800 shots which were
fred during the prevalence of a
fierce hailstorm which devastated all
the surrounding country.
r. C. Kirk, newspaper man AMI
miner, who has just returned from
Dawson, tells of the finding of coin
IN the Klondike which would seem
70 establish the existence there of an
unknown race centuries ago.
The Philadelphia directory shows
nine men who bear the name OF
Thomas Thomas and eleven known as
Robert Roberts. But William vii.
hAms outnumhers them both. as there
are eighty-six citizens thus named.
The newest labor union in Spring
aeid. Mass, Is an organization of the
truit peddlers Of the city. They have
banded together in order 20 fight the
eiscrirnination at auction sales
charged against the Wholesale deal
Rx
Perfumes are put up In tablet form
howadays- A lady simply orders q
eozen or more at q time. and pro-
SEEDS 70 distribute them about in her
Pockets. her purse. or within the
lalms of her gioEss. They come In
Two sizea-
A new Maine statute prohibits the
p'&esng Of inscriptions upon the starr
sad stripes. aHd severas political
-Ags eearing the n4naes of candidates
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