The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-04-04
NUBS OF KNOWLEDGE.

Every German regiment has a chiropo-
dist in its ranks.
The flower trade of London exceeds in
value $4,000 900 per annum.
The department of agriculture will
plant 100000 rubber trees in the Hawaiian
Islands
Mrs. James G. Elaine Is collecting her
husbands letters FOR publication IN bio
graphy.
The lord mayor of London wears
badge of office which contains diamonds
valued at G120,000
There is a clock in Brussels which has
never been wound up by human hands.
1t is kept going by The wind.
The Bank of England destroys about
$40, 900 of its notes every week, to replace
them with freshly printed ones
From microscopic observation it has
beer computed that the skin is perforat-
ed with 1000 hole: in IA square inch.
The Hebrew population OF London has
more than doubled during the last 20
wears 1t is now estimated at between
100000 and 10000
The earnings of one German line be-
tween Hamburg and New York in 1909 ex-
cecded the earnings OF the previous year
by 1900, 900 marks.
Portland, Ore, exported 9, 500. 900 bushels
of wheat during the last eight months
More than half of this was raised in the
state of Washington.
One-auarter of the people on the earth
die before the age of g. one-half before
the age OF 16 and l out of each 100 born
lives to the age of 60.
More than 5000 600 worth Of timber
was destroyed in the recent forest fires
in the state of Washington
A Leeds, England, gentleman has left
c100 on trust for the benefit of mis- eldest
son ION condition that he does not reside
within 100 miles of Leeds Town Hall"
Beautiful snow at G300.000 oer fall is
ar expensive luxury for London This
was the cost of removing ii from the
whole of the thoroughfares of the metro
polls.
The modern kid glove goes through the
hands of 23J workmen before 1t is fin
ished. At least 40,00O,G10 pairs were man.
ufactured in France last year, their value
being 900
The president TO be elected next No
vember may have the filling of four of the
nine places OH the United States supreme
| bench. One of the vacancies will he the
| chief justiceship.
| The most renowned ruby in the world
| is i'm the crown of the Czar of Russia. In
| shape it resembles a bishops mitre. and
| on its crest is IL cross composed of six
| superb diamonds,
| The German emreror Is a believer in
| luck attending horseshoes, never passes
| one by, and was once seen walking home
| through the streets of Berlin carrying a
| huge shoe in his left hand.
| A young French peasant seeing his
| child thrown from mule received such
| a shock that he became bald within eight
| days. After a time the hair began 10
! grow again, but it was white.
| The most magnificent opal in existence
| Is, it is stated, worn i'm the cap of the
| Chinese minister at Washington, 1t is as
| large as a pigeons egg, and surrounded
| by diamonds 1t is valued at 5000.
| King Menelik has an army of at least
100, 600 men armed with the best modern
| artillery and rifles, and with Russian ana
| French advisers Not many wears age
this Abyssinian army totally defeated the
| Italians.
In New York city the metropolitan
| Street Railway company has 2A miles o
track and last year carried ON them 2;5
| S35, 900 passengers, or about half the mum
ber carried on all of the steam ralll Dads
! OF the United States
The Ontario government has completed
| arrangements for the formation of a for
| est of almost three thousand square
| miles i'm extent embracing the district il
which Lakes Temagami and Lady Eveyr