The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-29
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

JAPANESE coiners are alleged to be
flooding Korea with counterfeit cash.
Five pounds is the weight of crab
which has just been landed at Withern-
sea.
A sparring exhibition was recently held
in Kansas City for the benefit of
church.
Two motor cars are now carrying pas
sengers between Bulawayo and the out
lying districts.
Licenses were taken out for 422,693 dogs
last year in Ireland, the amount paid be-
ing G42. 269 6s.
Modern inks only date from 1898, at
which date the researches of DR.. Lewis
in the chemistry of ink began
Ernst RUNNER, the Berlin scientist has
just succeeded in telephoning distance
OF ngaFy ye miles Without s Wres
the establishment of d municipal hotel
and restaurant near the corporation res
ervoir at Ogden.
Six hundred French market gardeners
have gone on strike at Nantes and no
fresh vegetabl of any sort can be OBJ
tanned in the town.
Paris, according to the latest census
returns, has a population, Of 265O,OOO
persons, of whom over 100000 are either
foreigners or provincials.
will a again Ie be ligRt-probabiy 10 pee per cent
and little of the grain will be exported.
Cordite, which has been used in the
British service for dozen years, has
been condemned by a commission ap-
pointed to investigate its effect upon
/ arms.
tury express recently made the 147-mile
run from Syracuse to Albany in 129
minutes. A single mile was made in as
low time at AZ seconds.
who fell in South Africa a monument
is to be erected at Montreal at cost
of about 100000 British artists are in
/ vited to send in competitive designs.
The reDOrt covering coffee and tea
importations for the last fiscal year in
tensilies what was shown by the report
Americans are becoming the great coffee
drinking nation of the world.
ployes the industry that. stands highest
smelling and refining, says Mahin's Mag
azine. Here the average for the 24,500
workers is 1852 per worker:
Michael Brennan, of WilliamSridge, N.
Y, recently bought for $175 a building
occupied by the fire department, and be-
cause the fire commissioner refuses to
pay $500 a year rent Brennan has taken
the case to the supreme court.
Gosnold, the smallest town in Massa-
chusetts, comprises those little specks
of land which, beginning at Woods Holl,
arm, extend seward till they terminate in
that fatal reef of the Sow and Pigs.
The first seven masted schooner ever
in existence was launched recently at the
long, the masts $50 feet high above the
deck. The cargo capacity is 5000 tons
and the total displacement Is II, 900 tons.
At the. recent annual exhibition of the
Societe de Physique in Paris Prof. Curie
exhibited a piece of pure metallic radium.
1t was about an inch in diameter each
way, and it has cost $4,000 to extract this
small quantity from several tons Of bari
UNI salts.
The census reports that there are 621
musical instrument factories in this coun-
n Vyhi ora MO nrin Tl,a
annual products are worth $45, 900, 900.
The figures show a great decline in the
number Of organs made and an increase
in the number of pianos
The exodus of Scandinavian immigrants
continues to be the greatest in twenty
years. The hard times at home and the
more m stringent laws for the CONSUMPTION
prosperity in America, are responsible
for the universal movement.
The Great Northern railroad Is ar
ranging to get rid of 1000 Japanese track
men and substitute Italians for them.
The Japs, while they work for low wages
do so much less work that it is thought
European laborers will be cheaper in the
end. The Italians will get 16 cents an
hour
Last year was the biggest sardine sea
son ever known in the history. of the
American industry The pendulum has
swung back this year, however, for the
sardines-or, to be more frank, the little
menhaden or herring..are so scarce
down East tnat only a lew OF the Gamer
les are doing business
The government has begun to withdraw
lands in Colorado and other Western
states from settlement in order to fur
nish sites for great reservoirs and other
irrigation works under the provisions of
| the present law. Work will be carried on
as rapidly as possible, though on such q
| comprehensive scale it will necessarily be
very gradual.
The skull of prehistoric man was dug
| up on farm near Lansing, Kan, some
weeks ago under well defined strata of
earth and rock. The scientists who have
examined it are of the opinion that the
man to whom it belonged lived during
| the glacial period, probably 35, 600 years
ago. If this is so, the Lansing skull -
as it has been named, furnishes the first
| tangible proof of the existence of pre-
historic man in America. though such
remains have been found in various
places in Europe.
Many people imagine that the mean
| descent electric light gives out little OF
| no heat, but it is found that of the en-
| ergy consumed only 6 per cent is con-
| verted into light, while 81 per cent goes
| into heat A lamp, immersed in water
will bring the water to a boil and many
| cases of fire have been caused by care
! lessness in letting inf1ammable substances
rest in contact with the lamps, as the in
| genious boy found who put a lighted
| lamp in his bed to warm it,