Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-05-20
FACTS IN FEW LINES

In density of population Arizona hai
Loo Inhabitants to the square mile.
Tie national debt OF the Unites
Kingdom is ) per cent Of its wealth.
The proportion OF divorces to mar
riages III Rhode Island is about one ii
eight.
| Virginia had the largest population
| or any OF the states Mt the first censu,
| In 1870.
| Sausage castings are imported Int
this country in large quantities from
New Zealand.
The United States is nearly ID time,
| as large as the United Kingdom OF
| Great Britain and Ireland
The United Kingdom has colonies
| and possessions whose area is equal IL
| more than p times her own size.
| The United States imports from Al
| geria cork wood, goatskins. sugar. mo
lasses. marble and vegetable hair.
| A fat to go up in Cincinnati this sea
son viii probably be the largest one in
| the country. Its frontage will be Loco
| feet.
The per capita of money in circula-
| ton In the United States on July l.
1900. was S26.93. On July l, 1878, il
was Sl5.32
SPANS kingdom of Asturias, accord
ing to The British Medical Journal.
boasts of % centenarians in a popula-
ton of COO. 900.
West Point cadets are to take up
polo as part of their athletic training.
and the government has purchased
ponies for the purpose.
Kangaroo skins to the value of So67,-
5000 were imported from Australia
into the United States during the quar-
ter ending Sept. 80, 1900.
private detective agency has been
started in Zurich. This is the first
of its kind In Switzerland, where the
law of divorce is practically unknown.
Bengal is suffering from the cocaine
habit. and efforts are being made to
restrict the sale of the drug, which the
Hindoos are using as a substitute for
opium.
A tunnel % miles long, reaching a
depth of 800 feet below sea level, Is
planned between vaqueros bay. Spain,
and Tangier, in Africa 1t would be
the deepest in the world.
A new cotton ginning machine ena-
bles two men to gin 1000 pounds daily
and under the old system they could
turn out less than a hundredth part in
the same amount of time.
Cincinnati has an organization of
capitalists called The Tropical COM
pany." 1t has large land holdings in
Honduras. on which the cultivation of
bananas is conducted on an extensive
scale.
When the first census was taken In
1870. Pennsylvania population was
94.253. greater than that of New York.
BY the census of 1900 New York's pop
ulation leads that of Pennsylvania by
$685.
Turkey has made arrangements for
more German officers to serve with
her army in order to effect certain re-
organizations. Their previous success
es at Damascus and Tripoli were con-
spicuous.
The Leicester England) town coun- |
Gil has decided to make grant to the |
municipal forward movement to enable |
that body to provide boxes of plants |
for the window stills of the poorer cot |
tages of the borough.
During the last year the average age
of all the Quakers who died In Great
Britain and Ireland was a little over
CT years aud Z months The returns
also show very low mortality rate
among Quaker children.
In the village of Golodaevka, in the
district of Tehembar, Russia. an in
teresting treasure has been found. con-
sisting of PIT ancient silver coins,
among which there are about 80 Span
lsh coins of the first quarter of the
century.
So difficult has il become to get do
nestle servants in New Zealand or a
woman help of any kind that in many |
places the only way to secure the serv-
ices of the washerwoman is by sending |
a gig for her. This Is the experience of |
a lady who writes to friend in Eng |
land.
The Danish parliament has passed
and the king sanctioned a law estab-
fishing the secret ballot system at par
elections. The Radical par
ty proposes to agitate for an extension
OF the law whereby this system may be
used at all elections, whether political |
or municipal.
A monument estimated to cost $780,
600 will be erected at Montreal in joint
Of the fact that in
1899 Canada for the first time took a
hand In the wars of the British empire
and of Lord Strathcona's patriotism In
eQuipping at his own expense q force |
Of rough riders for service In South |
Africa. Separate memorials had been
to unite them.
Santiago de Cuba has population Of |
$1,000. In January. 1895. there were
SIC deaths, which makes an annual
death rate OF 1916 per 1000 In jan
uary. 1899. under military rule, practi- |
cal sanitation was applied, and the |
deaths were 215. making a rate Of 60. |
In January, 1900, the deaths numbered /
100. at a rate of 33.4S. Now. after two |
years of sanitary work. the January |
Q90D deaths numbered so, rate OF |
222
The new bridge over the Mississippi |
at ST. Louis recently authorized by con-
gress is TO be finished In 1908 for the
river was begun In 1857, when st. |
Louis had a population Of DO. 200. but /
when the bridge was finished in 1874
the population had risen to 325. 900.
When the second bridge was opened to
traffic in 1890. the population was 451.-
600. and il was evident that a third /
bridge was needed owing to the city's |
Greatly increased business activity.
Health for 10 Gents.
A Gualx- Irar r1r,ro Hood clean