The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1900-01-03
,R HARDWARE AND STOVES AT COST.
FACTS IN A FEW LINES

Immense coalhelds have been d,soo.
cred In Zululand.
New York has II times as n,,.
churches as Berlin.
More than half Of the phosphate IN
the world is now supplied by the Tint,
ed States.
The first Hebrew congregation in a..
Hawaiian Islands has Just been form
ed at Honolulu.
Over half a million dollars wort, :.
cocoanuts were imported into the TTn,,'
ed States last year.
German pianoforte manufa,tr,o.
have virtually secured a moponolv 80
the Australasian trade.
Cotton manufacturing In Mexico con
tinues to increase. Each year find.
more looms In operation.
Germany now has an airshin ,h,.
will lift ten tons and remain in the .,r
for several days il required.
In Dublin a fine system of electric
trans makes it easy for any one 10
get about from place to place.
The whole of the trade in cbeon bo
siery in Cuba is In the hands of the
German and Catalan manufacturers
Washington firemen are provided
with portable telephones. which NAV
be connected with any fire alarm boy
Within the last few years thrusbo.
belonging to several species and BLACK.
birds have greatly increased in Lon.
don.
A natural soap mine and n main,
mine are two of the latest curiosities
which have been discovered In British
Columbia.
American condensed milk is GAINING
a fOothold in the Asiatic markets. # is
rapidly supplanting the German prod.
uct in Japan.
The German postoffice at Kiaocbau
China, forwarded 236.2SS letters. ma.
pers and packages during the first wear
of its existence.
Burning soft coal without smoke il
said to be an easy chemical problem
but manufacturers have not yet salts.
factorily solved 1t.
A recent investigation has shown
that more than half the families of
Stuttgart have only one or two rooms
that can be heated.
Baltimore Is said to contain the lar.
gest negro population of any city in
the world. The coming census Is ex.
cd fn OF laaS ~
Great quantities Of crabs and lob
sters are annually canned in Russia.
yet oysters are in little favor. and
frogs legs are regarded with horror.
Russians never eat rabbits, as they
say they nest with rats, nor will they
touch snals or turtles, which are found
in great numbers all over the country.
The vast forests of valuable timber
which cover large tracts of the interior
Of Cuba await only the construction
Of railways to render their working
profitable.
The Anglo-Indian empire contains
only 125, 4S9 square miles in Europe
but 1t has 2,24S,476 in Asia, 2,G25 GIG in
ISL in Oceanica.
1t Is well known fact that but for
the pride entertained by most English
noblemen for their deer parks many
estates would of late have found their
way into the market.
The redwood trees of California are
being planted in many parts of Eu-
rope. There is particularly fine one
In Geneva, back Of the monument Of
the Duke Of Brunswick.
The S. gold piece of 1922 is very
rare. There were supposed to be but
two in existence, one in Philadelphia,
the other in Boston, but a short time
ago one was found in money chang
er's shop In New York.
Several soda lakes have been found
in the foothills near Ashcroft. Their
bottoms and shores are incrusted with
a natural washing compound contain
ing borax and soda quite equal to the
washing powders in common use.
The fish commission has received a
report Of the capture recently at the
government fish station at Woods
Holl, Mass, of a small file fish which
represents a specimen heretofore not
recorded from the coast of the United
States.
A 12-year-old Sedalia (Mo.) boy has
suffered 10 fractures of the bones OF
his legs, arms and fingers since he was
old enough to walk. He has disease
which renders his bones as brittle as
glass and liable to break on the slight
est prOvocation.
Russia is being opened up to wonder
full engineering possibilities. All or us
great rivers are being measured ana
surveyed and all knowledge concerning
them digested. An intricate system OF
connecting canals is projected that VIII
cobweb the empire.
Corrugated, galvanized sheet iron Is
the almost universal building materiai
Of South Africa. 1t Is used In the im-
mense buildings at the kimberley
mines and in the buildings OF Jonah.
nesburg, as well as in thousands OF
dwelling houses, barns, warehouses
fences, etc.
For the contemplated telephone con-
nection between Berlin and Paris two
lines are to be constructed, one u
rect line from Berlin to Paris ana tno
other by way of Frankfort. so that
complete breakdown Of the service De-
tween the two capitals will be remo'e
contingency.
An odd monument was desired by an
elderly maiden lady who died rev
years ago in Athlone, Ireland. She iei'
a fortune of $135, 900 to be spent IN tne
erection Of church, provided that hei
body should be converted into asnes
and used in making the mortar io'
building the edifice.
Gettysburg is now the most carefuiiy
marked battlefield In the woriu'
Though the number of men engaged w
both sides was 100000. the positlon
Of every regiment. battery and squau.
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