Evening journal., 1903-09-18
FACTS IN FEW LINES

The streets of Tokyo, Japan, will soon
have trolley cars.
The manufacture Of artificial cam
phor by electrolysis is now assured.
European Russia has less percent
age of forest than the United States
BY sea San Francisco is farther from
New York than it is from Liverpool.
Three persons believed to have been
submerged twenty-five minutes, two flf-
teen minutes. one fourteen minutes and
one three minutes have been resusci-
tated.
Chang. a Chinese general, has been
given like position in the Russian ar
my to command the Chinese soldiers
lately enlisted by the Russians. lie
has 1900 men.
Alfred Belt since the interference
with the work Of the De Beers diamond
mines during the Boer war has yielded
TO John d. Rockefeller the reputation
Of being the only billlonaire in the
world. Ii Hung Chang had half a bill
lion.
Few Of the French colonies are self
supporting. The burden of administer
ing their affairs has been constantly
increasing. The cost Of the colonies has
grown from $5.60O,O0O in 1876 to S22,-
400, 1000 IN 1908. The greater part Of
this expenditure, S14,00O,O00, was for
military
The government In It's laboratory at
Washington is testing free all seeds
sent for that purpose by farmers. 1t is
not unusual 70 find that half the seeds
in'a sample will not germinate. In a
pound of clover seed 27,7O0 weed seeds
were found, mostly green foxtail and
plantain
There Is no route around the world
in which railway and steamship lines
make an effort at close connection. The
matter of through or rather, a circu-
lar ticket and commercial time table Is
now being considered by companies
which expect to make the time for the
circuit forty-fvc days.
Nitrogen breathing bacteria are now
bred in the government laboratories
for use in enriching depleted soils by
depositing in it a part of the 3S0co
tons Of nitrogen in the atmosphere
above each acre. A package of these
microbes an inch and a half square
win fertilize an acre.
According to Dun's Index the value
Of articles used by an average person
In the United States during the last
year, if bought at wholesale. was
$9SS3 The year before it was $1O191.
These figures correspond closely to
those Of 1883 and 1880. Two years ago
the amount was S9150.
Tho value of the endowments Of in
stiutions of higher education in the
single state of New York exceeds the
total amount of benefactions for simi-
lar purposes raised during thirty years
In the whole of the United Kingdom.
The same is nearly true in the states of
Massachusetts and of California.
Extensive experiments with subma-
rine boats VIII be made by the navy de-
partmcnt this fall The government
now has FIVE submarine boats. and il
wishes 10 have sufficient number OF
officers and mon thoroughly familiar
with their management to make prac
teal use Of them in cnse Of necessity.
Besides the ever increasing revenu'
from thousands Of travellers Italy Il
eaining increased sums by her rapidly
reyiving manufactures. The waters Of
the Alps and Apennines are giving hei
rs cheap power by means of electrica
I plants as coal is furnishing TO Bel
gium, Germany, England and the Unit
/ ed States
When a nickel with a big v gets int,
the United States treasury it goes t'
the melting pct because Of The danee
Of its being gilded and passed for a fiv'
dollar gold piece. Twenty cent pieces
have the same fate because they are M
longer used. Old copper cents ar'
melted with tin and zinc added 4
make new cents
The value OF the manufactures con
/ sumcd In the United States amounts q
about SSOO0.O00000 a year, and Of thi
, American manufacturers furnish 81
and foreign manufacturers about 3 pc
cent while the amount which Ameri
can manufacturers export just abou
equals that which foreign manufactur
crs send into this country
A Bavarian chemist Is making an il
Eliminating fuN by a process Of rect
flying the methane and hydrogen fron
the other constituents Of oil gas. col
lecting them in steel receivers subjec
TO n pressure Of forty atmospheres
whereby he converts them into liquiI
form. The cost is 10 cents per 10
heat units against 0.45 for electricity.
The bringing Of wild beasts from th
jungle is m immense business. and th
demand greatly exceeds the supply
City geological gardens. eccentric per
sons wanting cnbs and millionaire
with private parks are important mar
kets for animals. The circuscs alone
however. would gladly take all tn
jungle beasts which reach New Yorl
nlivc.
A municipal committee Of Glasgow
appointed to determine the effect of nj
coholic drinks on the marked increas
Of insanity reports that out Of Jo5 nd
missions TO the Glasgow District asy
lum and 2f3 admissions to the poor
house 80 per cent were traceable TO al
coholic drinks rs a cause. In the Unit
ed States 10 to T. per cent Of insanit
Is from drink.
The Washington state FISH commits
Sion reports that ash can be frozei
solid and thawcd back TO life II no
exposed to the sun OF allowed 10 sc
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