The leader., 1904-04-20
FACTS TN FEW LINES

About thousand ships cross the
Atlantic every month.
THE average E'renchman eats 428
pounds Of bread q year.
The short time movement is extend
ing In Lancashire cotton mills.
There are 100 slate, 81 marble and
200 clay quarries in this country. !.
Ireland has now bank holiday all
to itself namely, ST. Patrick's day.
The people OF the United States eat
$I50, O00, 900 worth Of candy In year.
Tho population Of London has in
creased II per cent In fourteen years.
In Italy there are $4,000 skilled
workmen engaged In the manufacture
Of silk.
During the past year no fewer than
$1,000 passengers crossed between Do
yer and the continent.
The meat received into Smithfeld
market every year for the feeding Of
London exceeds 100000 tons.
We export nearly 100000 pairs Of
shoes to Germany, worth 1897 900. In
1903 we sent her sos pairs, worth
s767.
The sultan has sent an order to Eng
land for some highland uniforms in
which to clothe his palace guards and
personal bodyguards.
Several additions are to be made to
the already long list Of women's clubs
In London, and among them will be
the Ladies' athenmum.
While of the Newfoundland banks
the North German Lloyd liner Han
mover passed an iceberg on which there
were six large polar bears.
Tourists returning from abroad can
now bring through the custom house
free Of duty all articles to the value OF
800 except cigars, cigarettes and liz
uors.
For the year 1903 there were listed
on the. New York Stock Exchange $780,
100000 of bonds and $431 100000 of
stock. In 1901 the listings aggregated
s., $50, coo.
Although the statue of George III.
in Pail Mall, London, was erected in
1887, it was only a few weeks since
that it was labeled with the name of
its subject.
The London Times, commenting on
correspondents letter on child emil
grafton to the colonies, says in thirty
four years $4,000 children have been
sent to Canada.
Doors made entirely Of paper are
used in some of the modern dwellings
in French cities. They are finished to
resemble any kind of wood, and there
Is no warping, shrinking or cracking.
Wages in the United States on the
average are more than twice those in
Belgium, three times those of Dem
mark, France, Germany, Italy and
Spain and one and half those In Eng
land and Scotland.
Wages in Russian factories are
cents an hour and upward. There are
thousands who work for a cent an
hour and tens of thousands who do not
receive 80 cents day for ten, eleven
and more hours work.
Cash registers are all but universal
in stores In Glasgow. Modern office
furniture and Office appliances are SUI
perseding the older styles. Even ofi-
cial correspondence is beginning to
yield to the omnipresent typewriter.
The Saxon government, now that it
has been found necessary to discon-
tinue the Freiberg mineral mines with
in the next ten years, intends to open
mp Immediately brown coal mines near
Leisnig which in 1904, it is estimated,
will have an output Of 100000 metric
tons.
As the result Of proceedings taken
by r. Moffat Ford, well known au-
tomobilist and manufacturer, four
drivers of electric street cars on the
outskirts of London were fined $9.72
each, with court costs, for exceeding
their legal speed limit of ten miles an
hour.
The Frankfurt Germany city coun-
Gil has just received permission to
make a $6,426,OOO bond issue. The
rate of interest will be between 8 and 4
per cent. This money will be spent in
making municipal Improvements, a
large part of which win be expended
upon public buildings.
The grave Of the German poet Heine,
In the Montmartre cemetery, Paris, is
said to be visited by more persons than
ZOla's, which is quite near it. It is
customary for visitors to leave their
cards. OF 295 cards found on Heine's
grave thirty were left by English and
American. visitors and over $50 by Ger
mans and Austrians.
All the region Of the upper Amazon
and its tributaries offers magnificent fa-
cilities for cattle ranching. When the
higher lands are reached there are vast
stretches of prairies, or .ssavannas," as
they are called, with climate like
spring all the year, where cattle enough
to supply a continent can be raised,
practically without expense.
Expert estimates of the probable
manufacture of automobiles in several
states Of the Union in 1904 give the
principal place to Michigan, with Ohio
second. Even Massachusetts, and Wis
consin surpass New York In the list,
while Illinois makes an extremely poor
showing. Detroit and Cleveland are
the two cities which surpass all others
In this republic AS centers Of the pro-
duction sof the self motors. It seems
odd that New York and Chicago should
lag behind them SO far
The 81, 336, 900 asked BY the secretary
sof the nav. for gun practice during
the year seems enormous until one con-
siders the cost Of firing the big guns
now In use. To fire a thirteen inch
gun costs for powder and shell about
$500. Fou, times year the men are
exercised in big gun practice. with reg
ulation charges, each man Of the guns
crew firing four shots at these trials.
There are seven men in the guns crew
on these guns TO fire four inch com.
mon shell costs SIT, a six FOUNDER $3.50