The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-07-02
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ireland produces 100000 yards OF
linen a year to England's 100000.
Gibbon says that sugar was first
brought from Asia TO Europe A. ID. 625
All efforts to induce artificial humidi-
ty in cotton spinning factories have
failed.
The quill pens now used In England
come from Germany and the Neither
lands.
In Turkey when the present sultan
plays chess even business Of state must
walt.
The Salvation Army is at work In AZ
countries and has 50 periodicals printed
I'm 81 languages.
About a dozen hospitals In Massa-
chusetts have both allopathic and
homeopathic physicians on the stan.
The secretary OF state for India has
sanctioned scheme for five large cen
trail asylums for the insane In India.
At Wittklel, near Kappeln I'm Sles-
wick, there Is a successful installation
for generating electricity from wind
mill.
The growing demand for women In
the factories Of Germany is bringing
the servant girl problem more and
more to the front.
II has been calculated that the hair
OF the beard grows at the rate Of ~
lines week. This will give a length
OF Gl5 inches I'm the course OF year.
A new law requires that there be
kept constantly Oh hand at the bureau
OF engraving and printing at Washing
ton 10O,0OO,0O0 . and 20,0OO,OOO cent
stamps.
England imported last year nearly a
million pounds OF calcium carbide,
about two-thirds OF which came from
France and about one-ffth from the
United States.
A curious effort In behalf OF temper
ance is noted on the part Of the Belgian
government. A prize has been offered
for the best picture showing the evils
OF drunkenness.
The total number Of women over Is
years old employed in the factories and
workshops OF the British islands Is
about 100000, OF whom IL per cent be-
long to trades unions.
The medals won by Canadians who
helped to sustain British military SUI
premacy I'm South Africa are TO be pre-
scented by the Duke Of Cornwall and
York when be arrives In Canada.
Great Salt lake is beginning to show
the drain upon II due TO irrigation and
is receding. A canal TO the lake from
the head waters OF the Snake river has
been suggested as possible remedy.
Since William Tvs time the organ Of
Hampton Court House in London has
been blown by some member OF the
family named Millest. but In future II
is to be blown by hydraulic pressure.
One Yarmouth mussel OF deteriorat-
ed character contained no fewer than
100000 of harmful bacteria. while
the water In the shell was certified to
contain 03,200 bacteria OF the colon
bacilli type. the forerunner OF typhoid.
Visitors to the Pan-American exposi-
ton ut Buffalo Will have an opportuni-
ty OF seeing a small building made OF
aluminium. This lightest OF metals Is
manufactured at Niagara Falls with
the electricity which is generated there
In large quantities.
The use OF acetylene abroad Is very
much more general than 1t Is In this
country. As an instance the Holland
Railway company is erecting at Am
sterdam factory for the production of
carbide, their intention being to employ
acetylene for car lighting.
Just as stone and bronze have given
place to iron, so shall iron give place
TO aluminium. The people may not
call It aluminium, but some shorter
name, and there is coming an age when
the white metal will surpass all the
previous ages OF mans development.
During the last national fete at Lima
the public square where the principal
outdoor demonstrations took place was
lighted by 34S large acetylene burners
having a total intensity OF some $4,000
candle power. In addition there were
$500 gas flames and 200 incandescent
lamps.
There are few Socialists In Iowa, but
Eugene Debs polled 1.643 votes in the
Hawkeye State last year for president.
or these $40 were cast In Scott county
which includes the city Of Davenport,
with a considerable German popula-
ton. The vote for Woolley, Prohibi-
ZIONIST, In Scott county was oD!y GO.
So far as the British regClar army
is concerned there are ten battalions
the men OF which wear kits. In add
ton to these there are several volun-
teer battalions in Great Britain and a
few others outside the United King.
dom, such as the Cape highlanders and
the Forty-eighth hlghlanders OF Toron-
to, Canada.
The historic plains of Abraham, near
Montreal, have been appraised by an
expert in the pay of the Dominion gov
eminent. He declares the land to be
worth $4,000 as real estate. The
Ursuline nuns, who own the land, offer
to sell for $4,000 II the government
will give them another piece of prop
erty worth $4,000.
Grape fruit is no longer luxury for
the rich alone. The market for 1t has
widened materially, and Its culture is
growing rapidly in Florida, particular
ly on the Indian river and along the
Florida East Coast railroad. The fruit
is grown on the same kind Of land as
oranges and is cared for, harvested
and packed In the same manner.
One-slxth of the entire area Of Colo
RADIO Is excluded from the application