Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-11-10
'REELAND, PA, NOVEMBER 10, 1902
FACTS IN FEW LINES


America has 1900 women preachers.
There are $4,000 costermongers In
London.
There are 1,60O shoe factories In the
United States.
A petroleum oilfield has been discov-
cred in Trinidad.
Canadian trade with Great Britain
has increased over six millions the past
year.
In the United States more than $780,
100000 is invested in the making of
fertilizer.
In the eleven states interested In the
industry 100000 acres are sown in
sugar beets.
The total capital invested in rail
ways and canals in the Dominion Of
Canada is 81, 100,000,000.
There are but 100000 donkeys in the
British isles Spain and Portugal have
between them over 2,500,000.
In spite of hard tinaes the value Of
farm animals in Germany is increasing
at the rate of four millions year.
The Moorish government has granted
to France a contract for the coming Of
$3,000,000 worth of Moorish money.
An annual cyclopedia for 1901 places
the total gifts and bequests in the
United States last year at $107 100000.
1t is seventy three years since the
first omnibus started running in Lon
don. Few of the original vehicles re-
main.
One of the new bridges to be thrown
over the Seine is to be built in two sto-
ries, with one set of arches resting on
another.
One result of the Anglo-Japanese al
lance will be the prevention of prohi-
bition of Japanese in Australia, once
suggested.
Snuff" is the local name of a mystic
rious malady which has already caused
the deaths Of many sheep in Cardigan
shire, Wales.
Russia is founding an independent
bishopric in China, and the bishop
elect of Charbin and Peking will be at
the head of it.
A silver cup, or argyl-"Robert Burns
from Mary" hall mark 17S4-brought
f10 los. at Stevens auction rooms in
London recently.
The biggest meteorite ever seen has
been found at Ponte Allegro, in Brazil.
1t is an immense rock mass So feet
long and 30 feet thick.
The British Lifeboat association is
considering the establishment of a
wireless service around the coast, in
Guiding the lighthouses.
London is introducing water troughs
for thirsty horses, at which the water
can be run off by touching push but
ton and fresh water run in.
The territorial board of health of
Hawaii is to begin series of expert
mentS to determine the value of X
rays in the treatment Of leprosy.
For giving Sunday performance at
Kalgoorlie of play entitled "Barab-
bas" n theatrical manager has been
fined $500 by the supreme court Of
Western Australia.
The lower class of the Japanese en-
ploy hardly any other material than
paper for their clothing. Where wages
are exceedingly low cloth is an impos-
sble extravaganza.
Georgia is the peach state Of the
Union, having 100000 peach bearing
trees. Next is Maryland, with 4015,-
900; then New Jersey, with 2,700,000,
on1 na10 yyaro with l00 OO0
The japanese eat more fish than any
other people in the world. With them
meat eating is a foreign innovation,
confined to the rich or, rather, to those
rich people who prefer 1t to the nation
i'll diet.
If all the land planted in corn in the
United States this year were massed,
the area would exceed the British
isles, Holland and Belgium combined
or four-fifths of the area of France or
Germany.
The old grist mill at Port Jefferson,
y. Y, which was built before the Rev
olution by Richard Mott and is said to
be the oldest structure on the island, is
being torn down because it is unsafe.
The building was erected in 1T71.
Sidney Smith described the Orni-
thorhynchus paradoXus as n quadru-
ped as large as cat, with the eyes,
color and skin of a mole and the bill
and feet of duck, an eccentric kind
of bird bitten with the ambition of be-
ing a quadruped.
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