The leader., 1900-08-15
FACTS IN A FEW. LINES.

lance as a money lending as well as
a money making nation.
Red bananas are coming into the
market again. Very few have been
shipped to the United States during
the past few years.
Native hens In New Zealand In addi-
ton to supplying the communities with
eggs make themselves additionally use
full by catching rats.
There Is s5O,OOO,OO0 worth of United
States government property, as APP
praised locally, within the boundaries
Of the Greater New York.
No state except Rhode Island and
Mississippi requires more than one
years residence for citizens. In Min
nesota only four months is required.
A West Australian exploring party
that recently arrived at Oodnadata re-
ported that there had not been q drop
OF rain for two years In the region
traversed.
A leading Chicago physician says
that one of the best remedies for In
somnia-and certainly the cheapest
Is to take a long trolley ride just be-
fore going to bed.
1t is estimated that the losses by
business failures In the last ten years
amount to $1,S0O,OOO0OO, which is
more than twice the amount Of tho
country's circulating medium.
| 1t Is one of the risks of soldiers ca
reer that while in time of peace his
profession is the healthiest Of all when
war comes 1t is transformed at once
into the deadliest of all callings.
The original manuscript Of the
speech favoring the admission of Kan
sas into the Union made by William
II. Seward has been secured by the
Kansas State Historical society.
The British government Is the owner
Of over $500 camels. Several thou
sand are used In India to carry stores
and equipment when the regiments are
changing quarters by line of march.
Governor John G. Brady Of Alaska
has sent large number Of Alaskan
eurtosities to the Children's Aid So
cfety In New York, In the care of
which organization he was brought
up.
Rhodesia has its civil list and its roy
al grants with other older and more
settled and populated communities.
The late King Lobengula, it appears,
left 80 wives as pensioners on the COM
munty.
Motor cars registered in Paris num-
Der 3,701 the suburbs of Paris, 1910;
In the rest of France, 2,445; in the
whole Of Germany, 1,427; in the whole
Of England, GOO; in the United States,
less than 800.
Balloons are used for drying linen in
Paris laundries. Bamboo frames are
attached 10 captive balloon, and the
clothes are attached to them. The bal
loon makes six ascents daily to a
height of about 100 feet.
According to a decision OF the Ken
lucky court of appeals, If one annoys
dog while the animal is eating and gets
bitten as a consequence the victim is
guilty of contributory negligence and
cannot recover damages.
William G. Nash of Weymouth,
Mass, is thought to be the oldest gro
tered the business as an employee in
1881 and having conducted store Of
his own for the last CT years.
1t Is said the Duke of Wellington
once declared that there was nothing
SO stupid as gallant officer, and
correspondent Of the London Times
complains that, while the British Off
GERS are as brave as brave can be, they
are mostly stupid.
Although Washington has more
parks in proportion to its size than any
city in the country, until now it has
had no public playground. A reserva-
ton in the southeastern section of the
city has been improved and set aside
as playground for the children.
While the Egyptian children no
doubt had as great regard for cats as
the children of today, the parents had
q stil higher regard. rising into wor-
ship. So great was this regard that
the cat came to be looked upon as
sacred, and cat worship became a part
VI the ItilSiou VI tiie luCc'
In new apparatus for handling
goods arranged on shelves the upper
half Of the shelving is suspended by
means of pulleys and ropes to slide up
and down in movable guideways, with
clutches for securing the pulleys to re-
volving shafts to raise or lower the
shelves.
Every stranger who enters the White
House is counted by an automatic
register. The instrument is held in
the hand of one of the watchmen sta
toned at the door, and for every Wis.,
itor he pushes the button. Congress
men, senators, members of the cabinet
and newspaper men are not counted.
The extraordinary unhealthiness of
some parts of Assam Is fully detailed
In recent report. In the Surma val
ley, which is estimated to contain
about 100000 people, there were only
$4,000 births in 1898, but "a, ZOO deaths.
Also in the Assam valley there were,
only I1.031 births and $1,000 deaths.
A houseboat which has attracted at
tention for several years on Long Is
land sound is not only q luxury, but
an economy to it's owner He is mar
ried and has two small children. Dur
ing the winter he boards in New York,
and as soon as the weather permits he
moves his family to his houseboat, and
there they stay all summer.
The tax budget of the city of Paris is
$4,000 900 a year, or about $10,000,000
less than the amount to be raised in
the city Of New York from taxes this
year. The volume of taxation would
be considerably greater in Paris but
for the fact that many functions which
are in New York chargeable to munich
pal expenses are in the French capital
paid for from national appropriations.
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