The leader., 1903-08-29
FACTS in FEW LINES

The Philippines are rich in timber,
hemp, rubber and tobacco.
Tugboat owners on the Rhine have
combined to raise towage rates.
Wales has practically doubled its
population in the last sixty years.
Uranium is metal used in the glass
and pottery business and costs $50 a
pound.
1t costs 2 cents to cook a breakfast
by electricity and 10 cents to cook a
dinner.
India rubber and gutta percha trees
have been discovered in German New
Guinea.
One in four of the 650,000 immi-
grants who arrived last year could not
read Or write.
1t has recently been discovered that
Handel composed the "Halleluiah
Chorus on Sunday.
A New York boy recently died after
being inoculated by fly with the vi
rus of an infected sheep.
The hunting of birch saplings suita-
BILE for barrel hoops in the Maine
woods occupies 1000 men.
Three manuscript poems in the
handwriting of Charles Lamb were
sold for 1870 recently in London.
There are 1855 counties in the Unit
ed States. Texas has the largest num-
Der and Delaware the smallest num-
Der, three.
After fourteen years study of the
monkey race Professor Garner has
come to the conclusion that their yo.
cabulary is not large enough to hurt. 5
Despite laws against adulteration
soliye oiP' is secured from the cotton
plant, marmalade from the turnip and
cherry jelly from the foot of calf.
By gnawing into some cases contain.
ing matches rats caused a fire which
resulted in considerable damage being
done at cambridge, Yorkshire, Eng
land
M. Camille Flammarion, the French
astronomer, has given practical dem
onstration by means of an immense
pendulum of the fact that the earth
moves.
Sixteen children have been rescued
from drowning this season by Walter
Turrell, Yarmouth England ferry
man, who has saved twenty-nine lives
altogether.
Wages of the working people of the
United Kingdom, according to official
statistics, showed decrease of ST..
$4,000 last year compared with the
preceding year,
The head and antlers of q magnifi-
cent specimen of the extinct great Irish
deer have been found in a bog neal
Limerick. The horns measure 8 feet
inches from tip to tip, and the head is
the finest ever discovered.
More than $4,000 acres of land in
the Indian possessions of Great Brit
ain are devoted to the cultivation OF
tea, nine-tenths of the area being il
Assam and Bengal Production is off
cially estimated at 191, 25O 900 pounds
It is estimated by the bureau of for
estry in the department of agriculture
that sixty lives on an. average are losi
every year In this country in conse
quence of forest fires,. The loss Of tim
Der is put at $4,000, 900, and the in
jury to young forest growth is reckonet
at 81, 100000 in addition.
The number of unidentified deat
taken to New Yorkscity's morgues vii
average a little more than one a day
and less than half of them are identi
fed. The number OF people reported
as missing to New York's officials ant
whose temperance Is never reported
averages nearly GOO each year.
The present average yield Of lims
beans IN southern California is %,
100000 pounds, which is about three
fourtha of the total production of thu
world One ranch in the bean country
covers 1900 acres. This is the larges
beanield in the worleIs and it requires
forty tons of seed beams to plant it.