The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-12-07
FACTS IN FEW LINES

turing state. Georgia stands third'
| Electric cab service In Paris has
proved very Improbable. 1t Is said
that The loss So far represents $4,000"
There are more Chinese Q0T,00O) In
the United States than Dutch (Sl,0oOl
and almost as many as French Ql3,
OOOl.
Water will be supplied the Charles
ton exposition by three artesian wells
over 400 feet deep. A salt water sys-
TEN IS provided for fire protection.
\ mixture OF SawduSt and phosphate
OF lime with a binder has been used as
a material for taking casts Of sculp-
lures and has been called "slmillboIs."
| United states Judge Estee has decd-
ed that all Chinese born in the Hawaii
nm Islands are American citizens no
matter under what government they
| were born
The building material Of The near ~
| turc, NJ Jules Uenrivaux predicts. viii
De glass. The foundations and walls OF
the houses VIII be of the lately invent
| ed stone glass"
The iron industry N Chicago dates
from 1851 when Captain l. u. Ward
Of Detroit built the Chicago rolling mill
lust outside Of the city" This mill
was built to reroll iron rails.
Ii Is said that automobiles have so
| cheapened the cost OF harvesting grain
I'm the immense California fields TINT
wheat can be- raised there 1T less actu-
at cost than I'm rho Argentine Republic
The total em grafton or Swcdos 10
America during ihc last fifty years has
exceeded $4,000 while about lJu.UtN
Swedes have gone to other countries.
or the en- grants To- The United States
only per cent have returned 10 their
native country.
Organized labor has been successful
thus far in keeping out Of the govern
ment printing office typesetting ma
chimes and other contrlvanceS that com
pete with hand labor except steam
printing presses aud a few machines
used in The bindery.
According 80 DR. Ramsay the first
iron works IN South Carolina were
erected by Mr.. Burlington In l773. but
they were destroyed by the Tories dur
ing the Revolution. other iron enter
prises were undertaken IN that state
after the Revolution.
r. G. Martin. an authority upon the
subject ENDS that 100000 people are
employed IN telegraphy. 26,OOO by the
Telephone companies. 10000 In electric
lighting plants. 10000 ON street rail
ways operated by electricity and $780,
900 In electrical factories.
More than $4,000 900 will be raised
10y direct taxation In the city of New
York 10 pay what are known as county
charges. the maintenance OF the coun-
" Offices In the four counties making
up the city. and for the expenses OF
each toward the state tax.
The year Of the French revolutionary
calendar began Sept %. 1892. 1t has
twelve months of thirty days each and
i've days al the end. The months were
divided into three equal decades. There
was a four year period called Fran
Glade" with a six days feast AT the
end
Three gunboats OF twelve knot speed
constitute the lnvincible navy OF Uru-
quay. a force which would have a hard
time with the modified feet OF Siam,
which has two 500 ton corvets. six
gunboatS. a $500 ton deck protected
cruiser armed with fourteen guns and
n Go ton cruiser.
In England the average yield OF
wheat IS over thirty bushels the acre.
but in this country it is below fifteen
bushels. the difference being mainly
due to the fact that In Great Britain
highly productive varieties Of the grain
have been secured through long pc
riod Of selection and breeding
What is probably the most extraor-
binary plant ever discovered has now
been found by L. a. Suverkrop OF
Philadelphia In South America. II Is
an orchid that takes drink whenever
II feels thirsty by letting down a tube
into the water. the tube, when not In
use. being cOlled up Oh the plant. Mr..
Suverkrop came across the plant by
the side Of a lagoon on the Rio de Ia
Plata.
The hummlng bird. Of which there
are a thousand varieties, is found only
in America and the adjacent Islands.
The only food that Will be Of any avail
IN the proposed attempt TO convey
some of these birds 10 Europe is hon
ey. II is not very difficult to keep
hummng birds alive in cages for a
few weeks IN summer, but II Is al
most impossible 10 get them through
the winter.
Nearly half a century ago the expert
ence Of putting horse meat on the mar
ket was made for the frs: time In Aus
tria. The government decree OF April
20, 1854. gave legal permission to cut
up and sell horse meat as an article OF
food During the rest OF that year and
in 1865 943 horses were slaughtered for
food in Vienna The number rose in
1890, the last year for which statistics
are obtainable. TO 25,640 head.
new Industry is promised for
North Carolina in the discovery Of the
mating reed I'm its river marshes. 1t
has long been said that mating could
be made only In China because the
reed suitable for its manufacture wac
found only in that country Recently
reed has been found growing in the
greatest profusion in the waters Of the
bern, ~ c. which experts state Ia
identical with that used In China for
making mating.