The leader., 1903-08-15
FACTS IN FEW LINES

The estimated production Of gold In
1902 was $SO,s53,070 and of silver
$31 ,040,0 25.
A Lancashire newsboy has obtained
the diploma of licentiate Of the Royal
Academy of Music.
The pole mileage of telegraphs in
Kansas amounts to 0,249 miles, and Its
assessed value is 1851 1928.
Biddlesden, England, which contains
one house, with three inmates, Is
Northamptonshires smallest parish.
Austrian shoe manufacturers'have de-
cided to advance the price of shoes 10
per cent on account of the higher cost
Of leather.
The total requests and gifts made
in 1902 to educational and other in
situations in this country amounted to
$S5,O00,000.
Excessive cigarette smoking is the
medical reason assigned in the case Of
a man in New York state afflicted with
sudden insanity.
Rhode Island is the only one Of the
New England states which has Dem
ocratic governor. The other state off,
GERS are Republicans.
An agent of the British and Foreign
Bible society at Monastir, turkey, is
being prosecuted for selling Bibles In
the Albanian language.
The United States, Steel corporation
has booked enough orders for steel
rails to keep its mills running at full
capacity for the year 1908.
Odessa is again to have a governor
general, who will exercise almost the
same power as under martial law.
Much uneasiness prevails there in con-
sequence.
The number of employees in the
New York municipal service has
reached 1920, of whom 1900 are
teachers and 10000 members of the
police and fire departments.
Public opinion in Hungary is decid-
eddy against cremation, and the Hun
garian premier has refused to grant
license to a company formed to estab-
lish crematories in Hungary.
In the Warsaw Jail is a Wholesale
bigamist named Vladimir Litwinecki,
who is known to have gone through
the marriage ceremony with seven
teen women, all of whom are alive.
The plan inaugurating the eight hour
labor system in all departments Of the
federal government has been adopted
by the interior department with regard
to employees of the weather bureau.
The Baptist Theological seminary Of
Yokohama has this year the largest en-
tefing class since its establishment.
One man who entered the seminary re-
Gently has been head priest in several
temples.
Fully 100000 Indian subjects are
now more or less acquainted with the
English language. The language most
spoken in India is Hindoostanee, by 49,
100000 people. Bengal is the tongue
of 100000.
Two scholars at Grove Road school,
Harrogate, England, Dora Robinson
and Oswald Colbeck, have completed
eight years perfect attendance. Out
Of 3211 possible attendances they have
never missed once.
An American chemist has invented a
tube for truth. You speak into it; the
chemical solution changes color, ac-
cording to the tensity of your emo
ton, and truth and mendacity are de-
scrfbed as being quite distinct and
vivid colors.
Duck dinners are the latest society
fad in New York. The ladies who at
tend are dressed to initiate ducks.
Duck decorations appear on the table,
and the menu includes ducks cooked in
| various styles Even the ices are made
up in DUCK shapes.
| 1t is reported that the Russian minis
! ter of the interior is considering prof.
| ect for Matchmaking the medical pro-
fession, so that all doctors and chem
lists would be state officials. A commits
sion has been appointed to collect in
formation on the subject.
Two years ago the German Colonial
society offered prize for the finding of
a plant in the German colonies furnish
ing gutta percha suitable for cable
purposes. A telegram from German
New Guinea says that gutta percha as
we'll as rubber has been found in large
quantities.
The Texas court of criminal appeals
has decided that district judge has
not the right to prevent the publication
Of testimony which is given in open
court. District judges have frequently
forbidden publication of testimony lest
in the event of mistrial there would be
difficulty in securing new jury.
By the record of the Cincinnati Ex-
press Gazette it appears that there
were twenty two train robberies in the
United States in 1902. In the last thir-
teen years, according to the same au-
thority, 1913 railroad trains have been
''held up" in this country and 90 per-
sons have been killed and 107 injured,
mostly by gunshot wounds, in the per-
petration of the crimes.
Pupils in Michigan must hereafter go
directly home after the close of school.
The supreme court of the state has de-
clared that such rule is valid and
may be enforced by the principal. Fur
| thermore, if a principal sees fit he may
enter a store and order the children he
finds there to leave and go home, and
the owner of the store cannot get dam
ages on the ground that the principal
has driven away trade and injured the
business of his store.
White lines are painted across ali
windows in third class cars in japan
as check upon the impulse of occu-
pants to thrust their heads through
them. Window glass is an article with
which the people are not familiar in
daily life, and since passengers COM
monty suppose that sashes are merely
spaces for air the bill for glazing was
one of the largest petty items in the
monthly accounts for all the compa.
mics until the white line was invented.