The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1902-11-05
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Water power in the Philippines is
said to be plentiful
Five balls, says a baseball fan, will
usually last out game.
Thirty thousand Filipinos have been
vaccinated by the Americans.
American brewers have already in
vested 100000 in and about Havana.
Baltimore epicureans declare the sew
enteen year locust to be a great deli
cacy.
About 70 per cent of the population
of the Klondike is from the United
States.
Plans have been prepared for four
million dollar union depot to be erected
in Kansas City.
Italy expects to have a surplus of
over 100000 at the end of the pres
ent financial year.
Track brakes on street cars are in
general use in England in addition to
the usual wheel brakes.
Neuralgia ache in the ear, catarrh,
bronchitis and infamed eyes are some
of the Affections of chauffeurs.
Miss Margaret Donnelly of New
York has the unique distinction of be-
ing the only elevator girl in the world.
Eleven experts have worked for five
months on a wilton carpet intended
for the drawing room of a London
club.
Partisan pro-Boers have petitioned
the municipal council to change the
name of the Avenue Victoria to Ave
nue. Kruger.
Efforts are being made to establish
a university at Jerusalem for the Jew
ish students expelled from European
universities.
Penny X ray instruments, by the aid
Of which the curious may see their
own finger bones, are being sold in the
streets Of London.
Twenty-eight Isle of Man Wears
have stipends of but $3.50 year. What
the curates get is not mentioned by
the authority quoted.
Working tailors are so scarce in Dur
| ban, Australia, that merchants, 1t is
said, find great difficulty in coping
with the work on hand.
Should the pope live till 1908 he will
celebrate his diamond jubilee as a
bishop, his golden jubilee as cardinal
and his silver jubilee as a pope.
The dairy schools of Russia have
brought that country to the front as
one of the foremost producers Of but
ter, cheese and milk in the world.
The London court of appeals is all
upset over trial in which a mummy,
supposed to be the remains Of prin-
cess of Peru, plays the principal role.
eff you buy on Sunday, you commit
a crime against 10000 shop assistants.
Support Sunday rest" This placard
has been posted on all the blank walls
in Vienna.
The extraordinary development of
the German mania for picture post
cards is attested by the total number
| of cards which passed through the
! post in 1900, no fewer than 736,000,000.
AS many as 1887 menahave been
| elected to the national house since the
| American congress began. The number
| does not include those who have occu-
| pied seats and been thrown out on con-
| tests.
An act to provide for a commission
to investigate the nature and value of
vaccination, antitoXin, SerDpathy and
other alleged prophylaetics will be in
troduced into the next session of the
New York legislature.
A New York dealer ripens pineap-
pies for the market by artificial proc
ess. He puts them in room heated
to ITO degrees, and ordinarily three
and half or four days are required to
thoroughly ripen the fruit.
All the employees of the Barnum &
Bailey circus, now travelling in Europe,
are total abstainers, to which fact is at
tributed the militarylike precision with
which the great organization is han
died and the small percentage of acct
dents.
The old stone chimney which stands
on the lands Of the Niagara Falls Pow
er company is to be removed. 1t was
built by the French in 1850 and was
the first stone structure erected in the
Niagara locality.
Some eighty French soldiers are al
legged to have deserted to the Chinese
during the recent campaign in the far
east. Some were made officers in the
Chinese army, but returned later to
their regiments and were let off with
nominal punishments.
At the time of the Roman occupation
of Britain five distinct species Of dogs
were there, most of which can with
certainty be identified with those of
dog, the greyhound, the bulldog, the
terrier and the slowhound.
In 1901 there were completed in
Tokyo, Japan, buildings costing $780,
OOO to be used as a university exclu-
sively for women. This university now
has 800 pupils. and forty-six professors
and instructors. Departments of Jap
anese and English literature and do
nestle science are included in the cur
riculum.
With the completion of work on the
western dir Vision the Chicago, Burling-
ton and or iincy Railway company Will
have prao Hcally new double track
main line through Iowa. For several
years an. enormous work has been 60
ing on, slnd millions of dollars have
been expended in reducing grades, tax
ing out curves, building double tracks
and putting in new steel bridges.
BY the accession of the new Earl OF
Chichester six British secular peerages
| are now held by clergymen. They are
the Marquis of Normandy, the Earls
of Chichester, Devon and STAFFORD
BARON Ponsorsl,v who is also Irish