The Honesdale citizen. [volume] (Honesdale, Pa.) 1873-1908, 1908-08-20
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Burmah is 10 have fasteur meu-
tute.
Callfornia's most successful fruit
growers are women
The number uf sugar factories In op-
Grafton last gear in the Russian en-
plre was 21S.
The deposits In the government saw
ings hanks IN Australia represent
S40.55 per head Of the total population.
Twenty years ago a German taught
the japanese how 10 make shell but
tons Now Japan is exporting shell
buttons to Germany, France and other
countries.
An expedition is being equipped un-
der the auspices Of the Russian min
istry " marine. with the object Of dis
covering northeast passage between
the Atlantic and Pacific OCEANS.
poki Indians In Canada are TO be
made wealthy Ivy the sale of their pine
lands. The total revenue from the
sale OF the lands will approximate
S1.ouo.Uoo. and some families VIII re
ccive as much rs $4,000.
Owners OF even the smallest toy
manufacturing establishments in the
Nuremberg district. Germany. cater to
the foreign trade. Factories employ
ing from six to twenty people are no
exception To this rule.
In the annual report Just issued by
the prison commissioners for Scotland
1t is stated that no female has re-
ceivcd a sentence Of penal scrvitude
during the past year. This Is the 6rst
time this has happened.
Superstitious people have been flock
ing 10 Duttapuker. India. to view 4
strange date palm, measuring twenty.
Eve feet. which stands erect In the
daytime, but with the decline Of the
sun bends so far down that Its leaves
touch the ground.
In certain districts OF Australia
where the ground Is permanently GOV.
cred with grass or fine sand the horses
are shod with leather instead Of iron.
The superior advantages claimed fol
the heather shoes are lightness and
ease Of application.
The coal supply Of the Philippines
has been found to be much larger than
was anticipated and OF n uniformly
good character. 1t Is stated that a
large vein crosses the eutire group Of
Islands. and 1t has been clearly traced
in one vicinity for twenty-five miles.
During the last two decades France
has expended Si0.OO0,OO0 on railways
In east Africa, and the brigand chiefs
who ruled that vast territory now oc-
cupy civil and military positions AMI
a. ~ "a ln itt- nf nj
clals appointed by the home govern
mcnt.
Owing to the Irritation many men
manifest when being measured by
tailors. the leading sartorial artists In
Paris have adopted new method.
Instead Of measuring customer they
photograph him against n screen bear
ing lines similar TO those on billiard
charts.
Chicago recently launched n fireboat
which the city roudly believes to be
the most up to date craft of It's kind
in the world She is the first floating
fire fighter to be propelled 10y elcc-
tricity and is to lie equipped with tur-
bine pumps capable of throwing 5000
gallons minute.
The Paris mint In 1907 issued 65,-
000.uU coins Of an average value Of
about I francs 30 centimes This in
cluded coinage for France, Tunisia In
do-China and also for BOLIVIA, which
ordered 2,5noN0 nickel coins. For
France the twenty franc pieces were
| easily in the lead.
| The leading areas OF yellow pine pro
duction In the United States are no
longer In the south Atlantic states,
but have been shifted to the south
west. The states OF Louisiana, Texas,
| Mississippi and Arkansas each pro-
duced 10 per cent or more OF the total
cut yellow pine last year.
The international congress on tuber-
culosis will be held In Washington
next September. \ great exhibition H.
Illustrative Of what Is being done the
world around in the fight against the
disease will I've held In connection with
the congress, HAd the two will con
tlnuc from Sept. II to Oct. II.
Charollcs, a small town thirty miles
from Macon, In France, has recently
been visited by n shower OF sulphur
The roofs, gardens, fields, vineyards
rivers and ponds were covered with a
yellow dust and for some time the
peasants IN the fields were troubled by
y sulphurous biting odor which made
breathing difficult,
Al American flags made for the gov.
ernm2nt hereafter VIII contain forty
six stars, the baby star having been
added for the state OF Oklahoma The
stars IN the new flag, some of which
have already been placed on sale, are
arranged, according to orders from
the government. IN six rows. of which
the first, third. fourth and sixth have
eight stars each and the second and
fifth rows seven stars each.
In connection with the death OF Gro
yer cleveland II Is interesting to not,
that only twice before In the history
of the nation has the United States
been without Il living cX-presidcnt
George Washiu.ton died IN lI99. whcI
John Adams. tn" second president, was
81 office. Andrew johnson, at III,
vine the only surviving cX-chicf cxcc
utivc. uass-l away in ~. Two year,
lcfnrn Gcuo",l Grant retired to pri
,atp lifc
Pau'ns, the mrsi" hlll singer whoS'
anngS mH''" 'nc rn'i'lr.'l fortune q
General Nuulag:og. recently died II
comparative poverty For rimc Il
he h.r:At ~ his success, when h
sang I'm l;.,vuGu' Dc IN Ecvn"" nN
other sou.. 80 the same class paulu
male tie 'r'Grr "f several p;im" min