The Honesdale citizen. [volume] (Honesdale, Pa.) 1873-1908, 1908-07-09
FACTS IN FEW LINES
Greenland has population OF II, ,s95.
Denmark has repealed the Import


duties On rice and petroleum.
DT6zil's capacity of cocoa is almost
hnitcss Last years production OK.
ceetlcd 5O.OO0.ooO pounds
In some parts ~ China the natives
have taken to raising giaics and max
Ing several kinds OF wine.
Hannibal during hi, campaign In
Italy AMI Spnlm pluuGcrch 100 towns
and destroyed 100000 mon.
So lately ny 1918 III" british Enst In
dia company decided that trade with
japan Wns not worth cult!yuting
calais GO.oGo inhnhitnuis. mi prtnnt
seaport; principal m!L.tty. tulic net"
SO runs the French ~, sravhy hoI'is.
Germany Is nov gaining L,,lc ly i'm.
migration than she lo,e' is eullgra.
tion. The reverse Is true Of Great
Britain.
Rrssin has IO.cUl miles Of navigable
rivers and 5000 miles Of railroads. At
last accounts the river traffic amounted
TO 10000 tons n year.
The conductor on the Merced river
canyon train In California stopped the
a brown bear 200 yards away.
s. W Ramsey OF Girard. O., is the
inventor OF a process for making use
of flue dust from blast furnace In the
manufacture Of fuel which ia said to
be very promising.
Dannert gas is the name given In
Germany to new substitute for coal
~ l, A. Ill a o,A
while not unlike water gas. 1t Is much
cheaper to produce.
Yuan Shi Kai is urging the Chinese
throne to establish a government de-
partment to deal with missionary af-
fairs. something that all mission work
ers would welcome.
Pins are not used In China. Clothes
are fastened with buttons and button
holes or with loops and frogs, and a
person Is considered untidy who re-
sorts to such lal.cshlfts IA pins.
In return Jd.t presented to parlia-
ment the To-: II of the land forces OF the
British crown Ht hu.Ir and abroad on
the active list l. pi,cn as 445.I3l as
compared with Grrmany's 6lo.oo0.
Dr. Mark l. Knapp Of New York
diagnoses organic diseases by stripping
the patient nmd observing the lines and
shadows which the Internal organs
produce on the skin during respiration
Brazil has new law which makes
every man Of twcnty-one to fortyfour
subject to military service. Those who
object on religious grounds are alb
l,ttf haK "a
lleges.
The Chicago Tribune's current crime
records contain no less than twenty
eight suicides since the panic of last
October which were caused by the re-
sulting financial losses. II Is for the
most part list Of bankers and bro
kers.
Since the United States government
began TO patronize exposltions down to
the jamestown fair congress has ap.
propriated a total Of $2S, 1925 for
worlds fairs, OF which only $4S5.OO0
has been spent west OF the Rocky
mountains, on the Lewis and Clark ex-
position.
An industrious calculator has esti-
q
winter by the ,eople Of America for
the enjoyment &c serious music-music,
that Is to say, as 1t Ii known in our
concert halls and opera houses, not the
music OF the comic opera stage and
vaudeville house.
Asphaltic layers have been found In
Syria, near Kferie. a village about
tuontv.Ava p,IIaa pnrthaaat nf tho mort
of Latnkia, along the road leading to-
ward Aleppo. which has been declared
by competent mining engineers to be
not only rich In asphalt, but also prac-
ucally inexhausuble.
A meteor fell on the sailing vessel
Eclipse while on her way from New
castle to San Francisco and made a
big hole. The crew tried for four days
to keep the ship ahoat and then aban-
doned 1t aud took to the boats. Two
weeks later all but three. who had sue
cumbed to thirst, were rescued.
All the horses belonging to the late
British ambassador at Constantinople.
Sir Nicholas O'Conor, have been sold
at auction. The usual notice was put
in the local newspapers, but the cen
sOr took exception, as there were horses
In the list with the names Of Pasha.
Sclim and Haroun, which he consid
cred was offensive to Turks, and the
list had to appear without the names.
French people have decided Views
regarding the responsibility of men In
power A butcher has been sent to
jail for year for supplying the army
with bad meat. The damages assessed
by n Paris court following II recent au-
tomobilr accident cost the owners S25,-
600. When the Opera tomilue burned
in 1887 the managing director was
fined $1,000 and sent to prison for
three months.
Professor William lIallock, dean of
the department Of physics In Columbia
university. who has given some attcn-
tion to Illuminating methods. has called
attention of New York scientists 10 II
compressed illuminant. which IL called
Blaugas and which can he taken home
In steel bottles and fed into the burn
ers by means Of little copper tubes no
larger than ordinary wires. The sub
stance Is named after Blau, n German
scientist who discovered 1t.
kissing games are under the ban In
schools controlled by the London cOun
Is council which has ISSUED the fol
lowing notice to the head teachers:
attention has been drawn tu ia" fact
thnt IN some OF ia" s'h"nln kiHHlng
games are stlll prnctirch h> TIA" ohll
dr"n. ON medical EIuIuit ihin pin'