Connecticut western news., 1902-04-10
FACTS IN FEW LINES

The nrst farmers institute has just
 been held in Hawaii
 Cast iron blocks are to be used in
 paving Huddersfield EnglandD tram. ways.
 Ffjian islanders are protesting against
 the proposed establishment of leper
 colony at BeQa.
 The lands reclaimed by irrigation in California, Colorado and other western
 states aggregate 6,500, 900 acres.
 The new stone viaduct in Luxemburg
 will be the largest stone arch fin the world It will have a span of 273.G feet.
 A fund has been opened for the cree
 ton of a statue at Coventry, England. to the late John Stanley, inventor of the safety bicycle.
 An international exhibition of motor boats and motor equipments for sailing vessels is to be held on Lake Wannsec,
 near Berlin. in June.
 Tahiti advices tell of case of lep- rosy reported to have been cured by 1 the juice of tua-tua, a shrub prepared at the experiment station. Thirty-one Italians have been refused permission to land at Perth, Western Australia. on the ground that they came under contract to labor. The British war office has issued a manual of chiropody" for the soldiers, the importance of care of the feet dur ing marches being the incentive. Twenty persons have taken out in- surance policies on the life of a pauper inmate of Wolverhampton (England) workhouse, who charges half a crown for the privilege.
 Recent explorations in Egypt have unearthed the consecutive order of | seventeen kings, thus establishing a | firm foundation for the investigation of Egyptian history.
 Owing to their poor condition it is proposed to transfer the care of the trees on Boston Common from the charge of the city gardener to that of the department of parks. On the invitation of the czar Emper- or William. 1t Is reported, will next July attend the gunnery trials of the Russian naval artillery at Reval and afterward proceed to St. Petersburg. At Moscow a savings bank has been opened for the purpose of assisting prospective brides to obtain the neces- sary dowry for catching husbands. Dowries are expected to range from $1O0 to $1. 800
 The promoters of the American sky scraper in the Strand, London, having been refused 900 year lease by the city, have decided to build structure upon English plans instead on a nine ty-nine year lease.
 Harry R. Fisher of St. Louis owns a chair supposed to have been made in 1909 by Abraham Lincoln's mother and used by the president when he was q boy. The chair is about thirty inches high and entirely of hickory. The Western Algiers Railway com pany has decided to offer a premium of S20 on the birth of every child belong ing to its employees. The employee with more than three children is to re- ceive an extra allowance of $10 per child per annum.
 The Mexican government has order ed that all railway employees coming in contact with the public must be able to speak the Spanish language well enough to deal directly with the passengers. Pullman car employees will be principally affected.
 Last season saw more visitors at Mi agara falls than ever before. The su- perintendent of the state reservation in a recent report complains of the laxity shown in the enforcement of law dur ing the season. Thieves did a good business all last summer, he says.
 Professor Seybold of Stuttgart has discovered in the Tubingen university library an Arabic manuscript 600 years old which Is probably the origi- nal of the Arabian Nights" He has also found manuscripts describing the whole religious system of the Druses. The beautiful Sevres fountain which was so much admired at the Paris ex- hibition and which has been practical ly destroyed by vandals since the close of the show will shortly be replaced with one of more elegant and substan- tial design, also the work of the fa- LOuS DOIt1TS OI tue cGlHe. It has come to pass that advertising is recognized as a science. Its impor- tance as a modern commercial factor Is such that the University of Chicago includes advertising In the list of eco homie subjects for its lecture courses, along with banking and the manage ment of railroads and other great in- | dustries.
 An Englishman has invented writer's or artists ring. The ring car ries a small steel ball so placed as to revolve freely in any direction. With the ring in one little finger, so that the ball Is at a point of contact with the paper, almost every bit of friction in the movement of the hand upon the writing or drawing material Is re- moved.
 A writer in a Catholic periodical notes the striking effect on religious statistics of the acquisition of Porto Rico and the Philippines by the United States. By including the population of the islands as given by the bureau of statistics he finds that of the church going people under the American flag II, ,OOO, 900. or more than GO per cent, are Catholics.
 The Western railway of France is about to try a device by which passen- gers may retain their seats in rail- way carriage without resort to the ex- pedient of placing luggage on the place claimed. Over each seat in a compart- ] ment is placed a disk, and as each is occupied a number is placed on the disk and a counterfeit Is handed to the passenger by the guard. By recent l judicial decision no passenger can claim a seat by placing objects upon 1t