The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-22
NUBs OF KNOWLEDGE.

About half the cases appealcd TO the Colorado
Supreme court arc reversed, the majority of them
on teclncalitcs, due largely to the fact that
Judges of the county courts are not necessarily
lawyers.
The oldest existing church in New Hampshire
is the Congregational at Hampton, which was
organized in August 1898. Otner societies were
formed in Dover aud Exeter, in the same state,
later in the same year.
There are no mint marks on copper coins and
nickcs and collectors pay high for coins bearing
a mint mark. Tho first cents struck for Circu.
lation bear the date 17o2, and the six varieties
sell from $50 to S625 apiece
Natural gas conveyed in bamboo tubes wss
utilized in China years ago, and one Of their
writer's mentions boxes which repeated the
sounds Of persons voices that were dead-a ma.
chine similar to the phonograph.
\ new way to coal locomotives is being intro
duccd by prominent railroad. All the engineer
has to do is TO run his engine on trcstle touch
button and a tcnderful Of coal drops into his
tender, which is weighed as it drops in
More matches are used in the United King.
dom than in any other country in the world
1t has been estimated that English people use
an average of eight matches to each person per
day, and annually over 1,7O0,O0O,0O 100000 arc
burned
II is estimated that the earth receives not
moro THAN onC.thousand -millionth part Of the
total radiation Of the suns rays. II any con.
siderable portion Of this heat were concentrated
upon the earth il would not only become unin.
habitablc, but become speedily consumed
Paper bags can be readily and securely closed
by new fastening device which is formed of a
loop Of soft, pliabe wire of sufficient length to
extend beyond the folded and fattencd mouth oi
the sack, being slipped over the folded mouth
and twisted to wind up the loose portion.
Much more interest is taken in practicG astron.
in md tIan in Aetr ,nl
classes encouraged by the use of the telc
scopes like that one on tho East Heath. London,
which is rejecting telescope of a 10la'inch
diameter The lectures are very instructive.
series of not less than twenty experiment.
in the growth Of sugar beet in different parts
Of Great Britain and Ireland will he made during
the coming season. The value Of the beet for tho
feeding Of stock will he kept in view, indcpcnd
emily Of its value for the manufacture Of sugar.
Under the law no tcrrapin he sold tina
measures less than five inches across the lover
shell. queer fact about the terrapin Of Chpsa
pcake bay is that those on the western shore
grow much faster than those on the eastern
The theory is that the western water is less salt
In the southern portion Of the small village o.
Eliot, Me-, there arc living eleven persons, eLht
of them men, who are over 50 years of age, TIC
oldest being %. Nearly all of them were bon
| there, and several Of them have never been fifty
miles from their birthplace in all their long i T.
The government Of New Zealand now send:
| communications by carrier pigeons between .>uck
land and Great Britain island, a distance acros.
the water Of thirty miles The service is con
trolled by the postolfcc department. The fec
| for a single message is | shilling and stamT
for this amount has to be bought at the postot
| fec
The college graduates of the country made
| pretty good part of the population, and IIaryart
| takes the lead, with total of 222s7 gradual cs
Yale has sent cut into the world 1880 men ant
| Columbia 15,9sl. Princeton has graduated 7,iO
students, Dartmouth $50 Brown 400, Bow
doin i,6l9, Amherst 1000 and Washington uni
vcrsiay, ii36.