The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-01-23
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

The mosquitoes In the Roman Cam.
pagna bite only from about an houy
before sunset to an hour after sunrise.
Germany is rapidly rising in impor'
lance as a money lending as well as
q money making nation.
Red bananas are coming into the
market again. Very few have been
shipped to the United States during
the past few years.
Native hens In New Zealand In addi-
ton to supplying the communities with
eggs make themselves additionally use
ful by catching rats.
There is S50,O00,OO0 worth Of United
States government property, as ap-
praised locally, within the boundaries
Of the Greater New York.
No state except Rhode Island and
Mississippi requires more than one
years residence for citizens. In Min
nesota only four months Is required.
A West Australian exploring party
that recently arrived Mt Oodnadata re-
ported that there had not been q drop
Of rain for two years In the region
traversed.
A leading Chicago physician says
that one of the best remedies for In
somnia-and certainly the cheapest
is to take a long trolley ride just be-
fore going to bed.
1t is estimated that the losses by
business failures In the last ten years
amount to S1,S0O,0O0,00O, which is
more than twice the amount Of the
country's circulating medium.
1t Is one Of the risks Of soldiers ca
reer that while in time Of peace his
profession Is the healthiest Of all when
war comes 1t is transformed at once
into the deadllest Of all callings.
The original manuscript Of the
speech favoring the admission of Kan
sas into the Union made by William
II. Seward has been secured by the
Kansas State Historical society.
The British government Is the owner
Of over 25,5O0 camels. Several thou
sand are used In India to carry stores
and equipment when the regiments are
changing quarters by line Of march.
Governor John G.. Brady of Alasks
has sent a large number Of Alaskan
curiosities to the Children's Aid so
ciety in New York, in the care o.
which organization he was brough
up.
Rhodesia has its civil list and Its roy
} al grants with other older and more
settled and populated communities
The late King Lobengula, 1t appears
left so wives rs pensioners on the com
munity.
Motor cars registered in Paris mum
Der 3,701; the suburbs Of Paris, 1,219
in the rest Of France, 2,445; In tn
whole Of Germany, 1,427; in the who'll
: Of England, COO; in the United States
less than 300.
Balloons are used for drying linen Il
Paris laundries. Bamboo frames ar
attached to n captive balloon, and tn
clothes are attached to them. The bal
loon makes six ascents daily to
height Of about 100 feet.
According to a decision Of the Ker
lucky court Of appeals, If one annoys
dog while the animal is eating and get
bitten as consequence the victim
guilty of contributory negligence an
cannot recover damages.
William G. Nash of Weymouth
Mass, is thought to be the oldest gro
Ger in the United Sta ties, he having Ell
tered the business as an employee |
1881 and having conducted store c
| bio 70 ha lr,e
1t Is said tie Duke of Wellingto
once declared that there was nothin
so stupid as a gallant officer, and
correspondent of the London Time
complains that while the British, of
GERS are as brave as brave can be, the
are mostly stnpid.
| Although Washington has mol
parks in proportion to it's size than an
city in the country, until now it hf
had no public playground. A resery
ton In the southea stern section of tt
city has been improved and set asi(
as playground for the children.
While the Egyptian children 4
: doubt hid as great regard for cats
the chD Of today, the parents he
still higher regard, rising into wo
ship. So great was this regard TIL
the cat came to be looked upon
sacred, and cat worship became a pa
Of the religion of the race.
In new apparatus for handlir
goods arranged on shelves he upp'
half Of the shelving Is suspe nded /
means of pulleys and ropes to slide I
and down in movable guidewa Us, wit
clutches for securing the pulle.vs to
, volving shafts to raise or lower Il
shelves.
Every stranger who enters the Viii
House is counted by an autNn,1t
. register. The instrument IL held
the hand of one Of the watcl,men ST
toned at the door, and for every VII
itor he pushes the button. Congress
men, senators, members of the cabint
and newspaper men are not counted.
The extraordinary uphealth mess {
some parts of Assam Is fully detaile
IN recent report. In the Srrma va
ley, which is estimated to. contai
about 2,5OC,, 900 people, there were onl
$4,000 biz tbs in 1898, but 94,C 90 death
Also in the Assam valley there wei
only 1881 births and $1,000 deaths.
A houseboat which has attracted a
tention for several years on Long Il
} land sound Is not only luxury, bu
an economy to it's owner. He is MAJ
ried and has two small children. Dul
Ing the winter he boards in New Yorl
and as soon as the weather permits b