The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-01-09
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FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

brought into London every year.
Apples and several other Australian
fruits are exported packed In the
shredded bark of the tea tree.
Window plants in Germany are often |
watered with cold tea or coffee. The
effects are said to be beneficial.
1t is said that in Kansas rs per cent
Of the newspapers use the word 'fe-
male" In preference to woman"
There is a mule at Torkia, Mo-, Al
years old, and he is still hale and hear
ty and able to do good days work.
Chicago is not only the greatest cat
tie, sheep and hog market in the world,
but it now leads all creation as a horse
market.
The latest and most important prof.
ect on foot In England Is the construc-
ton of canal from Southampton to
London.
A visitor at the Paris exposition lost
the use Of one eye owing to the calcium
flash used by photographer being of
too great volume.
There are 141 theological schools in
the United States, SO law schools, 81
! regular medical schools, 8 eclectic med
ical schools and IA homeopathic.
! Count Giovanni Palffy has made
| gift of more than 100000 to the Hun
| garian government for the purpose of
providing for the free education Of $50
struggling students.
The exports of butter, cheese, eggs,
bacon, hams, mutton, pork, apples, oats,
| peas, wheat, flour and potatoes to
Great Britain from Canada have more
than doubled since 1896.
Florida had no great population to
start on, but 1t did pretty well during
the last ten years in showing gain at
the rate of 80 per cent. The states
present population is 52S,542.
In the new British parliament Do
members are directors of British rail-
ways and II are directors of colonial or
foreign railways, while half dozen
others are large contractors for rail
way works.
The Welsh colony which was found
ed at Port Madryn, Chubut, Argentina,
in 1865 is reported by the admiralty to
be doing well. British warships occa-
sionally call, and the captain goes
round on horseback.
The Union Traction company of Phil
adelphia promises to run open cars, one
in five, all winter long, with no restric-
lions as to smoking. In the summer
smoking is permitted there on only the
three last seats of the open cars.
The diving police" Of Paris have
been supplemented by special officers
whose duty it is to keep watch at the
various tramway crossings and give
such orders as they may think proper
to prevent collisions and loss of life.
The daily population of the Equitable
building in New York is 3,100, and thu
, mail averages about $4,000 pieces {
day. Every 45 minutes mail wagons
run over from the postoffice and carr.
back with them rs pounds of outgoing
mail.
The wife of Bishop Millspugh, says
the Kansas City Times, sent an ole
= party gown to a rummage sale in To
D peka the other day, and while showing
? the dress to a customer the clerk fount
! in its folds valuable pearl ornament
0 lost ten years ago.
Women should not put pins in theil
e mouths. A lady in Arlington while as
g sisting a companion to try on hat at
n tempted to talk with a small hatpin il
e her mouth, which she accidental.
swallowed. She was operated upoI
S twice, but she did not obtain relief
and the result was fatal.
While an old Paris hawker named
Nine. Jean Jacques was trying the 9th
er day to dislodge mouse which hat
sought refuge in the chimney she dis
I turbed some bricks and discovered ;
hiding place containing bills to tn
I: value of $4,000 which had belonged t,
former tenant Of miserly habits.
/, A penny postage stamp for New Zea
!, land Is being designed by Sir Edwar'
- Poynter. president of the Royal acade
!, my. The stamp will be emblematica
:, of New Zealands adoption of univeI
= sal system of penny postage and viii
be on sale before the beginning of mex
= year, when the penny postage will b
! inaugurated.
# At Sioux City, Ia, state lodge o
| the African Monarchs of America ha
been instituted. The organization |
the first fraternal insurance society or
ganized for colored people exclusively
:, Since the foundation of the Africal
!. Monarchs another association has beel
- organized in Illinois, but the Monarch
were the pioneers.
,s A resident of Plymouth, Mass, Dr.
M Isaac l.. Wood, has couple of apple
: from an orchard at Kamloops, Britis
y Columbia, just the ordinary fruit o
y that region. One of them measures 153
= inches in circumference and weighs 2
h ounces, and the other is nearly a
=, large. DR.. Wood saw at the agricul
W tural fair at Kamloops an apple whic
" weighed 90 ounces.
r. In clear nights a person with goo
IA sight can see 1000 stars. AS but hal
n of the celestial sphere is viewed and a
&c many stars near the horizon are OF
scured by the vapors of our atmospher
the total number of stars visible wit
the naked eye is put at 5000 certainl
In and very likely as high as 5000. TIL
e. number the largest telescope brings In
% to view is estimated at over 50000,000
t, Since the Lutheran teachers semins
g ries in the Baltic provinces of Russi
II were closed by the government, a
though thew had been established an