Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-11-18
FACTS IN FEW LINES

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Tie wood of the orange ana llmoa
boxes from Italy grows in Maine.
Kansas City has cooperative gar
ment factory operated by women.
| Only % per cent Of the population Of
| England and Wales live in the country.
Searchlight signals have been sent
firty-eight miles, from Buffalo to To-
ronto.
The electrical motor business is In
creasng $150.0C0,O00 year in the
United States.
For five years japanese imports have
exceeded exports at the rate of $50
O00.OU0 to $40 100000 year.
The mint is ovcrcrowded with gov
ernmcnt orders for small coin to meet
the enormously increased demands Of
the retail trade.
At Eucla. in Australia. a suhtorra-
mean lake has been found at Il depth
Of 800 feet, with Il comparatively ineX-
haustib,e supply of water.
German bankers have reversed their
business policy which led to enormous
| investments in foreign countries and
have become ultra conservative.
The largest lumber manufacturer in
America says Me lumber mills of Mich
| igan. Wisconsin and Minnesota will be
| idle in Il fSW years for want of timber
Should an inventor ever arise who
can utilize Ignite in blast furnaces
| eastern Texas could be made, it 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, $4,000 feet above sea
| level.
When a single district in the state in
| a single month produces over $780,
600 in gold it is safe to say that Colo
RADIO has completely outdistanced com
petition.
Nikola Tesla has purchased 200 acres
of land on Long Island sound and will
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 100000 tons. A
duty of 500 per ton is paid On 1905
tons of it.
French economists declare Europe
can become independent of the United
States cotton if they will only encour-
age the natives in Persia and Africa
to grow it.
One hundred and thirty-three tons Of
waste paper were collected and sorted
by the men in the Salvation Army's
London recently.
A London sanitary official, Or. Shir-
ley Murphy, found that the number CT
cases of consumption increased in eX-
act proportion with the number of per-
sons living in one room.
The United States government is
having q machine constructed in Wash
ington that will displace 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. Englishmen are nom
plused abolt it.
The government has gathered $50
varieties O.. hard wheat found in for
eign countries to SOW them in the arid
regions of the west, by which it is be-
lieved S0,Oo0,000 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 5,400 pounds. The assay Of a
small piece shows that the large mass
of ore contains 81 per cent of metallic
tin.
A recent census shows that Paris
contains 1,21G classes of workman,
metals and kindred industries claiming
$40, textiles 237, the chemical trade
1856 and building 203. The total num-
Der of workmeh is estimated at over
100000.
English shipbulding interests pro-
pose putting on six prominently fast
steamships to ply between New York
and Berehaven in four and a half days
and by building siXty-tive miles of
railroad enable passengers to reach
London by the close of the fifth day.
The GAM 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 Il 600
horsepower locomotive.
Two large German iron concerns, the
Hasper and the Baroper, which paid
rocpnctivolv 20 nor cont md IL Opr cent