The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-11-03
SUICIDES IN FRANCE.
at statistica refer Tn the folio

sold in Paris.
SUICIDES IN FRANCE.
The latest statistics refer to the follow
ing years:
isss. T foisi mum nur mSsr OF OF suISI dss... ...........:...s ..sss
isse Total number Of suicites"".......'....'s 200
isas. Total NUN her Of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 4ss
IS suicides were less than Is years OF age.
~. 10 suicides suicides we're we're !, y 70 q years years Of OF arc age.
1,2ss suicides were 70 TO 20 years OF age.
IS. j:ss : sSisiass We're We're !: g to to g g years year: OF 81 az: age.
2,sss suicides were more ,ssa 90 years OF age.
2b suicides weto~e Unknown age.
OF s.ssa suicides S.0Os were unmarried,
2,5o2 married and with children, l.t22 mar
RI and childless. 1,ii3 with children, s34
widowed and childless, As TO employ
ments, 2Ass were agriculturalists, Ices
Of various trades. 1,203 shopkeepers, 1850
in the liberal professions, 1911 we're ser
wants, 1.1sl without known OF sup
port. The determining reasons for sui
cides were: Poverty, 1887; family trou-
bles, 94s: crosses In love and jealousy, o2<;
drunkenness, 1,226; Illness, l,7se.
NUMBER OF TELESCOPE METEoRs.
Every observer notes a considerable
number Of small meteors while he Is en-
gagged in telescope observation. The field
OF view Of a telescope is a very small frac-
ton Of the whole surface OF the heavens
A simple proportion based OF the number
OF observed meteors enables an estimate
OF the number Of meteors in the whole sky
to be made. This estimate has been made
by DR.. See OF the Naval Observatory at
Washington who concludes hat about 1. 200
OoO. 900 telescope meteors appear In the
whole skydaily. About ten to fifteen million
meteors bright enough TO be visible TO the
naked eye encounter the earth daily, ac-
cording to the calculations Of Prof. Newton.
Most OF them are consumed in the atmo-
sphere. The increment OF the mass OF
the earth Is extremely small.
COAL OF THE woRLD
The last figures Of the British Board OF
Trade give the output in English tons Of
2,2Oo pounds in 1900:
Great Britain, 225,is 900 tons; Germany,
100 .225 900 tons; France, 81 ,5s7,00O tons;
Belgium, %, 352, 600 TONS; United States,
PAS .422 900 tons. The total output Of the
world Is $50 200, 600 tons, of which the United
States produced 81 o per cent. Great Britain.
s45 per cent; Germany, 1877 per cent !;
France, so per cent; Belgium. SIS per cent
The price per ton in francs at the mine is;
Great Britain, 70 T.; Germany, 2if.; United
States, LOS +.
The coal exports exceeded the imports
in the United States by 1904 900 tons in
1899 and by 5.79i 600 in 1900. The number
Of tons used per inhabitant Is In the United
States, 80: Great Britain, 40. Germany,
IL. France, IL; Belgium. rs; Russia. OIL;
Austria Hungary. %.
DIAMETER or PLANET MERCURY.
The planet Mercury has been measured
with the large telescope OF the United
States Naval Observatory at Washington
by Or See, and its diameter determined
as 500 II, corresponding 20 4,27s kilo-
metres q SIS miles,. DR. SEE calls atten-
ton to the fact that he has never eeon
any marked spots on the planets disc,
not even when the sky was absolutely
pure and the image Of tho planet perfectly
defined. nor has he seen any elimination
- Ir4.lNY.-a ~ fha a1uaa ~ the ,llsR such
a. would Ire produced by an absorbing
Atmosphere. These results agree, In gen
eral, with thpse obtained az the Lick OBJ
servatory aud disagree, IN respect OF the
markings, az least, with those Of Schlapa-
reli aud Mr. Percival Lowell.
THE MERCHANT PIEETs oF rHE WORLD.
The last British Blue Book gives the
following tahle ,Whrra the numbers repre-
srnt Thousand Of tons Of the last returns
noeiyed
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tu ta"ulyfulI to- lHs- - dnmutss Tho,
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