Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-01-17
FREELAND. PA, JANUARY IT, 1902.
FACTS IN FEW LINES

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property and its public institutions
are valued at $12,000,000
Malaria continues to be greater
scourge of the British army i'll India
than any other fatal cause.
The department of fisheries is intro
ducing in Nova Scotia waters the rain
bow trout from British Columbia.
Arrests for drunkenness in 129 cities
of the United States are said to aggre-
gate 1000 during the last fiscal year.
Vine culture and the production of
wines has in recent years become an
important industry in the republic of
Chile.
Later census returns from remote
districts will increase the population of
the Dominion of Canada to about
100000
Throughout Africa the cows horn is
fayorite instrument, being used in
connection with others on all festival
occasions.
Coclifighting is no longer legalized
form of sport in Manila, the civil au-
thorlties having issued an order pro-
hibiting it.
Manila Is becoming a popular OBJ
jective point for tourists from Austria
liza, distinction which it could not
gain under Spanish rule.
The city of Spokane, Wash, has paid
in recent years thousands of dollars for
damage suits resulting in injuries re-
4.
Russia's Asatic possessions are three
times as large as the British, but have
only 25,000,000 people as compared
with 291, 100000 under British rule
Mortality among the colored people
of Baltimore during 1900 was three
times greater than among the whites.
tuberculosis caused one-tenth of the
deaths.
1t has been found that acetylene
gives at least four times the amount
of lampblack that oil gas does, is free
from tar compounds and is well adapt
ed for printing.
In ten Irish counties there are ad-
vertlsed GGT 900 acres of shootings, and
the rental asked is f7,SS5, or trihe
over 2% pence per acre. In most cases,
too, there are mansions attached.
New Guinea is just now suffering
from visitation of whooping cough
This is the first time that the malady
has occurred there, and as usual in
such cases it is spreading like wildfre
Strong lights, with basins of petro-
leum below them, are now used in
France to destroy night flying insects
that injure vineyards. AS many as
4,S6S Insects have been caught in a
basin in one night.
Most people think that France is the
glovemaking country par excellence
Germany, however, has the largest
number of concerns engaged in the
making of leather gloves of any coun-
try in Europe, the number being over
LOO.
German physicians are applying a
new remedy, lecithne, to the cure of
diseases which require treatment of
the nerves and nutrition. Lecithine
and its compounds are said to have a
tendency to increase weight and
growth.
With 2.7S2 inhabitants San Fran
cisco has 21,324 telephones In other
words, she has telephone for every
lG inhabitants. Boston comes next.
She has 100000 inhabitants and 3,TS9
telephones, or telephone for every "a
inhabitants.
In Germany there are 100000 plants
for the production of acetylene gas, and
thirty-two cities light their streets with
this gas. The production of calcium
carbide is growing continually, the
amount manufactured last year being
10000 metric tons.
Columbia, S. c., has been following
the example Of several California cities
by sprinkling certain of its streets with
oil. 1t has been found by actual prac-
tice that it costs about $36 per block
and that it not only settles the dust,
but makes a better road
Between 10000 and $4,000 women
pass annually through the prisons Of
England and Wales. Taking the figures
for last year, it appears that ~ per
cent had been previously convicted, AZ
per cent five times and more and 10
per cent, about 1000 women, twenty
times or more.
Owing to the depredations Of the ma
tive sportsmen the hare bids fair to be-
come extinct in France. The passen-
ger boats from Folkestone take over
daily supplies to Boulogne to make
good the shortage of native animals.
This is the first season that hares have
Lccn imported from England.