The leader., 1904-01-06

ton Of 100000, or a little less than
the state of Indiana.
It has just been discovered that EN-
erson found his greatest inspiration in
the warm glow of a cranberry pie.
The forty-fve national banks Of New
York city hold from $400,000,000. to
$500, 100000 deposits of other banks.
Most of the prepared baby foods con-
tain too much fat and develop the
rhild's weight rather than its strength.
Microscopic experiments have shown
that the electrically made steel is not
different in any way from crucible
steel.
The tenement inspectors of New York
city have found over 325,000 occupied
rooms which have neither light nor
ventilation.
The grape cure at Wiesbaden has for
a long time been an important feature
Of the autumn season at that famous
health resort.
The native agency in the missions of
the American board has increased in
number during the last decade from
1900 to 1851.
The maximum endurance of twelve
inch gun is 300 firings, while the six
inch gun may be fred upward of 1000
times without injury.
The ideal child of six weighs forty
five pounds, is forty-four inches high
ord hos #, oboct ,,ooac11royooDt of +ruan
ty-three and half inches.
Since 1852 more than 10000 convicts
have been sent to French Guiana, of
whom 841a per cent die Of disease,
hardship and insufficient food.
A sensitive dog will follow the track
Of man who is wearing his masters
boots and will reject the track of its
master if he has on strange boots.
In the south of Ireland, near Inchi-
geelah, is the "Cats' WE'LL" the waters
of which are supposed to exert marvel
Gus remedial effects upon ailing tab
bies.
An English-Irish syndicate has been
formed for the purpose of removing
one of the worst evils with which Irish
industrial development is afflicted
viz, dear coal
In London 100000 are pigged together
three in a room, while three-quarters
of a million have half a room each.
Three hundred and ffty-four thousand
belong to the very poor and 100000 to
the poor.
The shipments of iron ore last year
from the Mesaba range, in the Lake
Superior region. about thirty miles
from Duluth, were over 100000 tons,
or 33 per cent of the total production
Of the United States.
The Canadian Pacific railway sold
last year from its subsidy land nearly
100000 acres at price averaging less
than $4 an acre. In the previous year it
sold less than 100000 acres at price
averaging little over So an acre.
The large import of iron into England
about one-third of the total amount
consumed-is not due to any fear of
the exhaustion of the supply in Great
Britain, but to desire to save the nom
PHOSPHORUS iron used in the acid proc
less.
The authorized capitalization of street
car lines in the United States in 1902
amounted to $2,S7O, ,629,3 while the
gross earnings from operations were
$247, ,553, 900, and the net income after
deducting all expenses, both operating
and fixed charges, was $30,695,977.
Grants by the British and Foreign
Bible society to DR. Morrison and his
assistants for producing the first Chi
nese Bible totaled $4,000, while to DR..
William Carey and his associates in the
various Serampore versions the grants
of money and material exceeded $685.
600.
Russia's output of coal last year was
worth $40, ,329, ,391, of which pit coal
amounted to 14.G42, $40 tons, anthracite
to 1,129,494 tons and brown coal to
126,666 tons. The percentage of car
bons in these grades is given as 81 in
the anthracite, "a in the pit and go in
the brown.
In the cotton zone $4,000 900 acres are
devoted to that staple, the yield being
10,S27O00 bales of 800 pounds each,
worth in cash $425, 100000. 1t is said
that one-third Of the crop is lost by
hand picking and that the amount will
be saved by new cotton picking ma
chine which will also save the wages of
twenty men.
The government entomolog ogists through
out the United States have for some
time been xperimenting with trap lam
terms for the determination of insects.
1t has been found. however, that the
useful rather than the harmful insects
are lured to death. The noxious species,
such as the plum curculio, bee. moth,
chinch bug and buffalo tree hopper, are
rarely found in the traps.