The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-02
HERE AND THERE.

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 3d.
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-
tions at the Kimberley diamond mines.
the greatest in the world, are held by
Americans.
The latest Chinese papers state that
there are al 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
right to whip a prisoner"
Sixty-six mining companies at Jo-
hannesburg, South Africa, have sus-
pended operations, on account of the
war; and as result many families
are destitute.
During the ten years in which the
Muzzling Order was in force in Eng
land, no less than $1,000 dogs were
seized. OF these 24,500 were killed.
The English war office has decided to
grant the family of every Reservist in
Government employ half the wages he
was drawing in addition to their sep
aration allowances.
A family of eight brethren in Kan
sas boasts an aggregate age of five
hundred and forty-five years, which is
an average of sixty-eight and one
eighth. The youngest of the lot is six
ty and the oldest seventysix.
Canadas export of cheese to England
100000 in 1898. whereas the United
States exported only $3,2S7, 900 worth in
the same year.
At Johannesburg the telephone sys-
tenn is operated by the Dutch, and one
has to pay years subscription in adj
vance-about SIS month-and no SER
vice is furnished after five P. NJ.
Many of the most responsible posi-
lions at the Kimberley diamond mines
the 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
NOV ement to decrease the necessary
| expenses of students at Cambridge and
| Oxford, England 80 as to make them
| within the reach of humble English
sons.
Opener and closer is 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 been
opened near Hamburg. The Hamburg
authorities presented the site and will
pay part of the expenses for FIVE
years. III
That the Japanese consider sailed
whale meat delicacy would appear by
the quantities purchased. The whales
are caught off the coast of Corea, the
fish and blubber cut up and sent to
Japan for sale as food.
An electrical generating plant is to
be established at the Assouan dam, in
the Nile, to carry the electric current
100 miles to operate cotton factories to
be built under British enterprise and
with British capital.
Women and girls who are now en-
gagged in farm work in Kansas consti-
tute so per cent. of the farming pop
ulation. This large percentage is part
ly caused by the absence of the Twen-
tieth Kansas Volunteers in the Philip
| pines.
Nearly Killed by Her Comb.
Mrs. Noah Brown, residing on Cole
rain avenue, met with a peculiar acct
dent the other day. Mrs. Brow. was
waiting on her husband, who was in
bed suffering with a sprained ankle.
She had occasion to stoop down in
front of an open fire CRATE, and as she
did so celluloid comb worn in her
hair exploded with sufficient force to
throw her to the floor some distance
away. Following the explosion the
comb ignited.
Most of Mrs. Browns hair was
burned off, her eyebrows and lashes
were scorched and she was severely
burned about the fuce and neck. Con-
siderable effort was required to pre-
vent the carpets and other furnish
ings from catching fire, as it was
found impossible to extinguish the
blazing comb after 1t had been pulled
from her hair. The explosion was &C.
companied by report similar to that
OF blank cartridge discharged in