The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-01-07
FACTS IN FEW LINES
Korea Is The grapary Of Japan.

/ trio car lines.
Gold now constitutes nearly one-half
our stock Of money.
One person in every 5T5 in the United
States is a physician.
/ New York city consumes 100000
barrels Of potatoes year.
Canada produced over 100000
worth of pig iron last year.
Spirituous liquors form the chief ex-
port of Germany to her colonies.
The legislative period Of German
reichstag is five years in duration.
Bulgaria corresponds in area 10 Okla.
homa and in population to Missouri.
Only sixteen in hundred victims of
/ Brights disease are under forty-fve
years of age.
The so called oil of roses is manu-,
featured from the grass Andropogon
schoenanthus.
Not more than II per cent Of the
deaths from heart disease occur at ages
under forty-five.
Peter |. of Servia Is credited with he
ing the most intellectual monarch that
country ever had.
Servia and Greece each has a popula-
ton of 100000, or a little less than
the state of Indiana.
1t has just been discovered that En-
erson found his greatest inspiration in
the warm glow OF a cranberry pie.
The forty-five national banks of New
York city hold from $i00,O0O.00O to
S5O000O,OO0 deposits of other banks.
Most of the prepared baby foods con-
tain too much fat and develop the
rhild's weight rather than its strength.
Microscopic experiments have shown
that the electrically made steel is not
different in any way from crucible
steel.
The tenement inspectors of New York
city have found over $4,000 occupied
rooms which have neither light nor
ventilatio
The grape cure at Wicsbadcn has for
a long time been an important feature
of the autumn season at that famous
health resort.
The native agency in the missions of
the American board has increased in
number during the last decade from
1900 to 3,jS1.
The maximum endurance of twelve
inch gun is 800 firings, while the six
inch gun may be fired upward of 1000
times without injury.
The ideal child of six weighs forty
five pounds, is forty-four inches high
and has a chest measurement of TWEEN
ty-thrce and half inches.
Since 1852 more than 10000 convicts
have been sent to French Guiana, OF
whom S41a per cent die of disease,
hardship and insufficient food.
A sensitive dog will follow the track
of q man who is wearing his masters
boots and will reject the track of its
master if he has on strange boots.
In the south of Ireland, near Inchi-
geelah, is the Cats WELL" the waters
of which are supposed to exert marvel
Gus remedial effects upon ailing tab
bies.
An English-Irish syndicate has been
formed for the purpose of removing
one of the worst evils with which Irish
industrial development is afflicted
viz, dear coal
In London 100000 are pigged together
three in room, while three-quarters
of a million have half a room each
Three hundred and fifty-four thousand
belong to the very poo. and 100000 te
the poor.
The shipments of iron ore last year
from the Mesaba range, in the Lake
Superior region. about thirty miles
from Duluth. were over 100000 tons
or SO per cent of the total production
of the United States
The Canadian Pacific railway sold
last year from its subsidy land nearly
100000 acres at a price averaging less
than 81 an acre. In the previous year il
sold less than 100000 acres az a price
averaging a little over SO an acre.
The large import of iron into England
about one third of the total amount
consumed-is not due to any fear OF
the exhaustion of the supply in Grea'
Britain. but to a desire to save the non
PHOSPHORUS iron used in the acid proc
eSs.
The authorized capitalization of stree
car lines in the United States in l9O-
amounted to $2,S70G29,3lG. while the
gross earnings from operations were
$247 DO, 800. and the net income after
dcductng all expenses, both operating
and fixed charges, was $50, G95,9I1.
Grants by the British and Foreign
Bible society to DR. Morrison and hi:
assistants for producing the first Chi
nese Bible tutaled $4,000, while to DR.
William Carey and his associates in thu
various Serampore versions the grants
of money and material exceeded SO,
COO
Russia's output of coal last year wa!
worth $40 329.391, of which pit Goa
amounted to 14.G42.3I0 tons, anthracite
to 1.129.A9f tons and brown coal t.
12G,6CG tons. The percentage of car
bons in these grades is given as "a il
the anthracite 81 in the pit and GO il
the brown.
In the cotton zone 25.O00,000 acres ar
devoted to that staple, the yield bein'
1887 GOO bales of 800 pounds each
worth in cash $425G00,00O. 1t is SAT-
that onc-third of the crop is lost b!
hand picking and that the amount vii
be saved by a new cotton picking ma
chine which will also save the wages o
twenty eight men.
Thegovernmenten tomologists through
out the United States have for SOM
time been experimenting with trap Ian
terms for the determination of insects
1t has been found. however, that tn
useful rather than the harmful insect
are lured to death. The noXious species
such as the plum curculo. bee, moth
chnch bug and buffalo tree hopper, ar
rarely found in tie traps.
Congrai uiations.
| Mr. Jnhn II ('uliom Editor of tn