The sun., 1900-12-27
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FACTS IN A FEW LINES.
Central New York is practically a

dairy country.
Bootblacks may not do business in
Boston on Sunday.
One man in California has two
square miles planted with almond
trees.
The average annual price of an
apartment with seven rooms is $500 In
Berlin, $400 in Hamburg and $3.50 in
Leipsic.
Dresden is to have in 1903 "city ex-
hibition" at which all German towns
of over 25,000 inhabitants are to be
represented.
Professor Emil Yung of Geneva has
counted the ants in five nests. Their
numbers were 53,01S, 67,470, 1888,
93,694, 47,S2s.
There is room for $4,000 persons in
st. Peters church, Rome; for $1,000 in
the Milan cathedral and for 25,0o0 in
st. Paul's, London.
The definition of ''to loot" is very
simple. 1t is ito carry off as plumber"
In other words, 1t Is stealing on
somewhat extensive scale.
Slips of tarred pasteboard are used
for shingling roofs in Japan. They are
said to be as satisfactory as wooden
shingles and are much cheaper.
According to the views Of British
sea captain who was in the gulf of
Mexico during the Galveston tempest,
the disturbance was partly volcanic.
Manufacturers of birch beer have
been detected cutting down birch trees
In Van Cortlandt park, New York, to
get the bark to flavor the liquor with
A brisk trade In fox skins is spring
ing up between France and Italy. The
latter last year exported 1000, mostly
from about Rome. Foxes are plentiful
In Italy.
There is considerable money In the
lakes In the shape of meat. In the
Lake Erie fisheries 3,72S men are en-
ployed and $2,719,654 capital. Last
years catch was valued at 81, ,150,S90.
1t is reported on high authority that
the petroleum industries of Roumania
have made great progress of late and
| that If transportation becomes cheaper
| and better this country will be for
midabie competitor of America and
| Russia.
| Until the middle of the last century
cavalry deployments were by two right
angle turns and when the diagonal
march was adopted instead of making
| the diagonal by half turn of each
horse the movement was by the whole
| troop or unit.
Kaffir beer is made from Indian corn,
| which is worked into a pulp with
wooden stampers. Sufficient sugar and
water are added, and the climate does
| the rest. When the beer is ready, ev-
cry hut will receive its share, and a
certain quantity will be put aside for
the ''beer drink" a sorry but gigantic
kind of feast
The British Women's Emigration So
ciety offers free passage to Western
Australia and profitable places when
they have arrived there to good, strong
domestic servants. But 1t advises
servants who are seeking light places,
with no scrubbing, regular evening
out, as well as all day Sundays, to bide
| by the mother country.
NM. Desgrez and Balthazard state
that they have discovered a method of
regenerating air in confined spaces.
They have submitted to the Academy
of Sciences aluminium diving dresses
weighing 25 pounds. They state that
the diver can move in this suit for
hours under water without drawing air
from the surface. The principal regen-
Grating agent seems to be sodium diox-
| ide.
Extending from north to south, Indo-
China covers IA degrees, necessarily in
cluding a wide variety of climate In
the southern provinces the year is di-
vided into two seasons, wet and dry.
In Tonkin and Anam the four western
seasons prevail, with the difference
that the heat attains an intensity I'M
known in Europe and the climate is so
debilitating as to unfit Europeans for
manual labor.
In England lamppost has been in
troduced which combines fire hy-
drant, tap and fire alarm box. The hy-
drant can be used for fire alarm pur-
poses, filling water carts and for street
flushing, while the small tap can be
used by an individual for domestic wa
ter supply. There is a water meter and
siphon at the bottom, by which the wa
ter Is shut off from the hydrant, thus
preventing it from freezing.
Over the greater part of the New
England coast the supply Of clans has
suddenly diminished to an extent
which has become alarming Exten-
sive areas which four or five years ago
produced great numbers of clans are
now practically barren. The explana-
tion is simply that the demand has in
creased at such rate that too large
number of the natural "seed" CLANS
have been removed, and extinction sud
denly follows.
Members of the building trades, ar
chitects, builders and influential citi-
zens In New York city have organized
the Work Together club. The object
is ''to promote harmonious relations be-
tween employers and employees by
bringing about reforms directly affect
ing the building trades. This organiza-
tion will from time to time make ap-
peals for the Endorsement of measures
for the protection of workmen engaged
in the construction and alteration of
IA.ildings."
Pennnnday is a great day for poor peo.
not extremely poor people Ell
2. N. sh