Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-03-29
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Six Japanese artists are to be deco
rated by the French government.
French botanists are endeavoring TO
vaccinate plants against parasitic dis
eases.
The Russian mercantile marine con-
sists of 745 steamers and 2,293 sailing
vessels.
Three thousand newspapers and 1000
letters are received by King Edward
every day.
Last year sixty ocean going steamers
We're engaged exclusively in the ba-
mana trade.
Los Angeles claims to have a more
complete street railroad system than
any other city of its size in the coun-
! try.
Chicago as recently redistricted is
made up of thirty-five wards. Phila-
delphia has forty-one. New York has
sixty-six.
Germany imported more than $4,000
600 worth OF goods from Portugal last
year, chiefly cork, wine, fruit, sardines
and wax
The material OF the Buffalo exposi-
ton. which was recently sold to Il
wrecking company for $4,000, cost
over $S,O00,000.
One hundred thousand dollars has
been voted by the Antwerp municipal
council toward an opera house for the
production Of the works Of Flemish
composers.
TIE goIdfelds in Swedish Lapland
yield Il much higher percentage of gold
than expected. The mines are situated
north OF the polar circle, near the from
tier of Finland.
London took practically One-half of
the ice imported by England during
1901, the total for fifty-one ports of
the United Kingdom being 460,9+6
tons, valued at f269.S91.
Undeb Cerddorol Angladdol Dyffryn
Acron is the name of Il society which
has been started in Cardiganshire with
the object of improving the musical
part of funeral services.
English shepherds wages for 1902,
as settled at the annual hiring fair.
Hawick, averaged about $40 for the
year. with a COW, three bolls of meal
and potato land. Men not paid in cash
got fifty sheep.
Her weight in silver currency was
the dowry of an Austrian bride recent
ly married at KOniggratz. As she
turned the scale at 100 pounds, her
dowry came to Is, 500 kronen, equiva-
lent TO f562 los.
But eight states do not now require
examination by Il state board of those
who wish TO practice medicine. They
are Arkansas, Colorado, Kentucky,
Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, South
Dakota and Tennessee.
Prizes of $1,000, $3.50 and $500 for
the best instruments to measure wind
pressure are offered by the Hamburg
marine observatory to German and
foreign inventors. The plans must be
sent in by April 1, 1908.
King AIfonso's coronation is to be
commemorated by the issue of thirteen
new kinds of postage stamps, each of
which is to bear the head of one of
the thirteen kings of the same name
who have ruled over Spain.
One polar expedition is accounted
for. Baron Tolls Russian expedition
in the Sarja, proceeding from the ST
berian coast, attained a degrees %
minutes north latitude north of the
New Siberian islands, but was unable
to reach Bennett island. 1t is winter
ing in Verpinski bay.
The Victoria memorial fund is still
well below 100000 and is increasing
very slowly toward the required $780,
600. The. reason for this state of affairs
is supposed to be that people living out
of London have a strong objection to
subscribe for the erection OF the me-
mortal in the metropolis.
DR.. Antonio Lagorio. who has had
such remarkable success in his treat
ment of hydrophobia at his Pasteur
hospital in Chicago. says that he has
personally examined 10000 patients,
the vast majority of whom, however,
he has turned away as having been Bit
ten by innocuous animals.
\ remarkable accident happened re-
Gently at the Stockton-on-Tees eng
land) iron works. During blasting OPP
erations piece of metal weighing
about thirty pounds was hurled a dis
lance of about half Il mile into Thorna-
by-on-TeeS, falling within a few feet
of children playing in the roadway.
During the ten years since the death
of DR.. c. II. Sturgeon of London nine
ty-one volumns of his sermons have
been published. Not less than $1o0
would be required to purchase one copy
of each of these posthumous books at
published price, while a complete set
of his works, not counting the alma
macs, would cost about $3.50.
A novel fort has just been completed
at San Paolo island, at the entrance TO
the military harbor of laramie. Italy.
The fort is a large steel tower, with
external armor five feet thick. 1t con-
tains two twelve ton guns. The entire
tower can be turned in any direction
by hydraulic power. The tower weighs
so, 900 tons and cost S2.500.000.