Mower County transcript., 1903-03-18
FACTS IN FEW LINES

An eggshell is porous, and filth on it
affects the meat.
Six hundred tons of chillies were pro-
duced last year in Zanzibar.
Noise, says Health, is one of the
poxatest foes to health that is encoun-
tered in city life.
The average French person uses six
pounds of coal in year. The average
English person uses ten pounds.
Money orders, the value of which
had not been drawn, brought $500, 900
to the English government last year.
Three sharks have been captured at
month. The last measured six feet in
length.
It is estimated that the bees of the
United States have produced during
the season just closed $7.OOO.OOO worth
of honey and wax.
A national technical institute will be
located in indianapolis. The fund for
its erection has been started by pres
ent of $4,000 from George McCul-
Tough.
An unfortunate brickmaker at Ho-
nan, China. has been fined 10000
bricks for a misdeed. The alternative
was to be beaten and handed over to q
mandarin.
A movement is on foot for the erec-
ton Of memorial in Bury St. Ed
mund's to the memory Of the thirteen
martyrs who suffered at the stake in
that town.
A man named Sourivieff has been ar
rested in St. Petersburg on the charge
of numbering his wife by piercing her
brain through the ear with strong,
long hatpin.
In the Netherlands, where electricity
is rapidly taking the place Of gas and
oil for lighting, 1ncandescent bulbs are
sold for II cents each and nerst lamps
for 48 cents.
The pathological museum of Profess
or. Virchow at Berlin contains 23,O6G
preparations. 1t is by far the largest
and most valuable institution of it's
kind In the world. -. -
By. sucking up the binding material
Of the macadam bicycles do more dam
age to roads than horsed vehicles, de.
clares the surveyor Of the Chorley
rural district council, England. =; s.
:, In 1890 the United States had 1O8
: button factories and lin 1900 had 238,
with capital of $4,21O,OOO, using an
nually material worth $2,s03, 900, turn
ing out a product worth $7,695, 900.
There are 2S7 trusts. The total
amount of capital stock issued by the
trusts scheduled is $5,SO3. 231 800 and
Of bonds outstanding 1921, Psi,
making total capitalization Of $685.
44S,851.
One Of the most prevalent maladies
contracted in potteries is paralysis
from lead poisoning. At Stoke-on
Trent, pottery center of England
electric baths have been installed for
| it's cure.
The turn over Of 1000 cooperative
societies in Europe last year was $780,.
100000. In 1898 it amounted to only
$250,OO0,O0O. Cooperative stores are
in successful operation ir thirty-eight
cities in California.
The gunners of the German warshiI
Kaiser Friedrich III. have made a new
record for accuracy of fire. With {
fifteen centimeter gun they fred eigh
shots minute at a moving target, al
Of which were hits.
The dairy products of Wisconsin nov
rival in value all the animals sold, eacl
being worth about $27,OOO,OOO per an
mum. Little more than half Of tn
state is in farms. The average area O
farm is III acres.
Nine. Currie, in an account of expert
ments in. which she has succeeded j,
| obtaining pure chloride of. radium, ha
taken the opportunity for determining
the atomic weight of radium and state
definitely that it is .225,. within a unit.
The horse, population in Kentuck.
has now reached 10000 and: the cor,
crop for this year will exceed $50, 900
600 in: value. {: The average farm j
ninety-three acres, and but 2 per cen
Of the farmers Of the state are cotored
| :Inssa&[hill climbing competition 10
motor cars up Mount ventou1, nea
i Carpentras, the; steepest hill road 1,
France; NJ. Cauchard. the winner, com
4 pleted 1874 miles, in s27m. It's. >. Tn
| gradient in places was one In twelve
I'M. Cauchard used French motor ca
| Of seventy horsepower. -
| Whether we are going to become {
1 rice eating nation or. not, we are Ger
tainly going to be q rice productnI
country the rice product increasing
65:O00, 900 pounds the past year. Wher
the land. is SO situated that the neces
/ sary irrigation can be secured it i
i proving one Of the most proitabl
crops to raise. .@ 1.s%} "a :s >'.5
An interesting experiment was mad
1 recently, says the Philadelphia Medics
Journal. "a pint Of various fruits wa
picked at random from one stanG
washed and the washings analyzet
From the pint of fruit 100000
germs were secured. All fruits that
not have perfectly smooth surfaces a