The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-02-17
FACTS IN FEW LINES

The 1900 convicts In England cost
100000 every year.
The average American marries at
the age of twenty seven.
Great Britain uses up nearly eight
tons Of cardboard yearly in the form
Of post cards.
The United States now holds second
rank among the worlds exporters Of
boots and shoes.
An agitation has been commenced in
New York for more uniform system
Of tea inspection.
From $4,000 to 10000 letters are
posted every year in Great Britain
without addresses.
Colombia has had seven constitutions,
and the title Of the republic has 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.
AAS PAVAuSIAOA VI UcCE ID uOW tuOE0
than half a barrel for every man, wo-
man and child in the United States.
Over 10000 passengers travel by
bus, train and tram from the suburbs
to London by 1890 every business
morning.
The income Of the British postoffice
from money in envelopes having no or
insufficient address is $4,000 or $685.
900 day.
The British board of agriculture esti-
mates that there are 1871, ,619 dogs in
the country-one for every score Of
human beings.
According to London publisher, the
society craze for the game of bridge
has caused a great falling OF In the
demand for books.
It is estimated that $275,OO0 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 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 500 per
thousand for eels caught in Lake Men
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 spinners a freight
train on the New York Central recent
| ly covered 435 mile run in 16 hours
and 20 minutes.
Henry Morris, 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
canceSnus 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 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 $50,000,0O0 is
received each summer by population
Of less than 100000.
The Kickapoo Indians are leaving
Oklahoma at rapid rate and settling
| in old Mexico. The McLoud Standard
says it 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 q certain amount of lug.
gage on his bicycle, consisting Of a cop.
| per drinking cup and cooking vessel, q
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 q public man
in the United States who has better
memory than Senator CockreH. 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 OF
have entirely forgotten.
Professor William Fl. Brewer Of Yale
predicts that the American trotting
horse will in time do mile in minute
and 80 seconds, and he thinks that will
be the limit of speed. The professor
calculates that it may take fifty years
to reach the 1:50 notch. Twenty five
years ago he predicted that the two
minute totter would appear in the first
| decade Of the twentieth century, and
the prediction was recently fulfilled.
In CASTLE, Spain, agricuiturists, 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 It requires less power to work 1t, q
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. Banishment Is so dreaded
that frequently the family Of lepel
will keep him secretad for a year OF
| two before discovery ia made. A per
son who is supposed to have the dis
ease is sent to the receiving station In
Honolulu, where he Ia examined by fivt
medical experts. If '.ieper'' be the
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