The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-08-27
FACTS IN FEW LILIES

III NItCOIblt liit(ll III N,lN III ',
France finds ilscir Guablc - jolA tie
United States i'll u two ,rlt rus Il.
rate.
Officers and crews of Austrian III T.
chant shipping on the Adriatc are
nearly all Italian.
In Denmark is an old man of 1&G
years of age who has never seen :
railway train or steamship
In the last fifty years the population
of England has almost doubled itself
while that of Ireland has decreased by
about Unc-thirl.
In the cabin Of the kaiscr's now rae
ing yacht Meteor ~ is au oak arm
clair, presented by King Edward,
made from the bulwarks of Nelson's
Victory.
The Mexican government has con
tractcd with the Krupps to build Il
plant For the manufacture of bullets.
smokrlcsS powder and gun cotton near
Vera Cruz
Why the London directory is printed
is enc of the mysteries. You cannot
look up Il man in it unless you know
already where he lives or what hu
ness he is i'll
Black men are plenty in Paris. They
are straight faced natives OF north
Africa. In prosperous Algeria black
mcl do well. They speak French aad
sUCuI educated
Among the cpithcts exchanged hy
members of the Russian douma during
II recent sitting were Baltic pig"
"Gcrnnn monkey" "Pharisaic hypo-
critics" and "murdcrcrs."
So severe are the snow ana slcct
storms of Silcsia that the government,
which owns the telephone lines, has
the wires taken down each winter
and stored away until spring.
Transparent diamonds have been
manufactured by the aid of electric
furnaces. The largest, however, yet
produced by this means is only one
fortieth of an inch in diameter.
In Germany and also in Holland
girls are employed as clerks ut the
banks and hotels, as cashiers and book
keepers at restaurants and at railway
stations as booking Office clerks.
The ground to be reclaimed for the
new harbor works at Yokohama,
Japan. covers an area Of tifty-siX acres
and will be inClosed within a length
of quay walls of a little over $500
feet.
The South African National union has
been formed in London. and twelve
branches have been formed in South
Africa. The union is independent of
politics and will develop trade and in
duStry.
Under the guidance of the White
Cross society of Geneva a second
congress for the repression Of fraud
food products will be held at Paris
next October.
DR.. Raymond Pearl and Frank Sur
face Of the University of Maine find
that selection for high egg production
carried OH for nine consecutive years
did not lead to any increase in the
average production of the tlocks.
\ Geneva boy. aged fifteen, who ac
cidentally lodged the bullet of an nil
gun in his heart was taken to the hos
pital, where DR.. Girard opened tlt
wound. extracted the ball and scwct
up the heart The victim is now ou'
of danger.
Munich, with a population of oyel
half a million inhabitants, has only Gt
apothccary shops and 773 physicians
Permission was lately sought to built
two new drug stores. but the apothe
carries protested. and the authorities
refused their consent.
/ Perhaps because of the revolution
western Europe is full of Turks thi.
year-TurES in costume, merchants
/ politicians. travellers. Some take thei
wives along-not common in past years
curious, silent, veilod or half veilct
! little shuffling women.
There is in London 4 school fo
mothers. One poor woman was dis
solved in tears when her baby wa
uudressed at the hospital and its vast
cd limbs revealed. She ingenuOusl.
explained her grief by saying that Il
was beautiful child last time it wa
/ uEdrCssCd.'
Manitoba became province i'll 1876
It's population was G2,2GO in 1881, 1J2
SOC in 1891 and 255,211 in 1904. TIL
value of Manitoba's harvest last yea
was @ little short OF S10,OGOOOO. Th
census of 1906 gave Winnipeg, its cai
ital city, population of 10000. Thrs
is nothing wild in Il guess that its pres
ent population is not far from 10000,
Many unsuccessful attempts to pri
duce Il nOninnammable cellulOid hay
caused new substances of the kind /
be received With skepticism, but
is claimed that the celtic of DR.. .
Eichcngrun, made at Dusseldorf, G."
many, is Il cheap and useful materia
1t is expected to prove especially vnN
able for really safe moving pictul
, films.
W. Warde Fowler, who wrote IS,
, cial Life at Rome In the Age {
Cicero" declares that the age of Ciccl