Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-07-21
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Twelve years ago there were 1000
| Japanese in the United States. Today
| there are 243OO.
Britain has 80 battleships, 81 armor-
ed cruisers 104 protected cruisers, 10
unprotected cruisers, 231 torpedo craft
and submarine.
The value OF the cotton crop will
surely amount to $GOO,OOO.OOO next year
If nothing untowar6 happens and the
increase keeps on at its present rate.
The ice harvest In Maine, now over,
IS one Of the smallest ever gathered,
but the quality is good. The crop is
4S5, 900 tons Last winter it was 700,-
0CU tons.
The German emperor has more serv-
ants in his employ than any other mon
arch. Altogether they number more
than 5000, about two-thirds of them
being women.
An authority on the subject declares
that many cases of defective eyesight
are caused hy wearing tight collars,
which Interfere with the circulation Of
blood to the head.
In over 1000 major operations In
Egypt upon natives only three cases Of
appendicitis were met with. This is
attributed to vegetarian diet, light
clothing and moderate living.
In Fuchau, China, with Its million
of people, there is not a single pump,
windlass or other mechanical appli
ance for raising water from wells or
bringing 1t from the river to supply
the city.
Mrs. Hannah Jones of Conwl Elfed,
Wales has given birth to two pairs Of
twins in one year. a boy and a girl
We're born on Feb. 3, 1903, and two
girls, twins, arrived on Dec 81, 1903.
All four babies are doing we'll.
1t will be news to Maine people to
learn that they are still under English
domain. A text book used In an Eng
lish school says in speaking of Canada,
The chief states at present are Que
bee, Maine and New Brunswick"
British self insurance societies have
clearly established the fact that total
abstainers live longer than moderate
drinkers" and deserve a lower insur-
ance rate. Some companies provide q
special department for teetotalers.
A Bath (Me) cat bears the distinc-
ton of chewing a needle, yard Of
thread and a large fish bone at the
same time and living. The various ar
ticles were taken from the throat by
one of the young girls In the family.
A consumptives' camp was institut-
ed last July in Rhode Island near Dan
ielson, Conn. Fifty-nine patients have
been treated, with the following re-
suits: Four cured; improved, 10; disease
arrested, IS; unimproved. 4; dead, ..
The German emperor proposes 70
have n castle at Posen to "conciliate
the Poles" 1t will be his fifty-f1fth
castle In addition he owns ninety
three landed estates, but they bring
him little money, whereas the castles
are costly
The Austrian minister of the interior
medical practitioners 10 the serious
evils caused by illegible prescriptions
lie insists that every prescription
must be clearly and legibly written in
all It's parts"
Japan has a navy Of 123 vessels,
many of them first class fighting craft |
Up to 1865 she never owned war
ship and apparently did not know what |
a navy was. She took her first lesson |
by getting some of her boys trained |
at Annapolis, Md.
The authorities in Edinburgh in or
der to induce people 10 be vaccinated |
offered half crown go cents to every |
person who would submit TO the opera |
ton. There was great rush upon |
the vaccination depots. with a great |
rush on the saloons little later.
Three Partisan "apaches," or hooli- |
gans, recently set on man who was |
taking his wife home after a perform |
ance at the Odeon. 1t chanced that the |
and foot boxing the roughs
were insensible when the police tool |
them away.
A man with a genius for figures has
counted and calculated the number of
grains in a bushel of wheat and makes |
out the number to be 500, 720. The size
Of wheat grains differs, of course, but
a fair conception Of what million
means can be had by thinking OF the
grains in thirty seven quarts Of wheat
A report from Madrid states that at
the village of Toregano, In the province
Of Segovia, four wolves came down
from the mountains and, getting into
the school premises, killed and devour-
ID five children, besides wounding seven
others very seriously. The villagers
succeeded In killing only two of the
wolves.
James Perkins, a dependent upon the
town Of Rochester, n. H., died about a
year ago, leaving q curious collection
Of razors, which the overseers of the
poor placed on sale. In the annual re
port, recently issued, 1t appears that
the town treasury was enriched $167.2
from the sale Of the old razors found
IN the trunks of the deceased.
Canadian exporters are year by year
gaining stronger position in the
Scotch market. About half of the ap-
1les imported now are from the Do
ninion. The system of inspection at
Canadian ports and at British ports,
whereby the quality Of the fruit is in
! measure guaranteed, has proved use.
'ul TO the shipper as well as to the
)uyer.
Small steam locomotives for special
purposes are being made at Dussel
lori. Germany, in which no fire Is en-
'loyed. The boiler is simply charged
Il a central station with water at a
emperature Of 400 degrees or more
hat is, under high pressure. This wa.
er continues 10 give off steam auto
until the temperature falls
o 2l2 degrees, whereupon the boiler is
'echarged