The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-27
MULTUM IN PARVo.

One gasight gives out as much carbonc acid
as two sleeping persons.
Paris has a population Of 3OOo,OO persons and
only $1,000 are Protestants.
The highest point at which Towering plants
have been found was in Tibet, at 1920 feet or
higher.
The suggestion that the name Of Pretoria
should be changed to Victoria is said to he re-
cciving wide support
Cinnamon TO the number Of about $50 are i'm.
prsonCd in Montreal for failing to pay the spc'
cial laundry tax of $50.
People who live long are usually small eaters.
Gourmands SO tax the liver by excessive eating
that that organ soon wears out
Steamers have been chartered to carry Amcri-
can coal to st. Petersburg and Stockholm, as
well to Italian French and German ports.
The RiChmcnd Locomotive works has shipped
second consignment Of nine locomotives with
G.wheel tenders by the Wilson line to llel-ing-
iors, Finland.
The new steel bridge across the st. Lawrence
river at Quebec will he 1900 feet long and 80
feet above the river, thus enabling the llrge't
ship to pass under
The wild honey crop in Texas this year,
says an Austin correspondent will exceed all
previous yields in the memory OF those who
are interested in that industry.
Durham, South Africa, has become a winter
resort, and contains some of the finest resi-
tropical trees, flowers and fruits.
The inhabitants Of Palmyra get oil their salt
by dipping buckets into the ncighl LrinG salt
lake, and allowing the wac2r 70 cvaporlre The
Turkish government has monopoly Of the salt
| business.
There was once killed in England a rat which
| holds the record for size. lie was gray as a
| badger weighed two and thrce.quartcrs pounds
| and measured twenty inches from the tip Of his
nose to the tip of his tail
Park seats can be used Immediately after a
rain when provided with a new English covering
| device, which passes across the scat and around
a pair Of rollers underneath, being reyolvcd until
| the dry portion covers the scat.
Almost as soon as they are out OF the shell
| quail seem TO have the power Of making them
| selves invisible at the wave Of a wand. The
| ground may bc as bare as a floor, but somehow
they manage to vanish utterly from the eye.
| Keepers at the Central Park 700 in New York
| are vainly looking for some means Of preserving
| the elephants from rats. The latter Enaw the
| feet of the big brucs until they are laccratcd,
and no way has yet been fourd to protect thcm
| Two western men have designed an automatic
irrigating machine. having float to support
| an endless chain of carriers, which raise the
water over the edge Of the bank, power being
| obtained from a water wheel supported under
| meath the float.
| Fruit Is principally valuable for its salts and
free acids, required by the system at all times
but more especially when the weather is warm
Fruits owing to those, cool and purify the
blood and keep the entire aimcntary canal il
| healthy condition.
The number of sheep in The principal countries
OF the world is 10000 900; Great Britain ha
O,5OO,oOo; France. 2l,jOO,OOO; Germany 1000,
900; Russia, 4i,5O0,OOO; Spain, l3,2jO,Oo0; Argen
tina, 7l,2jOOOO United States. 39,OOO,OOO; Uru
quay, 1G,25O,OOO; Australia, 1lO,500O0.
| doc Ir1i al
Of at least 100000 during the Republican M
| tional convention. Street car companies gath
cred in nckels to the amount of S2j00oO. 1t
feeding the multitude the butchers shared abou
S5OO,OOO. The bakers received $4,000.
The telegraph poles along the Slyanah ant
Statesboro railway, in Georgia, growing
They are made of cypress, and must have bcci
planted with the roots. They are sprouting a
the top. and serve double purpose. The.
are shade trees as well as support for the wires
| Eagle hawks are very destructive in Australia
particularly in the west, and a reward Of tw
shillings is offered by the government for ever
one destroyed, the claimant having to produce t
| a Justice Of the peace the head and tilons, whir
are then to be entirely destroyed in his presence
The magnitude Of the EScurial the great span
iSh palace, may be inferred from the fact tha
it would take four days to go through all tn
rooms and apartments, the length Of the wa
being rcckonCd at twcnty-thrcc Spanish league
which is about one hundred and twenty Engls
miles.
Huge savings banks are going up all oyc
Italy, and the people have taken to them yer
kindly. In some cities, instead of giving book
as prizes in public schools, they give SAVING
bank books with a small sum entered to Tia
credit OF the prize winner. This is done a
| Venice.
In the window of an old curiosity shop no
far from the British Museum in London ma
be seen an elaboratcly carved ivory toothpicE
with the following intimation attached: "Toot
pick formerly the property Of Oliver Cromwe,
supposed to have been the one he picked hi
teeth with before he signed the death wauar
/ of Charles l."
, The number Of adhcrcnts Of the Orthodox Rus
sian Church has greatly increased during til
past quarter of century. In 1870 there WEI
100000 orthodox Greeks throughout the who
empire; today, according to the official statistic
Of the Holy synod this number has increased I
: 70000,0O0, or about two-thirds Of the country
total population