The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-04-09
KNOWLEDGE IN BRIEF.

The income tax o: India is levied on all in
comes of G@3 and upward.
Already nearly EiO, 800 has been invested III
| electric undertakings i'll the Argentine Republic.
| Texas now raises more than double the amount
Of cotton produced by any other state in the
Union.
Medical opinion in London is strongly against
| street drinking troues ior horses, disseinna'
tors OF glanderous material
| Honolulu is keeping up with the trade pro-
| cession OF the day. 1t is to have 10000
| packing house establishment.
| Greater New York will spend Sl50,0O0 more at
the Worlds Fair in st. Louis than it did at
| the Worlds Fair in Chicago
| In the matter of population Germany ('63i5,
| 0OOl ranks after European Russia Q0G, l5o,OOO
and the United States C76,aOo0ool
| An effort is being made to establish in one
| OF the Scotch universities chair for the study
| OF the Scots language and literature.
| Spain's kingdom OF Asturias, according to the
British Medical journal, boasts OF twenty.eigiit
| contenarians i'll population OF 100000.
| The grounds around Grants tomb at Riverside
| are to be bcautihed. The trees will be planted,
the steep cmbankment terraced and asphalt walks
| laid.
| There are signs that immg ration from the
| North to the South. which has been notably
large during the past five or six years, will be
| larger this year.
| Bengal is suffering from the cocaine habit and
| efforts arc being made to restrict the sale of the
drug, which the lIindoos are using as a substi.
| tutc for opium.
III the Gettysburg National Park 2a5 mounted
cannons have been placed and q total OF 80
| monumental tablets and about 800 monuments
| have been erected.
| The naval authorities at Brcst have Just dis
posed by auction OF the old cruiser Arcthuse, re.
Gently struck of the list OF the French navy.
| She was sold for about $4,000
| A Missouri man at Nevada drinks a good, BIZ,
| amount of whisky, but only consumes the pure
inoonshinc puility, which lie has shipped in from
| the mountains OF Fast Tennessee.
| Cincinnati has an organization OF capitalists
called THE Tropical Company" II has large
lard holdings in Honduras, on which the culu'
,ation OF bananas is conducted on an extensive
scale.
Fifty thousand citizens of Indiana are cm-
ployed in wood industries, and receive annually
Sl50oo,o00 in wages. The product OF this labor
brings s5o,oOoOOo each year to Indiana'S manu-
| iacturrrs.
In Russia the sunilower Is cultivated as Il
staple crop. The S,nfower seeds are AN article
Of dict, being eaten either raw or roasted. The
oil is also used liberaly in cooking, being prac-
tically equal to olive oil
Miss Ella Ewing, the Missouri giantcSs, who is
eight feet four inches in height, recently com.
|
| in that state, Her new house has doors ten
| feet high, ceilings IL feet high with chairs,
tables beds and everything in proportion.
| In an open London suburb a scientist found
| 20,oOo dust particles IN cubic ccntimetcr Of air
| equal To about 0Gi OF u cubic inch-yhile in
a yard in the center of London the number
amounted 10 100000 The air was loaded TO tho
extent of about nine hundred per cent. more in
| the city than in the suburb
In preparation Tor bicentennial OF Vale to
| he held in October next committee has been ap.
pointed to organize the great body OF Yale grad
yates Who will attend the celebration. This
committee will have its headquarters at the
! Yale club, in New York, and the function in
which it will take part is monster torch
| light procession with costumes, allegorcal and
historical floats, illuminations. etc.
| The standard is palatial steam yacht ie-
Gently built at Copenhagen for Car Nicholas of
Russia. The cost of the craft is said to exceed
| 1900 kroner, or close to SS,0OO,OO0. Among
| the features peculiar to the vessel IS the
'church' constructed in close proximity TO the
| imperial cabins. The outside Of the church
| is modelled after the architecture Of the Greek
| Orthodox church. abounding in choicey painted
| parcels OF saints and madonnas.