Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-10-01
FACTS IN FEW LINES

One man in six in the British navy is
a total abstainer.
Fashion journals announce that it
viii be velvet winter"
There are 10000 Portuguese in Mas
sachusetts, Boston having over 5000
Mormon missionaries report that they
are making many converts in Ger
many.
White pine. when green. weighs 34.62
pounds to the cubic foot; when season
ed, 29.56.
The latest thing in the eating saloon
and lunch cafe lines is the automatic
or waiterless restaurant
Paving experiments are to be made
in Havana with vitrified bricks, gran
lite squares and sandstone blocks.
1t is estimated that the Puget sound
sockeye salmon pack for this season
will be Loo. 600 cases, valued at $780,
coo.
One of the Buenos Ayres newspapers
has consultation room in which the
poor can daily get medical or legal ad-
vice free.
Tasmania's government does not per-
nit any land To be sold by private con-
tract within five miles of Hobart or
Launceston.
South Dakota has more Indians d.
000) than any other state. Or the terri
tories Indian Territory has $4,000 and
Arizona $1,000
Exports of American breadstuffs in
creased % per cent during the past sew
en- months over the same time the pre-
ceding fiscal year.
More than 1000 men are at work on
the Swiss side of the Simplon tunnel
and nearly 1.S0O on the Italian side.
Much trouble has been caused by
vein of water which supplied $50
quarts per second.
/ Chemists say that As per cent of
green wood consists of water. They
estimate that it is almost impossible
to expel all the water from seasoned
lumber. about 10 per cent remaining
in highly seasoned woods.
The demand for agricultural imple-
ments in Egypt is increasing with the
progress made in cultivating land.
Farmers are rapidly finding out the
value OF improved machinery and have
in use already a number of thrashing
machines.
Recent statistics show that no less
than %. Asa horses, mules and donkeys
were killed in the slaughter houses of
Pantin and Nillejuif, in France, dur
ing 1900. OF these 25,059 were sold
for food and the remainder of them de-
clared unfit for consumption.
The biggest woodworking plant in
~ oil ho
ed by the unions of San Francisco and
is now turning out material as fast as
1000 union carpenters can place it on
the buildings in two cities. 1t gives
employment to 16O union mill men.
About 40 per cent Of the men en-
ployed in the Minnesota mines are Fin
landers. another 40 per cent Hungari-
ans, about per cent Italians, and the
rest are divided among Americans, Ger
mans, French. Scotch and Welsh. The
mainstay of the mines are the Cornish
men.
Excellent results have followed the
administration Of forests and timber
production by the Hungarian govern
ment While in 1868 the net income
from the national forests amounted
only to 1.19i, 900 forms. they yielded
during the last decade more than
100000 forms.
The largest beehive in the west is
claimed by Lexington. Ill. In the long
bridge of the Alton railroad over the
Mackinaw river a great colony Of the
insects have established quarters. The
hive is in the main span. which is 120
feet long. aSd the stretch of comb is
fully that length.
The presidents or the Berlin Society
For the Prevention of Cruelty to Ami
mails have issued a proclamation to the
public urging them. in engaging cabs or
wagons. to take only those drivers who
do not follow the stupid and cruel Gus
tom of using binders over the eyes of
the horses. which is the principal cause
of Shying.