The leader., 1904-03-09

cured fiAe of &l2,b0Q from the heirs
ef q German manufacturer on the
ground of his having nnderatated his
income, and 80 paid too low q tax dur.
iHg several yeara of his lifetime.
The British workmen have managed
to put away goodly little nest egg in
friendly, building, cooperative and
trade union societies and savings
banks. The records show that q, $780,
400 Of them have $1,s14, 100000 in such
savings
Women ID Scotland eutnumber the
Eaen by l24, ,593 In total population Of
4,472, ,103, according to the returns OF
the census recently completed. OF the
total number of women more than A
per cent are in business o9r s8ome som kind Kin
Sf employment;
Only three Of the fifteen members OF
the. famous electoral commission Of
1877 survive ex- Senator Edmunds,
Senator Hoar and General Eppa Hun
ter of Virginia. All Of the Ave justices
Of the supreme court who sat ON the
commission long since passed away.
The number Of claims for pensions
filed for injuries In our hundred day
Nar with Spain Is now 10000. and at
the present rate there will soon be half
as many claims as there were men in
the war, although but 10000 went t8
Cuba and Ppt I've or three ragiments 10
Porto Rico.
Six million dollars worth of shoes
have been sold abroad by American
shoemakers within year. This shows
the. exports In that line to have multi.
piled by twelve IN ten years. Mexico,
Cuba and Canada each bought about
$500, 600 worth, and nearly all the re.
mainder went to Great Britain.
Coal constituted nearly 40 per cent
OF the total tonnage of American rail-
ways last year. 1t cost $1.ST to carry q
ton Of coal from Yorkshife caal fields,
In England, ta London. q distance Of
4Ha miles, while coal Is brought from
the Carbondale coal region in Illinois
to Chicago, 278 miles, for rs cents
ton.
Enough tea. coffee. wine, beer and
liquors wers psed bE the Amer
ican people last year 20 make lake
two miles square and ten feet deep,
which would be large enough to fioat
several nayies the size of our own.
Enough alcoholic beverages were dis
posed of to fill canal 100 miles long.
100 feet wide and 10 feet deep:
I'm the United Kingdom 81, 100000
people out Of 4as0Q0.0 200 receive less
than SEQ month fer each family:
1,0ea.009 are In daily receipt Of poor
law relief; 5000, 900 have only weeks
wages between them and starvation;
800 hereditary peers own one-fourtA Of
England, and they and their depend
ents spend every FEAR $3.50 900 900.
Although the late Lord Salisbury
vas much interested In science and
Was a fellow OF the British Royal So
ciety, he never approved OF the ex-
treme views OF some Of his associates.
He was particularly opposed to the
theory Of evolution 40 taught by Her
bert spencer and Of the descent Of
man as enunciated by Charles Darwin.
At meeting Of the trustees of the
Lutheran Orphans home at Reading.
Pa, an itemized bill fer 6l.a8 was sub
mIliitted mIrlii by The aRat and Mice Trust
eempaAy," Rev. DR.. Kuendig explain
ed that he would pay the bill, as he
had agreed privately to pay to the boys
cent each for all the rats Rnd mice
they caught, to rid the hsme Of the
pests.
Amherst college students have form
el a mountain climbing club and have
elected as its president DIR. Edward
Hitchcock, dean Of the faculty. The
doctor Is segeRtysflve years old and is
q graduate of the college of the class
af 40. Despite his years, DR.. Hitch
cock is 1.-THE and active and is known
as the pioneer In the movement for
physical education In colleges.
Miss Helen Keller, the blind deaf
mute. ID vice president Of the senior
class at Radcliffe college, the women'a
department OF Harvard. She is pursya-
ing four full courses, twa In English
and two In Latin. She has thns far
PASSED oil her examinations with as
much credit as II ss:ssle had all her facul-
ties aue Is accomplishing more In
scholarship than any other person in
the world 50 handicapped.