The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-11-07
NOVEMBER :, 1901
FACTS IN FEW LINES

between New York and Atlanta, Ga.
American textile machinery in Ger
tain lines of manufacture is in good
demand in England.
There has been since last year an
addition to the grass area Of Great
Britain of 1913, 443 acres.
Over one-third Of the manufactured
goods which are made in France are
the products Of female labor.
The Belgian government is drawing
mp bill providing for the total sup
preston of sunday newspapers.
Many western mining sections are
being supplied with electricity brought
from fifty To scventy-dve miles.
The import Of American boots INTO
Britain has during the past year III
creased in value by about tlOO,O~
Some Of the MiSsourians and many
southerners urge that Missouri should
no longer he claSSed as a southern
state.
New Zealand sent Great Britain
1.4S1.197 hundredwcight of mutton
valued M f2.657, 100 in the course OF
last year.
An British newspapers combined had
circulation of 10000 IN 1901. Their
present circulation is estimated at
S.JoOOO0 a day.
The city authorities Of Dover. Eng
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Lament TO scrape the staring adver-
tiSementS of the famous chalk ellis
Of that coast.
4 large number of cuttlcfsh have
recently been caught of the north
coast Of Germany. rs they have never
before been met with in these waters
il is difficult Ia account for their pres
ence.
OF all the European countries which
enjoy representative government but
four declined the blcameral system of
parliamentary construction. These
countries are Norway. Servia, Greece
and Bulgaria.
According To- Il new Berlin police or
der. cOStcrmOngerS are 10 be almost
entirely bauiShcd from the streets. Up
to the present they have been allowed
for few hours in the mornings in
few side streets only.
There are now IN operation in Bel
GUM eleven extensive mills where
ccrnmeal is ground. one mill at Alost
has a capacity of 100000 pounds
per year. 1t is said that all the mills
are crowded at present.
The Nebraska state game warden
has forbidden the farmers To fight the
grasshoppers with poison, saying that
the loss of birds and game Is too costly
price to pay for the destruction or
comparatively few insects.
\ competitor In the recent Paris-Ber-
lin motor race. while making seventy
miles an hour in a cloud Of dust, struck
an arched curve in the road with bis
car. which leaped high in the air and
bounded back Ike a rubber ball
President StcKinley's death occurred
on the anniversary Of the death Of the
Duke Of Wellington. who died Sept IA,
1852. and also on the anniversary Of
the death Of General Montcalm. who
was killed Sept. Il. 1893. at Quebec.
Paris now has automobile fire en-
gines which measure six to ten feet
and weigh two and half tons, or,
when fully equipped, G.3SO pounds.
They start 10 work instantly. The
pump delivers twenty gallons a min
ute.
A regular system Of incapacitating
men from serving IN the Russian army
by causing them to go temporarily
deaf has been discovered at Odessa.
The proprietorS, Messrs. Schapira and
Essigmann. who did a great trade
have been arrested.
The Swedish government has under
consideration the substitution Of cleo
tricity for steam on all the Swedish
railroads. the abundance Of water pow
er In the country not only making the
project feasible. but holding out prom
Use OF a great saving.
II Is evident that Americans are
wearing out great deal of shoe leath-
er these days. In Lynn. Mass, the
center of the shoe trade. the factories
are running full time. and great diff
Guilty Is experienced In getting enough
hands to do the work.
In Dublin bay the little fishes are
having hard life owing to numerous
sharks. One. a bottle nose gentle
man, has been caught. and it measured
five and a half feet long. Another,
measuring eight feet, proved too strong
for the line. which had to be cut.
Last year there were registered in
Paris somewhat over 5000 motor car
riages and about 1000 motor cycles,
the later comprising motor bicycles,
motor tricycles and the like. Prac-
| tically all Of the French automobiles
| have been of the internal combustion
! type.
There is a small English village q
the name Of Allesley where the church
bell Is rung ut 3 o'clock every morning
in summer and at o'clock In winter
in order to arouse sleeping lie abeds
| and enable them to start work In good
| time. The curfew bell is also tolled at
| o'clock each evening.
The silk industry was introduced into
France from Italy at the beginning OF
The fourteenth century when discon-
tented Italian weavers established
themselves at Lyons. In the sixteenth
century the industry was introduced
on an extended scale, and in 1850
France surpassed Italy and has since
kept the position of leader.
There was an explosion at the rail-
way station in Santa Cruz one day re-
Gently which badly frightened the peO-
pie waiting for the train. The entire
bottom of a vallse was blown out The
owner, who feared that he would be
suspected as an anarchist explained