The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-17
NUBS OF KNOWLEDGE.

Settlers are beginning to flock into Manitoba
in large numbers.
The Tartarian alphabet contains 2O2 letters, be.
ing the longest in the world.
The entertainment Of royalty costs British So
ciety each year fully e2,0O0,OOO.
A case 1D2 years old has just been settled in
the court of claims at Washington.
The annual production of jute fabrics in Ger
many now amounts to Sl1 900, 900 in value.
switzerland uses more postal cards in proper
tion to its population than any other nation in
Europe.
The American corn kitchen at Paris will he in
charge of a colored woman trained as a cook in
Maryland.
The Prince of Wales is now credited with the
ambition of anonymously owning and editing a
newspaper.
The metal in the big bell of Moscow weighs
nearly 200 tons, and is valued at several thou
sands pounds.
The Postofiice department has issued special
warning in regard to shortpaid letters for for
egn countries.
The Lutheran church in Iceland numbers about
1900 baptized members, which is about the
total population
The London Times advocates reimpostion by
all countries of the stringent regulations of 1898
against anarchists.
Owing to the prevalence Of smallpox no spring
elections were held in two Ohio towns, the Off
cias holding over
The bee industry in the states employs 500,
ono persons, and the revenue from it is about
,00C sterling year.
The lowering of the height standard by the
English military authorities is believed to have
caused boom in enlistment
Every animal kept by man, excepting the cat,
is taxed in Austria. and there is a proposal
to tax pussy in that country.
France, with a population of 39,0oO,O0O, has a
fighting Of al to m
the field at very short notice.
There more than 900 Free Masons in
good and regular standing in the jurisdiction OF
the grand lodge of New York.
ChicaGo's registration for the April election
ia 347,1S2. The vote of New York in the last
election for mayor was 526,j56.
The marriage rate OF Queensland. Australia,
has been steadily declining from lI.5 per 1000
in 1868 to 6.3 per 1000 in 1S0S.
There is a national movement in Switzerland
looking to the establishment OF hospitals for
the treatment of lung diseases.
There are now upward of 400 rural mail car
riers in the United States, and during the year
just closed they carried close to lO,OOOOOO pieces
of mail.
The Beers have during the war consumed a
large quantity of diluted vinegar in order TO
overcome the lasstudc caused by the noXious
yapor of lyddite.
The University of Illinois now has six differ.
cnt colleges and four school united under one
head. IN thirteen years the number OF students
has increased from 377 to $50
silk is likely to go up in price, as there is an
epidemic amcng the Italian and French silk
worms. They refuse to cat and are dying by
nlyriads on their mulberry leaves.
During the past few weeks st. Helena has been
put into telegraphic communication with Lon
don and Cape Town by means OF the recent
completion OF the new West Coast cable.
II is claimed that 100000 italian laborcrs,
skilled and unskilled, hTd employment in Switz-
erland, 80 per cent. of whom come INTO the coun.
try in the spring and return in the fall.
pack of playing cards has been patented in
the west in which the faces on the face cards
are portraits of Dewey, Miles ard other navy and
army officers The queens are Columbus
Irish is being generally studied il never was
before. Its process of rapid disappearance as a
spoken language has been arrested. Next year 5
census will probably show an extension OF its
domain, not as one only spoken, but spoken
besides English
Hans Bcttner and his wife, who have lived on
farm at Whiting Ind, for 60 years, went TO
Chicago few days ago TO see the sights and