Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-05-05
FACTS IN FEW LINES

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The United States now holds second
rank among the worlds exporters OF
boots and shoes.
An agitation has been commenced In
New York for a more uniform system
of tea inspection.
From 25,OOO to 10000 letters are
posted every year in Great Britain
without addresses.
Colombia has had seven constitutions.
and the title of the republic his been
changed three times.
The tide of German immigration is
being directed to German steamship
lines as far as possible.
In America 10000 automobiles will
be placed on the market this year, sup
plying but half the demand.
The production of beer is now more
than half barrel for every man, wo-
man and child in the United States.
Over 100000 passengers travel by
bus, train and tram from the suburbs
to London by 1920 every business
morning.
The income of the British postoffice
from money in envelopes having no or
insufficient address is $4,000 or $685.
600 day.
The>British board of agriculture esti-
mates that there are i 81 ,619 dogs In
the country-one for every score of
human beings.
According to a London publisher, the
society craze for the game of bridge
has caused a great falling off in the
demand for books.
1t is estimated that $275000 is the
difference per annum of running the
twenty-five knot ship compared with
the twenty-five knot ship.
London has at present 115 miles of
street railways, and a high authority
says it would need 1000 miles to meet
the needs of the community.
The Italian government has adopted
an American system enabling the 81
multaneous transmission of ten tele-
grams on one wire TO be made.
Egyptian fishermen receive $50 per
NJOuohhu AOi NCio Caught III ItI-
saleh. These are salted and packed in
ice and sent to Hamburg via Trieste,
where the ice supply is renewed.
In order to reach the port of New
York with shipment of cotton intend
ed for Liverpool Splnners Il freight
train on the New York Central recent
ly covered a 435 mile run in 16 hours
and 20 minutes.
Henry Norris, an Englishman who
has given much attention to the sub
ject of cancer, recently called attention
to the pernicious influence of the clay
pipe and the decayed tooth in causing
cancerous growths
Wages in the United States on the
average are more than twice those in
Belgium, three times those of Den
mark, France, Germany, Italy and
Spain and one and One-half those in
England and Scotland.
Tourists have in a decade converted
Switzerland from one of the poorest to
one of the richest countries, the money
per capita being larger than that in the
United States. Perhaps $500O0,000 is
received each summer by population
of less than 30O0,00O
The KickapoO Indians are leaving
Oklahoma at a rapid rate and settling
in old Mexico. The McLoud Standard
says 1t won't be long until the tribe
will be forgotten in and around Nc
Loud and that there will be some fine
sections of land for sale in the near
future
Each man in the Russian cyclist
corps carries a certain amount of lug
gage on his bicycle, consisting of a cop
per drinking cup and cooking vessel,
small canteen and the same amount of
ammunition as an ordinary infantry
man. The cavalry carry leather or skin
sacks, which, inflated, serve as floats
for both men and horse when crossing
rivers.
1t is doubtful if there is a public man
In the United States who has a better
memory than Senator Cockrell. He
never forgets face. and he can go into
any neighborhood of Missouri today
and call by name dozens OF men whom
he has not seen in many years and re-
call little incidents in their own lives
or those of their communities which
they themselves but dimly reCollect or
have entirely forgotten.
Professor William II. Brewer Of Yale
predicts that the American trotting
horse will in time do a mile in | minute
and 80 seconds, and he thinks that will
be the limit Of speed. The professor
calculates that 1t may take fifty years
to reach the 80 notch. twenty-five
years ago he predicted that the two
minute trotter would appear in the first
decade of the twentieth century, and
the prediction was recently fulfilled.
In CASTLE, Spain, agriculturists, hav-
ing made practical experiments, prefer
American to English implements,
though the latter have been most pro-
fusely offered. The agriculturists, not
Ing that American machinery is better
fitted for the uses for which it was in
tended though not considered so strong
as the English, give it the preference,
as 1t requires less power to work it, a
most decisive reason in that country,
forced to rely on animal motive power.
The Hawaiian government employs
agents who travel all over the islands
looking for indications of leproSy in re-
mote places. Punishment is so dreaded
that frequently the family Of leper
will keep him sccreted for Il year or
two before discovery is made. \ per
son who is supposed TO have the dis
ease is sent to the receiving station in
Honolulu where he is examined by five
medical experts. If Il "leper' be tha
verdict, money, position, influence, race
or color cannot change the decree which
sends this patient TO Molokai.
Animals Enjoy Racing.
Little pigs are great at combined
play, which generally takes the form
of races. Emulation seems to form
part Of their amusement, for their races !
seem always to have the winning of |