The leader., 1903-10-28
FACTS IN FEW LINES

A Maine man is trying TO teach his
dog to talk English.
Baltimore has man who is earning
an excellent living tattooing dogs.
There are no fewer than twenty one
lions in the Dublin Geological gardens.
Glasgow corporation tramways carry
as many as 3,1S0611 passengers a
week.
Nearly all the teachers in the School
Of Agriculture at Lima, Peru, are Bel
CLANS.
A Philadelphia girl gives her sweet
heart the parings of her finger nails as
souvenirs.
In their annual report the Irish an
tiquaries denounce the injury done to
the hill of Tara.
Madison Square Garden, New York,
paid expenses last year for the first
time since it was built
Books to the value of about $4,000
were distributed last year byNhe Chris
tan Literature Society For China.
Belfast has decided to enforce regu-
lations for the control of street traffic
on similar lines to those in operation
in London.
Three million and a quarter tons of
coal, Of the value of $3.50 per ton and
under, were shipped from the United
Kingdom in 1902.
The inspector general shows that in
London the losses from unsuccessful
companies during the last ten years
have exceeded $2,690,00o,000.
Since the Birmingham corporation &C
quired the city gas works in near
~ 100000 has been contrib. ed to
the relief of rates from this source.
The navy which gives England the
supremacy of the seas costs $155, 0OO,-
900 a year, or a little more than the
United States pays year in pensions.
Mrs. Bembridge of Sidmouth, Eng
land, who is in all likelihood the Oldest
resident in Deyonshire, celebrated her
one hundred and second birthday re-
Gently.
One consequence of the Belgium anti
gambling law is that even the game of
lotto has been prohibited in the fisher
mems public house at Blankenberghe,
near Ostend.
A Japanese inventor has discovered
compound which will remove natural
and artificial blemishes in the skin.
Birthmarks and tattooing disappear
after one application.
The sixty horse power traction engine
used on western ranches will pull 81
simultaneously seventeen IA inch plows
blowing forty to sixty acres per day, or
will pillow, drill and harrow, all at one
time, with properly arranged tools,
from thirty five to fifty acres per day.
In his photograph facsimile edition OF
the first folio of Shakespeare Sidney
Lee estimates that 600 copies Of the
folio were printed, of which 15S can
now be accounted for, IA of them per-
feet. Some exception, however, has
been taken by collectors to his classifi-
cation, which ranks several English
copies above the best folios owned in
America.
Many insects unable to produce
sounds which we can distinguish pos
| sess, nevertheless, sound producing APP
| paratus and elaborate organs of hear
| ing analogous to those belonging to
| other and in general larger species
| quite capable of making themselves
heard. 1t is certain that a number of
species of animals hear sounds that
we cannot hear.
A few years ago it would have seem
ed absurd to promise that the great
commercial ports of the world could be
made absolutely free from danger OF
invasion by such epidemic scourges as
cholera and plague, but careful in
vestigation Of the elements of danger
and a rigid enforcement of quarantine
regulations have made all our cities
exempt from infection.
An altogether effective way to ''pas-
teurize" milk, rendering it STERILE" is
| to set pan of cold water on the stove
and put the vessel containing baby's
milk into this pan. Just as soon as the
water comes to a boil take 1t off. Add
pinch of baking soda to the hot milk
"a little less than half a teaspoonful to
a quart. If the milk was sweet and
hadn't begun to turn" it will keep
sweet for twenty-four hours or more,
even in hot weather, if put in a stop
pered bottle.
Professor j. J. Thomson's latest sug-
gestion on the subject of the source Of
the energy emanating from radium is
that there are few atoms in each mass
| lin a condition in which stability ceases
and which pass into some other confg-
uration, giving out as they do very
large quantities Of energy" The ener-
gy of the radiations of this substance
is so great that one of the electrons
thrown of by it, If set In chase OF q
Mauser bullet, would pass through Il
as though it were standing STILL
Mrs. Fannie Millsaps, of Nor.
| field. YES the guest of her rela