The leader., 1904-01-27
FACTS IN FEW LINES

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OF Waterloo.
The Pennsylvania Society Of New
York, organized in 1899, has more than
500 members.
Yarmouth corporation forbids smok-
ing on Sundays in its new pier pavilion,
as the band plays sacred music.
The cure of rheumatism by bee
stings is said by Vienna physician to
have been successful in 500 cases.
A plant at Niagara Falls is taking
nitrogen from the air by electrolysis,
but not yet in commercial quantity.
Today the empire Of Japan has a
| population of 100000. In other
words, she contains 100 people within
square mile.
The value of the X ray in the treat
ment of cancer depends upon the fact
that the rays induce fatty degeneration
of the cancer cells.
In the opinion of the health depart
ment Of Chicago every school in that
city should be provided with apparatus
to sterilize drinking water.
According to astronomers, the Star of
Bethlehem, which conducted the wise
men to the birthplace of Jesus, will APP
pear once more in 1910 or 1911.
In the year just past sixty-five new
freight vessels have been built and
launched on the great lakes, with a
gross tonnage capacity of 4,750,000.
The French government employs
1850 workmen and $4,000 women in
the state tobacco manufactures and
makes yearly profit of 4O0,0O0,0OO
francs.
A large bronze eagle with one wing
broken and dropping is the main fea-
ture of the French national monument
which is to be erected on the field of
Waterloo.
In considering the practical side of
| the vegetarian question it should be
remembered that at least seven-tenths
of the population of the globe never eat
flesh meat.
| Several local councils in Russia have
passed resolutions declaring that a re-
duction of the acreage which gives a
vote is desirable and that women
should receive the franchise.
The oldest ship in the world, the
mail schooner Vigilant, running into
st. Croix, F.. W. l., although now I'M
der the French flag, was built of Essex
oak at Essex, Mass, in 1902.
Fish are found in the boiling lake of
Amatitlan, in Guatemala. Live cells
are seen in the hot springs at AK, and
Humboldt saw living fish thrown up
by volcano in South America.
Egyptian fishermen receive 500 per
thousand for cells caught in Lake Men
saleh. These are sailed and packed in
ice and sent TO Hamburg via Triest
where the ice supply is renewed.
Some recent German experiments
show the possibility of a dangerous
electrical current passing down the
stream from a fire engine that is play
ing on a wire carrying heavy voltage.
Wages in the United States on the
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Belgium, three times those of Denmark,
France, Germany, Italy and Spain and
one and half times those in England
and Scotland.
London claims during the past year
to have had fewer murders and fewer
.burglaries than in previous years. There
has also been no case of murder in
which there was failure to bring the
perpetrator to book.
In ancient religion dancing came to
be one of the chief acts of-worship. Re
ligious professions went with song and
dance to the Egyptian temples, and
Plato said that all dancing ought to be
thus an act of religion.
When the child plays it is literally
organizing its brain, and we should rec
ognize the fact that the boy or girl en-
gagged in vigorous, joyous play is carry
ing out an important part of the actual
work of education and preparation for
life.
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 27,5S0,00O of
them have $1,S14O0O,O00 in such saw
ings.
An arrangement has been made by
the railway companies and the Gus
toms department whereby baggage
from the United States may be exam
ined by the inspectors some miles be-
fore reaching the Canadian border in
order to prevent delay.
The annual consumption of calcined
plaster and wall paper cannot be es-
timated, but it is very large. Most Chi.
nese houses are built of cheap brick
| and are -plastered both Inside and out.
Large, quantities of plaster are also
used for the making of Chinese graves,
almost all of them being entirely COW
cred with it.
On her wedding day the women of
Roumania gave the crown princess
sum of money with which she was to
buy present. That was ten years ago,
and now the money thus received
amounts to 100000 With this sum the
princess has just bought an estate at
Jassy. where will be opened a school of
household economy.
It is only natural that the trade be-
tween Canada and the United States
should be extensive. We cultivate sim
liar soil. we draw riches from the same
great lakes and rivers, we delve into
the same mountain ranges for our min
erals, we are very much alike in Gus
toms and habits, we have the same
system of weights, measures and mon
ey and we have similar methods of
keeping accounts and of transacting
business. Hence our nearness to each
other must ever induce extensive trade.
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