Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-03-20
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Explosions have killed 172 persons in Chi
cago in ten years.
wedding cake is replaced in Holland by
sweets called "brindzuikers."
A motor sleigh propelled by spiked wheels
is patented in Germany.
Gasoline hand cars are giving satisfactory
service on western railways.
st. Louis has but six fast morning mail
trains while Chicago has fourteen.
The deaths from chloroform anaethesia are
one to each S,749 administrations
Africa promises to rival South America and
the West Indies producer of cocoa.
The area of the Yellowstone Park equals
that of Delaware plus that OF Rhode Island.
There is a general crisis for wine growers.
because Of an overproduction In the entire
world.
The yearly interest upon Frances debt is
equal TO $40 for eVery man, woman and
child in France.
At the electric congress just held in Moscow
an electric motor pillow was exhibited which
turned a furrow twelve inches deep.
On the strength Of a small appropriation
shade trees will be planted the city school
grounds this spring.
Before the Siberian railway was available
to s475 Now il can be made for from $685. third
class, to $780, first class.
'.Allowing for breaks and scratches" says
a statiscisn 1.-THE lead pencil viii write write, nifty
paper of seven columns TO the page.
English is more and more taking the place
Of French as the language or Russian court
circles. The Czarina speaks English con-
stantly, and the Gar too. likes to express
himself in the same tongue.
The toothbrush plant grows in Jamaica. BY
cutting piece of the stem and fraying the
ends. the natives make a toothbrush, and
dentifrice to with it is produced by dry
ing and pulverizing the dead stems.
In an average year San Francisco exports
wine to the value of 5000 to the various
parts of the Union and to foreign ports to the
value of $l;l2OOoo much OF the latter export
America.
An automobile truck is now employed for
moving iron safes II has two Propelling
place in the building. 1t requires three men
and six and half minutes to place a safe ,. on
a seventh floor. Formerly It required eight
men two and a half hours
The average life of dog is about ten years.
Many live fifteen, and there are well-authen-
ticated cases Of from twenty to twenty-three
years.
The railway UP Mount Pilatus in Switzer-
land was used last summer by 21,21S persons
England contributed S04 per cent Germany
22.S, France 1914
Berlin's black book, the criminal record Kept
by the police, now consists or thirty-seVen vol
umes containing a. photographs OF criminals
of all classes.
The worst mosquto-infested neighborhood in
the world is the coast of Borneo. The streams
of that region are at certain seasons. unnaviga-
BILE because of the clouds of mosquitoes.
House cleaning at the vatican is something
of a task The vatican had not been thoroughly
cleaned for century, and so the autnorlties
Thought to do a good Job. They accordingly
kept 5000 people and zoo overseers busy at II
for six months. This force used LOCO loaves or
bread day to clean wall paper.
A Russian nObeman of wealth has hit upon
a curious method Of ceiling decoration. Every
ing with an episode in the career of his
ancestors, and the whole forms what Is per-
tation Nearly half million has been expend-
ed upon this extraordinary work