The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-05-15
III RSDAY... MAY 10. 1902.
FACTS IN FEW LINES

vineyards.
The national debt Of France is Sc.
oO0. 100000.
Thirty millions OF artificial teeth are
used each year.
All beet sugar factories In Denmark
are under one management
The last census shows increased
growth of the small towns.
France has 10000 physicians. Their
Income averages but 5000 n year.
The Vatican now has an installation
OF electric lights which cost $4,000.
The Russian mercantile marine has
14o steamers and 2,203 sailing vessels.
Three-fourths of the people of Cuba
depend for a livelihood upon the sugar
crop.
New York has lost large share of
its flour export business to Newport
News
Six persons recently started from
Paris to Picking in an automobile via
Siberia.
The principal rubber port is now Ma
nos. on the Amazon, Para having taken
second place
Mediterranean oranges and those
from Florida come to us In birch boxes
made in Maine.
All the flour consumed by the IL 600
600 people in Siam is imported from
the United States.
There is a general crisis for wine
growers because of an overproduction
In the entire world
A department for instructing in tele-
phonic engineering is to be established
at Purdue university.
The General Electric company sold
apparatus during last year to the
amount Of $74,0OO.OOO
Hot water. steam and volcanic stones
are being discharged from a well drill
ed to depth of 500 feet in the Colorado
desert.
Acetylene gas, as shown by the Bcr-
lin experiments, will invariably explode
II detonator is in actual contact with
II, but not otherwise.
London papers which recently an.
nounced the death of Admiral Montojo.
Dewey's rival at Manila. mistook him
for Vice Admiral Montoso.
The price Of pineapples at Singapore
varies from II farthing TO a penny
apiece There was time when fifteen
could be bought for penny.
Orders have been placed I'm the Unit
ed States for all the machinery and
woodwork for an immense brewery TO
be established at Cape Town.
Gong Gee. a Chinaman, who is Il
practical electrician, graduated from
the Portland (Or.) Technical school, Is
writing book on electricity In the Chi
nese language.
Commander John Powles Cheyne. r.
n, who died recently in England, was
the pioneer in suggesting a balloon
dash for the pole, and it was he who
suggested the trip to Andree.
Hemp is by far the most valuable
product of the Philippine archipelago.
the province OF Albay being the great
est producer OF 1t, with an output val.
ued at nearly 100000 a year.
The newspapers of Manila speak
with disfavor of the suggestion of the
Philippine commission that special
peso, which shall have q fixed value of
90 cents in gold. be coined for use in the
islands.
English society has been exercised
over whether IL was proper to honor
the toast to the queen standing, like
that TO the king. The king has settled
the doubt by announcing that both
should be honored while standing.
Hansemann. a German investigator,
is studying the cases OF cancer discov-
cred for the first time at the post NOR
tenn examination. He has already found
131, or 1874 per cent, OF I'll cases OF
cancer had not been diagnosed during
life.
Among Russian towns whose popula-
tons have most rapidly increased the
Polish center of LODI is conspicuously
the first. Fifteen years ago the so
called Russian Manchester was a place
Of some $4,000 inhabitants. 1t now con
tains an industrial population of 315.-
900 souls.
In 1913 gutta percha trees were album
dant on Singapore island and on the
Malay peninsula, but they have been
so thoroughly cleaned out that the DO
tanical gardens at Singapore cannot
obtain plants. The destruction of gutta
trees In Sumatra and Borneo has been
NluCopitdu.
The London Lancet says that the es-
sential oil that forms the base of all
perfumes is powerful antiseptic and
possesses disinfecting properties equal
to those OF carbolic acid. A perfumed
handkerchief therefore may not only
please the sense of smell, but prove n
guard against infection.
Camping In the Rocky mountains is
to be one OF the inducements offered
Colorado and Utah tourists this year
The idea was suggested by the inabil-
ity of the Colorado resort hotels to care
for the business and the popularity OF
some experiments made in that direc-
ton by tourists last year.
The Cape to Cairo telegraph line is
now completed to Ujiji. on Lake Tan
ganyika, a distance Of $500 miles Half