The leader., 1903-12-02
FACTS IN FEW LINES

The province OF Ontario produced
$547, 900 worth of nickel last year.
American machinery for sinking wells
Is in demand in all foreign oil fields.
1t is anticipated that the woi:ld's sup
ply of gold will be doubled in the next
ten years.
Only winged insects are found to
have suffered from the rain Of volcanic
dust In the Barbados.
Automobiles made for the German |
army haul from five to eight ton loads
through hilIy country.
a count of the unoccupied houses in
London shows 10000. That Is one
house in fifteen Of the whole city.
In Tenerife, Canary islands, 5000
women make $250,0O0 worth Of drawn
work for English and Germans annu-
ally.
The Kearsarge in crossing the Attain
tic en- route for Kiel at a rate OF 1862
miles an hour beat all records for bat
tie ships.
In Germany workingmen are visited
at their homes on pay days by savings
bank officials to collect their savings
for banking.
| Vaccination is now compulsory in
France during the first year of life and
revaccination during the eleventh and
twenty-irst years.
The borough Of Fulham, London, by
the use of its garbage in the furnace
Of the municipal electric lighting plant
makes profit of $5,442 year.
No chronological heresy is wider
spread among English speaking people
| than that the 100000 or so citizens
De the United States are Anglo-Saxons.
| The lion is worth to the animal deal
er $1,000. the lioness $500, the leopard
$500, the panther $3.50, bears $50 to
! $500, elk 5000, the camel $500 and the
elephant $500.
A large area of coal and petroleum
has been discovered in Kootenay, B. O.,
near the northeast corner Of Idaho and
within twenty-five miles Of the Cana
dian Pacific railway.
An assistant in the Congressional Ii
brary finds that 1900 books therein
are written by colored persons. The
authors are nearly all mulattoes. The
straight blacks have done almost moth
ing.
Municipal corporations in England
have incurred debts aggregating ST.
250,000,000 on socialistic lines. They
own gas works, water works, street
railway, docks, baths; markets, dwell
ings, race courses, diaries and hotels.
AS long as Brazil continues to grow
15,5O0,O00 bags of coffee, which was
nearly the amount of her last years
product and about the estimated
amount of the worlds consumption,
there is no probability that coffee will
advance in price.
Since the return of the polar expedi-
tons led by Peary, Sverdrup and Bald
win only the Russian expedition OF
Baron Toll is left in the north. He
spent the winter of 1901-02 on the is
land Of Katelnoi and las not been
heard from since.
The Northeastern railway of Eng
land Is building at it's York works two
auto cars to run on its railway, each Of
which will carry complete apparatus
for generating its own motive power.
The carriage approaches closely to the
tram type. In fact, the vehicle will be
tram saloon with an engine compart-
ment at one end and a conductors COM
pertinent at the other, says the London
Times.
DR.. d'Arsonval, lecturing in Paris on
the effects Of electricity upon human
beings, expressed the belief that the
world is on the eve of a therapeutieal
revolution, electricity being the medi-
cine of the future. He demonstrated
the utility of electrical treatment in
skin diseases and said that under anRs-
thesia produced by electricity patient
could be subjected to light surgical op-
erations without narcotics.
The United States owns the chief way
stations of commerce, the principal is
lands and harbors, in the mid-Pacifc-
Unalaska on the north, Midway island,
the Hawaiian group, Tutuila in the Sa-
mean group, Guam in the Ladrones
and Manila, 1t is generally conceded
that Pearl harbor, in the Hawaiian
group, and that of Pango-Pango, in the
Samoan, are far the best If not the only
valuable harbors in all the mid Pacific.
It is suggested that the height of the
Mississippi's floods could be diminished,
with great incidental profit to agricul-
ture, by building reservoirs in its west
ern branches. These tributaries pass
through arid countries, where the wa
ter, If used for irrigation, would repay
the cost of dams, and, too, the artificial
lakes above the dams would modify the
climate in the interest of uniformity
while the waste water could be convert
ed into electricity for power.
The cost of hauling freight per ton
per mile on the London Northwestern
railway, Ehgland's most important
line, expressed in cents, is 1.49. On the
Pennsylvania railway the cost is .404
Of a cent and on the New York Central
.416 Of cent. This is true, although
the wages of English trainmen are but
half the American. An eminent expert
attributes the greater cost to the rigid
ity of the four wheeler English freight
wagons, which, he says, are 'track
murderers and power absorbers."
The Russian ministry of agriculture
has Just decided to found an agricul-
tural high school for women, which
will be the first Institution of the kind
4 in Europe. The women who pass
through this institution win enjoy the
same rights as successful male stu
dents. They will be deemed eligible to
ill various posts under the ministry Of
agriculture and will be further entitled
to hold the position of administrators
Of the crown domains and of teachers
| In the intermediate agricultural schools