The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-07-17
FACTS IN FEW LINES


Britain spend f250OO0 a year on silk
hats.
Algeria has four zones in which Pc
troleum occurs. One OF them Is 125
miles long.
A manuscript Bible Of about the year
141O was sold in London at auction for
, 1000 guineas.
According to insurance statistics, tee
totalers may expect II years moro life
than drinkers.
The 81 beet sugar factories in this
country now yield more than third Of
our domestic sugar product.
Western Australia's public school in
structlon is secular and has for Its
textbooks the Irish national series.
New Zealand has SO many rapid
streams and rivers that their water
might be easily utilized to supply mo
tive power for machinery.
New South Wales paid f743.O in Is
years for the destruction Of over "a
100000 noxious animals-kangaroos,
wailabies, dngoes and others.
Atmospheric sharps say that even at
the equator the average. temperature
Of the sea at the depth of mile Is but
degrees above freezing point.
Victoria holds the nugget record,
with the Welcome Stranger, found In
1862 100 pounds. and the Welcome.
found In 1855 las pounds ounces.
The cities of Dublin, Belfast, Cork
tofo al
about equal to that Of Glasgow, con-
tain less than sixth Of the population
of Ireland.
ST. Helena Is to have a university
extension. The Cape university is go
Ing to send examiners to the island
for the young Boer prisoners who are
studying to enter the university.
Paterson has the most populous city
ward IN the state of New Jersey. 1t
Is the Third ward, with 23,7S0 people.
Newark has the next largest, with 3d.
$50. Elizabeth has ward with only
6,37S population.
A recent writer states that the people
: Of the Scottish race, the majority born
: in the north of Ireland. comprised near
: IL onefourth of the total white popula-
: ton of the American colonies at the
4 outbreak of the Revolution.
J, Paris Is considering the question OF
|. changing portion Of its municipal am
b bulance service from animal to me-
= chanical traction. New York has had
t several self propelled vehicles Of this
E. character in use for nearly gear.
a The gross income from the gambling
IL tables at Monte Carlo for the yeai
ending March 81, 1900, was 100000
The amount left for dividends, etc.
after the payment of salaries. per
y duisites to officials and other expenses
= was 81, 100000.
"a A new giant geyser at R0tonahana
- N. o., is attracting attention. A mas:
n of boiling water half an acre Ia ex
N tent rises In great dome, from Which
"a a column of water and stones rises t.
+ 800 feet, while immense columns o.
;. steam ascend as far as can be seen.
d A store in New York which makes :
h speciality Of fancy articles for woman
J. wear recently displayed In a window
e two chains Of coral beads. One was Of
j. round, smoothly polished beads ant
il bore the legend. 'ImltatioR coral. g
t cents" The other, of ragged, uRcul
e coral. was marked, Real coral, q
!, cents"
There is nothing odd or peculiar
about the sleep of the lions and tigers.
In captivity they show the same indH-
+. ference to danger that they manifest In
= the Jungle and by day or night will
/ slumber through an unusual tumult,
c unmindful or unconscious of the noise.
! Their sleep Is commonly heavy and
: peaceful.
The title of defender of the faith" Is
< still so much priced that the British
{ form of 1910 had to be recoined be-
r cause the letters F. d. were omitted
from the legends. Paul III in his bull
of accommodation Cancelled Henry
Wis title of defender Of the faith"
which, however, was confirmed to the
! king by an act Of parliament.
Sailors In the American navy are bet
ter fed than those of any Of the navies
OF the world. The pay is small, but
they are better treated In every respect
IMAM WIN thS
seas over. This may be one Of the rea-
sons that account for so large a per-
centage of Europeans In the service of
the American national marine.
Among the first persons to introduce
manufactured fertilizer In this country
was the late William Trego. the son Of
q Quaker farmer Of Hartford county,
Md. Mr.. Trego first manufactured fer
tilizer about 1880 from bone I'm a very
crude way. This fertilizer was shipped
to his father. who used 1t on his farm.
In the early stages Of this Industry
manufactured fertilizer was regarded
with more or less suspicion by the
farmer.
The city Of Zurich must be the very
paradise Of clubs. In proportion to
the number of Its inhabitants II pos
sesses more clubs than any other city
in the world. At the end Of 1893 II
already had 534 clubs. but in 1901 they
had increased to I'll. Nearly every
one Of them holds its yearly, quarterly.
monthly or weekly "verelnsfest." 10
that IL a citizen could only get him.
self elected a member Of each Of them
he might keep two festivals every day
Of the year.
Five thousand copies Of the present
constitution of Missouri were printed
n