Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1900-01-29
HERE AND THERE.


Fourteen towns and cities in Massa-
chusetts have sewage filtration plants.
Their are nearly nine hundred cigar
factories in Lancaster county, Pennsyl-
vania.
German beer and California wine
have caused a great decline in the
exports of French clarets.
out Of 100000. in Massachusetts en-
gagged in gainful occupations. only 81
900 are employed on Sundays.
There are nearly three million five
hundred and twenty thousand acres of
swamp land in South Carolina.
Many Of the most responsible posi-
lions at the Kimberley. diamond mines,
the greatest in the world, are held by
Americans.
The latest Chinese papers state that
there are az present six smokeless pow
der factories in operation in the Chi
nese Empire.
Manchester. England. has opened
lodging houses under the control Of the
city to accommodate three hundred
and sixty men.
A growing Vermont industry is the
canning OF corn, this seasons output in
the southeastern part Of the state be-
ing three million cans.
The supreme Court Of Tennessee has
decided that mo workhouse. city.
county or state prison keeper has a
right 70 whip prisoner"
sixty-six mining companies at Jo-
lannesburg, South Africa, have sus-
pended operations on account of the
war, and as result many families
are destitute.
During the ten years ia which the
Muzzling Order was In force in Eng
and no less than $1,000 dogs were
seized. OF these 1850 We're killed.
The English war Office has decided to
grant the family Of every Reservist In
Government employ half the wages he
vas drawing in addition TO their sep
aration allowances.
4 family OF eight brethren in KAN
sas boasts an aggregate age Of five
hundred and forty-hve years. which is
on average of sixty-eight and one
eighth The youngest OF the lot is six
~ and the oldest seventy-six.
Canada's export Of cheese to England
has grown from 100000 IN 1868 TO ST.
100000 IN 1898. whereas the United
States exported only Ss.2s7, 900 worth in
the same year.
At johannesburg the telephone sys-
tenn isioperated by the Dutch. and one
has 10 pay a years subscription in adj
vauce--about SIS a month-and no SER
vice is furnished after FIVE p. NJ.
Many Of the most responsible posi-
ions at the Kimberley diamond mines
ne greatest in the world, are held by
Americans. The general manager OF the
mines is a United states Consular
Agent.
English educators are in favor OF a
movement to decrease the necessary
expenses OF students at Cambridge and
oxford, England, so as to make them
within the reach OF humble English
sons.
Opener and closer" is a new femi-
nine vocation. She is sent for when a
family departs from home temporarily
putting things to rights then and re-
peating the operation just before the
return.
A new sanitarium for the open air
treatment OF phthisis has just beer
opened near Hamburg. The Hamburg
authorities presented the site and will
pay a part Of the expenses for five
years.
That the Japanese consider saltet
whale meat a delicacy would appear bS
the quantities purchased. The whale:
are caught of the coast Of Corea, th'
fish and blubber cut up and sent e
Japan for sale as food.
An electrical generating plant is t.
be established at the Assouan dam, II
the Nile, to carry the electric curren
100 miles to operate cotton factories t
be built under British enterprise anC
with British capital.
Women and girls who are now en-
gagged in farm work in Kansas consti
tute 90 per cent. of the farming pop
ulation. This large percentage is part
ly caused by the absence of the Tween
tieth Kansas Volunteers in the Philip
pines.