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holds a degree in arts.
The United States nov takes half the
worlds crop of rubber.
Haiti devotes almost one-sixth of its
revenues to free schools.
There are 3.S42 temperance societies
among school children in Belgium.
The profit to the government on pen
nies pays the entire expense of the
mint.
Wild roses are found on every con.
tincnt in the world excepting Aus.
tralia.
In the city of New York there are
only 737,477 white persons born of ma
tive parents.
Germans eat the most Irish potatoes.
The annual consumption being over
100000 tons.
Chicago's building permits for 1902
aggregated $4S,00O,O0O and it's whole
sale trade was $173,O0 1000.
There are in the UnSed States treas
ury cash and bonds to the amount, in
round figures, of 81, ,OOO, 900.
The proportional increase III the pop
ulation Of the cities was less during
the past ten years than previously
Mexico is buying abroad about $75,-
100000 worth Of gold a year and SELL
Ing abroad over $195, 900, 900 worth.
Scotland not only leads in pure bred
cattle, but by daily quotations on the
London market leads on prime beef
likewise.
One of the most prominent Of oil
magnates in Los Angeles is a woman,
who is said to control about half of the
whole product.
At an industrial school in Liverpool
where 200 children were bathed in the
same water several cases of pneumo-
MIA have occurred.
The birth rate per thousand mar
ried women under forty-fve years Of
age in Australia for the year 1901 was
239. In 1901 it was PIG.
According to the Massachusetts bu-
e 4 Of statistics there are 1850 law
yers in that state, 5,497 physicians and
surgeons and 3.737 clergymen.
Manila has Il total population Of
something like 100000, about 10000
being American and European born.
The American population is estimated
at about 5000.
Philadelphia now leads the world in
the number of Christian Endeavor mis-
sion study classes. 1t has fifty-six,
twenty of which have been organized
in the past year.
The outward appearance of many
parts of London is changing very rap
idly. and there are schemes for vast
changes in the future with a view Of
overcoming the difficulties of street
traffic.
The English post Office gives 20 per
cent better speed in delivering parcels
than the private carriers and at a cost
Of & cents for II pound, S cents for
two pounds and ~ cents for eleven
pounds.
Every man, IN and child in the
United States took. OH an average, six
ty-three rides on the street cars last
year, according 10 a recent report Of
the Isl bureau. That was thirty
one rides more than they had taken in
1899.
Professor Pllugcr of the University
Of Bonn maintains that one-third of all
the deaths registered in Munich are
due to heart disease, brought on by the
immoderate use of beer, and that to.
bacco also clains.a large percentage of
the victims.
An anonymous donor has offered to
provide boots for every shoeless child
in Sunderland. Each pair is to bear a
stamp notifying that they are the prop.
erty of the mayor and that any parent
attempting to sell or any pawnbroke1
accepting them in pledge will be prose.
cuted.
The number Of medical students III
the United States for the last college
year was 27,615. OF this number "a ,93C
were at the regular schools, 1893 al
the homeopathic, SIS at the eclectic
and $50 at the physio-medical and non
descript schools. Germany, with more
than two-thirds the population of the
United States, has less than a third as
many students of medicine.
when Il mar sneezes heartily he
may know himself to be healthy. NJ
person in poor health ever sneezes,'
says the eminent doctor Sir Jonathan
Hutchinson. This statement will b.
challenged by those familiar with thu
plague, who know that hearty sneez
ing is it's first symptom. Every ONT
knows that Il series of sneeZes comes il
the first stage of catching cold ant
that the hay fever victim sncczes to hi.
great discomfort.
\ student of music of the aborigiDes
Mr.. Farwell, states that the Indian:
have innumerable songs which conform
to a definite melod1c system. Man,
persons have been led to believe tina
Indian music consists wholly of drums
whoops and yells, but in the face o.