The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-11-29
FACTS IN FEW LINES,


living Massachusetts has but three.
The house Of lords contains $50
peers OF whom twenty-five are dukes.
Factory girls IN Leeds. England. 10
TO work fashionably att.rcd numbers
OF them on cycles.
The present population of Greater
Berlin exceeds 2.5J0Oto. just 2,O0OOo0
more than Munich
London had o35 per cent OF an the
cases of CHAMBERS which occurred
among horses last year in England.
To facilitate the calling up Of We
hiclcs telephones are 10 be erected ON
or near an the cab rau6s in Berlin.
Named In order of market sales. fish
captured by New England fishermen
are cod. haddock. bake. pollock hall.
but and macSerel
Over 100000 is TO Dc spent ON n.y.
drauiic mounungs Tor the barbctte
guns of The hattlcship King Edward
vi, now building at Devonport
In Galicia the wage OF the farm h-
borer has been So reduced that he is
starving to death on pittanco Of
The camping grounds FOR civic and
military organizations at the worlds
fair have been laid out TO accommo-
date 10000 90 1900 men.
Among ooO.0oo laborers I'm Belgium
there are 5000 men. $4,000 women
aud 10000 children under sixteen who
work more than eleven hours day
That natural sleep is due to the drug
siug effect Of accumulated carbouic
acid i'm the body is the view taken by
French Psychologist. Or. Raphael
I Dubois.
France viii probably Zoe forced to
/ import wheat on a larger scale than
heretofore. The home crop OF that
f cereal for 1902 VIII be little short OF
an absolute failure
Part OF the Sans Souci property.
where Robert Louis Stevenson lived in
/ Hawaii. has been purchased 10y the
/ Commercial Pacific Gable company
+ Tor landing station for the projected
cable
South Carolina cluhwomcu. through
their state federation. have awarded
sixteen scholarships I'm various educa-
uonal Institutions OF their state. rang
ing from klndcrcartcn training schools
20 colleges.
Proof OF the great grain producing
capabilities Of the Zoutpansbcrg is ar
forded by the fact that 10000 bags OF
mcalles have been sent since October
last 20 the military authorities IN Pre-
toria and Johannesburg
BY presidential decree promulgated
on July - the government of ndo-
I China Is authorized % realize 10y means
Of q loan the sum OF Sl3.5lO000 for
the purpose of constructing railroads
in the French colony named.
\ scheme for the manufacture Of pa
per buttons is being put forward Ia
san Francisco. These buttons. say the
promoters OF the scheme. win be
cheaper than THE bone aud metal ones.
quite as sorviceable ana Of as good an
appearance.
Recent tests made by the Iowa ex-
pertinent station on the value OF condl.
mental foods IN the fattening OF stock
are adverse to the use Of such foods
Some brands OF prepared food special
ly rich IN protein and free from dope
were fed 10 advantage. however.
James b. Duke. president OF the to-
bacco trust is erecting at Raritan. y.
j. what he expects 10 be the finest
public drinking fountain in America.
It viii cost $4,000, and attached
thereto VIII be a bronze statue for
which Mr.. Duke paid $4,000 in Italy.
At Craig-y-Nos Nine. Patti possesses
the largest piano as well as the most
expensive orchestrion in the world.
The latter wonderful instrument is
equal to the combined efforts Of sixty
performers. 1t cost $4,000 and has n
repertory Of over eighty operate selec-
items and airs.
The centennial anniversary Of Louis
ko.uth's birth viii be celebrated in
Hungary on Dec. Il next The mu-
nicipality of Budapest is making prep
arations for a solemn celebration, in
/ Guiding n procession TO Kossuth's
| grave. where the foundation stone OF
a mausoleum will be laid.
On board the Japanese ship AsaIna,
now in British waters, there is gar
den plot of exquisite giant chrysan-
themums and iris in pots, which have
been made out of paper by the stokers.
Nothing could be more admirably nat
ural or beautiful in variety Of color
than the flowers of this sea garden.
Until recent years mackerel were
taken at sea only with hooks. There Is
no more stirring picture of the sea
than that Of an old time mackere
fleet in the midst Of a school, with the
men at the rails snatching the fish
from the water and Stating them into
barrels with a single swoop of the line
The courts have ordered that the af
fairs OF the company which was or
ganized to build n town at Elizabeth
ton, Tenn, shah be wound up to pay
the debts. Elizabethton was probably
the most slzilIfully doomed town in tn,
United States, and its promoters 90
! people all over the country to fnvesf
largely.
Lake Erie and Western railroad en-