The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1902-01-29
FACTS IN FEW LINES

In France they have invented a
surgical sewing machine which will
mend rents in human skin at q rapid
rate.
Boston has about 1900 persons Cen
gagged in medicine" including dentists,
veterinary surgeons, chiropodists and
the like.
A Chinese manuscript in the Paris
library proves that annsthetics for
surgical purposes were used in China
100 years ago.
The largest bird of prey in the old
world is the lammergeier, or bearded
vulture, which has a wing cxpanse Of
nine to ten feet.
Wasps may often be observed de-
taching from fences, boards or any old
wood the fibers, which they afterward
manufacture into papier mache.
The newest slot machine dispenses
Y rays to enable the passerby to see
the bones of his hand. The tube is
put In action by the usual nickel.
During recent drought the city
council of Mexico, Mo, reduced the sa-
loon license from 1000 to 1900. Now
there is talk of increasing it again.
The Chinese pen from time immemo-
rial has been a brush made of some
soft hair and used to paint the curious
ly formed letters of the Chinese alpha
bet.
The latest craze among the Partisan
women is that of foxes, or, rather, fox
cubs, as household pets. They are so
largely In request that the little crea-
lures are for sale now in the streets.
Morphine is used extensively in the
town of Juana Diaz, Porto Rico. 1t Is
estimated by the insular board of
health that out of the $500 inhabitants
1000 are victims of this terrible habit.
Ireland is astonishing crlminologists
by the remarkable decrease In the num-
Der of its criminals. The statistics for
1000, just published, show a decrease
of 1912 per cent as compared with the
figures for 1899.
Philadelphia claims that raising the
retail license tax from $500 to S1,1OO
has reduced the number of city saloons
from 5,7TI3 to ,713 since 1887 and has
knocked 1000 arrests for drunkenness
from years record.
The election expense statement of
woman candidate for membership on
the school board in Newburg, n. Y,
is, mo talk, no money, no promises,
no solicitation, no intimidation, no
bribery, no cigars, no schOoners.
There are 751 newspapers and peri
odicals in Sweden, including fifty-two
dailes Stockholm has twelve dailies,
seven published in the morning and
five in the evening, which is a large
number for city of 100000 nhabit
ants.
OF the 10000 American soldiers who
participated in the Mexican war only
about 5000 are living. At a reunion
held in Independence. Mo-, recently
there were present forty-seven of these
veterans whose average age was sew
enty-nine years.
A New Zealand paper reports that
Robert Louis Steyenson's grave in Sa-
moa is oyergrown with weeds and is
In some danger of being lost altogeth
er. Many persons used to visit it, but
it is said that the yearly average is
now something like six.
About 10000 passes into the Pan
American exposition were issued. Ex-
actly S,304,0I3 admissions to the expo
sition were recorded, and, since many
of the passes We're used several times
at least, it is seen that the free adj
missions constituted a considerable per
cent of the whole.
Cognac brandy from Malaga, Spain,
made from the Malaga grape, is said
to be competing with the original CO.
gnac products of France. This is ex-
planned as having been brought about
by the deterioration of the original ar
ticle caused by the use of adulterants,
such as grain alcohol.
After forty years of almost continu
Gus labor Mr. Thomas S. Townsend has
completed the Townsend Library of
National, State and Individual Civil
War Records, owned by Columbia uni
versity. He closes the ninetyfirst and
last volume with an account of the
death of President Mckinley.
NJ. TcssipOff Russian naval sur
geon attached to the Baltic sea fleet,
has been experimenting with an APP
paratus for taking photographs of the
sea floor ut any depth, and, it is re-
ported, with such success that reliable
records of submarine life may be reck-
oned among our available sources of
biological knowledge.
Mason and DiXon's line, the famous
old historic boundary of the south, is
being resrryeyed and will not be per-
mitted to drop out of existence. The
old stone markers or posts which
marked the line are being reset in solid
cement bases and iron posts are being
substituted in places where the old
posts have disappeared.
The German emperor is reported to
have made an order for Il commission
of experts to be appointed with a
view to the most radical and eXhaus-
tive investigation of cancer that can
possibly be made. The deaths of his
father, mother 9tnd uncle from this
cause have naturally given this'scourge
a terrible interest in his eyes.
Doubly glazed windows for cold
weather have been experimental with
by II. SchoeEties of Client. Using
glass one-tweTfth of an inch thick, he
has found that the heat is much less
when the sheets are separated "a to
AZ inches than when the separation
Is more or less. Wetting the outside
glass increases the loss about 10 per
rent