The leader., 1902-12-17
FACTS IN FEW LINES

to the English government last year.
Three sharks have been captured at
Penzance, England, within the past
month. The last measured six feet in
length.
1t is estimated that the bees of the
United States have produced during
the season just closed 100000 worth
of honey and wax.
A national technical institute will be
located in indianapolis. The fund for
its erection has been started by pres
ent of $4,000 from George McCul-
Tough.
An unfortunate brickmaker at Ho-
nan, China, has been fined 10000
bricks for a misdeed. The alternative
was to be beaten and handed over to a
mandarin.
A movement is on foot for the cree
ton of a memorial in Bury st. Ed
mund's to the memory of the thirteen
martyrs who suffered at the stake in
that town.
A man named Sourivieff has been ar
rested in st. Petersburg on the charge
Of numbering his wife by piercing her
brain through the ear with q strong,
long hatpin.
In the Netherlands, where electricity
is rapidly taking the place Of gas and
oil for lighting, tncandescent bulbs are
sold for II cents each and nerst lamps
for 4S cents.
The pathological museum of Profess
or Virchow at Berlin contains 23,066
preparations. 1t is by far the largest
and most valuable institution Of its
kind in the world.
By sucking up the binding material
Of the macadam bicycles do more dam
age to roads than horsed vehicles, de-
clares the surveyor of the Chorley
rural district council, England.
In 1890 the United States had 1O6
button factories and in 1900 had 23S,
with capital Of $4,210000, using an
nually material worth $2,S03,00O, turn
ing out product worth $7,695,OO0.
There are 297 trusts. The total
amount of capital stock issued by the
trusts scheduled is $5,SO3, 231 600 and
of bonds outstanding $1,169, 217, Psi,
making total capitalization Of $685.
44S,S51.
One of the most prevalent maladies
contracted in potteries is paralysis
from lead poisoning. At Stoke-on-
Trent, pottery center of England,
electric baths have been installed for
it's cure.
The turn over of 1000 cooperative
societies in Europe last year was $780,
100000. In 1898 it amounted to only
$25O,000,0O0. Cooperative stores are
in successful operation in thirty eight
cities in California.
The gunners Of the German warship
Kaiser Friedrich III. have made new
record for accuracy of fire. With a
fifteen centimeter gun they fired eight
shots minute at a moving target, all
Of which were hits.
The dairy products of Wisconsin now
rival in value all the animals sold, each
being worth about $27,OOO,00O per an
mum. Little more than half of the
state is in farms. The average area Of
a farm is 1T acres.
Nine. Currie, in an account of expert
ments in which she has succeeded in
obtaining pure chloride of radium, has
taken the opportunity for determining
the atomic weight Of radium and states
definitely that it is 225, within a unit.
The horse population in Kentucky
has now reached 100000 and the corn
crop for this year will exceed $3O,0OO,-
600 in value. The average farm Is
ninety-three acres, and but per cent
of the farmers of the state are colored.
In hill climbing competition for
motor cars up Mount Ventoux, near
Carpentras, the steepest hill road in
France, NJ. Cauchard, the winner, COM
pleted 1874 miles in 27m. It's. The
gradient in places was one in twelve.
NJ. Cauchard used a French motor car
Of seventy horsepower.
Whether we are going to become
rice eating nation or not, we are GER
tainly going to be a rice producing
country, the rice product increasing
100000 pounds the past year. Where
the land is so situated that the neces-
sary irrigation can be secured it is
proving one Of the most profitable
crops to raise.
An interesting experiment was made
recently, says the Philadelphia Medical
Journal. A pint Of various fruits was
picked at random from one stand,
washed and the washings analysed.
From the pint of fruit 140,000,000
germs were secured. All fruits that do
not have perfectly smooth surfaces af-
ford lodgings for microbes.
Not even does the shrewd instinct Of
animals always prevent them from eat
| ing food which is injurious. In Mon
tana from $4,000 to 100000 cattle per
annum are poisoned each year and die
as the result of eating two poisonous
weeds-wild larkspur and poison ca
NASHVILLE great losses are sustained
each year in the southwest country
| from stock eating the loco weed.
1t is estimated by the census office
that electricity has entered into the
| daily life Of the country to the extent
of 81 for each man, woman and child
in the United States. OF this amount
| So goes to the electric traction com
panies, $3.50 to the electric light con
Germs and 70 cents to the telephone
companies The telegraph also takes
about 80 cents year from each of the
100000 people, while the rest of tht
| 81 is charged off to.electric fire alarms
signals and general supplies.
This is the season of the year wher
the prudent and careful housewife re
plenishes her supply of Chamberlain
Cough Remedy. 1t is certain to be
needed before the winter is over, an6
results are much more prompt ane
satisfactory when it is kept at hand an6
given as soon as the cold is contracted
and before it has become settled in thu