The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-01-07
FACTS IN FEW LINES

the lUiNtu cAhitb WIN AiiLo thhauu
last year.
Cotton growers have neNed $780,,
100000 more for the past five crops
Q001 crop estimatedD than for the
previous five.
Queensland, In Australia. grows
great quantities Of sugar cane and has
thousands Of acres yielding grapes
bananas and oranges.
The falls OF Glomcn, Norway. are TO
be utilized for the operation OF an cleo
trical generating plant almost as large
as the one ut Niagara.
IN Chicago boilers OF steam motor
carriages have to be inspected by the
boiler inspection department OF the
city the same as any other boiler.
No fewer than 1000 Paris landlords
have refused to provide proper drain
age system In their houses In accord
nnce with the new sanitary reg,lla-
lions.
One out Of every forty-nIne deaths
In Minnesota Is due TO accident or
negligence, according to the report Of
vital statistics for 1894 to 1897. In
elusive.
One hundred thousand bales OF cot
ton lasted the Lancashire mills for n
year in 1900. Now the same amount
would feed their splndlcs for day
and quarter.
The lighthouse NJ Cape kallakra, on
the European coast OF the Black sea.
was destroyed by the earthquake Oh
March 81 Steps have been taken for
the provision OF temporary light
4 doctor has written to the London
Times suggesting the running OF motor
cars at speed fully up to the legal
limit as II means Of administering the
open air treatment to consumptives
All southern California cities look
forward TO Ice supplied with electric
power from Kern river. where AZ first
$1,000 and later $1,000 horsepower Will
be obtained from an eight hundred foot
fall.
A large number OF cuttlefsh have
recently been caught on the north
coast Of Germany AS they have never
before been met with In these waters.
II Is difficult to account for their pres
ence.
The number ~ male physicians In
Russia Is lI.TSi. That OF female ply
siclans Is Cpl. but II viii soon be
larger. ms there were last year $50 fe-
male students In the Medical Institute
For Women.
Since Alaska became the property OF
the United States the value OF the
product of her fisheries has been over
s7O.OOO.O0O. of her furs $34.0O0,OOO
and the yield Of her gold mines ap-
proximately SiO00O.OO0.
SO little confidence Is there in Turk
Ish postoilicc employees that when
some time ago opportunity was given
to send packages and registered let
tcrs only one OF each was received at
STEAMBOAT in ten days.
so valuable Is coal In the Ponchamp
coaliielGs OF France that II pays to
mine coal M n depth OF 1913 feet. A
steel cable weighing seven tons and
nearly mile long Is used. The coal Is
brought up In trains OF six cars.
Ireland continues Go far Outdlstance
all other European countries In crime
lcssness. official statistics for the last
year. just published. show a decrease
Of l0.2 per cent In minor oTenses as
compared with the preceding year
Professor Gerhardt Of Vienna direct
ed attention N recent lecture TO the
fact that within the last twenty years
mortality has decreased from thirty
two to twenty-nine thousand In Aus
trla and from twenty-one to eighteen
In England.
St Fr!deswides church. Poplar. has
been enriched by an Interesting gift
which is probably unique In England.
1t is an altar cloth valued mt more than
$4,000 which. like PenelOpe's web.
has taken ten years to manufacture
and is partly woven Of human hair
American manufacturers seeking
new markets will not succeed. says
writer. unless they make their pack
ages small enough for carriage on
mules back and wrap their wares In
red paper instead OF brown. The hea-
then purchaser prefers red. Ii Is luck
Ter.
Robinson Crusoe's island. MS Juan
Fernando is generally known to
American and English readers because
Of the Identification VI Alexander Sci
kirk with the hero OF De Foes tale. Is
now almost ~ devoid of inhabitants as
at the time when the famous mariner
was shlpwrecked on its shores.
The enumeration Of 1900 shows that
there are more men and boys than wo-
men and girls in this country and that
the difference exceeds 100000 In a
population Of 76303.3S7. The excess
appears more distinctly perhaps when
II IL said that there are BIZ males and
only 4S8 females In every thousand
people In the United States.
Nearly half a century ago the expert
ment OF putting horse meat on the
market was made for the FIRST time In
Austria. A 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 1850 943 horses were
slaughtered for food In Vienna. The
number rose in 1890. the last year for
which statistics are obtainable. 10 %
GAO head.
The graphophone Is beginning to fig
ure as q considerable American export,
and certainly 1t Is one of the most curl
Gus and interesting While its COM
mercial uses are beyond the compre-
hension or needs Of the Persian. the
Hindoo OF the south sea Islander. each
of them is fascinated by an Invention
which reproduces the familiar sounds
of the human voice and entertains