Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-09-12
FACTS IN FEW LINES

A ton of sugar beets yields 30
pounds of refined sugar.
The province of Ontario produced
$54T 900 worth of nickel last year.
American machinery for sinking wells
is in demand i'll all foreign oil fields.
1t is anticipated that the worlds 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 hilly 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,O00 worth of drawn
work for English and Germans annu-
ally.
The Kearsarge in crossing the Allan
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 IL
France during the first year of life and
revaccination during the eleventh and
twenty first years.
The borough of Fulham, London, by
the use of its garbage in the furnace
nj
makes a profit of So, 442 year.
No chronological heresy is wider
spread among English speaking people
than that the S0,O00,0O0 or so citizens
of the United States are Anglo SaXons.
The lion is worth to the animal deal
cr $1,5O0, the lioness $500, the leopard
$500. the panther $3.50, bears $50 to
$500. elk $500, the camel $500 and the
elephant $500.
y large area of coal and petroleum
has been discovered in Kootenay, B. c.,
near the northeast corner of Idaho and
within twenty-five miles of the Cana
dian Pacific railway.
An assistant in the Congressional Ii
brury finds that 1900 books therein
are written by colored persons. The
authors are nearly all muIattoes. The
straight blacks have done almost moth
ing.
Municipal corporations in England
have incurred debts aggregating ST.
2J0,000,000 on socialistic lines. They
own gas works, water works, street
railway, docks, baths, markets, dwell
ings. race courses, dairieS and hotels.
A., ayiI IN
15.5OO.OOO 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-
tions led by Peary. Syerdrup and Bald
win only the Russian expedition of
Baron Toll is left in the north. he
spent the winter of 1901-02 OH the is
land of Katclnoi and has not been
heard from since.
The Northeastern railway of Eng
land is building at its 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
a tram saloon with an engine compart-
ment ut one end and Il conductors COM
partment at the other, says the London
Times.
DR.. dArsOnval, lecturing in Paris on
the effects of electricity upon human
beings, expressed the belief that the
world is on the eve of Il thcrapeutical
revolution. electricity being the medi-
cine of the future. He demonstrated
the utility of electrical treatment in
skin diseases and said that under anHs-
thesia produced by electricity n patient
could be subjected to light surgical OPP
erations without narcotics.
The United States owns the chief way
stations of commerce, the principal is
lands and harbors, in the mid-Pacific-I
Unalaska on the north, Midway island,
the Hawaiian group, Tutuila in the Sa-
moan 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.
1t is suggested that the height of the
NIississippfs 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 wafer .cOuId he convert
ed into electricity for power.
The cost of hauling freight per ton
per mile on the London Northwestern
railway, England's most important
line. expressed I'm cents, is 1.49. On the
Pennsylvania railway the cost is .40A
Of 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