Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1904-05-07
FACTS IN FEW LINES


are born every year at sea.
When q British ambassador Is ap-
pointed to France he is allowed $4,000
for outfit.
After driving q London bus for sixty
one years, from 1912 to 1903. james
Perry has retired
In the city of Washington there are
1900 Browns, $4,000 Smiths. 14,OOO
Johnsons and 1000 JOneses
1t is estimated that the population of
British Somaliland is about 10000. Its
area is about 6S,OOO square miles.
During the last three years twenty
two millonaires have died in England.
Their average age was seventy-five
years
There are 5000 negro farmers mem
bers of the Farmers Improvement So
cicty of Texas. They own 10000 acres
of land.
Alpine flowers and plants are so
quickly becoming extinct that strong
measures are to be taken in future for
their preservation.
The deaths from consumption In New
York have decreased 40 per cent since
Its health department began its crusade
against the disease two years ago.
Kumassi. In Ashanti land. Is now
connected with the coast. $50 miles dis
tant, by railroad Trains began to run
in October. The line was begun in 1898
The most valuable book ever pub
lished by private citizen was proba
bly, the catalogue Of the Walters collec-
ton Of pictures and ceramics in Balti-
more.
Women are now being substituted
for men in the Italian postal service.
Signor Galimberti. the minister of posts
and tclcgraphs. Is responsible for the
change.
The immense indirect cost Of warfare
is Illustrated by the fact that the Span
ish-.Amcrican war cost 81 100000 day
for over Il year. although hostilities Oc-
cupicd but three months.
In the matter of wine the citizen of
the United States has never been n
large consumer. In 1850 the per capita
average was but .27 of n gallon. and in
1902 it had risen TO only .G3.
Track walkers for certain Massachu-
sets railroads are now required to
wind registering clock ut certain
points every hour. and records are kept
to be examined weekly by the superln
tendcnt
The cotton crop of Alabama. Arkan-
sas and South Carolina is about 1000,
nd
Mississippi produce 100000 bales and
Texas 100000 bales. More than half
the cotton is now produced west of the
Mlssssippiriver.
The master electricians and the cleo
trician scrgeants of the newly created
corps of the army will be designated by
symbol of white metal resembling
forked lightning incloscd within
wreath of gilt metal. The uniform
trousers of these officers will show a
scarlet stripe.
Now that the farmers Of the north
west have begun to raise maearoni
wheat the popularity Of macaroni
among Americans ought to increase.
The Italians have long understood its
value as cheap and nourishing food,
hut its use in the United States has
been confined chiefly to the large towns.
Thrashing machines are used to a
limited extent in Seville, but the old
system of beating out the grain by
driving colts and mares around in the
open thrashing floor Is still generally
prevalent. With the exception of some
half dozen farmers who have chiefly
English implements no one there uses
really modern agricultural machinery.
People in Paris who are interested in
giving working girls a bit of pleasure
now and then have devised n scheme
where worthy girls receive two tickets
to Il good theater once In awhile The
scheme calls for an elaborate system Of
registration, but it is working to per
lection. The kaiser is thinking of in
Producing the idea into the royal thea
tiers in Germany
The eye of a young child Is as trans
parent as water; that OF the youth n
little less so. In the man of thirty the
eye begins to be slightly Opaque; in the
man of fifty or sixty it Is decidedly
OI)auuc, anu Ill Inp man OF seventy or
eighty it is dull and msterlcss. This
gradual development Of opacity Is due
to the increase OF fibrous tissue and
deposit of waste matter in the eye.
The harvest of wheat alone engages
about l.G0O,OOO men and 10000 teams
three months of summer while at least
10000 women are needed to prepare
food for the workers. The harvest of
other crops employs less men, but the
entire number of harvesters needed in
gathering the crops Of the United
States has been estimated at 800, 700
that Is, exclusive of the farmers who
reside on their own land and aid in the
harvest
When Emma Booth married Freder-
lex ST. George Latour in Calcutta she
adopted the clothes and the manner of
life OF the native women, and, bare
footed. dipping her unaccustomed fin
gers III 80 curry DISH" she begged her
way through the streets. LatOur, then
worker in the Salvation Army, had
adopted the same plan. And when they
were married it was In the way Of reli-
giOus teachers, he appearing as a bare
footed. turbaned. calico robed mendi-
cant with his begging bowl.
Cremation Is growing in public favor
in Scotland. From the latest report Of
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