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panies.
In the last two years one in eight OF
all deaths in Chicago have beer from
lung fever.
OR principal exports to Korea are
electrical appliances and idols. How
homogeneous!
From Havre a French lady has sent
cur to the Cape a number of sheep as a
Present to the Beers.
To be able to pronounce "heredita.
bility" is a sure sign of soberness, says
a Cardiff (Wales) doctor.
OF the twenty-five men who have
been president of the United States
ten have today no descendants.
When nine inches of snow falls in
New York, it costs the municipal treas
ury 100000 to have it removed.
In many parts of the country the use
Of stoves in passenger cars of steam
railroad trains is prohibited by law.
In the Farmers Improvement. So
ciety of Texas there are 5000 negro
farmers who own $4,000 acres of land.
OF 3,75S unemployed men at Leeds,
England, 1,221 are outdoor and 953 in
door laborers, while GAG are iron work
erS.
In Gnesen. Poland, the daughter of a
landowner is said to have awakened
from a trance on the day of her flu
neral.
At Niagara Falls $4,000 horse power
Is used in twenty different electrical
nr,nrnScnc For. ,,ro1,,,irr ,,o+,1, ,,1
chemicals.
The numerical strength Of the stand
ing armies of the Danubian states are:
Servia. $4,000; Roumania. $4,000; Bull
| garia. 33.400.
The copper belt in Cochise county,
Ariz., is three or four miles wide and
can be traced for sixteen miles across
the line into Mexico.
There are Jog independent anthracite
| operators in Pennsylvania, with an ag-
gregate output from their collieries Of
1923, 6O6 tons yearly.
Se~venty-one patents covering appa-
ratus for wireless telegraphy were is
sued in the United States last year,
making the total number 100.
In a trial at Atlanta the fact was
elected that at one drug store in that
city more than 5000 prescriptions for
cocaine had been filed within two
months,
Suicide is on the increase, especially
among married males. The death rate
Of married males from fifteen to for
ty-four years Of age is greater than in
unmarried males.
A new process for extracting oil from
olives by a centrifugal machine, such
as is used in sugar refineries, will eff
feet an enormous saving to the olive
growers Of California.
The British admiralty has suddenly
abandoned its long and s%tubbornly held
position and placed the engineers of
the navy on full equality with the ex-
e~cutive, or line officers.
DR.. Whitman Of the University of
TONS advisers, recommends a biolog-
ical farm for the study of heredity,
variation and evolution.
California prunes are slowly driving
out the imported varieties. California
now has over 10000 acres of prune
trees, and Idaho, Oregon and Washing
ton have about 10000 more.
1t is estimated hat between the ages
OF twenty and thirty a man loses on
an average only five and a half days a
year from illness, but between fifty
and sixty he loses twenty days yearly.
The anniversary, Of the emancipation
Of 23,OOO,O0O Russian peasants, liber-
ated by Alexander II. in 1861, is to be
celebrated hereafter in the Orthodox
churches by elaborate thanksgiving
services instead Of by a single requiem
la
Owing to the remarkable decline Of
bicycles in popularity one of the
largest producers in New York has
discontinued manufacturing them. A
quantity OF special machinery has ac-
cordingly been consigned to the scrap
heap.
A French doctor has invented a harm
less bullet. which ought to be very
useful to French duelists. It is made
Of a chalky compound, and when it
strikes a person it merely marks the
spot without doing the least mischief.
With a mask over the face men can
practice revolver shooting at each 9TH
er just as they~now practice fencing.