Evening journal., 1903-09-07
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Manitoba raised 3,500,0O0 bushels Of
potatoes last year.
Florida's orange and pineapple crop
is estimated at $2,5O0,0o0.
Our manufactures are now three
times as valuable as Great Britain's.
Rice is one Of the most expensive Of
the cereals and is deficient in protein.
Chile sells Germany $4,000, 600 worth
year of nitrate Of soda for use In fer
tilizers.
We buy from British India $26, $780,
600 a year. or eight times as much as
we sell that country.
British Columbia has produced $780,
72S,53S worth Of gold and $5S,9S9,572
worth OF coal and coke.
The fly develops twelve or thirteen
broods every season and an average Of
120 eggs are laid for each brood.
Sicily is the home OF sulphur. The
island exports 100000 tons a year, of
which the United States gets one-third.
The postal receipts for the fiscal year
ending with June were S16OS,067, an
increase over the previous year of $780,
$50.
Augustus G. Carey Of Boston claims
to have operated a system Of wireless
telegraphy on the Marconi plan as early
as 1886.
The trust controlling the mnnufac-
ture Of the salts of potash in Germany
has almost a world monopoly of that
business.
At Tokyo the Japanese postal author
tiles are considering the advisability OF
purchasing motor cars for the convey
ance Of mails.
The huctuation Of the light of Nova
Geminorum is often as much as half a
magnitude in twenty-fou- hours, like
that On Nova Persei No. ..
In 1870 the German people barely ex-
ceeded 100000, in 1885 they had rls-
en- to nearly 47OOO,c"0 and in 1900 the
census return gave 56.345,014
Germany leads the world in the
chemical industries. notably aniline
dyes. The 103S5 establishments en-
ploy more than 10000 persons.
Harvard university is to have the IA
nous geological collection Of Baron de
Beyet Of Brussels through the kindness
Of Mr. Carnegie. 1t is rich in extinct
birds.
Mr. Carnegie's gifts to countries other
than the United States are recorded to
the amount of S5,S61 $50. making Mr.
Carnegies total gift to libraries S44,-
36G05O.
The German manufacturers Of ma
chinery are loud in complaint of the
new tariff, which puts to per cent
on their product, while the tariff of the
United States is 45 per cent and the
new Austrian tariff is 20 per cent.
In the higher Cambridge local ex-
aminNtions the examiners report that
the chief stumbling block in arithmetic
was a question on the speed of motor
cars. The answers varied from a few
yards TO several million miles per hour
-Four hundred and fifty acres Of land
have been obtained in Blairgowrie to
enable Scottish peasants to try the
Irish scheme Of small holdings, but
without aid from taxation Fruit
growing and fowl rearing are to be in
sisted on.
During its stay the scientific expedi-
ton 10 the Bahama islands under the
patronage Of the Geographical society
of Baltimore win give considerable at
tention to the verihcation Of the claim
that Waiting island is the San Saliva
dor where Columbus first landed.
The French Society Of Musical Com
posers is reported to have decided to
take action against a number Of gro
GERS who are using gramaphones as an
advertisement in their shops. The so
ciety maintains it has the right to
authors fees for the tunes played on
the instruments.
Every animal is said TO have its own
kind of flea. sometimes several differ
ent kinds. Many thousand specimens
of these feas have been gathered in the
unique museum of Charles Rothschild,
kept by DR.. Jordan at Tring Park. the
giant Of this strange collection being a
mole flea a fifth OF an inch long.
In view of the fact that chickens do
not suffer from tuberculosis DR.. vi
guier de Miliane OF France tried TO cul-
tivate the bacillus of consumption in
the serum Of fowls blood and com
pletely failed. He is now experiment
ing, with encouraging results, in the
use OF chicken serum as an antitoxin
for consumption.
Two students Of Cornell university
have discovered that by using higher
temperature and electrical currents in
the refining of copper the cost. which
Is now IS a ton. can be reduced by half.
About SS0,00O.O0O worth OF copper is
refined in this country annually. and
Sl2,OOO,0o0 worth of silver and $4,000
600 worth Of gold are recovered there
from.
The large insurance companies now
insist that individuals are much more
dangerous risks in the matter Of tuber-
culosis If they are twenty pounds un-
der the normal weight than il they are
the descendants OF families with tu5er-
culosis heredity on both sides OF the
house when not intimately associated
with those who are actually suffering
from tuberculosis.
Figures have just been published
which the Canadian press claims as an
indication Of the military spirit which
animates young Canada. The state OF
New York has a population Of nearly
100000 more than the entire Domin-
ion OF Canada, yet its national guard
has an enrolment Of only 14.46S men.
Canada, on the other hand. has $4,000