Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-12-04
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Southern California has 900 acres
IN beets.
The first electric street railway ir
Greece las jest been completed Al
patras.
Tie g Ilece and town of OberiIn. O.
are raising $4,000 to modernize theil
cemetery.
The highest receipts ever taken in fol
the use of the Suez canal In one yeaf
were SIG. 46I. 800.
The farm products Of the Unitee
States this year are worth about ssoo
100000 more than last years output.
Russian engineers are experimenting
with Il military kite which will. ii is
hoped. prove useful for accommodating
purposes.
The percentage of water is so iI
plums and grapes. 81 in apples. 81 IL
pears. NJ in oranges. 90 in lemons anG
% in watermelons.
More than forty guides have beer
insured free against accidents by the
Swiss Alpine club at an annual cost
of over 1900 francs.
A process has just been patented for
making artificial woods out of pulp so
us TO initiate such costly kinds as ma
hogany and rosewood.
Dallas. Tex. manufactures more har-
ness and saddles than any other city in
America and perhaps more than any
other place in the world.
The state entomologist of New Jer-
sey predicts that the state will be over
run with locusts next year and that
they will eat everything in sight
The colored element constitutes in
Virginia nearly one-third. or 3oI per
cent. of all males of voting age and is
comprised almost wholly of persons of
negro descent.
Arrangements are being made III
Scotland to fittingly celebrate the cen
tenary of the birth of Hugh Miller.
geologist. author and journalist. on
Oct. = of next year.
Jackson Ont. has made q record for
municipal economy. OF the $1,000 vot-
ed for decorations for the reception Of
the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and
York $500 was not spent.
By using compressed air in the blow
ing of glass Dresden inventor has
discovered method of manufacturing
glass vessels of unusually large size.
such as bathtubs and kettles
Instead of being modern notion the
plan of preventing destructive storms
by exploding bombs among the clouds
was suggested nearly IA hundred years
ago by Professor Parrot of Riga. in
Russia.
Every Cuban must have his helper
says an army officer who has been
serving in the island You cannot hire
a carpenter for an hour unless you pro-
vide him with a helper TO hand his
hammer and nails and talk 10 him"
The largest railroad tunnel in the
United States viii be built through the
Sierra Nevada mountains of California
The project. which viii involve an out
lay of S3.a0o.u00 10 Sj.O;OWAO. contem-
plates the boring of hole. - 600 feet
in length through the heart of the ST
erras
building in Georgia settlement
displays this unique sign: school of
learning. Lessons given in poetry writ
ing and noveltry. Also will teach mu-
sic to you and dramatics. Hides and
wool taken for cash. Also. as the win
ter season Is coming on, oak wood and
kindling."
BY the command of the shah the Per
sian government has arranged to send
$50 young Persians. the sons of we'll
born personages. to Europe at the ex-
pense of the state for educational pur-
poses. The towns selected for their So
journ are London. Moscow. st. Peters
burg. Berlin and Vienna.
The Salt Lake Tribune says that the
farmers of a certain county in Utah
Ogden river from the protected storage
dam of the Utah Light and Power
Ogden river from the protected stor-
age dam OF the Utah Light and Power
company. and that the farmers expect
to store GOO. Oo0.UU cubic feet of water
Rhosllanercllrugng a town in Wales.