The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-02
FACTS IN FEW LINES

About % per cent OF the gold prod
uct OF the world Is handled by Great
Britain.
A man who once had fame as a chef
has been picked up starving in New
York city.
Formic acid is coming into vogue in
Germany and England as a remedy for
tuberculosis and kidney troubles.
Turkey has more aged people in
proportion to the population than any
other European country.
In England and Wales out of every
100000 girls and boys 6,S20 are called
Mary and ESQ william.
The town of Amherst, Nova Scotia,
is supplied with light and power from
the waste products of a nearby coal
mine.
Outside of the steerage there were
o957 ,S2S passengers carried In and
out Of New York harbor last year on
steamers.
A Pittsburg firm is making 4 spe-
cialty of glass grave stones which
show portraits of the deceased blown
in the front.
Although glass bottles were made
by the Romans as far back as the year
40 A. D., their manufacture was not
begun In England until 1855.
The Mexican people are very fond
OF apples, peaches, pears and other
northern fruits. They raise some In
their uplands, but these are deficient
In fine favor.
Belgium is rich in stone and marble
OF various kinds. The general quarry
ing industry employs over $1,000 men,
and its annual output exceeds $12 O0O.-
COO in value.
While the gaikwar and maharanee
Of Kapurthala were driving in a mo-
tor car after nightfall through a forest
near Glengarin a stag charged full
tilt at the car and was instantly killed.
Among other things the human body
contains carbons, calcium, phosphorus,
sodium, sulphur, potassium, magne-
sium, iron, copper, lead and silicon,
lithium. mercury, arsenic and other
solids.
Charles Kaufman, a mail collector
In st. Louis, found a new gold watch
in a mail box with a note attached
asking that 1t be sold and the money
applied TO charity, as the watch had
been stolen.
On the railway in Wales the brake
mau has to announce such stations as
Ffestiniog, Bettws-y-coed, Llandegai
and Pemaenmawr. AS in this country,
tourists occasionally fail to understand
what the man says.
For the last fourteen years a brood
of tomtits has been reared each spring
in the letter box at CttoXter work
house, Maine. Since the parent birds
first took possession of the box they
have hatched nearly 200 eggs
Parts of Oklahoma are being pros
districts show that gold, silver and
copper are likely TO be found in large
quantities. Asphalt is also being found,
and this latter mining is likely to be
started Immediately.
/ If the shah of Persia were to be de-
prived of his income he could still
make sure of being one of the richest
men in the world. He would only have
to sell his ornaments, gems and pre-
cious stones to become possessed OF
about $50, 100000, the sum at which
the magnificent collection is valued.
The French ambassador at Washing
ton writes to the London Athenaeum
disputing the statement of Sidney Lee
that only two cities on the continent
of Europe-Berlin and Padua-possess
a copy of the Shakespeare first folio
Mr. Jusserand mentions copy In the
National library of Paris, of the au.
thenticity of which he advances what
appear to be convincing proofs.
Marie Heilbran of Chicago has in
vented a mechanical device which will
throw thousands of her sex out of en-
ployment, a letter opener that will
open 400 letters In a minute, or 10000
in a day, the number that had to he
opened at the house in which she for
merly worked. Her machine is said
to fairly gobble up the letters put into
it. No girl can open more than thirty
minute by hand.
The Moscow correspondent of The
Novosti says lille. Trefiloff, a Russian
actress, has been fined 10 rubles fol
kissing her mother on a street car. II
appears that both in Moscow and st
Petersburg it is unlawful to give kisses
in public, a kiss in the street being
penalized by a fine of Z rubles, II
rubles being the fine inflicted on those
who practice osculation in railway
trains or in street cars. 4 recent enact
ment even renders persons who send
declarations of love on post cards liable
to q fine of 3 rubles.
France is not the only country with
a falling birth rate. The Hon. j. A
Millar, the minister of labor in New
Zealand. has been calling attention Il
the staggering statistics" on this sub
ject in that part Of the empire. The
New Zealand birth rate has falleI
from forty-one per Thousand in lSS(
to twenty-seven last year. The re
duction of the attendance at theil
schools is very noticeable. 1t is feareC
that New Zealand's industries instead
of aNnan1inG will shrink and 1iSan