The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1900-07-11
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

1huH tai al iJVD LuSlilllu ndS export
ed SlI,0Ij,coO less gold than in 1899.
Free lunches in saloons have been
forbidden 10y the Des Moincs council.
Three turpentine plantations of 1O-
600 acres each will soon be started in
the south.
\ sign outside a Lombard street
PhiladclphiO restaurant reads: Pigs
Feet. Walk H."
The Russian government proposes to
carry on extensive dredging operations
on the Amoor river.
The mortality in Rome has been re-
duced within a few years from % per
1000 to - per 1000.
Floors of rubber, claimed to be as
durable as asphalt and cheaper, are
being tried in Germany.
Five cantons of Switzerland have ad-
mitted women to the business schools
and reported good results.
The National Sabbath alliance Is
working to abolish the Sunday delivery
Of ice cream in New York.
At the summer and winter races in
Moscow and st. Petersburg $4,000
rubles are offered in prizes.
1t has been decided to open perma-
nent international motor car exhibition
in Berlin, where complete vehicles and
all their parts and accessories will be
shown.
The deer in a public park in Balti
more have the free run of the grounds
So many of them had been injured in
trying to jump the fence that it was
removed.
In a poll of New York Presbyterian
ministers taken by a New York paper
over 60 per cent favored revision of
the creed and about Is per cent were
noncommittal.
Although the prussian government
authorizes many lotteries every year,
poor labOrcr was fined in Frankfort-on.
the-Main the other day for rafiling a
few articles at country inn.
Verified figures show that a city of
100000 inhabitants could be built from
the annual output of stone, clay, lime
and gravel found within Il dozen miles
of the city hall in Philadelphia.
Senor Silyela, president of the coun-
Gil and Spanish minister of marine, in
tends to ask the people of Spain to
make great financial sacrifice with q
view of constructing a new navy.
The Nova Scotia Southern railway,
now being built, will be III miles long,
including New Germany to Shelburne,
Il miles; Indian Gardens to Liverpool,
20 miles; Sable River to Lockport, 90
miles.
Sixty-thrcc years have passed since
the queen of England, after her acees-
sion, first took up her residence at
buckingham palace, a mansion which
was built in 1925 at a cost of over ST.
100000.
In the United States there is one
church for every .337 people. Boston
has one for every LOCO, Minneapolis
lion people attend church in the United
States every Sunday.
\ flower known rs the laughing
plant which grows in Arabia, is 50
called because its seeds produce effects
like those produced by laughing gas.
The flowers are of bright yellow,
while the seeds resemble small black
beans
The married and unmarried women
of the United States of Colombia,
South America, are designated by the
manner in which they wear flowers in
their hair, the senoras wearing them
on the right side and the senoritas on
the left.
From Manila to Australia is like
going down river for one is out Of
sight of land only two days" The
voyage lasts 21 days, but the coarse is
through the south sea islands, which
accounts for its resemblance to river
navigation.
American tourists who usually take
their pet dogs with them cannot bring
them into Britain this year. The board
of agriculture has put into rigid en-
forcement IN old order forbidding the
temporary entrance into England of
foreign dogs.
A tablet in honor of the heroes of the
American Revolution has been placed
in the vestry of the Dutch Reformed
church in New York at Fifth avenue
and FortyAeighth street. 1t was the
gift of the New York State Daughters
of the Revolution.
Wood pulp paper as military clothing
is used by the Japanese troops. 1t is
marvelously tough ard has an appear
ance that might well be regarded with
satisfaction for SUM ner wear. 1t holds
stitching uncOmm0lly WELL while its
warmth is undOubtad
The two leading agricultural societies
in Britain, the Ro, al Agricultural and
the Highland ancl Agricultural, have
united their forces and are henceforth
to have national agricultural eXami-
nation board and to grant prizes and
diplomas to farme rs after examination.
The new twin screw steamship Iver-
mia Of the Cuntlrd line is one of the
largest steamers, afioat. She is exactly
three times tine length of the first Gu
nard steamer, the Britannia, of 1910,
Of double speed and will carry ten
times the number of passengers and
so times the amount of cargo.
To utiliz,. the power of flowing water
without natural oT artificial dams a
German has patented a new water
wheel which has radial arms extended
from central vertical shaft, with
wings pivoted on the arms to hang
vertical when moving with the current
and horizontal when going against it.
1t is but n short time since Verdi
foun6a1 his n,,bla oSUluTO for n pp6 and