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There arr ntioat 1881 sea going
steam vessels W owe 100 tons.
The navy OF Korea consists Of TWEEN
ty-ive admirsls and one iron built coal
barge.
Germany possesses the only known
workable deposit of potash minerals in
the world.
Commercial failures to the number
Of 1881 We're reported in Germany
in 1908. The average amount of each
failure was S1o.S56.
In forty-nine countries the Salvation
Army now has 1900 separate societies,
$4,000 paid officers. 45l,73O unpaid Of
fcers and lT.1T0 bandmen.
Though the Dutch have been in the
island of Sumatra, in the East Indies,
over 300 years, they have not yet sub
dued the natives of that small patch of
territory.
There is a wild flower in Turkey
which is the exact floral image of a
humming bird, The breast is green, the
throat yellow, the head and beak al
most black
The population of Brazil is 10000 600,
Of which 100000 are Italians, 1,0Oo,-
600 Portuguese. 25O,OOO Germans, 1000
English, 400 Americans and about 1000
OF various other nationalities.
A recent United States labor bureau
bulletin states that trade unionism in
England IL twenty-five years in ad-
vance of that Of this country in Its
methods, and that sympathetic strikes
ire becoming unknown in England.
The largest of the burial mounds
built by the aborigines in America is
the Cahokia, situated eight miles west
Of the Mississippi river, between the
mouth of the Missouri and st. Louis,
which is 100 feet high, 1880 feet long
and 10 feet wide.
A test case in New York has estap-
lished the constitutionality of the state
employer was liable to fine when he
employed a child under twelve years
old even though the parents made nfi-
davit that he was of proper age.
There is q movement on foot to APP
ply the curfew law to the national cap
ital. About 1000 cities and towns in
the United States. mostly in the west.
now have curfew laws to keep children
who are unattended off the streets aft
er a stated hour in the evening.
The loss Of life from accidents and
disasters in the United States last year
was: Fires. 1892; drowning. 2.47l; ex-
plosions. 1856; falling buildings. ETC.,
474; steam railways, 1880; electric
railways, 573; electricity, 1856; mines,
1873; cyclones and storms, 4S7; light
ming, 1870.
The Germun emperor has drawn an
ornamental sketch which is described
as a memorial sheet" to be presented,
with the official announcement of
death. to the relatives of those soldiers
of the southwest African colony who
have fallen. or. will fall, in battle
against the Herreros.
DR.. George Mcclellan, demonstrators
Of anatomy at the Philadelphia Acad-
envy of Fine Arts, declares that the
perfect form of man is more beautiful
than that OF woman. AS an artist he
abhors the abnormally developed mar
and says grace and symmetry of mus
cles are preferable to the development
OF the athlete.
The British regiments are to have
their old historic numbers restored to
them instead of the county names by
which 1t was once hoped that a terri
torial esprit de corps would be built
up. But 1t is found that there is more
magic III the memories Of Salamanca
and Waterloo than in the associations
Of Sussex or West Yorkshire.
1t Is said that of all colors violet is
the n most stimulating to the eye
coats and that the electric light, and
more especially that given out by the
large lamps used in many public places,
Is rich In violet rays. 1t is claimed
violet dresses and draperies are re-
sponsible for many eye cases and for
not a few Of the skin troubles about
which the dermatologist is frequently
consulted.
The United States Statistician says
two-thirds of q school year would be
saved to American boys and girls by
putting the metric system in place of
the other twelve or thirteen systems.
Garry the enormous saving Of time In
to the counting houses of the country,
into all kinds of calculations from the
farm to the factory, and a fairly good
idea is obtained of what the metric
system would save.
Whether the people Of Kentucky
shall return to the system of viva voce
voting is to be decided by them at the
state election in 1905. During the dis.
cussion Of the matter in the house of
representatives II member said that
the open ballot would prevent voters
from sailing under false colors. and
another member retorted that it would
result in the corporations getting con
troll of the elections.
The Hongkong Daily Press says:
'sThe European seeker after curios out
here is a source of event to many an
INSCRIPTIONS native vender. A method
whereby the appearance of century old
china is simulated is to kill a dog and
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