The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-13
NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST
BY WALTER j. BALLARD

, by the Catholic frlars. OF these 100000 acres,
| 100000 are the best lands in Che islands.
Herbert T.. Cromwell, OF Bath, Me, has in
vented telcernphc typewriter which, IL rs
| claimed. will reyou,ionze the whole tclegraphc
| idea. 1t Is to send messages upon typewriter
| like machine which will be recorded in print.
cd form on similar machine at the receiving
| office.
| Nearly eight million copies OF siS.pcnny novels
| were sold IN England last year, the circulation
Of each book having ranged from 10000 to 1oo,.
| 600.
| Tie London Times reports, on the authority Of
the Press association, that, at the close OF the
Bocr war, the British government will Offer
special inducements to facilitate emigration on q
large scale, to South Africa.
",rhc report of the Philippines civil commits.
sion shows the finances Of the new American pos
session to be in good condition. In one year, in
spite of large expenditures for harbor and road
improvements, the cash balance available for ap.
preparation, has risen from $3023,s3i to S,l0O,'
5lS This is in gold, allowing two silver dollars
TO one gold dollar. London Times.
"Bshop Favicr thinks there will be no general
uprising IN China, but he fears continual mur.
the rejection OF his son as heir.apparent, and at
the nstigation Of Tung fuh-siang, who is fifteen
miles to the northward of Ping.lo. Twenty
thousand native Christians and eighteen priests
are thus endangered. Our Shanghai correspond
cnt says that the negotiations with Sheng for
the revision of the commercial treaty between
great Britain and China are progressing salts.
factoriy. london Times.
English investors show thefr faith in the fu-
turc OF South Africa by subscribing nearly three
times over for the $l3,0O0,0O0 Cape OF Good Hope
consolidated three and onehalf per cent. stock,
at premium OF 20G per cent.
Germany imported 213I,2O0 tons OF wheat in
1Ool an increase Of siO336 tons over 1900 Her
whole harvest of winter wheat only amounts to
,0Ol tons.
In rejoicing over the securing by an English
company OF two temporary electric lighting con.
tracts in Paris, the London Times significantly
says, English electrical work is not usually en-
couraged abroad
'For the United States the Panama route, ac-
quired at the agreed price, has many advantages
and some disadvantages. 1t is further than the
Nicaragua route from the American ports Oh
either ocean, but it is only forty miles long as
against hundred and eghtythrcc miles,
which means twelve hours against thirty.three.
The Nicaragua route has no natural harbors,
while the Panama route has a harbor at either
end, one of which, however will require good
deal Of improvement. 1t is estimated that the
cost Of working the Nicaragua canal would be
moro than a million and quarter dollars per
annum greater than that OF the Panama route.
The Panama canal is level with the sea, while
the Nicaragua canal would involve numerous and
expensive locks Tor which, however, the lake
would furnish abundance OF water, but the
Panama sea level involves very heavy cutting
and other engineering difficulties OF formidable
kind. Upon the whole, it seems reasonable that
the choice should turn, as it has turned, upon
the price 10 be paid for the Panama canal as it
stands. "-London Times.
Schenectady, n y, Feb. IL.