The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1900-03-28
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

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Hamburg added 40 new steamers TO
Its fleet last year. II now numbers
43G.
Two years ago the Beers had In their
pay 10 German officers, 40 French and
40 Russians.
Out OF l,54S.GJI votes polled in the
last election in Mexico only o2.172 were
against Diaz.
The world Is calling for American
manufactures at the rate of over ST.
100000 a day.
President kruger's ultlmatum Is the
first that has ever been received by
Great Britain.
The car of Russa's army is the only
one in Europe that can boast of feml-
nine medical officers.
Merchandise imports into France
during 1890 decreased sol 600, 900; ex-
ports increased $40, G40,0O0.
A ITO ton gun, though it can fire only
80 full charges, can fire 100 three-quar-
ter charges and 800 half charges.
For the last ten years there has been
an increase of 1000 annually in the
number of Great Britain's insane.
"Pelleo" of the Zulu tongue is liz gen.
eral use in South Africa. 1t Is literally
translated into English as done for"
An Egyptian who has arrived in
New York to join dime museum ex-
hibition is feet II inches tall He Is
only % years old.
The earnings Of the Hamburg Amer
0OO,0 marks, an increase of 100000
marks over the preceding year.
President Anderson of the southern
Mormon mission field says that there
are 1900 Mormons in South Carolina
and 10000 In II southern states.
Russia's Asiatic possessions are three
times the size of Great Britain's, but
hold only 100000 inhabitants as
compared with England's 297,000,000
subjects.
1t will cost $4,000 to put the exposi-
ton building at Philadelphia in shape
to seat the $1,000 people expected to be
present in the hall during the Repub-
lican convention.
The success of the Germans In the
war of 1870 has been attributed by ex-
perts to the conveniently carried pre-
pared food supplied by the sausage
makers of Berlin.
About 100000 Mormons remain in
the Utah region, from Canada to Mex
leo, with about $4,000 more elsewhere.
Mormons act together, as directed by
the Mormon priests.
There are over 100 gold mines in the
immediate neighborhood of Johannes
burg stretching out on all sides of the
city. The monthly output of the mines
was 10 tons of gold.
Twenty sets of the Marconi appara-
tus will be installed on our warships.
The first charge for each set will be
$500, and an annual rental of $500 per
set will be paid to the company.
We buy each year 100000 senti-
mental valentines at an average of 10
cents each and 100000 comic valen-
tines costing cent each. This In
turn means an outlay of 100000.
A man in Philadelphia makes living
by selling foreign hotel express and
railroad labels to people that paste
them on their baggage to create the
impression that they have been abroad.
The Hindoos, who are largely veg
etarians, have been and are the chief
sufferers from the plague, doubtless
owing to diminished power of resist
ance as well as to their insanitary sur
roundings.
A Boston cemetery company has de-
cided to exclude automobiles from its
burying ground lest the horseless yehi-
cles should cause runaways, which
stones and monuments.
A significant sign Of the part Japan
hopes to play In the future in China is
that the japanese government has def
initely offered to establish military
academy at Peking to educate Chinese
under japanese officers. 1t is believed
China is favorably disposed toward
this proposition.
A new currency has been introduced
into Austria Hungary. The Austrian
form has disappeared and with 1t also
the kreuzer, of which there were 100
In form. The new unit Is called the
krone Grown, and 1t equals half
form. One crown contains 100 heller,
and the latter therefore equals half
kreuZer.
An agricultural expert ventures to
prophesy that before the twentieth CEN
| fury reaches middle age farming in
England will be mostly carried on by
| syndicates. His conclusion Is that the
| laborer's dislike to the soil Is rooted
and permanent and that the only way
to get ON will be by cultivating large
| areas and making free use of machin-
cry.
The Hospital Book and Newspaper
society, which distributes reading mat
| ter among hospitals, prisons and SINH
| lar institutions In many parts OF the
country, has issued It's annual report,
showing that last year 1t distributed
5.S12 books, Pitt magazines, 71,140
weekly and illustrated papers and full
ly 100000 daily papers.
Spinach Is now in high favor as an
article of diet. Chemists affirm that
1t contains more iron to the square inch
than most of the renowned ferrugi-
nous remedies" Spinach not only
contains salts of iron and potassium,
but other salts. which are good for
the liver and the blood. 1t therefore
improves the complexion.
A girl in Germantown, Pa, has an
"unlucky ROOM" No one can enter 1t
without walking under small ladder.
The mirror is cracked, and peacock
feathers are strewn about in profusion.
Directly over the girls bed Is suspend
ed an umbrella which is never closed.
There are Is articles of furniture In the
room, and on the walls are hung Is pic
lures. The girl wears no jewelry ex.
cept opals.