The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-07-15
FACTS IN FEW LINES


in Scotch rivers.
Korea as wei as China is soing to
have her army reorgauizcd.
The worlds record for steamships is
5GO miles 4 day ana for sailing vessels
800 miles.
The manufacture of sugar in Italy
now sufices for two-thirds of the ma
tional consumption.
The original Ramona OF Helen Hunt
Jackson's story is said To be living
near Temecula, Cal.
Only S0.33l of the 100000 British
subjects who died last year had any
thing to leave by will.
The rice mills OF South Carolina
clean and polish about $1O0OOO.OO0
worth of rice each season.
The boroughs Of Manhattan and the
Bronx, In the Greater New York. now
have more than $1,000 telephones.
BelGiunr-sold in the United States
last year in firearms. principally rough
bored gun barrels. SJ2.23O.G7 worth.
The mortality from accidents to rail
way employees was reduced 80 per
cent last year by improved coupling
devices.
An English writer calculates that
Americans are investing an annual
sum of $3.50. 100000 i'm Europe. mostly
in English securities.
Arkansas is to furnish n smoking
room for both the blue and the gray at
the st. Louis fair Conversation ought
not to lag in that room.
The Carthusian Fathers have decid-
cd that in future visitors cannot be re
ceived for the night at the monastery
of La Grande Chartreuse.
Paul Revere's house in Boston. from
which he started out on the ride on
April 10. 1915. immortalized by Long
fellow. is now q "Banca Italiana."
Great Britain is spending this year
upon forty-hvc armored ships the sum
OF S154OO0,OO0. In recent trial a
twelve inch gun was fred twice in a
minute.
The Royal Society OF Great Britain
has announced new determination OF
the heat OF the sun. 1t IS made 10y Pro
fessor Charles Wilson. who places II
at 11.192 degrees I.
An English writer calls attention to
the fact that more lives are sacrificed
each year on the railway than the to
tai casualty list OF the eight biggest
battles in the Boer war.
Foreigners will not be permitted to
travel over the Siberian railway with.
out special Russian authorization. This
has been officially announced by the
Russian consul at Shanghai.
The first Tagalog- English and Eng
Esh-Tagalog dictionary has just been
completed. 1t is the work Of DR. Stem
pie of New York. who worked on q
Tagalog grammar before orr war with
Spain.
The recent census returns show that
the population of Belgium now stands
at 6.C93,S1O. having doubled during tn,
last sixty nine years. Belgium is now
the most densely populated country in
Europe.
The oldest piece Of writing in the
world is on n fragment OF vase found
at Nippur. 1t is an inscription in pic
ture writing and dates 1900 years be-
fore Christ. The University OF Penn
sylvania has secured it.
Recent storms have done much dam
age TO the beautiful South Carolina
monument on the Chickamauga battle
field. but it is not beyond repair. Tn,
monument consists of a large bronz,
palmetto tree on marble base.
a London firm has issued cata
logue of the goods II keeps for sale. Il
is an encyclopedia work in two hand
some volumes OF $50 pages, 90 in col
ors. size 10 by II inches and tive
inches in thickness. Its publication
cost 100000.
Bolivia produces one-twelfth of the
worlds tin and is rich in copper and
placer gold. Yet It has only 200 miles
OF railroad for its 100000 square miles
OF territory. The almost entire lack
of transportation facilities has kept
back its development
The negroes from the Tuskegee in
stitute who were engaged In 1900 10y
the German government to teach i'll,
natives of Togoland, German West AT
RIGA, how TO grow cotton have succeed
ed in producing cotton which is grade,
above American middling.
The British government has JUS
completed the survey of the Englisl
section OF Lake Victoria Nyanza, il
central Africa, for the establishment
Of a steamer service on the lake in con
nection with the Uganda railway
which has recently been completed.
According TO Golfers Weekly, thu
most destructive shot fired in the Phil
ippines was fired accidentally by {
Philippine corporal who put a lighte,
cigarette in a six inch shell to discover
if IT was loaded. He never was able Il
tell, for he was one of the twenty oil
thirty men killed.
A Bohemian couple holds the record
for procrastination. Franz Rosner. 1Ot
/ years of age, was married on his death
bed to Anna Renner, aged ninety-three
at Oberpolitz. The groom died tive
days later The two had been in Low,
for seyenty-five years, but had KEEP
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