The leader., 1902-04-16
FACTS IN FEW LINES

The paper currency of Spain now
stands at 43 per cent loss on the gold
standard.
Only 80 per cent CT the 1,11O,OOO
males over twenty-onc in London are
on the register of voters.
The material used in the great wall
of China would build 160 such struc-
lures as the pyramid of Cheops.
The Hundred Years club in New
York proposes to silence city noises
and stop the adulteration of food.
The silken thread is spun from two
orifices in the nose of the silkworm'
the two threads being united by ge-
latinous substance.
The largest sum ever spent in I'M
proving one street was Sl4,3OO,ooo on
the Rue de Rivoli, Paris. New Cannon
street, London, cost S2,9jO,OOO.
So much destitution prevails among
the Moscow university students that
half their number have petitioned to
be excused paying their university
fees.
Hanover, Germany, now has six foot
ball teams that play the Rugby game.
They are trying to carry out the kali
ser's order not to use English sporting
terms.
The presence of the pipe in public in
Paris is not anything like as marked
as In England. The French still regard
this mode of consuming tobacco as in
FRA dig.
The white convicts employed on the
breakwater at Cape Town are sending
a loyal address to King Edward pray
ing his clemency on the occasion of the
approaching coronation.
1t is estimated that there are nearly
25o,OOO voters in New York city who
decline to become identified with Ell
ther of the great parties, while there
are even more who take no part In
making nominations.
Only eight states do not now require
examination by state board Of those
who wish to practice medicine. They
are Arkansas, Colorado, Kentucky,
Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, South
Dakota and Tennessee.
British railway travellers cannot re-
cover damages if they have their fin
gers in the carriage door when the
porters suddenly close it, "a railway
company" says the judge, cannot act
as dry nurse to every passenger"
Investigation by the state yeterina-
rian showed that the high death rate
among horses in Maryland is due to
cerebro spinal meningitis. The disease
is the result of poor food, bad drainage
and generally insanitary environment.
The revolver with which President
Mckinley was shot was 80 caliber,
and since that time dealers have no.
ticed an increaSe,in the number of calls
for weapons of that caliber and, it Is
said, of the particular make used by
the assassin.
A piece of virgin gold weighing S2.1S
ounces troy was put in the melting pot
of the United States assay office at
Helena, Mon, negotiations for its
preservation in nugget form having
failed because of the imp6ssibility of
an exact assay.
In Haiti new species of tobacco has
been produced by cross fertilization
which grows from five to seven feet III
height, bearing leaf twenty-five inch
es long by fifteen in width. Three OF
even four cuttings can be made from
one plant between November and
March.
A self supporting community of con
| sumptives is established near Denver
backed by Denver business men and
twenty local physicians. The members
of this community live in tents and en-
| gage in light remunerative occupation
which keeps the enterprise going an(
provides healthful employment for the
| afflicted.
The new English stamps just ISSUED
and which represent the king crowned
with a wreath will undergo chang
Immediately after the coronation. whel
the wreath will be replaced by crown
1t was considered inappropriate to rep
resent the king with a crown on hi
head before the actual coronation ha'
taken place.
The expenses OF the New York coro
ners' office do not decrease as the de
mand for the abolition CT the office a
unnecessary becomes more general
This years appropriation for the coro
AsUs' Office in Manhattan is SCI, 200, II
Brooklyn $50, 900, in the Bronx 1,OOC
in Queens $23, 900 and in Richmond
SIG, $50, total of $165, $50.