The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-12-23
TUESDAY. DEcEMBER 23. 1909.
FACTS IN FEW LINES

\ ginseng trust has been formed in
Japan.
There are $500 boys In the British
navy. including 6.2UO under training.
Millions OF musscls have recentls
been washed ashore near Swansea.
Wales.
In Berlin So public buildings are
owned by the state and 497 by the
municipality
Bicycles are taxed in Vancouver. b.
c. the municipal revenue from that
source last year beIug e,5T.
Penrith. Cumberland. England. is to
be lighted 10y electricity. power being
obtained from tue river lamont
Wire screens are now placed in the
iramway cars at New Orleans TO sepa-
rate negroes from white passengers.
While $500 coal cutting machines are
used in United States mines. there are
less than 400 such machines in British
collierics.
Her puppy having died. n fox terrier
at Twickenham Is now cOntentedlv act
ing rs foster mother 10 a couple OF
young kittens.
Under light an,esthesia ammonia ap-
piled to cats nose will cause a car
do inhibition and rise Of blood pres
sure In rabbits the effect : the same.
Bullets shot in military target prac-
uce nowadays are caught ON an in
clined surface made OF sheet iron back
of tine target. are remejted sud become
bullets again.
In Worcestershire. Englanc. 400 wo-
men are engaged making anchors.
while 1O3 others make needles and
l.0A nails. Nearly all are married. wo
men or widows
BY order Of the Japanese empress
wooden legs have just been distributed
To the seven MANNED survivors of the
Aomori disaster. when POO japanese
soldiers were frozen to death.
Reports from Manitoba show an i'm
mense increase in the production of
wheat In that section. This must to a
greater or lesser extent affect the pro
duction OF this grain I'm the United
States.
The decision Of the directors Of che
theater NJ Halle. in Germany. to dis
tnguish by means Of red and white
advertising posters between plays that
are fit for young persons to witness
and those that are not is causing some
amusement.
As model Munich sculptor has
hired full grown lion from n menag-
erie. The animal eats twelve pounds
of horsefesh daily and drinks ten gal
Ions OF milk. The cost of its food and
its keepers pay is SO day. The
menngerie is 10 receive 81 800 II the
lion dies.
According To the statistical register
OF South Australia. Germany supplies
considerably more than half OF the for
eigners who take out papers of natu-
ralization. out Of total Of 3.763 tho
Germans numbered 2.GO4. China came
next. with PSI; then Scandinavia. 270
and Austria. 10.
An international agreement for the
protection Of birds that are useful TO
agriculture was signed at Paris this
year by representatives OF Belgium.
France. Switzerland. Sweden. Spain.
Portugal Austria-Huneary. Greece and
the principalities of Monaco Lichten-
stein and Luxembourg
The kaiser has had n carriage built
from his own designs for use FOR his
correspondence ON the field. 1t is
drawn 10y six horses and is always near
at hand. Writing material is stored in
drawers. and 10y letting down n panel
convenient writing table is formed
1t has roof ana canvas sides. permit
T. In m
y typewriter for the pocket Is one OF
the latest bits Of American Ingenuity
specially designed to meet the require
ments of journalists and authors who
need TO take notes under conditions
where pencil and paper would not be
convenient. 1t may be worked without
removing the hands from the pocket.
1t IS four inches long by three inches
wide
In dispatch from Moscow the cor
respondent of The London DAILY Mail
says that a DR.. Koulatke has succeeded
in his experiments in terminating the
heart Of an infant which he had ex-
tracted from child who had died
twenty-four hours previously. The
heart beat with normal regularity for
enc hour. Or. KOulatke hopes that his
discovery will assist in termination in
cases Of death by drowning
IL has been suggested that memo
rial window be placed in Westminster
abbey in honor of the late Duke of
Westminster Considerable indignant
protest is being heard on the ground
that such honor should be reserved for
really great men. One critic says: He
was merely good average duke Of
kind that We breed rs easily as we
breed good average groeers. 1t is in-
tolerable that Westminster abbey
should be spoiled to do him postum
nous honor"
The bulk of the British preserves Is
made in London. A reliable estimate
gives the weekly output by London
makers as 800 to GOO tons. and this out
put is annually Increasing. Taking the
average net profit at $50 per ton, the
total profit amounts to about $1,000
per week, or nearly 100000 per an