The leader., 1900-02-28
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.


not Of excellent quality. Is abuormaliy
large.
The leasing Of water flowed lands
for oyster beds In Rhode Island yields
$4,000 annually.
Engineers estimate that 10000 horse
power can be developed along the Chi
cago sanitary channel
The colony of New South Wales.
Australia. expects to have 10000 tons
Of wheat for export this season.
An important element of the voting
population Of the cosmopolitan city Of
Buffalo is composed Of the Polish vot-
ers.
Switzerland has three institutions
for the cure of drunkards which record
permanent cures in one-half the cases
treated.
The North Carolina penltentIary was
self supporting last year and returned
to the state $4,000 borrowed during
the year.
Exclusive of private charities, Eng
land spends something like f1s.OO0,000
a year in providing for the necessities
Of the poor.
In the number of locomotives the
United States comes first with a total
Of 36,746. Great Britain comes next
with 1902.
In the last IL years the number of
physicians In Germany increased sc
per cent, while the population increas-
ed only IA per cent.
The new twin screw steamer Rhine
of the Bremen-New York line has room
for 140 first class, $50 second class and
2,600 steerage passengers.
The army death rate Is lower In
Great Britain than In any other coun-
try. In France 1t Is nearly six times
as high as In this country.
Americans prefer electricity for run
ming automobiles, the French petro-
leum and the Russians wood alcohol,
costing in that country cents a gal
Ion.
Greece has followed Italy's example
in forbidding the expectation Of an
tiquities. Notice has been served on
foreign governments and learned So
cieties.
The total number of paid employees
of the New York state government is
1921, of whom fully 5000 are direct
ly connected with Albany departments,
and majority of these reside in Al
bany.
Indiana has OF counties. In these
are 1,016 townships. OF this number
40 were named after Jackson, 46 after
Washington and 20 after Harrison and
Jefferson. Wayne and Clay each were
honored IL times.
The American Political league, new
organization, is to have a national con-
yention in Boston on July 4. 1t will be
the only convention Boston will have
and the only one that the American To
litical league will hold.
In 1898 the venerable Massachusetts,
town of Salem voted against the grant
ing of liquor licenses within its bound
aries. In the election of December,
1899, it voted the other way-2,957 for
license and $500 against.
A great decrease In the use of the
horse may be expected In the near flu
ture. Experiments In England have
proved that heavy freight wagon traffic
can be handled by motor power at one
seventh the cost of horsepower.
The total number of paid employees
of the municipal departments in New
York city is $4,000, and the department
of street cleaning, which has 1890,
employs twice as many as the depart
ment of public charities, which has
1,6OO.
Asbestus six feet in length has been
found on the Orange river banks. 1t
is coarser than the Canadian product,
but is more valuable ON account of its
length. The Griqualand West Copper
company and the Cape Asbestus COM
pany are mining the fiber at a profit.
Highland" seems to be popular
name for a railway station among the
mountains of Africa. There is High
land station in Natal. There is anoth-
er one of the same name in Kaffirland,
on the line between Port Elizabeth and
Grahamstown, beyond Alicedale juno
ton.
| The Indians of South America use a
curious poison which is called ezcal.
A grain of 1t has the effect of starting
an irresistible desire for exertion. The
victim begins walking briskly round
and round in small circles till he drops
dead in his tracks. There is no pain.
but much excitement.
Foreign residents in China are accus-
toned to seeing their half dozen coolies
taking a meal together, sitting around
a bucket Of rice and from four to six
small savory dishes of fish, pork, cab
bage or onions. They fill their bowls
from the bucket and help themselves
to the various relishes with their chop
sticks.
The stand of colors won by Colonel
Ephraim E. Ellsworth's United States
Zouave cadets in competition in Chi
cago in 1859 and the next year on an
extensive tour In the United States
and Canada has been intrusted by the
surviving members Of the company to
the Chicago Historical society for per-
petual keeping.
India has electric tramways in but
one city, Madras. Consul Fee Of Bonn
bay reports that permission has been
asked to introduce electric traction In
that city. Horses are used at present,
but the consul remarks that they are
well cared for and never abused and
that all animals receive humane treat
ment in India.
Fifty years ago there were few per-
sons employed or gaining a livelihood
by the utilization Of electric energy.
Now in England and America there
are over 1000. 000-yery likely 2.000,-
600 in the world. In 1927 George
Stephenson started his first railway
train, possibly with dozen employees.
Now in the United States there are
| nearly 100000 railroad workers.
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