The leader., 1903-08-22
FACTS IN FEW LINES
Suicide is rare among the aged.

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The United States hasten battle ships
built and ten building.
The house Of representatives costa
$3,O00,o00 year and the senate 81 400.
600.
Fish are sold alive In Japan, the ped.
dlers conveying them through the
streets in tanks.
A John Ruskin club has been formed
IN Vienna for the purpose of studying
English literature.
The Astor family in New York has
bought land in Mexico for the largest
cattle ranch in the world.
Egypt has exported $25 1921, 900 worth
Of cotton from the seasons crop, half
Of which went to England.
There are 70,S29 insane patients in
the 279 asylAms Of Prussia, according
to the Prussian statistical Office.
Goldsmith's house in Wine Offices
court, London, has been labeled by the
authorities as dangerous structure. ~
Minnesota is devoting her energies to
preserving a section Of her magnificent
lake and forest region for a national
park.
Hard work does not shorten life.
Bancroft, the historian, died at ninety,
Peter Cooper at ninety-two and Hum
boldt at ninety.
The population Of New York in 1900
was 3,437,2Q2, Of whom more than
three-fourths were foreign born or of
foreign parentage.
On foreign intercourse the United
States spends $7,200,Oo0 a year, but
consular fees and other receipts cut
this to less than $1,000,00o.
The Korean government has ordered
that all Koreans, without regard to
rank or class, shall not wear clothes
except of blue or dark color.
The imperial government works at
Kobe, Japan, are exhibiting at the Osa-
ka exposition two locomotives neither
Of which is a duplicate Of any hitherto
made.
Six hundred cases of tiles, reliefs1 and
other objects which once decorated the
palace Of Nebuchadnezzar have been
shipped to Germany from Babylon by
DIR. Holloway.
The melting SHOWS and glaciers OF
the Rockies and petroleum now furnish
such abundant power for San Francis
CO that the cost of one horse power one
hour is just 2 cents.
There are 107,S4S dressmakers en-
ployed by firms in London. Thew high
est wages obtainable, except in the
case Of about dozen heads Of depart
ments, are IS shillings a week.
Artificial camphor is now made in
Germany for the trade as Carbohydrate
Of terebinth. 1t has peculiar value IN
lessening the dangers of Ritroglycerin
and making gelatin dynamite move eff
fective.
The Worshipful Company Of Gold
smiths have presented to the Universe
ty of London the whole of the valua-
bic library ofseconomic literature which
they purchased some ten years ago
from Professor Foxwell.
The new Belgian military system,
established on the basis of voluntary
CONSUMPTION, has already proved fall
ure. Notwithstanding the active eff
forts of the enlistment committees but
few volunteers have come forward dur
ing the last year.
The recent edict of the car granting
religious liberation in the empire will
probably make the, condition of Bap-
lists more tolerable than it has been.
There are 1913 Baptist churches in Rus
STA, with 22,244 members, and last
year 1884 were added by baptism.
The large collection of Bibles and OBJ
jects illustrating the Bible donated by
Mr.. S. Brainard Pratt to the Congress
SIGNAL library Is still being increased
by his efforts. The library is steadily
becoming enriched, by books, manu-
scripts and documents Of Importance.
The largest electrical crane In the
world is in use in the harbor OF Kiel.
1t is 50 arranged that two of the lar.
gest vessels afloat may steam up on
either side of 1t for the purpose of I'M
loading or exchanging cargoes. The
crane is. powerful enough to lift fifty
tons at one time.
While the business passing the $500"
canal in the great waterway to the sea-
board at Montreal and New York has
been rapidly increasing, the Welland
and Erie canals have fallen into dis
use. Now thirty ton cars and hundred
ton locomotives take the lake freight
from Buffalo to New York, Philadel-
phia and Boston.
Weather shooting" has assumed
such Importance in southern Europe
that not less than three international
congresses to consider 1t have been
held. The latest report shows that ex-
perts are mostly convinced that gun
firing is useless for influencing rain or
half, although Experiments are urged
derstood.
The most striking facts to be found
In the history of commerce, Just issued
by the treasury department, are those
relating to the growth of the foreign
trade of the United States, Belgium
and Japan. Our foreign business has
trebled in thirty years, and. that of Bel
GUM has multiplied by four and half,
while England's has increased GO per
cent and Germany's 60 per cent. ia
pans trade with other countries In 1879
was $40,O0o,o00 and is now over $780,
100000
a thrilling adventure on an Ice foe is
reported from Lagersdorf, on the Dan
ube, where farm laborer was recently
sent by his employer with two horse
vain for load of wood. Having to
cross the frozen Danube at a point
where several deep cracks Had APP
peared, the weight of the load caused
a smash. and driver, vain and horses
remained on huge ice foe without
food for sixty hours before a strong
body of men with grapplers could draw
the Zoe to bank.