The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1902-03-19
FACTS IN FEW LINES

teen novels were published In Enplors
last year.
Florida produced last year but co
tons of phosphate against nearly ooo,
900 in 1890.
The Monte Carlo Casino made 81 5oo
900 last year, of which 81, 5000 MO.
clear profit.
Japan's foreign trade has in thir,-
years increased from less than n dolIa.
to nearly 81 per capita per annum.
A small grass seed which had germ,
mated while in a patients eye has ius,
been removed by japanese oculist
A special commission has been an
pointed in France to codify the laws
concerning working class legislation
Five gold beds have been discovered
in the western states of America nv
means of an electrical "divining rod"
The Paris-Vienna automobile race
under auspices similar to those of tho
Paris Berlin race of 1901, will be held
in July.
Realty sales in the city Of London
during 1901 were 1865, 0oS, comparing
with f4,934,769 in 1000 and fG,2o0.31i
In 1899.
In memory of the late Miss Kate
Greenaway it is proposed to endow n
cot in one Of the children's hospitals in
London.
Copper money in France is to no
gradually replaced this year by ain.
minimum bronze pennies of pale vel.
low color.
According to official central market
snails were sold in Paris during the
year 1901.
Thirty million stamps bearing King
Edwards portrait were placed on sale
in the postoffices throughout England
on New Years day.
Belgium has place where alcoholic
drinks are sold for every sc persons.
Prussia one for $780, Austria for 900,
Russia for 091 and Norway for $1,000
A country laborer of Brescia while
cleaning an eel discovered in its stom.
ach large black pearl, which has been
purchased by a Milan jeweer for ST..
500.
Prizes amounting to 100000, it is
said, will be offered in the grand inter.
national airship race which the Paris
Aero club is organizing for next sum-
MGR.
Twenty years ago few foreigners
had ventured the risk of life incident
to a landing in Korea. but today its
capital has an American street railway
! plant.
Husbands In Luneourg, Prussia,
must be home at IL o'clock at night or
pay fine of about $780, half of which
goes to the complainant, who is usual.
| ly the wife.
Since the establishment of the gam.
| ing tables land on the Riviera fifty
miles from Monaco which was former.
ly only worth So an acre has been
sold for $4,000 an acre.
The pope is stated to have refused
the application for permission to settle
in Rome which was made by several
of the religious congregations expelled
from France under the new law.
.Quails are becoming so scarce in Eu-
rope that France and Germany have
joined in prohibiting the killing of the
birds and even the transport Of dead
quails across their respective terrific
ries.
DR.. Ware, head master of Elton, pro
! 20 cla sSin nrnb1bIV
on the model of a Roman or Grecian
trireme, and to moor it in the Thames
opposite the houses Of parliament dur
ing coronation week.
King Leopold of Belgium has been
consulted as to the construction OF a
road from Ostend to the French from
tier to be reserved exclusively for mo-
tor car racing. Efforts are to be made
in France to have the road continued
| to Paris
NJ. Hamard, the French sculptor, mas
Just completed in Paris the model OF
statue of Marshal Rochambeau to be
presented to the city of Washington as
a companion statue of Lafayette 1t
will be ready to send to the uniteu
States in April.
The Bengal chamber of commerce Is
protesting against the proposed Aus
tralian prohibition Of colored labor on
mail steamers on the ground that the
interests of the Indian companies anu
of 10000 Indian seamen and hreineh
are thereby gravely imperiled.
Work has begun in the Salt river
valley on a great plan for the growing
of citrus fruit indoors. The project
involves the roofing of more than l'oVo
acres of orange, lemon and pomelo
trees and is undertaken by the Terri
torial Association of Citrus Fruit Grow
ers.
Bicycling seems on the way TO JOIN
roller skating in France as an extinct
craze, and the big velodromes, like lhe
Kinks, are empty. An attempt Is oe,
ing made to turn them into open "ii
theaters for classical plays and operas
At Roubaix the experiment will De
made next summer.
In the Lyons tobacco factory loo wv
men and girls, from sixteen 10 t"en''
eight years of age, work ten hours
day in the cigar department, ana on.
one of them earns as high as u PEI
day. Their situations are very desii"
BILE, and there is now list OF appn 20.
tons for places containing over ~
names.
1t is often said that the French pres
iient receives no more than $l2o'oVV
year for his services. That Is Us
matter of fact, the actual salary "
the head Of the republic, but II Is ~
generally known that NJ. Loupe'
supplied gratuitously with huinps
of household necessaries when rep.s
sent in value at least $4,000 YEA.
For fruit, vegetables, game OIL ios
} for his fires, gas and electricity ne pa.
: nothing. while, in addition, his hou''
: hold linen is washed free OF charge
| II