The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-02-20
NUBs OF KNOWLEDGE.

Japan still has coins made of iron.
Sugar Is found in parsnips, malows and al.
! most all vegetables.
Only three weeks are required to develop q
perfect mosquito from the egg.
The IIindoo chronology extends to 6l7t n. c.;
Babylon o7js D. c.; China, 0lj7 u. c.
There are several large factories in the United
States devoted to the manufacture Of rose water.
| Emeralds have been discovered IN Arizona and,
| 1t is said, in North Carolina. They arc, how
, ever. very small.
The difference between the tallcst and shortest
races in the world is foot and one'half inches
and the average height is Ave feet hye inches
Canada will have a building at the Pan-Ameri.
| can exposition, and make a comprehensive dis.
play of the country's great resources and indus
tries.
! II is predicted that the trumphal bridge at
the Pan.Amcrican exposition will surpass in
beauty the great Alexander bridge at the Paris
exposition.
One hundred and sixty miles an hour is the
speed aimed At by new electric railway COM
! pany in Germany under the direct patronage Of
the emperor.
. Gumdrcps . few years ago were the most
fashionable variety OF candy but dealers spoiled
the trade by putting brandy and other forms
Of alcohol in them
The Danube flows through countries in which
ffty.two languages and dialects are spoken. II
is 1000 miles in length and bears on its current
four.ffths OF the commerce Of eastern Europe.
! Among it's many curious products South Africa
includes the 'snecze.wood' tree, which takes its
1, name from the fact that cannot cut it with
saw without sneczng, the fine dust has cx'
! actly the effect Of snuff.
! The finest garden hedges in England are at Hall
! Barn, in Buckinghamshirc. They over thirty
feet high, are immensely thick and are clipped
so as to present the smooth, Nclvcty appearance
peculiar to the finest ycw and box hedges.
According TO statement. there were no less
! than 800 binders sold last year in Edmonton and
/ Strathcona, in British Columbia. The record Of
| implement sales includes twenty nine thrashng
| machines, and the districts consumed 100000
| pounds Of twine.
There four swords belonging to the city Of
| London, and during the next twelve months the
| Sword Of state" will give place to the BLACK
, Sword" which is used at the death of any Of
the royal family, in Lent and on fast days.
! All cattle over six months old going from
! Great Britain to the United States must, by an
order just issued, br tested with tubcrculin by
an inspector stationed in Great Britain, or on
arrival in the United States. The test will not
do away with quarantine
After the Abandonment OF Britain by the kO'
mans, the roads fell into disuse, and bride.
paths formed the only means Of communication
Not until the sixteenth year OF Charles H., that
is, 1876, was any systematic effort made to I'M.
prove the roads Of England.
| According to reports for tho year 1900 the eN-
| ports from Manitoba and the territories Of beet
| cattle alone amounted TO 5000 head, an in
| crease of 5000 head over lSl1; hut the exports
in 1880 were 5000 head less than in the previous
year, owing to uniayorablc weather.
| Probably the smallest monarch in the worl
reEns over the Hindu yassal state Of Bhopaul,
and governs a people more than a million souls.
This dwarf is a woman, PjihanBcgum by name,
hut although she is about 80 years old, she does
not appear larger than a child of 10.
The art of sponge fishing is likely to be rcvo.
lutionizcd by the introduction OF submarine elcc.
trc lamps. At present the fishing apparatus
is limited to a long pole for spcarng and watc-
glass. II the lamps prove successful greater
depths may he reached and larger and iinor
spongcs secured.
The annual report of the inspector general OF
the army regarding military schools shows that
there are 10 such schools scattered through cv'
cry state in the union, Last year they had 30,
1856 students enrolled, Of whom 27,30o were over
IA years OF age and the students, former stu
dents and alumni of these institutions, to the
number of 1888, served in the war with Spain
Of whom 1854 were officers and 2,li6 enlisted
men,