The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-16

In Paris there is wineshop for every
three houses.
New York state has 10000 more bache-
lors than sOinsters.
The height of the atmosphere is sup
posed to be about fifty miles.
Queen Victoria has not worn her crown
twenty times during her entire reign.
The Paris Opera House, the largest the
ater in the world, covers three acres.
The London and Northwestern Railroad
company issues yearly fifty tons OF rail-
way tickets
OF the 100000 people in South America
it is estimated that 100000 have never
seen Bible.
A Chicago professor figures 1t out that
in $500 years hence the city will be in
undated by Lake Michigan.
At Harlem, Holland, there are 125 acres
devoted to the growth of hyaciuths,
which bring in revenue of $15o,ooo.
1t is estimated that greater quantities
Of gold and silver have been sunk In the
sea than are now In circulation on earth.
Dispensing tea during divine service on
Sunday afternoons is being seriously dis
cussed in dissenting circles at Sydney,
n. S. W.
In the first nine months Of 1899 Ger
many sent to England 11.762 bicycles; to
Australia. $500; and to British East In
dies, 1.452.
Over 100000 bottles. Of the value Of
$1,000, are recovered each year from the
dust-yards in London and returned to
their owners.
A dredgeboat Of American design built
for Russia has surprised Europe by re-
moving 1880 yards an hour, instead of the
1900 contracted for.
Work of boring a tunnel through the
tunnel of the Chilkoot Pass has begun.
1t will be the passage way of a thirty
seven mile electric road.
The total paid for college education in
this country is about 900 annually.
sum nearly equal to the entire civil
expenditure of the government.
In the past ten years the production OF
wheat has increased 81 per cent In the
south. and the number Of hogs raised
there has, during that period, nearly dou-
bled.
There are 6,75O0O0 volumes in the IL
braries Of American colleges and univer-
stiles. Harvard has 100000 volumes, Chi
cago University 95O,OOo. Columbia 275,OOO.
and Cornell 225.OOO.
1t Is proposed to hold a congress OF all
street railway and tramway companies
In the world Under the auspices of the
Universal Exposition authorities in Paris
In September of the present year.
Bigamists in Hungary are compelled to
submit to queer punishment The
marry two wives is obliged by law to live
with both of them in the same house.
Young Cornelius Vanderbilt's invention
of a locomotive fire box is a great sue
cess. and the New York Central has
adopted 1t. Mr.. Vanderbilt is now at
work on an improvement on freight cars.
Californians are beginning to cultivate
the tomato tree. which bears clusters of
a delicious fruit, thousands of boxes Of
xph IN
London, and for which 1t IL believed a
good market could be found in our east
ern states.
The birth rate in the United States Is
gradually decreasing, this diminution be-
ing due to both the white and black
races. For the last 100 years this deci-
NAL loss Is recorded as having gone on.
Off1cial figures show that increase for our
total population was 3O0S per cent. from
| 1870 to 1880. "a per cent. from 1880 to 1890
while 1t IL believed that this decade will
only show an increase Of 1894 per cent.