Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-11-07
FACTS IN FEW LINES


boxes from Italy grows in Maine
Kansas City has cooperative s,ar-
ment factory operated b. women.
Only % per cert CT the population Of
England and Wales live in the country
Searchligbt signals have been sen,
fiftv-eight miles, from Buffalo TO To
ronto.
The electrical motor business is in
creasing S150.ooo.0oo year in the
United States
Fer Eve years japanese imports have
exceeded exports ct the rate of $780,
coo 600 10 sff.o0o.o0o a year
The mint is overcrowded with gov
eminent orders for small coin to meet
the en- rInously increased demands of
the retail trade.
At Euela. in Australia. subterra-
mean lake has been found at depth
of 800 feet. with comparatively mex
haustible supply of water.
German bankers have reversed theft
business policy which led to enormous
investments in foreign countries and
have become ultra conservative.
The largest lumber MANUFACTURING in
A
isau. Wisconsin and Minnesota will be
idle in n few years for want OF timber
Should an inventor ever arise who
can utilize Ignite in blast furnaces
eastern Texas could be made, ii is as
serted, as great an iron center as Pitts
burg.
The second greatest silver mine in
the world is at Huanchacca. Bolivia.
owned mostly in France an exceeding
ly rich mine, 1900 feet above sea
level. t-s
When single district in the state in
a single month produces over 81 500
600 in gold. it is safe 10 eay that Colo
RADIO has completely out,=i:,.:..s ~ com
petition.
Nikola Tesla has purchased 200 acres
Of land on Long Island sound and viii
erect the largest building of its kind in
the world to experiment with wireless
messages.
This years United States consump-
ton of sugar will be 100000 tons.
Louisiana furnishes $4,000 tons. A
duty of $40 per ton is paid on 300. 600
tons of it.
can become independent of the United
States cotton IL they will only eneour-
age the natives in Persia and Africa
to grow it.
One hundred and thirty-three tons of
waste paper We're collected and sorted
by the men in the Salvation Army's
Metropolitan Institution one week liz
London recently.
A London sanitary official DIR. Shir-
ley Murphy. found that the number OF
cases of consumption increased in ex-
act proportion with the number of per
SONS living in one room.
The United States government Is
having a machine constructed in Wash
ington that will dispiace thirty mathe-
maticians in the coast survey 1t cal
culates the movements of the tide
An American syndicate recently of
fered to lease one of the largest rail
way systems in Great Britain and
guaranteed to pay the shareholders
more than they have been making out
OF it.
At the commercial schools of Leipsic.
Berlin and Vienna all the languages of
the far east are taught in order that
German commercial agents can extend
German trade. Engiishmen are non
plused about it.
The government has gathered 80
varieties of hard wheat found in for
eign countries to sow them in the arid
regions of the west by which it is be-
lieved S0,o0o,0oo bushels can be grown
On now valueless lands.
A wonderful nugget Of tin has been
discovered in the mines of North Dun
das, Tasmania. 1t is estimated to
weigh 5.4O0 pounds. The assay of
small piece shows that the large mass
of ore contains 67 per cent of metallic
tin.
A recent census shows that Paris
contains 1.216 cIasses Of workmen.
metals and kindred industries claiming
$40. textiles 207. the chemical trade
3S6 and building 2O3. The total num-
Der of workmen is estimated at over
3OO,O 600.
English shipbuilding interests pro-
pose putting on six prominently fast
steamships to ply between New York
and Berehaven in four and q half days
and by building sixty-five miles of
railroad enable passengers to reach
London by the close of the fifth day.
The CAM system of electric traction
uses 5000 volts in each phase which is
fed directly to two trolley wires the
track forming the third conductor
This system provides for hauling $50
ton train of freight twenty miles an
hour on 10 per cent grade by 600
horsepower locomotive.
Two large German iron concerns. the
Hasper and the Baroper. which paid
respectively 80 per cent and - per cent
diVidendS last year. have passed their
l9oi dividends. The Hasper carries
forward its entire net earnings as
special reserve against possible losses
on the companys accumulated stock of
iron.
A freak rooster was recently taken |
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