The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-19
NUBs OF KNOWLEDGE.

France receives $4,000 a year from taxes on,
bicycles.
Japan will open twenty.one new ports to for
eign commerce.
As many as 1000 dates have been gathered
from n single palm
Tho typhoid bacillus, frozen in ice, has been
found alive after 102 days.
The daily medical inspection OF school children
has been adopted in Philadelphia
There are over $500 travelling Libraries in the
United States Wisconsin has 2l5.
The income from the Monte Carlo gaming
tables for the past year reaches over 100000.
The pay Of English officers, as well as men,
is stopped when they made prisoners by the
enemy
Norwegian statesmen arc planning a system
Of national insurance TO protect people incapaci-
tated TO earn a livelihood.
For 300 years Mexico has produced one.third
Of all the silver that was mined The production
at present is more than $6O,OOO,OoO annually
Residents Of Valparaiso, Chile, complain that
the city is becoming a haven for American
crooks, because Of the absence of cxtraditon
laws
An English authority has discovered that the
average age at which Englishmen marry is %
years and 5 months, and that OF women 20 years
and months
A good English authority estimates that 81.
900 900 900 foreign capital is now operating in
Russia in manufacturing, industrial, steamship
and other enterprises.
The United States turns out annually 1s5,0Oo,.
900 pounds of plug tobacco, 12,00O,O0O pounds
of fine cut, 100000 pounds of snuff, 1000, 600
cigars and 900 cigarettes.
Over FIVE tons Of documents produced by
England in the Venezuelan arbitration have
been removed from Paris. They required two
large railway vans to take them away.
The healthiest spot in the world seems to be
a little hamlet in France named Aumone. There
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are so wears of age, and one is over 100.
At Johannesburg the telephone system is op
Grated by the Dutch, and one has TO pay years
subscription in advance-about S75 a month
and no service is furnished after p. m.
The turkey was first discovered in America
and brought to England in the early part of the
sixteenth century. Since then it has been ac.
climatized in nearly all parts of the world.
Out Of the Vaticans 1000 rooms, Pope Leo
has reserved for his personal use only threc-a
small sitting room, a little dining and
bedroom.
The tomato is now definitely assigned a place
as a tonic among foods. noted physician has
made extensive experiments with the Juice as a
medicine. ard says as a healthpreservative it is
unequalod.
Canada lacks only 1000 square miles to be
as large as the whole continent of Europe. 1t
is nearly thirty times as large Great Britain
and Ireland and is 100000 square miles larger
than the United States.
There are over 100 gold mines in the imme.
diate neiGhborhood of Johannesburg, stretching
out on all sides of the city. The monthly out.
ut Of the mines is fifteen tons of gold, yet it is
asserted that the grounds is only beginning to be
worked.
In Te! as wealthy stockman will use an au.
tomobile for making inspection trips around
| the wire fences of his ranch. The country being
level and free from brush and other obstructions.
it is thought that the automobile will prove
practical
The new. military motor cycle is terrible
engine Of war. The machine is driven BY an
automatic petroleum motor and mounts a %.
pound automatic Maxim gum capable Of DIS
charging 900 rounds per minute while travelling
along at the rate of fifteen miles hour.
There will be no parliament of religion at the
Paris exposition, but instead a congress for the
scientific study Of religion It will treat religion
purely from a social and historic standpoint Of
view. They will not talk religion, but will talk
about it.
There are nearly 500 water-power electric
plants in the United States, representing an il
vestpent of over SGO,OOO0OO horsepower repre-
sented by water wheel, 100000 There are GOO
miles of street railway operated with water
power electrically transmitted.
The Lick observatory astronomers tell us the
North Star is 255,0O0, o0O,O 900 miles away The
Lick telescope and photospectroscope have dis
covered fourteen multiple stars. The star Migar
the middle star Of the handle of the Great Dip.
per, has brilliancy 100 times that of our sun.